Box 2 Crosby House – Office Closet
Wildlife prints (bad condition – ripped and rolled)
Ticket re sale of Florida property
Unused air tickets – Qantas Airlines
“What’s in a Radio Tube” Booklet
Home Sound Reproduction Handbook
Box of postcards and prints
Canadian postage 4 cent stamp
Tire Jack instructions
Publications;
Child Life Magazine, 1929
Canada, 1950
Newfoundland Canada’s New Province
Proceedings of the M.W. Grand Lodge of Alberta, 1936
Pikes Peak by Rail
Vest Pocket Webster Dictionary
Visit of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, 1958
History of Baalbek (Lebanon), 1960
Alpine Wildflowers of Western U.S.
Wedding anniversary card
Statement Tablet (Blanket)
Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, 1911
Rare Coin Encyclopedia and Catalog
Golf Penalties
Alpine Club of Canada – Constitution and List of Members, 1937
4 travel note booklets (3 blank)
Alazhar Widow’s Benefit Association By-Laws, 1933
Cyprus Preceptory No. 33 Knights Templar By-Laws
Western Skating Association Handbook on Skating, 1906
Skaters’ History, 1916
Amateur Skating Union of the U.S. Handbook, 1934
International Skating Union Regulations, 1961
Amateur Athletic Union of Canada Official Handbook
2x Amateur Athletic Union of Canada Official Handbook, 1930-31
2x Canadian Philatelic Society, 1919
2x Canadian Philatelic Society, Membership List, 1930
University of Toronto – Hart House Booklet, 1923-1932
2x valentine cards
Telephone book instructions
Booklet of 20 miniature photo views Riverside (?), California
Numerous postcards, blank and correspondence
Decorative info cards
Canadian Dental Hygiene Council Publication “At the Gate”
A Book of Facts on Hot Water Heating Efficiency
Hints to Mothers on the Treatment of their Children, 1914
Infant Feeding and Hygiene
Today’s News, Summerside, PEI newspaper, 1939
Newspaper cut out – “Some cake receipts”
A poem “Thoughts from the “Sunny South” by Mary Belle Rich
High School and University Matriculation Exam Board Departmental Examinations, 1926-1935 for English, Physics, French, Art, Algebra, Latin, German, Composition
Tune/poem “Beautiful Banff”
Rocky Mountain Tours Brochure
Poem “Banff” by Mary Belle Rich
Poem “Lake Louise” by Mary Belle Rich
Booklet Wild Flowers in Northern California, Oregon, and Washington
Coleman Manual for Motor Campers
The Banff Windermere Highway – Department of the Interior publication
Oliver School District, province of Alberta Tax Notice, 1912-1915
2x Oct 15, 1924 Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies Bulletin, No. 1
2x Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies Bulletin, No.2
Publication – Australia for the Tourist, 1914
A lock of blonde hair
Inventory listing:
Box 3 Crosby House – Office Closet
Black box of matted prints, prints, and cartes des visites - Crosby and Seaton family photographs, many identified and captioned on reverse.
Brown metal box:
Sun Life Assurance Co. Correspondence
Agreement between Barbara Brewster, Jack Walker Brewster and Edward Cecil Collier, all Executors of Estate of George Brewster and Gertrude Crosby
Inventory listing of Triangle Inn, 1950
2 portrait photograph prints of L. Crosby
Insurance policy to Gertrude Crosby
2 agreements between Brewster Transport Co and Louis S. Crosby, 1954 & 1959
Lease agreement – Gertrude Crosby and Department of Interior Rocky Mountain Parks Canada Superintendent
Land Titles Certificate – YWCA Banff
**filed in the brown metal box are *important* papers containing many of the following:
Capital stock certificates
Insurance papers
Inventory listing:
Box 4 Crosby House – Office Closet
Prints “climbing”
Prints and negs “parade on Banff Ave-early”
Prints “Banff” includes Mount Norquay Ski Camp images
Prints “Family on trips”
Negatives “Early Skating in Banff,” 1925, 1930
Prints and negs of Lake Louise
Map
Prints – included image of Tom Wilson with N. Sanson and J. M. Gibbon; First Nations, and other
Statement of Investment Income
Canadian Pamphlets Catalogue, 1962
The London Philatelist, 1962
B.C. South Western Districts Comparative Geographical Study and Map
Alberta – B.C. Boundary Map
Correspondence between L. Crosby and real estate in Yale
Athabaska Sheet Map
Colour photograph of group shot
B&W photograph of group shot
Christmas card and b&w photograph of group at hotel (Savoy Hotel?)
