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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26164
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 317 pages
- Contents
- PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Rockies from the Bow River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcum.02.01
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- CuM.02.01
- Description
- A snowy mountain landscape with the Bow River in the bottom quarter and a cloudy blue sky in the top quarter.
1 image
- Title
- The Rockies from the Bow River
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 36.0 x 46.5 cm
- Description
- A snowy mountain landscape with the Bow River in the bottom quarter and a cloudy blue sky in the top quarter.
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara McMorland, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- CuM.02.01
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Lake O'Hara Area
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions17506
- Part Of
- Bob Hind fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to negatives of winter scenes taken around the Lake O'Hara area.
- Date Range
- [ca. 1931-1939]
- Reference Code
- V46 / I / A / 2 / NA - 1 to 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Negative
- Transparency
2 images
- Part Of
- Bob Hind fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M7 / V46
- Series
- I.A. Mountain travel and recreation, western Canada : Trips and activities
- Sous-Fonds
- V46
- Accession Number
- 7181
- Reference Code
- V46 / I / A / 2 / NA - 1 to 2
- GMD
- Negative
- Transparency
- Date Range
- [ca. 1931-1939]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : negatives
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to negatives of winter scenes taken around the Lake O'Hara area.
- Name Access
- Hind, Bob
- Geographic Access
- Lake O'Hara
- Yoho National Park
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Language
- NA
- Related Material
- Related to prints in V46 / 28 (PA) - 1
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Snow Dome, Columbia Icefield
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.189
- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.189
- Description
- Dome Glacier between Snow Dome and Mt. Kitchener at Columbia Icefield.
1 image
- Title
- Snow Dome, Columbia Icefield
- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Dome Glacier between Snow Dome and Mt. Kitchener at Columbia Icefield.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.189
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Snow Sketch, Norway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyc.01.388
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.388
- Description
- A sketch of snow and what appears to be openings to water, a river or lake. Dots of paint in yellow and orange along bottom edge.
1 image
- Title
- Snow Sketch, Norway
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.2 x 33.7 cm
- Description
- A sketch of snow and what appears to be openings to water, a river or lake. Dots of paint in yellow and orange along bottom edge.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.388
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Athabasca Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.103
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.103
- Description
- Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.
1 image
- Title
- Athabasca Glacier
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.103
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Sulphur Mountain from Bear and Buffalo Street
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.162
- Date
- 1930 – 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.162
- Description
- A winter scene of a very heavy snowfall on several evergreens dominate this painting. A mountain is completely snow covered in background with blue sky with a suggestion of sunlight filtering through the trees.
1 image
- Title
- Sulphur Mountain from Bear and Buffalo Street
- Date
- 1930 – 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.4 cm
- Description
- A winter scene of a very heavy snowfall on several evergreens dominate this painting. A mountain is completely snow covered in background with blue sky with a suggestion of sunlight filtering through the trees.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- town, Banff
- winter
- snow
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.162
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Early Snow, Mount Assiniboine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.164
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.164
- Description
- A sunny day with lots of snow, a ski trail of path leading up to a snow-covered mountain to the left. In immediate foreground is an evergreen to the left, some gold snow-covered larches on the crest of the hill especially to the right. Blue sky with a few wispy white clouds.
1 image
- Title
- Early Snow, Mount Assiniboine
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.2 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- A sunny day with lots of snow, a ski trail of path leading up to a snow-covered mountain to the left. In immediate foreground is an evergreen to the left, some gold snow-covered larches on the crest of the hill especially to the right. Blue sky with a few wispy white clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.164
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.172
- Description
- Half of the painting is a blue, grey and white snow-covered hill with a trail to the right, two skiers on the top beside a snow-covered evergreen. The sky is blue with long white clouds running right across the snow-covered mountains to the left.
1 image
- Title
- Ski Trail
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.2 cm
- Description
- Half of the painting is a blue, grey and white snow-covered hill with a trail to the right, two skiers on the top beside a snow-covered evergreen. The sky is blue with long white clouds running right across the snow-covered mountains to the left.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- winter
- snow
- ski trail
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.172
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Idealized Landscape
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.173
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.173
1 image
- Title
- Idealized Landscape
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.0 x 27.5 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- winter
- snow
- ski trail
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.173
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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