Narrow Results By
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.777
- Description
- a: A helicopter is rescuing a group of animals that are being held up by a stretcher that is tied to the bottom of the helicopter. The stretcher is tilted up in the left, and the scarves of the animals are blowing in the wind, suggesting that the helicopter is moving. There are birds flying around …
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 17.7 cm
- Description
- a: A helicopter is rescuing a group of animals that are being held up by a stretcher that is tied to the bottom of the helicopter. The stretcher is tilted up in the left, and the scarves of the animals are blowing in the wind, suggesting that the helicopter is moving. There are birds flying around with them. Down below and in the background there is a idyllic mountain range, and below it is says, “SEASONS GREETINGS CATHARINE AND PETER” b: As supplement to the drawing seen in a, b is a newspaper clipping of a helicopter rescuing a man from his plane. In the bottom portion of the clipping is states, “RESCUES AT SEA. The two pictures tell two...the Atlantic at the weekend. On the left, a U.S. navy...single-engine plane after he was forced to ditch today...harbor. Two young girls and another passenger were....a French trawler, is hauled ashore by breeches buoy fro...England Sunday...” verso: an article discussing a game played by the Calgary Stampeders against the Regina Roughriders. The writes: “Sandhogs Stampeder Blitz... Keys 25-0 Win. By Gorde Hunter [Herald Sports Editor]. A brilliant defence that allowed the Regina Rough-riders a total offence of a mere 32 years, powered the Calgary Stampeders to a one-sided 25-0 win over the Roughriders Saturday afternoon at McMahon in the first game of the Western Conference total point semi-final series. With a crowd of 17,780 sitting in bright sunshine, the Cowboys completely dominated proceedings from flag to finish as the sandhogs made a shambles of the Regina attack by putting a tremendous rush on quarterback Bob Ptacek, a thorn in Stampeder sides all season. He managed to complete but five passes in 17 attempts for 47 yeard and the ground attack had less success. Meanwhile EAgle Day guided the Stamps to three touch-downs, a field goal, two converts and a pair of singles to add up to the 25 points they will take into tonights’s second game...”
- Subject
- Christmas card
- helicopter
- mountains
- mountain range
- birds
- rope
- stretcher
- squirrel
- moose
- bear
- rabbit
- wolf
- deer
- scarves
- flying
- rescue
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.777
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on vellum
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.778
- Description
- Silhouettes of a group of animals on a stretcher in mid-air with birds flying around them. A helicopter is above and a mountain range below. The background is filled in with a black ink to resemble the sky.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- ink on vellum
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Silhouettes of a group of animals on a stretcher in mid-air with birds flying around them. A helicopter is above and a mountain range below. The background is filled in with a black ink to resemble the sky.
- Subject
- moose
- deer
- bear
- squirrel
- rabbit
- birds
- helicopter
- stretcher
- flying
- mountains
- mountain range
- rescue
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.778
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.780
- Description
- A rough sketch of a group of animals on a sketcher that is tethered to a helicopter. There are birds flying around them, and their scarves are blowing in the wind suggesting that the helicopter is moving. Below the animals there is a mountain range.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 21.5 cm
- Description
- A rough sketch of a group of animals on a sketcher that is tethered to a helicopter. There are birds flying around them, and their scarves are blowing in the wind suggesting that the helicopter is moving. Below the animals there is a mountain range.
- Subject
- helicopter
- flying
- rescue
- stretcher
- birds
- rope
- moose
- deer
- wolf
- squirrel
- rabbit
- bear
- mountains
- mountain range
- scarf
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.780
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.783
- Description
- Four sketches that are close-ups of the Christmas card concept of 1962. The one on the top has the bear, deer, rabbit, moose and squirrel, below these two there are two singular drawings one of the deer on the right side of the stretcher and then an animal that is not easily defined, and on the bot…
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.9 x 21.4 cm
- Description
- Four sketches that are close-ups of the Christmas card concept of 1962. The one on the top has the bear, deer, rabbit, moose and squirrel, below these two there are two singular drawings one of the deer on the right side of the stretcher and then an animal that is not easily defined, and on the bottom there is the left side of the stretcher with just the moose drawn.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.783
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.784
- Description
- A rough sketch for the 1962 Christmas card, the viewer is looking up at the bottom of the stretcher that is carrying six identifiable animals. The stretcher is tethered to a helicopter that can be seen above, and below the animals you can see an mountain range.verso: a loose boxed off sketch of a h…
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 21.3 cm
- Description
- A rough sketch for the 1962 Christmas card, the viewer is looking up at the bottom of the stretcher that is carrying six identifiable animals. The stretcher is tethered to a helicopter that can be seen above, and below the animals you can see an mountain range.verso: a loose boxed off sketch of a helicopter lifting gestural drawings of figures on a surface attached to the helicopter.
- Subject
- helicopter
- rescue
- rope
- stretcher
- moose
- rabbit
- squirrel
- bear
- deer
- mountains
- mountain range
- Christmas card
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.784
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.788
- Description
- A quick Christmas card sketch of a helicopter airlifting a group of animals out on a stretcher. There is a mountain range and clouds below them. In the BRC of the drawing there appears to be markings that could be Peter’s signature.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 21.3 cm
- Description
- A quick Christmas card sketch of a helicopter airlifting a group of animals out on a stretcher. There is a mountain range and clouds below them. In the BRC of the drawing there appears to be markings that could be Peter’s signature.
