topic:"landscape" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: A black and white photographic positive, a mountain pass , snow and ice covered, meanders from the bottom left of the picture to centre top, the mountains rise steeply from both sides of the pass and fill the picture almost to the top, a hut is at the top of the pass, the sky is cloudy

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Artist: Bruno Engler (1915 – 2001, Canadian)

Title: Abbot Pass from Upper Victoria Glacier

Date: 1956

Medium: silver gelatin on paper

Dimensions: 49.5 x 39.1 cm

Description: A black and white photographic positive, a mountain pass , snow and ice covered, meanders from the bottom left of the picture to centre top, the mountains rise steeply from both sides of the pass and fill the picture almost to the top, a hut is at the top of the pass, the sky is cloudy

Subject: landscape; mountain; Abbot Pass

Credit: Purchased from Bruno Engler, Harvie Heights, 1985

Catalogue Number: EnB.18.04

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BC Scenic Views

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 52 b&w prints of various scenic views around British Columbia. Includes views overlooking towns, skiing, beaches, A-frame cabins, highways, rivers, portraits, and the inner harbour & Empress Hotel in Victoria.

Date Range: [ca. 1959-1965]

Reference Code: V190 / VI / B / v / PA - 01 to PA - 52

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Print

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, B : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: v : BC Scenic Views

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / B / v / PA - 01 to PA - 52

GMD: Photograph; Print

Date Range: [ca. 1959-1965]

Physical Description: 52 photographs : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm or smaller

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 52 b&w prints of various scenic views around British Columbia. Includes views overlooking towns, skiing, beaches, A-frame cabins, highways, rivers, portraits, and the inner harbour & Empress Hotel in Victoria.

Subject Access: Activities; Architecture; Backcountry skiing; Boats; Buildings; Empress Hotel; Environment and Nature; Family and personal life; Glaciers; Landscape; Mountains; Personal and Professional Life; Portrait; Rivers; Roads; Scenery; Ship; Ski areas; Skiing; Sports and leisure; Totem pole; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Victoria; British Columbia

Language: English

Creator: Engler, Bruno

Title Source: Original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

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Postcard album, Brewster family

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Part Of: Jim Brewster family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one postcard album with ca.65 images pertaining to members of the Brewster family; extended family and friends, some unidentified; buildings and landscapes from in and around Banff; winter sporting events; portraits of Indigenous men in regalia, including Hector Crawler [image by p…

Date Range: [ca.1900-1920]; 1918; 1921; 1942; 1949; 1962

Reference Code: V90 / VI / PD - 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Postcard; Print; Photograph

Part Of: Jim Brewster family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M436; V90

Series: V90 / VI : Later acquisitions

Sous-Fonds: V90

Accession Number: 2023.09

Reference Code: V90 / VI / PD - 1

GMD: Album; Postcard; Print; Photograph

Date Range: [ca.1900-1920]; 1918; 1921; 1942; 1949; 1962

Physical Description: 1 album (ca.65 postcards and postcard prints): 23 x 39 cm

Scope & Content: File consists of one postcard album with ca.65 images pertaining to members of the Brewster family; extended family and friends, some unidentified; buildings and landscapes from in and around Banff; winter sporting events; portraits of Indigenous men in regalia, including Hector Crawler [image by photographer Byron Harmon]; members of the British royal family; men in military uniforms [World War I]; political satire and cartoon illustrations; and Australian wildlife.

Notes: Some postcard prints are annotated on the back; NOTE: some materials in this album contain offensive subject matter, including racist content. These materials reflect views from their original time period and have not been censored.

Subject Access: Banff; Businesses; Community life; Family and personal life; Home; Homestead; Indigenous people; Landscape; Military; Municipal views; Public events; Portrait; Recreation; Regalia; Royalty; Royal Visit; Sports; War; World War I; Winter sports; Wildlife

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park; Australia

Access Restrictions: Contains offensive subject matter- accessible at researcher's individual discretion

Language: English

Category: Family and personal life; Indigenous Peoples; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Train in Rocky Mountains

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Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: gelatine silver on paper

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.02

Description: A black and white photograph of a train in the Rocky Mountains, the scene is in the winter, the train is running to the left of the picture, lots of smoke from the engine, dark near the engine and thinning out at the top left, the lower two thirds is forest covered, mountain peaks to left and extre…

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Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Title: Train in Rocky Mountains

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: gelatine silver on paper

Dimensions: 34.0 x 48.5 cm

Description: A black and white photograph of a train in the Rocky Mountains, the scene is in the winter, the train is running to the left of the picture, lots of smoke from the engine, dark near the engine and thinning out at the top left, the lower two thirds is forest covered, mountain peaks to left and extreme right, cloudy day

Subject: landscape, mountain; institution, CPR

Credit: Gift of Canadian Pacific Corporate Archives, Montreal, 1985

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.02

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Willy Morant near Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Date: 1955

Medium: cibachrome on paper

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.07

Description: A colour photograph, a woman with a red shirt and wearing a hat sits on a white horse lower left in picture, the foreground and to centre is rocky with a small lake and grass, a mountain range in background wit h Mount Assiniboine being dominant, a light blue sky with some clouds

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Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Title: Willy Morant near Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1955

Medium: cibachrome on paper

Dimensions: 41.0 x 57.9 cm

Description: A colour photograph, a woman with a red shirt and wearing a hat sits on a white horse lower left in picture, the foreground and to centre is rocky with a small lake and grass, a mountain range in background wit h Mount Assiniboine being dominant, a light blue sky with some clouds

Subject: landscape, mountain; landscape, with people; landscape, Mount Assiniboine; characters, Willy Morant

Credit: Purchased from Nicholas Morant, Banff, 1985

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.07

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