250 photographs : negatives; film, 4x5" and 6.5x8.5"
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ITEM LIST OF NEGATIVES (V653/NA - 128 to 377):
[Note: Repeat descriptions have been combined by the archivist]
128-134 North Bend & Victoria -- [1900?] -- [Includes B.C. legislature buildings; Chinese man carrying baskets; Indigenous drying rack?; Indigenous burial platform?; elderly Indigenous man; Indigenous people on railroad track?; man crossing unidentified stream]
135-142 Glacier & west -- [1900?] -- [Unidentified mountains]
143-144 Glacier & west -- [1900?] -- [Illecillewaet Glacier]
145-150 East of Glacier / Dr. Sharples -- [1900?] -- [Unidentified scenes]
151-155 East of Glacier -- [1900?] -- [Kicking Horse River, Mount Burgess, Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy]
156-158 East of Glacier / Dr. Sharples -- [1900?] -- [The Mitre and Abbot Pass, Abbot Pass]
159 East of Glacier -- [1900?] -- [Group of six alpinists on Victoria Glacier?]
160-161 East of Glacier / Dr. Sharples -- [1900?] -- [Includes train on unidentified bridge, ladies eating]
162-166 East of Glacier -- [1900?] -- [Includes teepees and fence, ladies and children, people on station platform]
167-172 Lake Marion -- 7/1900 -- [Includes unidentified mountains, Mount Sir Donald?]
173-180 On the Great Glacier -- 1900 -- [Includes George Vaux Jr. & Edward Feuz Sr., Mary M. Vaux, unidentified Swiss Guide/s, unidentified men, edge of crevasse]
181 [Mary M. Vaux with Swiss guide crossing snowbridge over crevasse] -- [1900?]
182 [Mary M. Vaux and Swiss guide roped together on unidentified mountain] -- [1900?]
183-191 On the Great Glacier -- 1900 -- [Includes views of people, crevasses and seracs, surroundings]
292-304 On CPR 1900 From Field east -- 1900 -- [Includes railway conductors and passengers, Kicking Horse River, burnt timber beside railroad, unidentified mountains, Mt. Temple from railroad, Castle Mtn. and remains of Silver City]
305-307 Mt. Temple -- 1900 -- [From Bow River]
308 [Mt. Temple from Bow River] -- [1900?]
309-310 Victoria Glacier -- 1900
311 [Group of alpinists above Lake Louise near Victoria Glacier] -- [1900?]
312-326 Victoria Glacier -- 1900 -- [Includes views of Victoria Glacier, Lake Louise from Victoria Glacier, alpinists on and near glacier, "Glacier table"]
327 [Man on "glacier table" near Victoria Glacier] -- [1900?]
328 Victoria Glacier [Group of six people Victoria Glacier including Swiss guide and cameraman] -- 1900 -- [Photograph by Mary Vaux, July 24, 1900]
329 [Group of six people on Victoria Glacier including Swiss guide and cameraman] -- [July 24, 1900]
330 Victoria Glacier -- 1900 -- [Caleb Cresson with fossilized rock, July 24, 1900]
331 Victoria Glacier -- 1900 -- [Alpinists eating near marker boulder "XV '99", July 24, 1900]
332 [Man beside marker boulder "XV '99" near Victoria Glacier] -- [July 24, 1900]
333-337 Victoria Glacier -- 1900 -- [Mount Lefroy?, Abbot Pass, The Mitre and Abbot Pass]
338 [Abbot Pass] -- [1900?]
339 Victoria Glacier -- 1900 -- [Alpinists on Victoria Glacier]
340 [Unidentified river] -- [1900?]
341 [Unidentified lake with island] -- [1900?]
342 [Unidentified mountains and waterfall] / Mary Vaux
343 [Alpinists looking at view from unidentified mountain]
344 [Unidentified moraine and lake]
345 [Unidentified mountains and river]
346 [Unidentified glacier]
347 [Conductor and dog on station platform] -- [1900?]