- Subject
- Christmas card
- helicopter
- flying
- mountains
- mountain range
- clouds
- stretcher
- rope
- rescue
- animals
- moose
- deer
- bear
- squirrel
- rabbit
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.788
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.789
- Description
- A boxed-off sketch for the 1962 Christmas card. A helicopter is airlifting a group of animals out of the mountains. The animals are on a stretcher of sorts with their scarves blowing in the wind.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.9 x 21.4 cm
- Description
- A boxed-off sketch for the 1962 Christmas card. A helicopter is airlifting a group of animals out of the mountains. The animals are on a stretcher of sorts with their scarves blowing in the wind.
- Subject
- Christmas card
- helicopter
- flying
- rescue
- rope
- stretcher
- mountains
- mountain range
- animals
- moose
- deer
- bear
- squirrel
- scarves
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.789
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.790
- Description
- Quick sketch of a helicopter airlifting a group of animals out of the mountains. There is a mountain range below them, and birds flying around. verso: quick sketch of the same drawing, though it is just of the moose being airlifted out by the helicopter, with the mountains below.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 17.7 cm
- Description
- Quick sketch of a helicopter airlifting a group of animals out of the mountains. There is a mountain range below them, and birds flying around. verso: quick sketch of the same drawing, though it is just of the moose being airlifted out by the helicopter, with the mountains below.
- Subject
- Christmas card
- helicopter
- rescue
- stretcher
- birds
- squirrel
- moose
- deer
- bear
- rabbit
- rope
- mountains
- mountain range
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.790
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Letters to Mother [January - August 1959]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7490
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 110 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to August 29, 1959. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs …
- Date Range
- 1959
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 144
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Private record
it , and by the time
that was fixed a moose walked down and sank in so far it matte it very rough,
and then n lot
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 / 144
- Date Range
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 2.5 cm of textual records (145 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 110 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to August 29, 1959. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs [mostly news and hockey games], various holidays [both Canadian and American], the 50th anniversary of the first flight in the Brittish Commonwealth in February, the 1959 Winter Carnival, construction on the back of the house, a trip to Concord in June for a friend's wedding, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip's visit in June, trips to Bow Lake during the summer, and the widening of the Icefield Parkway as far as the Saskatchewan River Crossing. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Also includes postcards.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Many typed letters have hand-written notes added throughout; many post scripts are hand-written. 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. 144 - 02 is a letter to Rusty 144 - 07 is a carbon copy of 144 - 06 144 - 31 is a carbon copy of 144 - 30 144 - 56 is a carbon copy of 144 - 55 144 - 62 mostly consists of a story titled "The Story of Penny Warren" 144 - 86 is a carbon copy of the first page of 144 - 85
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Simpson, Billie
- Morant, Nicholas (Nick)
- Morant, Willie
- Vallance, Sydney
- Vallance, Doris
- Moore, Pearl
- Castella, Verne
- Whyte, Clifford
- Kaquitts, Frank
- Dempster, Harry
- Paris, Cyril
- Paris, Mary
- Phillips, Walter J.
- Harvie, Eric
- Tasker, Peter
- Kaquitts, George
- Kaquitts, Tom
- Whyte, Jon
- Ward, Sam
- Beil, Charlie
- Rummel, Elizabeth
- Luxton, Norman
- McLean, George
- Campbell, Gray
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Banff Centre
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- Banff Winter Carnival
- Bird watching
- Birds
- Birthday
- Businesses
- Calgary Stampede
- Camping
- Children
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- Deer
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Flowers
- Glenbow Foundation
- Home
- Hot Springs
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake Louise
- Leisure
- Luxton Museum
- Moose
- Mountain
- Mountains
- Oldtimers
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Post Office
- Royal tours
- Royal Visit
- Scenery
- Skating
- Ski areas
- Skiing
- Stoney Nakoda
- Travel
- Weather
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Moraine Lake
- Banff National Park
- Columbia Icefield
- Bow Lake
- Saskatchewan River
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Letters to Mother [September - December 1959]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7491
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 41 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 3 to December 14, 1959. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, seeing the m…
- Date Range
- 1959
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 145
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Private record
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 / 145
- Date Range
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records (58 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 41 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 3 to December 14, 1959. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, seeing the musical My Fair Lady at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary (Sept. 21), driving out to the Panther Valley with Warden Peter Tasker (Oct. 16), Carl Rungius' death (October), a trip to Concord in early November [just Catharine], construction on the back of the house, a second trip to Concord for Christmas and New Years followed immediately by a two-month trip to the West Indies [Catharine and Peter]. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Also includes two postcards making up one letter.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. 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.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Kaquitts, George
- Kaquitts, Frank
- Castella, Verne
- Morant, Nicholas (Nick)
- Morant, Willie
- Whyte, Jon
- Greenham, Margaret
- Feuz, Walter
- Vallance, Sydney
- Vallance, Doris
- Wardle, Dorothy
- Phillips, Walter J.
- Harmon, Don
- Moore, Pearl
- Kerr, Jasper
- Tasker, Peter
- Rungius, Carl
- Ward, Sam
- Lonsdale, Tom
- Grayson, L. Stuart
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Banff Centre
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- Bird watching
- Birds
- Birthday
- Businesses
- Calgary Stampede
- Camping
- Children
- Christmas
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- Deer
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Flowers
- Glenbow Foundation
- Home
- Hot Springs
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake Louise
- Leisure
- Moose
- Mountain
- Mountains
- Oldtimers
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Post Office
- Scenery
- Stoney Nakoda
- Travel
- Weather
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Moraine Lake
- Banff National Park
- Columbia Icefield
- Bow Lake
- Yoho National Park
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.