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Commercial travel postcards

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of collected commercial postcards from Canada, the United States, Central America, Europe and the United Kingdom [non-annotated]. File includes loose postcards, postcard sets and fold-out photo card booklets.

Date Range: [1900-1960]

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PG - 1 to 8

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Published record; Postcard

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / III/ D : Other materials

Sous-Fonds: LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PG - 1 to 8

GMD: Published record; Postcard

Date Range: [1900-1960]

Physical Description: ca. 630 b&w and col. postcards ; 23 x 18 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of collected commercial postcards from Canada, the United States, Central America, Europe and the United Kingdom [non-annotated]. File includes loose postcards, postcard sets and fold-out photo card booklets.

Notes: Items in this file have been organized by geographical location. See "Content Details" entry field for contents of individual folders.

Subject Access: Advertising; Events; Environment; European travel; Environment and Nature; Travel; Tourism; Waterfalls; Wildlife; Leisure; Landscapes; History; Mountains; Public events; Public entertainment; National parks and reserves; Centennial; Buildings and memorials; Banff National Park; Art; Photography; Postcards; Royalty; Seascapes; Ship; Souvenir; Sports and recreation; Tourist information; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park; Lake Louise; Calgary; British Columbia; Vancouver; Rocky Mountains; Selkirks; Ontario; Sault Ste. Marie; Owen Sound; Toronto; Quebec; Montreal; United States of America; Yellowstone National Park; Colorado; Denver; Florida; California; Chicago; Michigan; France; Paris; England; London; Cuba; Mexico; Ireland; Dublin

Reproduction Restrictions: Some copyright restrictions may apply

Language: English; French

Related Material: Items in this file were separated from annotated postcards [processed as LUX / III / A1 / 25 to 27]

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Sports, recreation and leisure; Environment

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: File is organized into 8 folders, numbered LUX / III / D / PG - 1 to 8. PG - 1 : Banff National Park PG - 2 : Canadian Rockies and Selkirks PG - 3 : Alberta and British Columbia [Other] PG - 4 : Canada PG - 5 : United States of America PG - 6 : United States of America, cont.'d [postcard sets and 1933 Chicago World Fair] PG - 7 : Foreign PG - 8 : Other [location not specified]

Processing Status: Processed

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Slides Notebooks

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to four black leather notebook with the titles wirtten in red paint on the front cover. 51 - 1 : "SL I" (Slides Book I) Includes hand-written lists and details of 35 mm slides [colour positive film] taken and compiled by Lillian Gest from trips taken between 1939 and 1949. 51 - 2 : "S…

Date Range: 1939-1981

Reference Code: M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1 to 4

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record; Textual record

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M67 / S36 / V225

Series: II.C. Activities, photography

Sous-Fonds: M67

Sub-Series: i.a. textual material, notebooks

Accession Number: 5142

Reference Code: M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1 to 4

GMD: Private record; Textual record

Date Range: 1939-1981

Physical Description: 4.5 cm of textual records (4 volumes ; 10.8 x 17.6 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to four black leather notebook with the titles wirtten in red paint on the front cover. 51 - 1 : "SL I" (Slides Book I) Includes hand-written lists and details of 35 mm slides [colour positive film] taken and compiled by Lillian Gest from trips taken between 1939 and 1949. 51 - 2 : "SL II" (Slides Book II) Includes hand-written lists and details of 35 mm slides [colour positive film] taken and compiled by Lillian Gest from trips taken between 1949 and 1955. 51 - 3 : "SL III" (Slides Book II) Includes hand-written lists and details of 35 mm slides [colour positive film] taken and compiled by Lillian Gest from trips taken between 1955 and 191965. 51 - 4 : "SL IV" (Slides Book IV) Includes hand-written lists and details of 35 mm slides [colour positive film] taken and compiled by Lillian Gest from trips taken between 1966 and 1981. Also includes folder of loose material from the notebooks.

Name Access: Gest, Lillian

Subject Access: Activities; Administration; Alpine Club of Canada; Animals; Automobiles; Backpacking; Boats; Buildings; Cabins; Cabins and shelters; Camping; Camps; Climbing; Club; Environment; Environment and Nature; Exploration; Family and personal life; Fishing; Flowers; Glaciers; Guides; Hiking; Horse packing; Horses; Hotels; Landscapes; Mountain; Mountains; Mountaineering; National parks and reserves; Organizations; Outfitters; Pack trips; Personal and Professional Life; Photography; Recreation; Sports and leisure; Sports and recreation; Swiss Guides; Tourism; Trails; Travel; Wildlife

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Banff National Park; Waterton; Waterton National Park; Yoho National Park; Glacier National Park; Montana; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada; Washington; United States of America

