topic:"snow" found 25 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

[Acquisitions ... for the period April 1, 1972 to June 30, 1972 Tacoma, Washington, 1972]

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1982

Author: United States. Geological Survey

Call Number: R 03.5 Un3

Author: United States. Geological Survey

Responsibility: World Data Centre, Glaciology

Published Date: 1982

Physical Description: 37p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Glaciological notes, no.50 (July 1982)

Subjects: Avalanches; Bibliography; Glaciers; Snow

Call Number: R 03.5 Un3

Collection: Archives Library

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CNTR VRTN (Centre Variation)

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1980

Medium: watercolor on arches paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.16

Description: Dark sky in blues and beiges. Mountain in centre is flanked by two triangles of white. Road leading up to mountain, and mountain has small section of snow on right.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: CNTR VRTN (Centre Variation)

Date: 1980

Medium: watercolor on arches paper

Dimensions: 45.6 x 60.7 cm

Description: Dark sky in blues and beiges. Mountain in centre is flanked by two triangles of white. Road leading up to mountain, and mountain has small section of snow on right.

Subject: landscape; mountains; road; snow

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.16

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Early Snow

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Artist: Wilfred Lambert

Date: 1984

Medium: print on paper

Catalogue Number: LaW.04.15

Description: Block print on paper with coloured ink. Blue-green lake [Lake Oesa?] in centre surrounded by snow covered grey-brown mountains. Pink sky above. “Early Snow 21/33” at bottom left in pencil, “Wilfred Lambet /84” in pencil at bottom right.

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Artist: Wilfred Lambert

Title: Early Snow

Date: 1984

Medium: print on paper

Dimensions: 32.0 x 42.0 cm

Description: Block print on paper with coloured ink. Blue-green lake [Lake Oesa?] in centre surrounded by snow covered grey-brown mountains. Pink sky above. “Early Snow 21/33” at bottom left in pencil, “Wilfred Lambet /84” in pencil at bottom right.

Subject: mountains; lake; snow

Credit: Gift of Tim Wake, Whistler, 1990

Catalogue Number: LaW.04.15

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Early Snow, Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

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.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

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.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain, Mount Assiniboine; snow

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.164

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Fossil Mountain from Skoki

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1938

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.394

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Fossil Mountain from Skoki

Date: 1933 – 1938

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 22.7 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; snow

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.394

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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Water; Ice; Snow; Science; Expeditions; Alps

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.