File consists of photographs pertaining to businesses, tourist attractions and natural views in and around Banff. Includes images of backcountry camps in Banff National Park; the Bow River Boat House; Beaver Lodge and Bampton Cottage [both located on Beaver Street in Banff]; fires at Breton Hall Ho…
50 photographs ; b&w prints ; 25 x 20.5 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of photographs pertaining to businesses, tourist attractions and natural views in and around Banff. Includes images of backcountry camps in Banff National Park; the Bow River Boat House; Beaver Lodge and Bampton Cottage [both located on Beaver Street in Banff]; fires at Breton Hall Hotel and Banff Springs Hotel; the Park Museum and Information Bureau; early views of Banff Springs Hotel [1904]; Vermillion River Bungalow Camp and the Lake Louise Chalet; Paddy J. Nolan’s home [built by Norman Luxton]; a postcard print titled “Starved Bachelors Retreat Banff Alberta"; swimming at the Cave and Basin[?] and Banff Upper Hot Springs; the Crag and Canyon office [ca.1905]; Skoki Lodge; and the office of photographers Wilson and Fear [1896-1898].
Notes
Photographs LUX/I/D6c/PA-181 and 182 [depicting Wilson and Fear storefront] are copies of the same image but annotated with different dates [ca.1896 and ca.1898]. Based on context and dating of related images in Whyte Museum archives, actual image date may be closer to [ca.1894].
Material Details
LUX/I/D6c/PA-173 has three red sun-shaped stickers attached to back left corner, red ribbon attached to back right corner
File consists of 14 b&w photograph prints [loose and on matboard]. Content pertains to local views near Banff, including Georgina Luxton riding in a carriage along Tunnel Mountain Trail, a hunting trip north of Banff with guide George Harrison[?], the King Edward Hotel building exterior and surroun…
Items LUX/I/D6c/PA-232 and 233 produced by Norman Luxton
Date Range
1904-1905
1910
[ca.1910-1920]
Physical Description
10 photographs : b&w ; 29.5 x 18 cm or smaller -- 4 photographs : b&w prints on matboard ; 35.5 x 14 cm and 25 x 21 cm
Scope & Content
File consists of 14 b&w photograph prints [loose and on matboard]. Content pertains to local views near Banff, including Georgina Luxton riding in a carriage along Tunnel Mountain Trail, a hunting trip north of Banff with guide George Harrison[?], the King Edward Hotel building exterior and surrounding property [1904-1910] and an event hosted in the hotel, and panoramic views of Banff and a waterfront area [Lake Minnewanka?] taken by Norman Luxton.
Items stored in three file folders: PA-220 to 222 [Tunnel Mountain Trail and hunting trip]; PA-223 to 231 [King Edward Hotel]; and PA-232 to 233 [Banff & area panoramas]
Scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings related to Banff Indian Days and the Calgary Stampede; various other newspaper clippings related to local and international news, including the opening of a new school in Morley and the Luxton Museum [now the Buffalo Nations Museum] in Banff, a fire at Jasp…
Scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings related to Banff Indian Days and the Calgary Stampede; various other newspaper clippings related to local and international news, including the opening of a new school in Morley and the Luxton Museum [now the Buffalo Nations Museum] in Banff, a fire at Jasper Park Lodge, and Canadian and international politics.
File consists of 12 negative photographs (and 4 copy negative duplicates) depicting mounted taxidermy heads in the Banff Trading Post, a grizzly bear's hide hung on the exterior of a wooden building, and portaits. On the taxidermy negatives are number annotations in pen.
12 photographs : b&w negatives ; 12.5 x 18 cm or smaller -- 4 copy negatives
Scope & Content
File consists of 12 negative photographs (and 4 copy negative duplicates) depicting mounted taxidermy heads in the Banff Trading Post, a grizzly bear's hide hung on the exterior of a wooden building, and portaits. On the taxidermy negatives are number annotations in pen.
Notes
Copy negative duplicates have not been included in file numbering. NA-182 was not in envelope, the copy print was digitized.
File consists of 30 b&w negative photographs pertaining to Buffalo Nations Museum and Banff Indian Days celebrations in Banff. Includes images of events, including parades, and wildlife including a black bear. Some images show Eleanor [?] on a gurney alongside an ambulance.
30 photographs : b&w negatives ; 6.5 x 6.5 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 30 b&w negative photographs pertaining to Buffalo Nations Museum and Banff Indian Days celebrations in Banff. Includes images of events, including parades, and wildlife including a black bear. Some images show Eleanor [?] on a gurney alongside an ambulance.
Notes
Photograph prints are included in Eleanor Luxton's Banff album, LUX / II / E / PD / 1
File consists of panorama negatives pertaining to a buffalo roundup undertaken by Norman Luxton and others in Montana that were possibly for later use in the souvenir booklet "The Last of the Buffalo," published in 1908.