Envelope containing:
Photographs of Princess Margaret, Eleanor Luxton, Norman Luxton, Lou Crosby, and Crag & Canyon article about the Royals visit.
Correspondence re: anniversary of George Washington
Rundle Memorial United Church Dedication Service Program, 1967
B&W photographs
B&W photographs – Lou(?) and woman outside of Abegweit
Felt Crest Banff
Colour transparency of Deer Lodge
B&W photographs of J. Brewster and other men
Numerous Ron Duke portraits of Crosby family members
Folder of large b&w prints pertaining to Brewster Transportation including views of vehicle fleets, tally-ho, Banff Springs Hotel, the Banff Train Station, Banff Avenue, Tunnel Mtn.
Matted Crosby family portraits
Portrait of Marjorie Crosby at UBC, 1940
Print of Gertrude (?) Crosby
Prints of unidentified people
Hand-coloured photograph of “A Stoney Dance”
North house University Residence, Toronto, 1935-36 – Douglas Crosby among
group
Portrait of Lou S. Crosby, Master of masons
Large, outdoor group shot
Print of two deer
Portrait of Robert Crosby
Set of World’s Fair Postcards
Small Crosby Family Snapshot album
Portrait of Crosby family member
Colour family photograph of Crosby family at Abegweit, 1987
Portarit of Crosby family member
Colour portrait of skiers
Framed print of man with parrot
Duplicate prints of portraits of Gertrude (?) and Lou Crosby
Black Photograph Album/scrapbook:
- b&w photographs pasted in and tipped in (views of Banff and area), recipes, envelopes of prints, postcards, Crosby and family, cards, notes, brochures, articles for Ladies World, 1916, a motor road guide to BNP, newspaper clippings, baby record for Douglas Richard Crosby, envelope of newspaper cut-outs.
Black 3-ring Binder:
- Stamp catalogue, the stamps of PEI (from the Stamp News Annual, 1892) by A.A. Bartlett
- Postcards from various African countries and card with photograph of Mary Seaton or Audrey
- Notes
- Newspaper clipping – letter to the editor from Enid M. Burnham “Banff prices Defended”
- An envelope of photograph stills cut from film strips
- Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited Progress Report, 1965
- A handwritten letter from Frances to Auntie Gertie, 1940
- Funeral services program for Marjorie Crosby Dye, 1999 and photographs
- Blank letterhead Calgary Associate Clinic
- Handwritten letter to Lou Crosby, 1928 from ?
- Photographs
- Portrait photograph of Robert Crosby
- Miscellaneous pamphlet and info sheets, receipts
- Address book
- In Memory Book for Marjorie Crosby Dye
- Kodak canister – undeveloped 35mm negative roll film
- Lab requisition for Donald McGill
- Manila envelope containing: miscellaneous clippings; photographs; letter to Marion Seaton from Coal and Petroleum Board, 1939 re license application for retailing gasoline and oil at Marble Canyon; copy of Runguis painting “Skyline Trail Above Ptarmigan Lake,” 1939; a ski brochure; photograph of rocky mountain goats; 1931 letter and photograph from CPR J.M. Gibbon to Lou S. Crosby re cauldron hole on BSH golf course
- Colour portrait of Marjorie Crosby Dye
- Newspaper article clipping on Fort McMurray oil
- Envelope of b&w photographs of vacation pictures of Pompeii, Italy, BNP, Lake Louise and Chateau Lake Louise
- Heating cable sets manual belonging to Peter Whyte
- 2 newspaper clippings
- Framed print of ?Douglas Crosby?
- Birthday card from Glenna to Aunt Marion
- Canmore Golf Club score card
- Greeting card; birthday card
- Motion picture film in can with content described on notepaper inside of can: Annie, Rob, George, Doug, Marion, convocation, LSC on golf links, Hawaii, various monuments visited.
