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- Date
- 1975
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.165
- Description
- A silver coin with a relief of a person on horseback leading a calf and “CaLGARY STAMPEDE DOLLAR” on the front. The reverse has a relief of the Calgary downtown skyline with the historic fort below with “CALGARY CENTENNIAL 1975” and “FORT CALGARY ESTABLISHED 1875”
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- Title
- Souvenir Coin
- Date
- 1975
- Material
- metal
- Description
- A silver coin with a relief of a person on horseback leading a calf and “CaLGARY STAMPEDE DOLLAR” on the front. The reverse has a relief of the Calgary downtown skyline with the historic fort below with “CALGARY CENTENNIAL 1975” and “FORT CALGARY ESTABLISHED 1875”
- Subject
- calgary stampede
- stampede dollar
- souvenir
- fair
- Credit
- Gift of Maryalice Stewart, Banff, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.165
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- Date
- 1976 – 1976
- Material
- stone; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0054 a,b
- Description
- Two green monkey-like pendants; seated figures with legs bowed to sides and feet clasped together; bent arms resting on thighs; head cocked to side with large circular eyes, flat nose, and large heart-shaped mouth open with tongue protruding; small hole drilled through forehead; front in relief, ba…
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- Title
- Replica Tikis
- Date
- 1976 – 1976
- Material
- stone; plastic
- Description
- Two green monkey-like pendants; seated figures with legs bowed to sides and feet clasped together; bent arms resting on thighs; head cocked to side with large circular eyes, flat nose, and large heart-shaped mouth open with tongue protruding; small hole drilled through forehead; front in relief, back flat: a)jade more simple with incised, carved features as above; holes cut through between legs and arms; 32.0 cm long, narrow black ribbon threaded through hole in top and knotted together at ends. (Marks: sticker, "332...13.00" (removed). b)plastic red circles painted around eyes; features formed in low relief; reproduction of (a).
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0054 a,b
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Miniature Canoe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.02.0076
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood;
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0076
- Description
- A small wooden canoe made of Hawaiian koa wood. Oval depression carved into centre. Four sets of two holes at sides of depression. Stamped on the base is “HAWAIIAN KOA TRADER HALL’S P.o. Box 155 HONOLULU 10, HAWAII”
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- Title
- Miniature Canoe
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- wood;
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 4.5 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- A small wooden canoe made of Hawaiian koa wood. Oval depression carved into centre. Four sets of two holes at sides of depression. Stamped on the base is “HAWAIIAN KOA TRADER HALL’S P.o. Box 155 HONOLULU 10, HAWAII”
- Subject
- Whyte home
- carving
- woodwork
- souvenir
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0076
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- fabric; linen
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0264
- Description
- A novelty linen tea towel that shows Hudson’s Bay Company posts on a map of Canada. Around the map are crests of each province and on the map are images of people, animals, trains and boats. A red border goes around the outside about an inch from the edge of the towel. At the bottom text reads “ALL…
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- Title
- Dish Towel
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- fabric; linen
- Dimensions
- 52.0 x 78.0 cm
- Description
- A novelty linen tea towel that shows Hudson’s Bay Company posts on a map of Canada. Around the map are crests of each province and on the map are images of people, animals, trains and boats. A red border goes around the outside about an inch from the edge of the towel. At the bottom text reads “ALL PURE LINEN MADE IN IRELAND FAST COLOURS”.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- decor
- souvenir
- novelty
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0264
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- plastic; metal; paper;
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0038
- Description
- Brown plastic hand-held Sawyer’s View-Master consisting of a rectangular body with raised translucent plastic windows to allow light in on the front and small round plastic lenses set away from the body on the back. On the right-hand side has a small metal lever that changes the image on the reel. …
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- Title
- Stereoscope
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- plastic; metal; paper;
- Dimensions
- 9.3 x 7.4 x 11.2 cm
- Description
- Brown plastic hand-held Sawyer’s View-Master consisting of a rectangular body with raised translucent plastic windows to allow light in on the front and small round plastic lenses set away from the body on the back. On the right-hand side has a small metal lever that changes the image on the reel. The top is open to admit the thin cardboard reel - the reel that accompanies this View-Master features a “Christmas Tour” of the Sawyer’s factory ca.1950. Sawyer’s reels featured small coloured pairs of photographs on celluloid film fixed into a thin round piece of cardboard that usually had details printed in the middle.
