Crosby family manuscripts and visual materials inventory
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- Part Of
- Crosby family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of textual & visual records of several members of the Crosby family.
- Date Range
- ca.1895-1975
- Reference Code
- M486 / V152 / Box 41B
- Description Level
- 7 / Unprocessed [inventory box list]
- Part Of
- Crosby family fonds
- Description Level
- 7 / Unprocessed [inventory box list]
- Fonds Number
- M486 / V152
- Series
- Inventory listing only
- Sous-Fonds
- M486 / V152
- Reference Code
- M486 / V152 / Box 41B
- Date Range
- ca.1895-1975
- Physical Description
- 1 Box
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of textual & visual records of several members of the Crosby family.
- Subject Access
- Family
- commercial
- Education
- sports & leisure
- tourism
- Mountaineering
- Travel
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Content Details
- Inventory listing: Box 41 B Crosby House, Office Closet Box ‘Sensitized Paper’ Manila envelope containing 2 pictures, holiday cabins? White envelope addressed to Doug Crosby, containing 7 photos (various sized and formats) x2 by Gladys Atkin; 1 panorama of Mt. Rundle and Cascade Mountain area; 1 of Banff Springs Hotel (possibly Banff Indian Days); 2 Deer Lodge; 1 print for a guiding/outfitting advertisement. 2 small envelopes of negatives, removed and titled “Box 41: Mr. Crosby Family Negatives” Envelope (small) titled Canadian Pacific Rockies: 8 photos of the Rockies (Byron Harmon?), Letter to Lou from Uncle Tom, 1909 from India 8x10 Brown envelope, ripped, handwritten ‘Mr. Crosby $1.00’: Contains 5 photos with locations labeled on back, Kicking Horse Canyon, x2 Yoho National Park; Kootenay Park (Sinclair Summit 1920s), Emerald Lake 8x10 brown envelope, handwritten “CPR Photos”, address label from Bulman Bros., photos: 4 animals (porcupine, moose, beaver, red squirrel); 1 Lake Louise; 1 Maligne River and Mt. Leah Jasper National Park; 1 Yoho National Park; 1 unknown Envelope, address label to Brewster Transport Banff: 2 identical photos of Royal Blue Line vehicle in front of building White envelope, handwritten “Lake Louise and Deer Lodge” 5 negatives (removed and labeled ‘Box 41, Lake Louise and Deer Lodge’ 24 photos of family at Deer Lodge Green Envelope, handwritten ‘Early Lake Louise’: 7 photos pertaining to Lake Louise Trading Company Small cream colored envelope (3x5 inches) containing 34 negatives – removed and labeled ‘Box 41 x34’ Manila envelope (5x8 inches –ish), Handwritten ‘Trail Ride Lake of the Hanging Glaciers’: 47 photos (many labeled, some may be doubles); 1 small photo of unknown buildings Text: Alpine Club of Canada photographic competitions 1923/24 Kodak Finish envelope for L.S. Crosby, contains negatives, taken out and labeled ‘Box 41, L.S. Crosby’ Green envelope, handwritten ‘B.T. Company’ containing 3 photos of buses, Canmore area. Manilla board with photo, titled Deer Lodge, Lake Louise. Date on back 1925-1930. Envelope addressed to Christian Saboe, contains political cartoons from Calgary Herald (x5) White envelope, letter sized addressed to Doug Crosby from Science News: 9 photos from Banff Indian Days; 3 photos possibly of Mount Edith Cavell (?); 13 photos of unknown canyon, some doubles Loose in Box: Assorted photos (x28), Banff, Lake Louise, skiing, skating, people White envelope, printed on back “Storm Mtn Bungalow Camp”, x4 postcards Kootenay National Park and Banff National Park Blue envelope, handwritten on front: including 2 photos of men with hats Envelope, Handwritten ‘Family in Banff’, contains photos and negatives. Negatives removed and labeled ‘Box 41, Family in Banff’, x9. Crosby Co. Ltd. envelope (green or blue), contains 5 assorted photos of sheep, swimming, building with a car Letter addressed to lake Louise Trading Company, to Douglas from Walter Buxbaum, 1933 Brown envelope, “We Respect your Work…” Photos and negatives, regatives removed and labeled ‘Box 41, Box 5’ x 2 postcards, 1 to Fred and 1 to Percy. Loose pictures, Jasper, Deer Lodge, family: 1 negative (removed and title Box 41, x1], travel photos BC/ US 3 Cards with painting reproductions, various artists/ locations Envelope – ‘Anesco Film’, handwritten to G.E. Crosby. x3 negatives, moved and labeled ‘Box 41, GE Crosby’ Brown envelope addressed to L. Crosby: Her Majesty the Queen Mary’s Carpet, photo and description on folder; Program for service of George VI Loose in Box 41 Again Red Album: Sketches, Hardy Island, Jervis Inlet, Mackinnon family, Howe Sound, Blind Bay, Vancouver Labor Day. Some photos labeled, others not. Glued in some way. Red strung book: ‘Photographs’, small photos, all unlabeled, people locations. Possibly Crosby kids growing up (photos of children of all ages) Also contains program for 2003 funeral service for Florence White Program for 1937 Evening Musical at Banff Springs 1943 UBC Homecoming Game program Plastic bag (clear) with sticky note ‘Back to Abgenveil’ Envelope, handwritten ‘Peonies ordered August 1917’ containing handwritten notes and plans pertaining to a garden? Portrait envelope, possibly Gertrude, also 2 other landscape photos Small plaque “made from railroad tie laid 1952 across the Isthmus of Panama, 1915” Pocket Bible, New Testament, handwritten name ‘Fred Crosby written in cover Booklet, Cup Reading: The Art of Foretelling the Future Booklet, Card Fortune Telling: Ancient and Modern Methods Pamphlet: Death Valley National Monument, Ca. Pamphlet from the CPR, Vancouver Island traveling (motoring), also pictures of California quake, 1933 Newspaper clippings Christmas Cards Portrait envelope – one of the sons? White envelope, handwritten ‘Family and Abeg?veil’ 27 photos, almost all people (family?) Information Bulletin, St. Andrews Cathedral 100th Cornerstone Anniversary, 1967 Hawaii. Drawing Book: Peacock feather fabric album, handwritten on cover ‘Nanaimo 1895’, contains drawings of East Lake B.C. 1894, Vancouver B.C. 96-99. Watercolors – daffodils Album: Leather cover with Native American in headdress labeled ‘Postcards’. Contains postcards as stated. Red “Century Cash Book”, appears to be parts of a journal, unknown year/ author Envelope of photos, handwritten “Lassie Comes Homes” movie, from movie taken at Lake Louise 1949s Red Book “Newspaper clippings” handwritten in cover White envelope: handwritten on cover “Crosby family”, contains photos and 1 negative removed and labeled ‘Box 41, Crosby family’ Red Folder, ‘Iron Age’, containing pages on iron and steel prices? Blank typewriter paper pad Picture on hard board, Niagra Falls (frozen) Record of the Whyte Museum Crosby Family Fonds, revised 1999. Photo of group on board, handwritten on back ‘50th Anniversary’ Photo of group on board, handwritten on back ‘Dec 26, 1936, 25th Anniversary’
- Processing Status
- Unprocessed
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