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- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- metal, silver; lacquer; shell, abalone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0459 a,b
- Description
- Two small matching square bowls, each with deep sides and a flat bottom. The bowls have a silver (?) lining on the inside with dark (green?) lacquer on the exterior. The front of each bowl is decorated with a floral design inlaid with pink and blue abalone. The bottom of one bowl (a) is marked …
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- Title
- Bowl
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- metal, silver; lacquer; shell, abalone
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 6.0 x 6.0 cm
- Description
- Two small matching square bowls, each with deep sides and a flat bottom. The bowls have a silver (?) lining on the inside with dark (green?) lacquer on the exterior. The front of each bowl is decorated with a floral design inlaid with pink and blue abalone. The bottom of one bowl (a) is marked “Fong’s Inn #141 $10.00”.
- Subject
- households
- souvenirs
- plants
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0459 a,b
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- Date
- 1881
- Material
- grass; wood; paper; glass; metal;
- Catalogue Number
- 112.02.1005
- Description
- A framed (in a gold-coloured shadow box with a screwed-on wooden back) and glassed-in mound of bison dung surrounded by white tissue paper. There is a screwed-in hook at the top of the box for hanging. Au verso written in pen “THIS 100% PURE BUFFALO CHIP WAS CREATED ON THE PLAINS OF ALBERTA - ABOU…
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- Title
- Buffalo Dung
- Date
- 1881
- Material
- grass; wood; paper; glass; metal;
- Dimensions
- 24.0 (frame 34.0) x 20.0 (frame 29.0) cm
- Description
- A framed (in a gold-coloured shadow box with a screwed-on wooden back) and glassed-in mound of bison dung surrounded by white tissue paper. There is a screwed-in hook at the top of the box for hanging. Au verso written in pen “THIS 100% PURE BUFFALO CHIP WAS CREATED ON THE PLAINS OF ALBERTA - ABOUT 30 MILES S-E OF RED DEER - ON OR ABOUT THE 24TH DAY OF JULY 1881 - PRESERVED BY THE KINDNESS OF THE ABERHART GOVERNMENT”. Signed in pencil in script “Pat Lawrence P-L Ranches Red Deer”. On viewer’s left there is a white rectangular paper sticker with a red border, above this printed in pen “CERTIFIED GENUINE” and written on the paper, extending onto the wood, a signature in pen ESMeaueug?? underlined.
- Subject
- plants
- feces
- buffalo
- Nick Morant
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 112.02.1005
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Canadian havens from hay fever
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8413
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1962
- Author
- Bassett, I.J
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Canadian Government Travel Bureau
- Call Number
- 02.7 B29 Pam
- Author
- Bassett, I.J
- Responsibility
- by I.J. Bassett and C. Frankton
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Canadian Government Travel Bureau
- Published Date
- 1962
- Physical Description
- 32p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Plants, Poisonous
- Notes
- Contains photos of Rockies
- Call Number
- 02.7 B29 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Edible native plants of the Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6628
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1968
- c1967
- Author
- Harrington, Harold David
- Publisher
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Call Number
- 04.1 H23
- Author
- Harrington, Harold David
- Responsibility
- illustrated by Y. Matsumura
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
- Published Date
- 1968
- c1967
- Physical Description
- 392p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Plants, Poisonous
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 814
- Call Number
- 04.1 H23
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map showing power developments on the Bow River above Calgary
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24433
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1963
- Call Number
- C9-5.4
- Published Date
- 1963
- Scale
- Scale: 1 inch: 2 miles
- Subjects
- Power Plants
- Bow River
- Accession Number
- 673
- Call Number
- C9-5.4
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1965
- Material
- glass; wood; paper; grass
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1018
- Description
- Black framed, glass covered dried flower specimen mounted on green paper. A description of the plant is written in pen “...found on Mt. Cautley-Assiniboine at altitude of 9318 ft. in 1965.”
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- Title
- Picture
- Date
- 1965
- Material
- glass; wood; paper; grass
- Description
- Black framed, glass covered dried flower specimen mounted on green paper. A description of the plant is written in pen “...found on Mt. Cautley-Assiniboine at altitude of 9318 ft. in 1965.”
- Credit
- Gift of Elizabeth Rummel, Banff, 1981
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1018
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- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0131
- Description
- A squat round jug with the lip distorted to form a pouring spout. The pitcher has a loop handle with a thumb tab attached opposite to the spout. The pitcher is white with a relief design painted over with gold and shades of green. A vine with half-green, half-gold leaves and gold berries over a …
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- Title
- Pitcher
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 10.5 cm
- Description
- A squat round jug with the lip distorted to form a pouring spout. The pitcher has a loop handle with a thumb tab attached opposite to the spout. The pitcher is white with a relief design painted over with gold and shades of green. A vine with half-green, half-gold leaves and gold berries over a background texture of scattered comma shapes decorates the top of the pitcher, beneath a narrow band of large dots at the rim. The base of the jug is painted green and has green leaves scattered about. A flower-like design is painted on the thumb tab of the handle. The jug is marked “Sporting Dogs”, “Old Leeds” and “Paragon, England PC”.
- Subject
- households
- plants
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0131
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- Date
- 1880 – 1940
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0116
- Description
- A round, cup-shaped white porcelain bell with a knobby handle. The bell is decorated with gold lines around the bottom edge and each of the knobs of the handle. There are high relief clusters of coloured flowers and smaller single flowers scattered over surface of bell. The bell is marked with a …
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- Title
- Service Bell
- Date
- 1880 – 1940
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 11.0 cm
- Description
- A round, cup-shaped white porcelain bell with a knobby handle. The bell is decorated with gold lines around the bottom edge and each of the knobs of the handle. There are high relief clusters of coloured flowers and smaller single flowers scattered over surface of bell. The bell is marked with a Dresden hallmark.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- communication
- flowers
- plants
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0116
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- Date
- prior to 1987
- Medium
- type c print on photographic paper
- Catalogue Number
- SpB.18.17
- Description
- The border of the photograph is a blue colour with writing below and above the retangular photographic image in the center. The image in the center is a scene looking threw a window. Around the window on the inside is a number of different plants. Outside you can see a white house with trees and hi…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- prior to 1987
- Medium
- type c print on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- 50.5 x 60.7 cm
- Description
- The border of the photograph is a blue colour with writing below and above the retangular photographic image in the center. The image in the center is a scene looking threw a window. Around the window on the inside is a number of different plants. Outside you can see a white house with trees and hills in the background. The plants on the inside are almost totally in silhouette.
- Credit
- Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- SpB.18.17
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