Language: English

Creator: Gest, Lillian

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

Electronic Resources

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Summer house

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of a house surrounded by trees - "My home in summer Mystic [illegible] - Mason's Island - SB Mitchell 58 The Tenon[?] Rutherford, N.J." written on the back in pencil

Date Range: [ca. 1914-1959]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 600

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

2 images

Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 600

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1914-1959]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of a house surrounded by trees - "My home in summer Mystic [illegible] - Mason's Island - SB Mitchell 58 The Tenon[?] Rutherford, N.J." written on the back in pencil

Subject Access: Buildings

Geographic Access: New Jersey; United States of America

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Travel and correspondence scrapbook [Spain, Greece, Egypt, Ireland, Hawaii, England]

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one scrapbook containing photograph prints, postcard prints, newspaper clippings, and two typed pages pertaining to John McDougall and the "Indian Uprising" in Alberta in 1880, and Marion Carson. Visual content pertains to various members and friends of the Luxton family attending …

Date Range: 1954; 1959 - 1962; 1967; 1968; 1970

Reference Code: LUX / II / C / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Scrapbook; Photograph; Photograph print; Newspaper clipping

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / C : Personal

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / C / 1

GMD: Postcard; Scrapbook; Photograph; Photograph print; Newspaper clipping

Date Range: 1954; 1959 - 1962; 1967; 1968; 1970

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook (59 b&w and col. prints ; 16.5 x 21.5 cm or smaller -- 3 newspaper clippings - 2 textual records)

Scope & Content: File consists of one scrapbook containing photograph prints, postcard prints, newspaper clippings, and two typed pages pertaining to John McDougall and the "Indian Uprising" in Alberta in 1880, and Marion Carson. Visual content pertains to various members and friends of the Luxton family attending domestic and international trips between 1954 and 1970, including trips to Victoria, B.C., Hawaii, Italy, Egypt, Hong Kong, Japan, Ireland, India, Greece and England.

Notes: Some items are heavily annotated on back, some dates and locations provided on pages of scrapbook; Many items loose in scrapbook

Name Access: McLean, Nell; McDougall, George; Mitchell, Frank

Subject Access: Travel; Tourism; Family and personal life; Buildings; Events; Animals; Sports and recreation

Geographic Access: United States of America; Hawaii; Italy; Rome; Egypt; Cairo; Spain; Greece; Athens; Ireland; Killarney; England; London

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Conservation: Handle with caution as some items are stored loose in album and may fall out; Item has been secured with unbleached cotton string to keep contents together; Pages have been interleaved to protect photographs from other materials

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Travel and landscape photographs, North America and Mexico

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 32 photograph prints [31 b&w, one hand-coloured] pertaining to Norman Luxton's travels within Western Canada, Manitoba, Montana and Mexico City. Includes photographs of Stan Barne's property near Lake Vernon, B.C., unidentified landscape and waterfall scenes, Norman Luxton in Winde…

Date Range: [1900-1910]; [1920-1930]; 1938; [1940-1950]; 1948; [1950-1955]; 1956

Reference Code: LUX / I / E4 / PA - 40 to 71

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / E : Collected material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / E4 / PA - 40 to 71

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [1900-1910]; [1920-1930]; 1938; [1940-1950]; 1948; [1950-1955]; 1956

Physical Description: 32 photographs : b&w and col ; 36.5 x 14 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 32 photograph prints [31 b&w, one hand-coloured] pertaining to Norman Luxton's travels within Western Canada, Manitoba, Montana and Mexico City. Includes photographs of Stan Barne's property near Lake Vernon, B.C., unidentified landscape and waterfall scenes, Norman Luxton in Windermere, aerial views of a landing field in Great Falls, Christmas decorations [1948, possibly in the Luxton family home], unidentified dogs playing with a dog, views of Winnipeg businesses and an unidentified house in the winter, and a man herding cattle.

Notes: Two photographs attached to matboard/paper backing.

Name Access: Barnes, Stan; Luxton, Norman

Subject Access: Activities; Aerial photography; Animals; Buildings and memorials; Businesses; Children; Christmas; Communities; Dogs; Environment; Family and personal life; Farmland; Industry; Landscapes; Land, settlement and immigration; Mountains; Municipal views; Personal and Family Life; Property; Recreation; Travel; Waterfalls; Winter

Geographic Access: Canada; British Columbia; Vernon; Manitoba; Winnipeg; Windermere; United States of America; Montana; Great Falls; Mexico

Language: English

Conservation: Items placed in mylar

Category: Commerce and industry; Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Land, settlement and immigration; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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