Images include:
26. [Missing]
27. [Missing]
28. [Missing]
29. [Buffalo enterin…
53 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 8.4 x 11.6 cm
Scope & Content
File consists of panorama negatives pertaining to a buffalo roundup undertaken by Norman Luxton and others in Montana that were possibly for later use in the souvenir booklet "The Last of the Buffalo," published in 1908.
Images include:
26. [Missing]
27. [Missing]
28. [Missing]
29. [Buffalo entering train]
30. [Buffalo entering train]
31. [Buffalo entering train]
32. [Buffallo being harvested]
33. [Buffallo being harvested]
34. [Buffalo herd in fenced in]
35. [Buffalo herd in fenced in]
36. [Buffalo bucking]
37. [Buffalo being led to train. men standing around buffalo]
38. [Buffalo walking onto train car]
39. [Train transporting buffalo]
40. [Buffalo drinking water from river]
41. [Buffalo drinking water from river]
42. [Buffalo standing in field, Norman Luxton's shadow]
43. [Buffalo standing in field, Norman Luxton's shadow]
44. [People on horses]
45. [People on horses herding buffalo and horses]
46. [People on horses herding buffalo]
47. [People on horses, Norman Luxton's shadow]
48. [People on horses, herding buffalo]
49. [People on horses, herding buffalo]
50. [People on horses, herding buffalo]
51. [People on horses, herding buffalo]
52. [People on horses, herding buffalo]
53. [Person on horse, two horses tied together and one buffalo standing in field]
54. [People on horses herding buffalo]
55. [People on horses herding buffalo]
56. [People on horses, buffalo in field]
57. [Man on horse]
58. [Woman on horse]
59. [Person on horse on hill]
60. [Horse, man holding gun and a dead buffalo]
61. [Man on horse]
62. [Man on horse]
63. [Man on horse]
64. [People on horses standing in line]
65. [People on horses standing in line]
66. [People on horses standing in line]
67. [People on horses standing in line]
68. [Horse and four people standing next to horse and carriage]
69. [Man with baby buffalo]
70. [People standing next to house]
71. [People sitting on steps of house, and woman standing next to house]
72. [Crossing river]
73. [River]
74. [Man hunting buffalo]
75. [Man hunting buffalo, buffalo is shot]
76. [Men and horses standing next to dead buffalo]
77. [Men posing next to dead buffalo]
78. [Harvesting buffalo or skinning a buffalo]
File consists of panorama prints pertaining to Norman Luxton, Howard Douglas, and others rounding up buffalo in Montana. Includes landscapes of fields, herds of buffalo, and men on horseback. One print has had colour added it to after printing.
15 photographs : b&w and col. ; 9.5 x 30 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of panorama prints pertaining to Norman Luxton, Howard Douglas, and others rounding up buffalo in Montana. Includes landscapes of fields, herds of buffalo, and men on horseback. One print has had colour added it to after printing.
File consists of 5 photographs pertaining to the Calgary Stampede. Photographs depict Norman Luxton and other individuals involved in the coordination of the Calgary Stampede, including Fred Graham, Chief David Bearspaw, members of the Hunter and Burns families, Col. Walker, Guy Weadick and others.
Items LUX/I/D3c/PA-1 and 2 attributed to photographer F. Gully
Date Range
[ca.1920-1930]
1944
Physical Description
5 photographs : b&w prints ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 5 photographs pertaining to the Calgary Stampede. Photographs depict Norman Luxton and other individuals involved in the coordination of the Calgary Stampede, including Fred Graham, Chief David Bearspaw, members of the Hunter and Burns families, Col. Walker, Guy Weadick and others.
Notes
Most individuals in photographs are not named, and items [aside from first in file] are not dated
File consists of 21 photographs pertaining to events at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede held in 1943, 1949 and 1954. Photographs dated 1949 depict unidentified Indigenous people on horseback [preparing for a Stampede event?], and other photographs in file pertain to the judging of teepee compet…
Photographs LUX/I/D3c/PA-6 to 10 produced by photographer F. Gully.
Date Range
1943
1949
1954
Physical Description
21 photographs : b&w ; 17.5 x 12 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 21 photographs pertaining to events at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede held in 1943, 1949 and 1954. Photographs dated 1949 depict unidentified Indigenous people on horseback [preparing for a Stampede event?], and other photographs in file pertain to the judging of teepee competitions in [including images of 1943 winner John Burns and his family].