- Subject
- Crosby family
- Abegweit
- photography
- souvenir
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0038
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- Date
- 1850 – 1920
- Material
- ceramics;
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0600
- Description
- Small round deep-sided decorative ceramic dish with blue and gilded gold stripes around the rim and a picture of a portly bald man wearing purple pants and a green coat with one hand raised in a room with a table, chairs, and windows behind him - printed at the bottom is “MR PICKWICK” and “BANFF” h…
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- Title
- Dish
- Date
- 1850 – 1920
- Material
- ceramics;
- Dimensions
- 4.0 cm
- Description
- Small round deep-sided decorative ceramic dish with blue and gilded gold stripes around the rim and a picture of a portly bald man wearing purple pants and a green coat with one hand raised in a room with a table, chairs, and windows behind him - printed at the bottom is “MR PICKWICK” and “BANFF” has been written above that in gold ink. A makers mark is stamped on the bottom - online research shows this image was a popular motif with Grimwades in the mid-1900s as Mr Pickwick was the main character of Charles Dickens’ first novel, “The Pickwick Papers.”
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0600
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- Date
- 1883 – 1979
- Material
- cardboard; wood; metal;
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0040 a,b
- Description
- Wooden hand-held stereoscope with a long base along which the card frame can slide, goggle-shaped lens housing that blocks out light around the sides, two square lenses angled slightly towards the center, a central blocker, and a pointed fold-down handle. The card frame is a separate piece that sli…
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- Title
- Stereoscope
- Date
- 1883 – 1979
- Material
- cardboard; wood; metal;
- Dimensions
- 10.1 x 33.5 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- Wooden hand-held stereoscope with a long base along which the card frame can slide, goggle-shaped lens housing that blocks out light around the sides, two square lenses angled slightly towards the center, a central blocker, and a pointed fold-down handle. The card frame is a separate piece that slides on and off the end of the long base and features two wire holders that fold out to fit the card. Also includes a stack of manufactured stereoscope cards that mostly feature scenes from Palestine and the United States that have spots of colour tinting, possibly hand-applied. Everything is housed in a cardboard shoe box with a white “COES & STODDER” sticker on one short side. Written on one short side of the lid is “STEREOPTICAN” in black ink and taped to the lid is a piece of paper that reads “Return to Catharine Whyte after photograph display” signed and dated by Maryalice Stewart 14 February 1979.
- Subject
- souvenir
- commemorative
- photography
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0040 a,b
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Souvenir Bookmark
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.06.0097
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- leather; paint
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.0097
- Description
- One strip of buckskin has "Banff" at top with coloured face of an Indigenous person with feather headdress. Underneath “BOOKS ARE SILENT FRIENDS" then more lettering at an angle "D.I." . All lettering is in brown pyrograph. At bottom of bookmark fine brown lines are drawn across and cuts made v…
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- Title
- Souvenir Bookmark
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- leather; paint
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 23.0 cm
- Description
- One strip of buckskin has "Banff" at top with coloured face of an Indigenous person with feather headdress. Underneath “BOOKS ARE SILENT FRIENDS" then more lettering at an angle "D.I." . All lettering is in brown pyrograph. At bottom of bookmark fine brown lines are drawn across and cuts made vertically to simulate fringes.
