Colour Postcards
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- Part Of
- Byron Harmon fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 257 colour postcards. Postcards pertain to various views in and around Banff, Yoho, Glacier, Kootenay, and Jasper National Parks; along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Subjects include a bear sitting at a table, Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier, Chateau Lake Louise ground…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1945 to ca.1975]
- Reference Code
- V263 / II / E / 2 / PG - (1 to 257)
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Byron Harmon fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- V263 / II / E / 2 : Colour Postcards
- Reference Code
- V263 / II / E / 2 / PG - (1 to 257)
- Date Range
- [ca. 1945 to ca.1975]
- Physical Description
- Photographs: 257 postcards, colour
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 257 colour postcards. Postcards pertain to various views in and around Banff, Yoho, Glacier, Kootenay, and Jasper National Parks; along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Subjects include a bear sitting at a table, Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier, Chateau Lake Louise grounds, Mount Macdonald, Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten peaks, Banff Springs Hotel Pool, Emerald Lake, Mount Michael Peak, Mount Patterson, Peyto Lake, Chateau Lake Louise, Mount Temple, Banff ski jump with Judges' tower on Mount Norquay, Snowmobile on Athabasca Glacier, Athabasca Glacier, Mount Athabasca, Tangle Falls, Banff Chair lift on Mount Norquay, Mount Rundle, Bow River, Bow Falls, The Arrow Motel, Rocky Mountain Sheep, Black bear cubs, Mountain Goat, Baby Deer, Moose, Mount LeFroy, Elk, The Canadian luxury train, Spiral Tunnels, Sulphur Mountain Gondola, Mount Eisenhower, Mistarry Falls, Twin Pool Falls, Bow Valley, Fairholme Range, Banff Avenue, The Devil's Thumb, Mount Niblock, Lake Agnes, The Cave and Basin government swimming pool, Banff welcome sign, Terrace Gardens at Banff Springs hotel, Dining Room of Chateau Lake Louise, Saskatchewan River Bungalows, Mount Wilson, Black Bear in driver's seat of car, Trans-Canada Highway Memorial, The Swiss Peaks, Hermit Mountain, Mount Tupper, Rogers Pass, Banff Springs Hotel Conservatory, Illecillewaet Valley, Mount Sir Donald Range, Vermilion Lakes, Banff Springs Golf Course, Three Sisters, Banff Springs Bagpiper, Natural Bridge, Takakkaw Falls, Lake Louise-Whitehorn Sedan Lift, Lake Minnewanka, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Cascade Mountain, Banff Administration Building, Buffalo in Banff National Park, rustic directional sign outside of Banff, Mount Assiniboine, Lake Magog, Banff Cable Cars, Icelandic poppies, Cascade Rock Gardens, Pilot Mountain, Mount Temple, Jean Powell, Mount Chancellor, Cathedral Peak, Mount Bident, Consolation Lake, The Lakes in the Clouds, Mirror Lake, Lake Agnes, Stoney Creek Bridge, Striped Ground Squirrel, The Saskatchewan Glacier from Parker Ridge, Emerald Lake Chalet, Grizzly bears, Sunshine Village, Aboriginal child dressed in regalia, Mount Standish, Village Inn at Sunshine Village, Snowbird Glacier, five unidentified men dressed in regalia, unidentified man dressed in regalia. File also pertains to postcards published by companies and/or photographers other than Don Harmon or Byron Harmon Photos. Publishers include: Byron Harmon Photos, John Hinde, and Grant Mann. Photographers include: Don Harmon, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Byron Harmon photos, Bruno Engler, Einer Bjorkman, M Feiguth, John C. Holroyd, Jean Powell, Erwin Contsch, and Grant Mann.
- Subject Access
- Scenery
- Landscapes
- Mountains
- Glaciers
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Content Details
- Postcards are not individually numbered.
- Processing Status
- Processed
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