Fonds consists mainly of diary excerpts and transcripts, 1912-1913, 1921-1954; also includes a guest book, 1924-1956, posters, ca.1942, publications relating the story of Belmore Browne Peak, 1992-1993, and photographs, ca.1930, ca.1955, 1991-1992. Diaries are mainly trip diaries pertaining to summ…
24 cm of textual records. -- 108 photographs : prints, copy negatives, transparencies
History / Biographical
Belmore Browne, d.1954, was a well-known artist who lived and worked at Banff and Seebe, Alberta, Canada and in the United States. Browne and Agnes Evelyn Sibley, 1882-1976, were married in 1913. In 1921, they bought property in Banff for a summer home and with their children, George, 1918-1958, and Evelyn, 1915-1994, travelled extensively throughout the 1920s and 1930s in pursuit of subjects for Belmore Browne's paintings. In 1946, the Brownes built a home near Seebe. Agnes Browne was a diarist for the family and much of her extensive writing centres around the career of Belmore Browne. Her daughter Evelyn consolidated the diaries in the 1980s. George Browne was also an artist.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists mainly of diary excerpts and transcripts, 1912-1913, 1921-1954; also includes a guest book, 1924-1956, posters, ca.1942, publications relating the story of Belmore Browne Peak, 1992-1993, and photographs, ca.1930, ca.1955, 1991-1992.
Diaries are mainly trip diaries pertaining to summer travels and family life in the Canadian Rockies, 1921-1933. Included are trips to Red Earth Creek, Skoki, Mystic Lake, Sawback Lake, Red Deer Valley, Hector Lake, Bow Lake, Kananaskis Valley, Cascade and Panther rivers, Elbow Pass, and other locations. Other diaries cover the years 1943 to 1954, years partly spent at Seebe until Belmore Browne's death. Diary copies and typescripts have been annotated by Evelyn Browne.
Posters on alpine and wilderness survival, ca.1942, were done by Belmore Browne for the American military's Arctic Training Program.
Photographs are mainly photographic copies of paintings by Belmore and George Browne produced by Peter A. Juley & Son, Photographers of Fine Arts, New York, ca.1955, 79 items. Other photographs pertain to Belmore Browne and the Browne family, their Banff home and painting activities, ca.1930; the site of Belmore Browne plaque on Browne Peak, rediscovered and photographed by Tony and Gillean Daffern in September 1991, and dedication of the Belmore Browne plaque, 1992.
Official correspondence pertaining to the naming of Belmore Browne Peak, 1989-1993, is available in document file.
File pertains to 50 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1943 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various…
File pertains to 50 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1943 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various camps [mostly Alpine Club of Canada camps], hiking, fishing, and wildlife. Some slides missing; most explained in notebook.
Titles:
Reel 79 Aug 1 - 1943
1. Rams on cliff morning
8. Mt. Rundle and lake shore
13. Cascade and meadow
14. Sheep in swamp
16. Mama sheep and baby - again
17. one baby sheep
18. 2 baby sheeps
19. 2 baby sheeps flaw in film
Reel 80 Aug 15 - 1943
3. Ewe and others [in swamp - Rundle]
4. Ews and lams in swamp [Rundle]
5. Moose in Vermilion sundown
7. Goat at animal paddock
9. Crowd on opabin glacier
10. Crowd at Mac Arthur Lake at lunch
11. Crowd on opabin glacier
13. /Same not so good\ Crowd strung out on glacier
14. Same - end of line of people
16. Emmy[?], Big Tom and Denny near lake
17. Crowd on meadows - opabin
Reel 81 Aug 21 - 1943
3. Crowd around the dining table
7. Mt. Biddle from Yukness ridge
12. Phyl and Aletta on Yukness
13. Towards Yoho and Balfour fr. Yukness over Wiwaxy col.
15. Ronny with pot at fire Linda Lake
16. Ronny with fish at Linda Lake
17. Walter's T. Model Ford - W. and Ronny and Mr. Stewart[?]
Reel 82 Sept 2 -1943
1. Gopher by tree en route to Linda Lake
2. Ronny w. rucksack
3. Tom, Aletta, Phyl starting for Abbot Pass
4. Mother and Sig[?] looking out window
5. Spray River when I fished - Cascade Mt.
7. Mother at bearspaw table better
12. Mother and bear alarms[?] on step
13. L.G. bringing in faggots [sticks] from yard
14. Fish in pond
15. Fish hatchery fr. viewpoint [illegible]
17. Doe in backwater down Bow R. [illegible]
19. View across BOw to Hoodoos and Cascade
Reel 83 Sept 7 - 1943
1. Boe valley fr. Lake Agnes
4. Trail boulders and Lake Agnes
8. Victoria ridge fr. Fairview slopes
10. Same nearer
15. Sig - and Mt. Rundle fr [Admin gardens]
16. Browne porch and BNG reading [illegible]
17. SIg and 2 companions starting fr. Spray V.
19. DH.G. on hammock
20. ALong the Great Divide by B. Browne.
Notes
Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1).
Please note: titles listed below are only those located in this box. Some others have been romved from their original order for use in slide shows made by Lillian Gest prior to accession. Please see related material notebook SL I for full title lists.
Pertains to the use of dogs for travel and moving freight in Alaska as observed by Belmore Browne during his travels - includes illustrations by Belmore Browne
Notes
In Outing, Vol. LXIII, No.6 , March 1914, pp. 643 - 658
Accession Number
7889
Call Number
02.3 B35d PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Article available online at via Hathi Trust and University of Michigan
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
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The airman's Arctic survival guide : diagrams and lectures prepared for the U.S. Army Air Corps, The Lovat Scouts, and all travellers of the North - 1942 to
1952
Browne Family Collection; 13 vintage reproduction posters: 1. The parachute shroud; 2. The four best outdoor shelters; 3. Camp fires; 4. Wilerness caches; 5. Axes are dangerous; 6. The snow shoe; 7. The climbing rope; 8. Crampons; 9. Wilderness raft; 10. Emergency fishing tackle; 11. Where to shoot a bear; 12. Let's build a snowhouse; 13. How to find the North Star
