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Date
1931 – 1931
Material
cardboard; metal; leather; glass;
Catalogue Number
104.41.0190
Description
Black hard leather-sided No. 2 Brownie camera in its original packaging. Camera has a leather handle on the top, along with one viewfinder - a second viewfinder is on the adjacent side, which also as a round metal crank. The back panel of the camera can be removed in order to access the film compar…
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Title
Brownie Camera
Date
1931 – 1931
Material
cardboard; metal; leather; glass;
Dimensions
10.8 x 8.8 x 14.0 cm
Description
Black hard leather-sided No. 2 Brownie camera in its original packaging. Camera has a leather handle on the top, along with one viewfinder - a second viewfinder is on the adjacent side, which also as a round metal crank. The back panel of the camera can be removed in order to access the film compartment. The cardboard box folds together and is not held with adhesives - except where the lip of the lid fit against the front panel.
Subject
Crosby family
Abegweit
cameras
Kodak
advertisement
packaging;
Credit
Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
Catalogue Number
104.41.0190
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Date
1930 – 1931
Material
paper;
Catalogue Number
104.41.0219 a,b
Description
Two paper folding envelopes for holding film and/or developed prints - one is Kodak and one is from Wallace Heaton Ltd., a developing studio in London England. Both wallets fold open to show two open-sided pouches where either films or prints could be slotted and have advertising for other services…
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Title
Film Wallet
Date
1930 – 1931
Material
paper;
Dimensions
0.3 x 11.3 x 16.7 cm
Description
Two paper folding envelopes for holding film and/or developed prints - one is Kodak and one is from Wallace Heaton Ltd., a developing studio in London England. Both wallets fold open to show two open-sided pouches where either films or prints could be slotted and have advertising for other services/products printed on them. The Kodak wallet is predominantly white and blue, has a small slip of paper that appears to have “13/5/30 [?] Winton” and several numbers written on it in pencil, several numbers written in pencil on the left-hand side inside, and “Scotland / Negatives of Pete’s Scotland” written in black ink by Catharine Whyte on the front cover. The Wallace Heaton wallet is predominantly grey and black with a picture of two women looking at a photo album on the front cover, a slip of paper that appears to be a receipt for the Browns Hotel made out to “Nice Esq” tucking inside, “Scotland / Nice Esq / egative Scotland 1930” written in different hands on the back [everything except “Nice Esq” written by Catharine Whyte].
Subject
photography
photograph developing
film negatives
advertisement
commemorative
souvenir;
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.41.0219 a,b
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Date
1960 – 1979
Material
paper; plastic
Catalogue Number
104.41.0108
Description
31 individual Moiré filters in wax paper envelopes with instruction manuals in a repurposed Ansco Photographic Paper box. Filters are in various patterns and shapes and are coloured either black, pink, yellow, or teal.Moiré filters were used in developing photographs to create textured blocks of co…
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Title
Filters
Date
1960 – 1979
Material
paper; plastic
Dimensions
2.1 x 21.3 x 26.2 cm
Description
31 individual Moiré filters in wax paper envelopes with instruction manuals in a repurposed Ansco Photographic Paper box. Filters are in various patterns and shapes and are coloured either black, pink, yellow, or teal.Moiré filters were used in developing photographs to create textured blocks of colour in order to enhance printed images, usually in advertisement. Moiré patterns are made by overlapping fine-line patterns (such as pinstripes) that are offset from each other at a slight angle - these patterns will appear and disappear depending on the resolution they appear in.
Subject
Nicholas Morant
photography
photograph developing
advertisement
Credit
Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
Catalogue Number
104.41.0108
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Date
1998 – 2004
Material
fabric; plastic; paper;
Catalogue Number
103.09.0386
Description
A black Mountain Equipment Co-Op name tag with a clear front window, three slim pockets on the back, and a black and blue nylon cord to hang around the neck - the Mountain Equipment Co-Op logo is stitched in white above the clear window. Visible through the window is an Exhibitor name tag for “Head…
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Title
Identity Tag
Date
1998 – 2004
Material
fabric; plastic; paper;
Dimensions
13.8 x 68.7 cm
Description
A black Mountain Equipment Co-Op name tag with a clear front window, three slim pockets on the back, and a black and blue nylon cord to hang around the neck - the Mountain Equipment Co-Op logo is stitched in white above the clear window. Visible through the window is an Exhibitor name tag for “Head Hunter Productions” issued for the Banff Mountain Festival hosted by the Banff Centre. Tucked into one of the pockets on the back is a laminated media tag for the 2004 Lake Louise World Cup.