File consists of one personal photograph album [likely created by Eleanor Luxton]. Content pertains to staff members of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Aircraft Division and related events including a dinner party in New York, as well as friends and relatives of the Luxton family. Includes images of…
Some photographs produced by Associated Screen News Ltd., Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Byron Harmon
Date Range
[ca. 1910]
[ca. 1920 - ca. 1930]
[ca. 1940 - ca. 1945]
1941 - 1944
1950
1954
1956
[ca. 1960 - ca. 1970]
1967 - 1969
Physical Description
1 album (193 b&w photographs ; 20 x 25.5 cm or smaller -- 2 textual records)
Scope & Content
File consists of one personal photograph album [likely created by Eleanor Luxton]. Content pertains to staff members of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Aircraft Division and related events including a dinner party in New York, as well as friends and relatives of the Luxton family. Includes images of Eleanor Luxton as a child and as an adult, group and individual portraits of mostly unidentified individuals [likely immediate and extended family and friends of Eleanor, including Norman and Georgina Luxton], unidentified children playing, images from the Calgary Stampede parade [ca. 1940s], unidentified Indigenous groups and individuals [possibly Stoney Nakoda community members during Banff Indian Days], Dr. Casey's Ranch [1944], and a family picnic. File also includes one small textual record describing a 1943 Curtiss-Wright Corporation staff event, as well as an annotated Christmas card from Ruth and Frank Neustadt [n.d.].
Notes
Some items are annotated on back
Items not in chronological or other clear order
Material Details
Album has clear plastic layer on surface of front and back covers
Green plastic stitched around border of both covers and side bindings
File consists of prints and negatives of the Luxton family dogs, the grave of Frederick T. Young, a guinea pig pen [possibly in the Luxton's back yard], posed portraits of unidentified young men and a woman, portraits of Eleanor Luxton as a child, Eleanor with a group of unidentified Indigenous peo…
Date Range
[ca.1920-1940]
Reference Code
LUX / I / D1 - 5 / PA - 01 to PA - 18
LUX / I / D1 - 5 / NA - 01 to NA - 02
36 photographs (26 prints : b&w ; 26.6 x 18.5 cm or smaller - 10 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 7 x 13 cm)
Scope & Content
File consists of prints and negatives of the Luxton family dogs, the grave of Frederick T. Young, a guinea pig pen [possibly in the Luxton's back yard], posed portraits of unidentified young men and a woman, portraits of Eleanor Luxton as a child, Eleanor with a group of unidentified Indigenous people [possibly at the Banff Winter Carnival], and photographs of Norman, Georgina, and Eleanor dressed in Indigenous outfits - possibly all for an Exposition in Toronto in 1920. Three portraits of Georgina show her in the outfit made for her naming ceremony by the Stoney Nakoda.
File consists of prints and negatives of Eleanor Luxton as a baby and young child in the backyard of the Luxton house in summer and winter. Includes portraits of her sitting in a highchair, in and amongst chickens and turkeys, and posed with her father Norman in a single photo. File also includes o…
Date Range
[ca.1909-1915]
Reference Code
LUX / I / D1 - 9 / PA - 01 to PA - 12
LUX / I / D1 - 9 / NA - 01 to NA - 20
42 photographs (12 prints : b&w ; 7.3 x 9.7 cm - 30 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 8.8 x 11.4 cm)
Scope & Content
File consists of prints and negatives of Eleanor Luxton as a baby and young child in the backyard of the Luxton house in summer and winter. Includes portraits of her sitting in a highchair, in and amongst chickens and turkeys, and posed with her father Norman in a single photo. File also includes one photograph of 2 unidentified men and a group of people, including Georgina Luxton, in a horse-drawn sleigh.
File consists of panorama negatives pertaining to a trip Norman Luxton took with Howard Douglas (former Superintendant for Banff National Park) to Jasper. Includes scenic views of valleys and rivers, cabins, and the horse train.
18 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 8.9 x 29.7 cm
Scope & Content
File consists of panorama negatives pertaining to a trip Norman Luxton took with Howard Douglas (former Superintendant for Banff National Park) to Jasper. Includes scenic views of valleys and rivers, cabins, and the horse train.
File consists of panorama negatives pertaining to a buffalo roundup undertaken by Norman Luxton and others in Montana that Luxton later used to make the souvenir booklet "The Last of the Buffalo," published in 1908.
Images include:
1. [Man on horse overlooking river valley]
2. [Missing]
3. [River a…
25 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 8.4 x 11.6 cm
Scope & Content
File consists of panorama negatives pertaining to a buffalo roundup undertaken by Norman Luxton and others in Montana that Luxton later used to make the souvenir booklet "The Last of the Buffalo," published in 1908.
