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Cards

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Date: 1905

Material: paper

Catalogue Number: 108.01.1007

Description: A red paper box embossed in gold lettering "British Columbia Souvenir Playing Cards, Published by Clarke & Stuart, Vancouver, B.C. On the back is a Joker with Evening, Harrison Lake. The cards inside the box have one coloured scene of a mountain and lake set in a ring of maple leaves and on each ot…

Title: Cards

Date: 1905

Material: paper

Dimensions: 7.0 x 9.5 cm

Description: A red paper box embossed in gold lettering "British Columbia Souvenir Playing Cards, Published by Clarke & Stuart, Vancouver, B.C. On the back is a Joker with Evening, Harrison Lake. The cards inside the box have one coloured scene of a mountain and lake set in a ring of maple leaves and on each other side is a different black and white scene of the west at that time. Also 1 (unbacked) card which is the description of the views.

Subject: souvenir; entertainment; card; landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Rory Flanagan, Jasper, 1987

Catalogue Number: 108.01.1007

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Castle Mountain Siding

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Artist: C. Zollern

Date: 1895

Medium: watercolour; photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: ZoC.13.01

Description: Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in i…

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Artist: C. Zollern

Title: Castle Mountain Siding

Date: 1895

Medium: watercolour; photograph on paper

Dimensions: 34.8 x 47.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in it on the right. On both sides of the river are trees and in the distance are mountains. Sky fills the top. The lower two pictures are photographs. The left is of the first Banff Springs Hotel and Rundle Mountain. The right is looking down the main street of Banff in 1895.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; architecture; rura;

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974

Catalogue Number: ZoC.13.01

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Evening Mt. Fuji During the Upward Wind

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Date: 1895

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.08 a-c

Description: This triptych features four women spread across three panels with Mt. Fuji softly in the background. A stretch of bushes separated the women from the background and is mostly grey. The lone Mt. Fuji is the only background with paper tone behind it. In the first panel Mt. Fuji starts and two wome…

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Artist: Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)

Title: Evening Mt. Fuji During the Upward Wind

Date: 1895

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37 x 72 cm

Description: This triptych features four women spread across three panels with Mt. Fuji softly in the background. A stretch of bushes separated the women from the background and is mostly grey. The lone Mt. Fuji is the only background with paper tone behind it. In the first panel Mt. Fuji starts and two women stand with their bodies facing eachother. The smaller woman is pointing at Mt. Fuji. In the second panel a woman stands in the rc, her body facing right and her head turned back to the left. She has her back to the mountain which is mostly featured in the second panel. In the third panel a woman sits on a bench facing left with her hand by her chest. A lamp is to the left of her bench. The ground the woman are on is mostly paper tone with a light wash.

Subject: figures; woman; landscape; mountain; Mt. Fuji

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

Catalogue Number: ChY.04.08 a-c

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Mount Baker from B.C. Coast, Olympic Range, Siwash Indian Boat

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Artist: Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)

Date: 1900

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MrT.05.01

Description: Foreground has yellow grasses, rocks and a bare ground leading towards light blue water to the right of the picture. On the edge of the water on the bare embankment is a canoe with two people. Green trees to left centre of foreground and across the river, low blue/purple mountains are in front of s…

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Artist: Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)

Title: Mount Baker from B.C. Coast, Olympic Range, Siwash Indian Boat

Date: 1900

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 46.5 x 66.0 cm

Description: Foreground has yellow grasses, rocks and a bare ground leading towards light blue water to the right of the picture. On the edge of the water on the bare embankment is a canoe with two people. Green trees to left centre of foreground and across the river, low blue/purple mountains are in front of snow-capped mountains to centre left. Cloudy sky with a few patches of blue.

Subject: landscape; mountain; lake; figure, male

Credit: Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd, Toronto, 1984

Catalogue Number: MrT.05.01

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Playing Cards

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Date: 1905

Material: paper

Catalogue Number: 108.01.1008

Description: A set of souvenir playing cards; 54 cards, 4 full suits, plus 1 Joker, 1 blank card, and 1 (unbacked) card which is the description of the 52 views and one person (Joker) in the set. Set in a deep blue slip case, goldstamped, some splitting on one seam of inner case. Back of cards is Mt. Sir Donald…

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Title: Playing Cards

Date: 1905

Material: paper

Dimensions: 7.0 x 9.5 cm

Description: A set of souvenir playing cards; 54 cards, 4 full suits, plus 1 Joker, 1 blank card, and 1 (unbacked) card which is the description of the 52 views and one person (Joker) in the set. Set in a deep blue slip case, goldstamped, some splitting on one seam of inner case. Back of cards is Mt. Sir Donald set in a ring of maple leaves. Dated as 1905 on basis of the views.