Subject
Eddie Hunter
media
advertisement
Banff Mountain Festivals
The Banff Centre
Lake Louise Ski Resort
Lake Louise World Cup;
Credit
Gift of Eddie Hunter, Banff, 1995
Catalogue Number
103.09.0386
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Date
1968
Material
paper; cardboard
Catalogue Number
102.07.0023
Description
A full blue matchbook with “MAC’S SHOE AND SPORTS SHOP ; BANFF - ALTA” printed in silver on one side and “BANFF CANADA’S CHOICE 1986 WINTER OLYMPICS” with the Olympic Rings below also in silver on the flap. “BANFF IS BEST” printed in silver on the spine of the flap.
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Title
Matchbook
Date
1968
Material
paper; cardboard
Dimensions
5.0 x 4.0 cm
Description
A full blue matchbook with “MAC’S SHOE AND SPORTS SHOP ; BANFF - ALTA” printed in silver on one side and “BANFF CANADA’S CHOICE 1986 WINTER OLYMPICS” with the Olympic Rings below also in silver on the flap. “BANFF IS BEST” printed in silver on the spine of the flap.
Subject
Peter Spear
1968 Olympics
Winter Olympics
Calgary Olympics
commemorative
memorabilia
advertisement
Credit
Gift of Peter Spear, 2017
Catalogue Number
102.07.0023
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
ca. 1932 – 1933
Medium
ink; graphite on board
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.595
Description
An ink and pencil sketch that appears to advertise the Skoki Lodge. Five rectangles are arranged in a row across the middle-top of the page with various ski scenes within. Below the central rectangle read SKOKI. A pencil design in the bottom left area shows five small empty rectangles with the lett…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Skoki
Date
ca. 1932 – 1933
Medium
ink; graphite on board
Dimensions
26.5 x 35.3 cm
Description
An ink and pencil sketch that appears to advertise the Skoki Lodge. Five rectangles are arranged in a row across the middle-top of the page with various ski scenes within. Below the central rectangle read SKOKI. A pencil design in the bottom left area shows five small empty rectangles with the letters of SKOKI divided amonst each rectangle. Above the ink scenes is written - 7 1/2 # 456 Whyte Sat 10 block [in cursive]
Subject
Skoki Lodge
ski
mountains
snow skiing
advertisement
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.595
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1923
Medium
graphite; ink on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.743
Description
A rough sketch outlines a jeep driving up a mountain hill carrying luggage. In the background there is a mountain range and clouds in the sky. In the middle of the page near the bottom edge is says “SEE AMERICA FIRST” and above it you can see Peter’s signature. inside the fold along the length: qui…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1923
Medium
graphite; ink on paper
Dimensions
14.0 x 21.5 cm
Description
A rough sketch outlines a jeep driving up a mountain hill carrying luggage. In the background there is a mountain range and clouds in the sky. In the middle of the page near the bottom edge is says “SEE AMERICA FIRST” and above it you can see Peter’s signature. inside the fold along the length: quick sketches - very cartoonish - throughout the page. There are five drawings of men and one of woman, two that appear to be of wolves, one duck, a plane and a rough landscape. verso: printed advertisement for Glacier National Park, with a cartoon drawing of a man to the right of the printed image. In the BLC “magnificent” is crossed out, and near the fold in the middle of the page it says “for mudit”
Subject
jeep
mountain
travel
cloud
hill
America
luggage
duck
man
woman
wolf
plane
cigarette
Glacier National Park
advertisement
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.743
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