Images include:
1. [Man on horse overlooking river valley]
2. [Missing]
3. [River and hills]
4. [People on horses driving a herd of buffalo]
5. [Buffalo swiming in the river]
6. [Buffalo standing in water or drinking, people on horses stand in the distance]
7. [Three buffalo swimming in a river]
8. [One buffalo stands in the river]
9. [One buffalo stands in the river]
10. [One buffalo stands in the river]
11. [Buffalo standing in field]
12. [Men on horses lined up]
13. [Men on horses lined up]
14. [Men on horses driving buffalo herd]
15. [Buffalo herd fenced in]
16. [Men on horses next to fences]
17. [Missing]
18. [Men on standing on train]
19. [Buffalo herd fenceed in]
20. [People waiting next to fences, buffalo in the background fenced in]
21. [People standing in camp]
22. [Two men standing next to horse]
23. [Three men standing]
24. [Buffalo entering train car]
25. [Woman on horse]
File consists of b&w photograph negatives depicting unidentified Indigenous people, Norman Luxton, various tipis potentionally in Mini Thni [Morley], cabin with 'Wilson RS' sign, and a horse trail ride in the mountains.
51 photographs: b&w negatives ; 9.5 x 6 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of b&w photograph negatives depicting unidentified Indigenous people, Norman Luxton, various tipis potentionally in Mini Thni [Morley], cabin with 'Wilson RS' sign, and a horse trail ride in the mountains.
File consists of notes, advertisements and other documents pertaining to multiple businesses owned by Norman Luxton in Banff. File includes: advertising cards depicting the "Man Fish" of Lake Minnewanka at the Banff Indian Trading Post; a list of names of Stoney Nakoda community members commissione…
File consists of notes, advertisements and other documents pertaining to multiple businesses owned by Norman Luxton in Banff. File includes: advertising cards depicting the "Man Fish" of Lake Minnewanka at the Banff Indian Trading Post; a list of names of Stoney Nakoda community members commissioned to make souvenirs for the Indian Trading Post [1945-1950?]; flyers and tickets for film showings of “Mighty Lak’ a Rose”, “The Dawn Patrol”, “Captain of the Guard”, "Lilies of the Field" and "Make Me a Star" at the Lux Theatre between 1923 and 1938; a pamphlet pertaining to the King Edward Hotel; and stationery with letterheads promoting the King Edward Hotel and the Luxton Museum.
Notes
Full names of individuals listed on typed paper slip in file are provided under "Full Text" and "Name Access" fields in this entry; correct spellings under "Name Access"
File consists of 6 photographs pertaining to Norman Luxton speaking at the opening of the Pioneer Memorial Building in Calgary and a reception ceremony, Norman Luxton participating in a Calgary Stampede parade, and the opening of the Old Timers Hut Exhibition Grounds [Fort Calgary House] in 1955.
Photographs produced by Bil Marsden, copyright Alberta Government
Date Range
1955
Physical Description
6 photographs : b&w prints; 25 x 20.5 cm
Scope & Content
File consists of 6 photographs pertaining to Norman Luxton speaking at the opening of the Pioneer Memorial Building in Calgary and a reception ceremony, Norman Luxton participating in a Calgary Stampede parade, and the opening of the Old Timers Hut Exhibition Grounds [Fort Calgary House] in 1955.
File pertains to photographs of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues of Norman Luxton. Includes posed and candid shots of various groups at Bow Lake, Banff Indian Days, on a ship, at a farm, and at scenic locations around the town of Banff
Date Range
[ca. 1913-1961]
Reference Code
LUX / I / D1 - 14 / PA - 01 to PA - 53
LUX / I / D1 - 14 / NA - 01 to NA - 18
71 photographs (53 prints : b&w and col. ; 10 x 12.6 cm or smaller - 18 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 10.9 x 6.3 cm)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues of Norman Luxton. Includes posed and candid shots of various groups at Bow Lake, Banff Indian Days, on a ship, at a farm, and at scenic locations around the town of Banff
Notes
Prints with duplicate copies had only one scanned.
File pertains to photographs of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues of Norman Luxton, including Jim Brewster, Bill Kidner, and Jimmy Simpson. Includes posed and candid shots of people on their own, together, or with Norman's dog Barney, on horseback, at Banff Indian Days, in offices, and at scen…
Date Range
[ca. 1918-1957]
Reference Code
LUX / I / D1 - 13 / PA - 01 to PA - 15
LUX / I / D1 - 13 / NA - 01
17 photographs (16 prints : b&w and col. ; 22.6 x 17.7 cm or smaller - 1 negative : b&w nitrate negative ; 14.2 x 8.3 cm)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues of Norman Luxton, including Jim Brewster, Bill Kidner, and Jimmy Simpson. Includes posed and candid shots of people on their own, together, or with Norman's dog Barney, on horseback, at Banff Indian Days, in offices, and at scenic locations around Banff National Park. File also contains one black and white negative of two men packing a horse
Notes
Prints with duplicate copies had only one scanned.
