topic:"fire" found 94 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Building on fire

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions53131

Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of a building on Banff Avenue on fire - "Alpine Hotel - fire 1915" written on the back in pencil

Date Range: 1915

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 696

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph

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 - 696

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: 1915

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

Scope & Content: Image of a building on Banff Avenue on fire - "Alpine Hotel - fire 1915" written on the back in pencil

Subject Access: Alpine Hotel; Banff townsite; Buildings; Businesses; Fire; Fires

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Untitled

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.03.208

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1915

Medium: wax pastel; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.208

Description: Red fire place with a framed “W” in the centre. The fire mantel has blue and red birds and pussy willows on it

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1915

Medium: wax pastel; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 24.5 x 15.0 cm

Description: Red fire place with a framed “W” in the centre. The fire mantel has blue and red birds and pussy willows on it

Subject: fire place; pussy willows; birds

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.208

Images

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Letters to Mother [April 1933 - September 1933]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7440

Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 58 handwritten and typewritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb between April 1933 and September 1933. Topics include news from Concord, daily life in Banff, the fire at Bretton Hall, Peter out painting and sketching, Sam Ward continuously adding cab…

Date Range: 1933

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 91

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

not place cards. Pete some how got enough to sit on by useing the log end by the fire place and the kitchen

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs

Sous-Fonds: M36

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 91

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1933

Physical Description: 1.3 cm of textual records (173 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 58 handwritten and typewritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb between April 1933 and September 1933. Topics include news from Concord, daily life in Banff, the fire at Bretton Hall, Peter out painting and sketching, Sam Ward continuously adding cabinets and cupboards to the Whyte Home, Catharine practicing typewriting and the beginning of some typewritten letters to her mother, the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker, moving a cabin on the property for their Stoney friends to stay in while they paint portraits, selling two sketches, various baking recipes from Edith, Peter painting Mark Poucette, a visit from children from the Mountain School, Peter and Catharine visiting the west coast [via Bonners Ferry and Spokane] and seeing Fern Brewster in Vancouver, writing Mrs. Paley, attending the Calgary Stampede, painting J.D. Curren, painting David Bearspaw, hiking at Lake O'Hara with Skyline Trail Hikers [with participant names], a visit with Mary Vaux in Banff, a Pacific Relations Conference at the Banff Springs Hotel and cleaning the house expecting visits from participants, Catharine discussing Adolf Hitler with a Swiss man visiting the house, a boat trip with the White Family and Allen Mather to Lake Minnewanka, meeting Mr. Anasaki from the Conference [an old friend of Edward Morse] and looking at Catharine's Japanese collection with Mr. Miyoaka and Mr. Takaki, Peter taking photographs at the Indigenous Camp during Banff Indian Days, Peter receiving a beaded coat from Mrs. Jonie, buying some items from the Indigenous Camp that belonged to Old Hector [Crawler?], Jackie heading east to meet Barbara before the birth of their child, and Peter and Catharine heading east via the United States to attend the World Fair and visit Edith Morse Robb and then family in Gorham, Maine.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Letters are all handwritten and typewritten and include some hotel, business and camp letterheads. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.