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Commemorative Band
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.1233%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1950
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1233 a,b
- Description
- A commemorative silver band that can be nailed onto a walking stick. The rectangular silver is shaped into a circular form, each end has two holes (.03cm from each edge, 1.50cm apart) to put nails through and attach it to a walking stick. There is a piece of wire threaded through the holes to keep …
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- Title
- Commemorative Band
- Date
- 1950
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 2.5 x 9.3 cm
- Description
- A commemorative silver band that can be nailed onto a walking stick. The rectangular silver is shaped into a circular form, each end has two holes (.03cm from each edge, 1.50cm apart) to put nails through and attach it to a walking stick. There is a piece of wire threaded through the holes to keep piece of metal in a circular shape. The middle of the band has the Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies logo; a shield- shaped crest with the letters “SLTH” on top, a hiking boot crossed by a walking stick or alpenstock, and underneath it a “C”, the bottom of the walking stick passing between, and then the “R”. To the viewer’s right of the crest, inscribed on the bottom are the words “BIRKS STERLING”.Re: inventory 2014 s/b (a) and (b) because there is a box.
- Credit
- Gift of Molly Vaux, New York, USA, 2007
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1233 a,b
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Commemorative Banner
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.01.0020%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1982
- Material
- plastic; vinyl
- Catalogue Number
- 105.01.0020 a,b
- Description
- Two white pennants with triangular vinyl patches reading “EVEREST 82” sewn on both sides. White cord sewn into the tops of the pennants and extends out from either side.
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- Title
- Commemorative Banner
- Date
- 1982
- Material
- plastic; vinyl
- Dimensions
- 40.2 x 39.2 cm
- Description
- Two white pennants with triangular vinyl patches reading “EVEREST 82” sewn on both sides. White cord sewn into the tops of the pennants and extends out from either side.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter Spear, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- 105.01.0020 a,b
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Commemorative Coin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.0153
- Date
- 1953
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0153
- Description
- A bronze coin with the relief of a maple life with “E II R” and a crown within it and “GOD SAVE OUT GRACIOUS QUEEN” within a scroll below it/ “CORONATION 1953” at top edge. Obverse” Bust of Queen Elizabeth in relief, “ELIZABETH THE SECOND 1953” around edge. Small hole at top with ball-chain through…
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- Title
- Commemorative Coin
- Date
- 1953
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 0.2 x 3.0 x 3.0 cm
- Description
- A bronze coin with the relief of a maple life with “E II R” and a crown within it and “GOD SAVE OUT GRACIOUS QUEEN” within a scroll below it/ “CORONATION 1953” at top edge. Obverse” Bust of Queen Elizabeth in relief, “ELIZABETH THE SECOND 1953” around edge. Small hole at top with ball-chain through it.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- events
- coronation
- commemorative
- souvenir
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0153
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Commemorative Cup
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.20.1307
- Date
- 1937
- Material
- ceramic; porcelain
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1307
- Description
- A white commemorative porcelain cup of the royal family, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. It is a tall cup with a handle that is triangle-shaped with some gold along it, and gilded on the lip. One side is an illustration of the Royal Family (King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Elizabet…
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- Title
- Commemorative Cup
- Date
- 1937
- Material
- ceramic; porcelain
- Dimensions
- 9.8 x 9.8 x 7.4 cm
- Description
- A white commemorative porcelain cup of the royal family, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. It is a tall cup with a handle that is triangle-shaped with some gold along it, and gilded on the lip. One side is an illustration of the Royal Family (King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Elizabeth and Margaret) inside a pair of golden laurel wreaths, a red crown over the middle, underneath the portrait are scrolls in gold that read “THE ROYAL FAMILY MAY 12th CORONATION 1937 SOUVENIR”. On the opposite side of the cup is a small badge with the crown, a lion and unicorn and scrolls around it. The badge reads “THE ROYAL FAMILY THEIR MAJESTIES, KING QUEEN GEORGE VI ELIZABETH THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE”, the scrolls reads “MAY 12th CORONATION SOUVENIR 1937”. On the bottom of the cup is a stamp that reads “MADE IN ENGLAND” and another stamp “PORTRAIT BY MARCUS ADAMS”.
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1307
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Commemorative Cushion Cover
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.1078
- Date
- 1935
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1078
- Description
- A hand-embroidered and stitched, linen, commemorative cushion cover to honour King George V’s Jubilee. The top of the cushion has a banner stitched in a blue wool/cotton mix; it reads “KING GEORGE V”. There is a line of red stitches before and after the letters. The middle of the cushion has an emb…
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- Title
- Commemorative Cushion Cover
- Date
- 1935
- Dimensions
- 45.0 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- A hand-embroidered and stitched, linen, commemorative cushion cover to honour King George V’s Jubilee. The top of the cushion has a banner stitched in a blue wool/cotton mix; it reads “KING GEORGE V”. There is a line of red stitches before and after the letters. The middle of the cushion has an emblem of a shield, stitched in dark brown to denote the edge, the middle part is filled in with brown dye. There is an outline of a beaver embroidered in light brown silk thread; the body of the beaver is dyed light brown. He is on a light green, silk thread, embroidered log with a light brown-dyed background. The shield is dyed yellow. Under that, obscuring most of the shield, is the outline of a maple leaf, with veins and a stem stitched in different shades of green silk thread, and on either side of the maple leaf is a part of a flag; blue and white outline on the viewer’s left, and white, red and blue on the viewer’s right. Two brown, silk, embroidered flag staffs extend from either end. The bottom has a banner stitched in a blue wool/cotton mix; it reads “1910 JUBILEE 1935”. It has been mended with yellow thread in places. The years are stitched in red the rest in blue. On various parts of the cushion cover the blue-coloured pattern shows through the stitching. There is a red and white cord on the outside edges and red piping sewn on the inside edge.