Inventory listing:
Box 5 Crosby House – Office
Box containing: colour travel slides of Rio De Janeiro; Granada; Miami’s Parrot Jungle, Florida; Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey; Athens, Greece; Nikko Toshogu Shrine; Bangkok, Thailand; Taj Mahal; Amsterdam; Capital Investment Co. payment cheques of Fred L. Crosby; Souvenir Slides of Pompeii; Vatican; Sistine Chapel; loose slides; Toledo, Spain; unidentified vacation slides; unidentified prints
Box of “family pictures” containing:
An envelope of negatives – Chateau Lake Louise Fire, 1924
Photographs of exterior of Crosby (?) home
An envelope addressed to Dr. Douglas R. Crosby, England including: Lake Louise Trading Co. Statement, 1949 newsclipping; photographs of Douglas and his children; newsclipping re: University of Alberta staff appointment notices – Dr. D.R. Crosby, Professor of Mathematics
Envelope of photographs “children of Douglas and Janet Crosby: Kim and Janice Crosby”
Envelope of Crosby family photographs at Deer Lodge
Photographs of Dorothy Seaton, daughters of Gerald and Bess, 1931
Chicago Parks Beautiful Postcard package
Bridges spanning the San Francisco Bay area – postcard package
Letter from Marjorie to mother and daddy, 1938
Envelope of photographs “Rob’s Children”
R.S. Crosby family photographs
Crosby trip to Hawaii photographs
Travel photographs – India
Photographs of Banff views
Photographs and letter from Alice to Lou, 1946
Wholesale Canadian list stamp catalogue, 1957-1958
Envelope of stamps
Loose stamps
Empty envelopes with cancelled stamps
Prints and negatives of Abegweit and garage in winter
Redwood Highway California Souvenir Postcards
San Francisco postcards
Postcards: Salt Lake City, Utah; Boulder Dam; Oregon Caves; California; Pacific Coast; Berkeley; Redwood Forest
Package of photograph mounting corners
Lock of Janice Crosby’s hair @ 18 months
Envelope of b&w photographs: “Rob and Evelyn Crosby Family: Anita – 4 years, Rick – 6-12 months, 1948.”
3 X 3-D colour postcards of Japanese Temples
Postcards and stamps
1934 letter to Lou Crosby, unsigned
Letter to Lou Crosby from Eleanor (?) of San Mateo, California
Postcards – Lake Louise and Chateau Lake Louise
Letter to Lou Crosby from Myrtle Matthew
B&W photograph of mountain-view
Letter to Louis Crosby from cousin Muriel of Cape Province, South Africa, 1935
Note re taxation exemption of CPR property – “Section 16 of 44 Vict. 1881”
Letter to Louis from Cousin Muriel, 1934 of South Africa
Letter to Lou from Cousin Muriel, 1929 South Africa
Letter from Rob, 1937 Rugby, England
Letter re stamps and stamp collecting from dealer, 1938
Numerous maps
Trésors de mon pays by Marcel Rosset Rambling in Geneva
Pamphlets with maps/travel booklets of Vienna; Hawaii’s Flowers, plants and fruits; Alberta Horticultural Guide, 1950-51; “Panjab Impressions” – chapter from a book; Guide to the Ruins of Chichen Itea, 1952; “The Story of Rundle”; 2 X “Self Conducted Nature Walk of Desert Botanical Garden of Arizona,” Tempe, Arizona
Maps
4 strips of souvenir colour slides – Hawaii: Maka Puu Point Tour; Hawaii National Park; Kauai; Hilo
In the Ypres Salient: The Story of a Fortnight’s Canadian Fighting, June 2-16, 1916 by Beckles Willson
Booklet: “Southern British Columbia: Land Recording Divisions South of the Railway Belt”
Map: “Auto Circle Tour of the Canadian Rockies”
Map: Yoho Park
Maps
Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland
Map: Edinburgh Corp Transport Department
Pamphlet for the Collegiate Church of St. Andrew, Steyning
Northern Ireland by Hugh Shearman, 1946
The Story Sompting Parish Church
Bartholomew’s Revised “Half-Inch” contoured maps
The Old North Church in Picture and In Story
Frontier Guide to the Incredible Roger’s Pass
Booklet on St. George’s in the Pines
Banff School of Fine Arts Scholarship Night, 1956 – awards presentation program
Envelope with cancelled postage stamps addressed to L.S. Crosby
