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- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- metal; wood;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0014
- Description
- Warning: This item contains asbestos - do not handle. Small metal clothes iron made up of three parts: a base plate with ventilation holes, a solid metal iron that would be heated, and a metal hood with a wooden handle and a spring-loaded lever that latches on to the solid iron. The iron has “ASBES…
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- Title
- Clothes Iron
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- metal; wood;
- Dimensions
- 6.2 x 4.4 x 9.7 cm
- Description
- Warning: This item contains asbestos - do not handle. Small metal clothes iron made up of three parts: a base plate with ventilation holes, a solid metal iron that would be heated, and a metal hood with a wooden handle and a spring-loaded lever that latches on to the solid iron. The iron has “ASBESTOS SAD IRON” molded throughout the top. Asbestos Sad Irons were produced from the late 1800s until electric steam irons gained popularity. The sold metal iron would be heated over a fire or stove and then picked up by placing the hood over it - the hood was lined with asbestos and also provided a small air pocket between the hot metal and the handle, making it slightly cooler and easier to handle.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0014
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0010
- Description
- A small cast iron flatiron with a top handle. The flatiron has a makers mark in a “W” shape with “GUELPH” below it on the top side. The underside is completely smooth.
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- Title
- Flatiron Iron
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 10.0 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- A small cast iron flatiron with a top handle. The flatiron has a makers mark in a “W” shape with “GUELPH” below it on the top side. The underside is completely smooth.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- laundry
- household tools
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0010
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0011
- Description
- Cream-coloured hotel laundry soap sachet. Front text reads: “WESTERN INTERNATIONAL HOTELS; TRAV; Wonder Suds; Mild and safe...for washbasin laundering of all fine washable fabrics”. Back text reads: “EMPTY CONTENTS OF TRAV PACKET INTO WASHBASIN; PARTIALLY FILL BASIN WITH HOT OR COLD WATER; WASH AND…
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- Title
- Laundry Soap
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 7.9 x 6.2 cm
- Description
- Cream-coloured hotel laundry soap sachet. Front text reads: “WESTERN INTERNATIONAL HOTELS; TRAV; Wonder Suds; Mild and safe...for washbasin laundering of all fine washable fabrics”. Back text reads: “EMPTY CONTENTS OF TRAV PACKET INTO WASHBASIN; PARTIALLY FILL BASIN WITH HOT OR COLD WATER; WASH AND RINSE THOROUGHLY; CANAAN PRODUCTS, INC.; CANAAN, CONNECTICUT”.
- Subject
- whyte home, laundry, soap
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0011
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0012
- Description
- Salmon-pink cardboard cylindrical package with cream-coloured cap. Text reads: “To remove a grease spot, rub with eraser. This will leave a white powder. After 10 minutes, brush off.; Jamie; SPOT ERASER; DUNCAN MacKENZIE CO., NEW YORK, N.Y...”. Inside is a white chalk-like stick and a folded yellow…
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- Title
- Laundry Stick
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- cardboard
- Dimensions
- 4.9 cm
- Description
- Salmon-pink cardboard cylindrical package with cream-coloured cap. Text reads: “To remove a grease spot, rub with eraser. This will leave a white powder. After 10 minutes, brush off.; Jamie; SPOT ERASER; DUNCAN MacKENZIE CO., NEW YORK, N.Y...”. Inside is a white chalk-like stick and a folded yellow paper.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0012
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Pants on Clothesline
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactweb.18.30
- Artist
- George Webber
- Date
- 1999 – 1999
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WeB.18.30
- Description
- Photograph of seven pairs of pants hanging from a clothesline outside. Photograph taken at Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern Alberta.
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- Artist
- George Webber
- Title
- Pants on Clothesline
- Date
- 1999 – 1999
- Medium
- photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 11” x 14” cm
- Description
- Photograph of seven pairs of pants hanging from a clothesline outside. Photograph taken at Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern Alberta.
- Subject
- documentary photography
- laundry
- colony
- Credit
- Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- WeB.18.30
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They came west
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6076
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Brewster, Forrest Oliver (Pat)
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Crag & Canyon
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22bt c.1
- 08.3 B22bt c.2
- 08.3 B22bt c.3
- 08.3 B22bt c.4
- Responsibility
- editing and design: Jon Whyte
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Crag & Canyon
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 62p. : ill., port., facsim
- Notes
- Cover title: They came west : Pat's tales of the early days
- Contents: When I was five - includes Bill Brewster and brother John Brewster in 1886, Ed Loder lime kiln, story of Pat Brewster haircut with an axe;t Brewster as a five year old (p.11-16); Ed Loder (p.12); Howard Whitmere of Brewster Dairy (p.19-21); Mrs. Irving and daughter, the spiritualists (p.19-20); Princess Patricia and the Duke of Connaught visit of 1914 (p.21-22); Frank Oliver , newspaperman (p.21-27); ; stories of George Brewster (p.28-47) inclulding George Brewster and Tom Wilson at Silver City and social scene at the Montreal Hotel and the courting of David McDougall's daughter and niece, and stories of George in Finlay River in the Peace River area and prospecting in the Nordegg and Ghost Lake areas and resulting tensions with indians (p. 41-45) Kid Price, prospector (p.39-40); North-west Mounted Police (p.47-51): Fred Bagley, Sergeant Browning, Sergeant Taylor, Sergeant Casey Oliver, Inspector Harper, Michael Denis "Paddy" Ryan, Constable Stanley, Frank Bouchet (who was admitted to the Hockey Hall of Fame); locations of barracks (p.50-52); hockey (p.53-55) including Fred Pratt and photograph of the Banff Sulphur Rocks hockey team; Philip Moore, Powderface and the King of Siam (p.56-57); Cobb family (p.59); history of Banff's Lynx Street (p.61)
- Accession Number
- 3201
- 5533
- 7989
- 2014.8385
- 2019.68
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22bt c.1
- 08.3 B22bt c.2
- 08.3 B22bt c.3
- 08.3 B22bt c.4
- Collection
- Archives Library
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