- Subject
- households
- crafts
- commemorative
- Credit
- Gift of Katie Byers, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1078
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Commemorative Envelope
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.1193
- Date
- 2011
- Material
- paper; metal; wood; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1193
- Description
- pink sunset, yellow canoe, tent and two people on envelope with postage stamp centered in ornate gold frame with blue, green and yellow “100” beaver pin beneath envelope. ink stamped with black moose “DAY OF ISSUE BANFF AB 2011.05.19”
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- Title
- Commemorative Envelope
- Date
- 2011
- Material
- paper; metal; wood; glass
- Dimensions
- 24.13 x 30.48 cm
- Description
- pink sunset, yellow canoe, tent and two people on envelope with postage stamp centered in ornate gold frame with blue, green and yellow “100” beaver pin beneath envelope. ink stamped with black moose “DAY OF ISSUE BANFF AB 2011.05.19”
- Credit
- Gift of Grit McCreath, Canmore, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1193
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Commemorative Pin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.1291
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1291
- Description
- Small metal pin of two triangles one set inside the other. In side the interior triangle is an elongated “50”. Small 4 cm chain is attached to back but has nothing attached to the other end.
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- Title
- Commemorative Pin
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 1 x 1 x 4 cm
- Description
- Small metal pin of two triangles one set inside the other. In side the interior triangle is an elongated “50”. Small 4 cm chain is attached to back but has nothing attached to the other end.
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1291
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Commemorative Plaque
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.3055
- Date
- 1912 – 1912
- Material
- plaster;
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3055
- Description
- Round plaster-cast plaque featuring a man’s face in profile, like a coin, painted bronze. Written on the back in pencil is “E.K., Ernest Kennedy N.M.D.S., ‘12, Chicago, Ills., May 5 - 1912, This plaque presented to me by the sculptor R.W. Bock. EK.”
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- Title
- Commemorative Plaque
- Date
- 1912 – 1912
- Material
- plaster;
- Description
- Round plaster-cast plaque featuring a man’s face in profile, like a coin, painted bronze. Written on the back in pencil is “E.K., Ernest Kennedy N.M.D.S., ‘12, Chicago, Ills., May 5 - 1912, This plaque presented to me by the sculptor R.W. Bock. EK.”
- Subject
- commemorative
- awards;
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Kennedy, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3055
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Commemorative Plate
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.20.1283
- Date
- 1946 – 1979
- Material
- china;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1283
- Description
- Decorative commemorative plate depicting an image of Mt. Eisenhower [Castle Mountain] with trees and the Bow River in the foreground in the depressed center of the plate - pink, purple, yellow, and green flower clusters decorate the rest of the plate and the edge of the plate is lined with gold.Cas…
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- Title
- Commemorative Plate
- Date
- 1946 – 1979
- Material
- china;
- Dimensions
- 2.4 cm
- Description
- Decorative commemorative plate depicting an image of Mt. Eisenhower [Castle Mountain] with trees and the Bow River in the foreground in the depressed center of the plate - pink, purple, yellow, and green flower clusters decorate the rest of the plate and the edge of the plate is lined with gold.Castle Mountain [Miistukskoowa] was renamed Mt. Eisenhower in 1946 by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in honour of General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s involvement in World War II. Some local residents resented the name change and in 1979 it was reverted back to Castle Mountain, with the southeast end kept “Eisenhower Tower.”
- Subject
- Crosby family
- Abegweit
- decorations
- household items
- commemorative items
- Mt. Eisenhower
- Castle Mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1283
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Commemorative Plate
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.20.1285
- Date
- 1937 – 1937
- Material
- china;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1285
- Description
- Commemorative plate with molded decoration around the rim. In the middle is a printed portrait of King Edward VIII set in the middle of a Royal coat of arms with “LONG MAY HE REIGN” on ribbons along the bottom and “May 12th 1937” at the very bottom. The manufacturer’s stamp is on the bottom.
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- Title
- Commemorative Plate
- Date
- 1937 – 1937
- Material
- china;
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 21.4 x 21.4 cm
- Description
- Commemorative plate with molded decoration around the rim. In the middle is a printed portrait of King Edward VIII set in the middle of a Royal coat of arms with “LONG MAY HE REIGN” on ribbons along the bottom and “May 12th 1937” at the very bottom. The manufacturer’s stamp is on the bottom.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1285
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