Maps
Colour souvenir postcards: Vienna and the Vatican
Inventory listing:
Box 6 Crosby House – Office Closet
Chocolate box containing photographs: prints of Sunshine Lodge; Quebec City; Christmas card from the Crosby’s with a photograph outside of Abegweit; Banff Springs Hotel; Brewster Tally-Ho; Banff Ave; Brewster Transport; Banff Auto Rd; Brewster Transport Co. Garage; various Brewster Transport vehicles. Negatives of Deer Lodge; winter scenes
Prints of: Snowshoeing; Banff Speed Skaters with medals; Banff Winter Carnival speed skating, 1932; Doug Crosby; Alex Young, 1932; skiing; wedding pictures; portrait of Crosby children – Fred, Doug, Marjorie, Robert, Marion; Lake Louise Trading Co.; Crosby children; sports activities; Deer Lodge; and an invitation to the District Meeting of Masons, 1962
2 X metal briefcases containing 35mm colour slides from travels
1 framed print of Lake Louise trail
1 framed portrait of Lou S. Crosby
1 photograph album “Aloha” containing b&w and colour travel photographs
1 scrapbook(?) containing: prints and card-mounted images of bison; tepees; horses; Doug and Fred Crosby as children on lawn at Abegweit; men at camp; mountain views; sledding; dog-sledding; trail rides; Mount Rundle; Banff in winter; Banff Indian Days parade
Numerous greeting cards, blank with painted images reproduced from Harmon photographs
Christmas card from Edna to Gertie, 1951
The Nakimu Caves Glacier Dominion Park, B.C. booklet
CIBC 1962 Annual Statement
Painting book
National Parks in the Canadian Cordillera
Manila envelope addressed to L.S. Crosby containing invoices; statements; receipts; correspondence
Excelsior drawing book containing maps
2 drawing books with Louis S. Crosby, Feb 1901 written on front
Giant postcards – William Notman images
Photograph prints
Envelope of prints: Banff Winter Carnival events; Brewster Transportation Co; wedding (?)
Box of 3 prints: Banff Speed Skaters – children
Inventory listing:
Box 7 Crosby House – Office
Deer Lodge Accounts Receivable records
Crosby Company Ltd. Cheques
Banff Crag & Canyon March 4, 1964 Obituary and article about Louis Crosby
4 b&w portraits
1 b&w print unidentified location
9 b&w portrait (Gertie Crosby?) by Ron Duke
1 b&w portrait (Lou S. Crosby) by Ron Duke
1 manila envelope with b&w group picture of Canadian Pacific Railway Photo includes identifications of men in group (Lou Crosby; Claude Brewster; Stan Johnson, BAC; Colin C. McCartney, Mgr. BSH; C.R. Shaw, Pres.BAC; W. T. Clark, editor of Crag and Canyon; various U.S. travel editors)
1 hand drawn sketch of a town neighborhood
1 photograph print of 1958 Gray Line Assoc. Convention Agents luncheon
1 photograph print of 1939 Gray Line Assoc. passenger fraternity luncheon.
4 x certificates of provincial outdoor speed skating championships, 1938
2 x rolled b&w photographs – vehicle transport fleet (?) Hawaii (?)
1962 letter and 19 colour slides of Mexico to Mrs. L.S. Crosby
B&w photograph– Annual Conference of Rotary International 4th District, 1929
1925 letter and sketch drawing of Town of Golden re teahouses
1 b&w photograph of Okapi
8 x 1964 – 1966 cheque registers
Crosby-CIBC bank correspondence – cancelled cheques, letters, etc..
2 negatives of (Deer Lodge?) exterior
Family tree of Robert Washington Shumbles (?) and Hannah Barrell
1 photograph of Lula Xmas, 1945
1 box of miniature stereographs
1 b&w photographs of Crosby’s (?) L&G in Egypt at Pyramids
4 packages of Souvenir Colour travel slides: Roman Forum, Sistine Chapel and Vatican.
1 envelope of very small b&w prints – stereo camera prints?
1 envelope of colour slide transparencies
1 colour print
Travel slides
Correspondence - letters
Ca. 1957 – 1 box of travel slides: 6 individual boxes Kodak slides mounted colour transparencies: Africa, unidentified, Banff and First Nations, Mountains and Lakes and Banff Area (?)
1 piece of rock – mineral (?)