- Credit
- Gift of Jan McGregor, Edmonton, 2020
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.0097
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- Date
- 1980 – 1991
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1188 a-m
- Description
- a) 1980 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar in bottom half of plastic case. Illustration of Lake Minnewanka. “Lake Minnewanka 1980 value in Banff 1 dollar expires Sept 30. 1980” Obverse illustration cartoon anthropomorphism hiking goat “Banff Lake Louise Dollar Canada”. b) 1980 silver Banff Lake Louise…
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- Title
- Coin
- Date
- 1980 – 1991
- Material
- metal
- Description
- a) 1980 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar in bottom half of plastic case. Illustration of Lake Minnewanka. “Lake Minnewanka 1980 value in Banff 1 dollar expires Sept 30. 1980” Obverse illustration cartoon anthropomorphism hiking goat “Banff Lake Louise Dollar Canada”. b) 1980 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar. Illustration of Lake Minnewanka. “Lake Minnewanka 1980 value in Banff 1 dollar expires Sept 30. 1980” Obverse illustration cartoon anthropomorphism hiking goat “Banff Lake Louise Dollar Canada”. c) 1983 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar. Illustration of Vermilion Lakes. “Vermilion Lakes 1983 value in Banff 1 dollar expires Sept 30. 1983” Obverse illustration cartoon anthropomorphism hiking goat “Banff Lake Louise Dollar Canada”. d) 1984 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar with plastic case. Illustration of Mt. Assiniboine. Obverse “50th Anniversary 1934 Sunshine Village 1984 value in Banff one dollar expires September 30, 1984” e) 11984 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar with plastic case. Illustration of Mt. Assiniboine. Obverse “50th Anniversary 1934 Sunshine Village 1984 value in Banff one dollar expires September 30, 1984” f) 1984 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar with plastic case. Illustration of Mt. Assiniboine. Obverse “50th Anniversary 1934 Sunshine Village 1984 value in Banff one dollar expires September 30, 1984” g) 1984 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar. Illustration of Mt. Assiniboine. Obverse “50th Anniversary 1934 Sunshine Village 1984 value in Banff one dollar expires September 30, 1984” h) 1988 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar in plastic case. Illustration of Mount Rundle. “Mount Rundle 1988 value in Banff/Lake Louise $1.00 dollar expires Nov. 30. 1988” Obverse illustration Banff Springs Hotel “1988 Banff Springs Hotel Centennial 1988 Banff Alberta Canada”. i) 1988 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar. Illustration of Mount Rundle. “Mount Rundle 1988 value in Banff/Lake Louise $1.00 dollar expires Nov. 30. 1988” Obverse illustration Banff Springs Hotel “1988 Banff Springs Hotel Centennial 1988 Banff Alberta Canada”. j) 1990 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar. Illustration of Grizzly Bear. “Newest Town Banff Oldest Park Banff Lake Louise value $1.00 dollar expires Dec. 13. 1990” Obverse illustration mounted police with flag “R.C.M.P. G.R.C. Banff Lake Louise Alberta Canada”. k) 1990 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar. Illustration of Grizzly Bear. “Newest Town Banff Oldest Park Banff Lake Louise value $1.00 dollar expires Dec. 13. 1990” Obverse illustration mounted police with flag “R.C.M.P. G.R.C. Banff Lake Louise Alberta Canada”. l)1990 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar with plastic case. Illustration of Grizzly Bear. “Newest Town Banff Oldest Park Banff Lake Louise value $1.00 dollar expires Dec. 13. 1990” Obverse illustration mounted police with flag “R.C.M.P. G.R.C. Banff Lake Louise Alberta Canada”. m)1991 silver Banff Lake Louise dollar with plastic case. Illustration of Elk. “ELK Banff/ Lake Louise value $1.00 dollar expires Dec. 15. 1991” Obverse illustration mounted police with flag “R.C.M.P. G.R.C. Banff Lake Louise Alberta Canada”.
- Credit
- Gift of Banff-Lake Louise Chamber of Commerce, Banff, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1188 a-m
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- paper
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0211
- Description
- A thin, orange double-strand Hawaiian lei. A fish-shaped booklet produced by the Hawaii Tourist Bureau that explains what a lei is and the history of Hawaii is attached.
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- Title
- Lei Necklace
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 59.0 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- A thin, orange double-strand Hawaiian lei. A fish-shaped booklet produced by the Hawaii Tourist Bureau that explains what a lei is and the history of Hawaii is attached.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- souvenir
- Hawaii
- accessories
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0211
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