348-349 [Man and dog on station platform] -- 1900
350-367 Banff -- 1900 -- [Views pertain to man with dog on station platform, Mount Rundle, Bow River, Cascade Mountain, Bow River and boathouse, Mount Edith, Basin pool, Cave and Basin caretaker's house, NWMP barracks, Banff Springs Hotel, Banff Avenue, Sulphur Mountain, road west of Banff]
368-372 On CPR 1900 Ottawa N shore of Lake Superior -- 1900
373-374 [Market] Montreal & Quebec -- 9/ /00 -- [Market]
Information provided by Stoney Nakoda Elders during the Recognizing Relations project, an archives initiative undertaken in 2014 to identify Indigenous people in photographs held in the Whyte Museum Archives and Special Collections.
Identification made by Big Horn Elders: Charlie Abraham and John Wesley
Image of a group of unidentified First nations people - mostly children - gatered in front of a store front - "1901 Treaty Day Dave MacDougal's store" written on the back in pencil by Catharine Whyte
Image of a group of unidentified First nations people - mostly children - gatered in front of a store front - "1901 Treaty Day Dave MacDougal's store" written on the back in pencil by Catharine Whyte
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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Update: Recognizing Relations phase 5 consensus determines photograph is of John Abraham.
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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Man in middle has RCMP hat on, could have been a scout for the pass system, keeping an eye on people*
*Information provided by Stoney Nakoda Elders
PA223- Paul Beaver Sr., woman and 2 children, Kootenay Plains 1904
v683/III/A/15/PA860- Catharine Whyte handwritten caption: Old Paul Beaver and his wife Agnes from Nordegg, Andrew baby, Anna little girl. Not Annie Twoyoungmen.
Recognizing Relations numbesr: RR 314 and RR 564
Further identification made through hand written caption by Catharine Whyte
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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Looks like a hunting camp* *Information provided by Stoney Elders
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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Update: new identifications from Recognizing Relations phase 5 "Could be Doris Rollinmud or Mrs. Tom Kaquitts"
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
NA 1263 10, Title: 2 Stoney Women, Kootenay Plains, AB 1904 Remarks:Mrs.Job Beaver and Mrs.Peter Wesley (also wr.on back of print)
Recognizing Relations numbers: RR 319 and RR 599
Many of the photographs in the Tom Wilson collection are also housed at the Glenbow Museum Archives.
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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Determined to be Nancy Wesley by Ta Otha Matriarchs. Everyday wear**Information provided by Stoney Elders
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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[Stoney Indian women & children at Kootenay Plains, 1904]
[Updated description: unknown woman, children and Mrs.Wesley (unknown first or maiden name)- 2017 dd]
Everyday wear
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
Multiple different identifications made for this photo not confirmed by Elders, unsure of certainty of identification.
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[Mrs. Silas Abraham (Stoney) at Kootenay Plains[also identified as Annie Twoyoungmen]]
[Updated description: Gussie Abraham, Stoney Nakoda-2017 dd]
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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The photographs in the Tom Wilson fonds were taken between 1904-1908
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(L-R) unknown, Paul Beaver, Moses Wesley, Philip House (Thija Thân) (White Squirrel), unknown, Philip House's father (Thâni Hâba Ogehan) (Wears One Moccasin)
Item consists of (L-R) unknown, Paul Beaver, Moses Wesley, Philip House (Thija Thân) (White Squirrel), unknown and Philip House's father (Thâni Hâba Ogehan) (Wears One Moccasin) at Kootenay Plains.
Item consists of (L-R) unknown, Paul Beaver, Moses Wesley, Philip House (Thija Thân) (White Squirrel), unknown and Philip House's father (Thâni Hâba Ogehan) (Wears One Moccasin) at Kootenay Plains.
Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
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Kootenay Plains- looks like John House (White Squirrel) family, Moses House**Information provided by Stoney Elders