Inventory listing:
Box 8 Crosby House - Office Closet – Slides
1 carousel of slides – 1971 Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok
1 carousel of slides – 1971 Kashmir, Nepal, Istanbul
Labeled with notes – 2 trays of slides (within 1 box) Tray I 1 to 34 North Borneo and Tray I 34 to 40 Singapore
1 tray empty
Slides : Note labeled Tray III 1 to 9 Bali; 10 to 24 Djkarta; 25 to 40 Ceylon
Silver case of generic slides (perhaps samples to accompany slide projector manual and warranty info)
Moving picture film strip in silver can
Slide case with 10 slides and note re slides as gift to add to Lou Crosby’s collection from a nephew with identifications on the slide mounts.
1 slide box with slides labeled “All Djakarta rejects.”
1 slide box with slides labeled “Africa.”
1 slide box with slides labeled “#1 to 20 Singapore #21 to 36 Bali” and “Discards 1963.”
1 slide box with slides labeled “All Bali Discards.”
1 slide box with slides labeled “North Borneo Discards.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Kashmir.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Nepal.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Nepal.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Kashmir.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “India, Kashmir.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “India.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Thailand.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Everest Nepal.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Japan.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Thailand and India.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Bangkok.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “China.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Japan.”
1 slide case with slides labeled “Japan.”
1 tray slides labeled “Spain 1.”
1 tray slides labeled “Spain 2.”
1 tray slides labeled “Spain 3 Switz 1.”
1 tray slides labeled “Switz 2.”
1 slide box with slides labeled “Ceylon Tea Country.”
1 slide box with slides unidentified/unlabeled.
1 slide box with slides labeled “water falls in Tea Country.”
1 slide box with slides labeled “Mexico Nov. ’62.”
1 slide box with slides labeled “Ceylon Bat (?) Garden Dancers at Colombia.”
1 slide box with slides labeled “Rock Carvings at Mahabul Ipurum…Madras…Madras to Bombay.”
1 slide box discards
3 slide boxes labeled [can’t read]
2 slide boxes labeled ? Colombo
Inventory listing:
Box 9 Crosby House – Office – slides/postcards
1 tray of slides labeled Delhi and Agra
1 tray of slides labeled Athens and Corinth
1 tray of slides labeled Switz 3
3 trays of slides unlabeled
1 - 16 mm Kodachrome film - Brewster Transportation Co. January, 1941: film contents: mountains, skiing, rope tow, and group of skiers picnicking on mountain.
1 – 16mm Kodachrome film of (?) from ASN to Ralph Harvey Brewster Transport Co. May, 1945: film contents: BSH? Windowed sightseeing transport bus in front of Hotel, driving away, trail riding in mountains.
1 glass b&w neg of mountains and packhorses
2 trays of slides unlabeled
1 tray of slides unlabeled (views of Italy)
1 tray slides Baalbeck, Beirut and Tangier
1 tray slides Naples, Pompeii, Amalfi, Herculaneum
1 tray of slides – Venice, Sicily
1 tray of slides – Yugoslavia, Venice
1 tray of slides – Istanbul (1-12); Samos (13-23); Athens (24-32); Palma (33-39); Majorca
1 box slides King Albert National Park, Rhino, Elephants, and Lion
1 box slides Africa
1 box slides Ostrich Farm
1 box slides Basutaland (?) Free State
1 box slides labeled En Route Rundi Rest? To Butembo
1 box slides Zululand and Hluhluwe Game Reserve Swaziland
1 box slides Cape Town
1 box slides Johannesburg to ? 1959
1 box slides King Alberta National Park
1 box slides unlabeled
1 film canister – b&w 35 mm unlabeled
1 film canister – b&w 35 mm unlabeled
Bundle of travel postcards
Loose travel slides various locations
Inventory listing:
Box 10 Crosby House - Crosby Boys’ Room – 16mm motion picture films
California
Unedited 1944/45
Autumn
Winter Scenery
Flowers
Jamaica
Eastern Canada
England
Lake Louise to Jasper
California
?Doug’s family?
unidentified
Florida
Empty Canister
Hawaii
unidentified (2 notes inside – Deer Lodge, Calgary Stampede…)
Royal Military
1 reel
1 empty reel
4 – 3D paper eye glasses