Sub-series consists of annotated books indicating Riggall's opinions, observations or involvements
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ITEM LIST :
* Boone and Crockett Club / North American big game competitions, 1939; note on Riggall's chapter "Hunting the Black Bear" in North American big game, 1939
* Gray, Prentiss N. / North American big game : official measurement records, 1934; additions of McKnight and Riggall records for bighorn sheep and black bear
* Hornaday, William T. / Campfires in the Canadian Rockies, 1907; extensive margin notes on people, places, flora and fauna
* White, Stewart Edward / The Mountains, 1904; some notes on trail life
Sub-series consists primarily of: mountain landscape views in the Waterton Lakes region; Twin Butte area landscapes; flora and fauna, especially wildflowers, birds and bird nests; pack trains, client trips and camp views, including sheep hunting, Kishinena, Wall Lake, Kintla Lake and Twin Lakes, no…
Sub-series consists primarily of: mountain landscape views in the Waterton Lakes region; Twin Butte area landscapes; flora and fauna, especially wildflowers, birds and bird nests; pack trains, client trips and camp views, including sheep hunting, Kishinena, Wall Lake, Kintla Lake and Twin Lakes, northwest branch of the Oldman River, Beehive Mountain and area, Gap district. Includes three #1 panoramas.
Correspondence consists mainly of incoming letters to Bert Riggall from clients, friends, family and suppliers re guiding, hunting and fishing trips, personal matters, guns, photography, taxidermy, land matters, road allowance, publishers, wildlife societies. Frequent and/or prominent corresponden…
Correspondence consists mainly of incoming letters to Bert Riggall from clients, friends, family and suppliers re guiding, hunting and fishing trips, personal matters, guns, photography, taxidermy, land matters, road allowance, publishers, wildlife societies. Frequent and/or prominent correspondents include: Russell H. Bennett (1918-1959), Russell M. Bennett (1913-1928), Charles C. Bovey (1919-1951), Martin Bovey (1918-1952), Bertram Chichester (1937-1959), F. M. Crosby (1921-1952), A. Phimister Proctor (1909-1912, 1952), Andy Russell (1947, undated) and Arnold C. Schueren (1940-1954).
Includes some copies of out-going letters, dated 1902, 1909, 1918, 1920, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1952 and 1956
Sub-series consists of files of standard photographs pertaining to reconnaisance trips with partner Cyril Watmough, 1909-1911, and with clients, 1907-1950, in particular with four families (Bennett, Crosby, Bovey and McKnight families), their relatives and friends, who made many trips with Riggall …
41 files of photographs (ca.1600 photographs : ca.1200 prints, ca.400 negatives). -- 6 photograph albums (378 prints, ca.125 negatives)
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of files of standard photographs pertaining to reconnaisance trips with partner Cyril Watmough, 1909-1911, and with clients, 1907-1950, in particular with four families (Bennett, Crosby, Bovey and McKnight families), their relatives and friends, who made many trips with Riggall starting in 1913
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Access by appointment only
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FILE DESCRIPTIONS :
Note: Prints in all files are accompanied by some negatives. Negative extent is estimated at approximately one-third that of the print extent
1. [Bert Riggall and Cyril Watmough trip], 1909, 1 photograph album (77 prints, + negatives)
2. [Bert Riggall and Cyril Watmough trip], 1911, ca.100 prints (+negatives)
3. Bert Riggall and Cyril Watmough trip, 1914, ca.15 prints (+negatives)
4. [Bennett family trips], 1913-1950, ca.250 prints (+negatives)
5. [Bennett / Crosby families trips], 1917-1919, ca.35 prints (+negatives)
6. [Crosby family trips], 1918-1946, ca.160 prints (+negatives), 1 photograph album (102 prints, 21 p. text, ca.40 negatives)
7. [Bovey family trips], 1915-1941, ca.65 prints (+negatives)
8. [McKnight family trips], 1917-1942, ca.65 prints (+negatives)
9. [Goodwin trip], 1909, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
10. [Proctor trip], 1909, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
11. [Harvey trip], 1910, ca.30 prints (+negatives), 1 photograph album (23 prints, ca.10 negatives)
12. [O'Malley trips], 1912, 1913, ca.15 prints (+negatives)
13. [Stabeck and Peck trips], 1912, 1913, ca.30 prints (+negatives)
14. Stabeck and Gillfillam trip, 1914, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
15. [Clark and Gallagher trip], 1914, ca.30 prints (+negatives)
16. [Finlayson, Sibbald, Allison trip], 1915, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
17. [Thompson trips], 1915, 1916, 1921, ca.25 prints (+negatives), 2 photograph albums (108 prints, ca.40 negatives)
18. Velie trip, 1919, ca.5 prints (+negatives), 1 photograph album (68 prints, ca.23 negatives)
19. [MacMillan family trips], 1930-1942, ca.20 prints (+negatives)
20. [Stevens family trips], 1932-1946, ca.40 prints (+negatives)
21. Mills boys trip, 1935, ca.5 prints (+negatives)
22. [Faegre and Dorsey families trips], 1935-1945, ca.30 prints (+negatives)
23. Vincent trip, 1936, 2 prints (+negatives)
24. Brandeis trip, 1936, ca.5 prints (+negatives)
25. Harper trip, 1936, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
26. Lockwood trip, 1937, ca.20 prints (+negatives)
27. Walcott trip, 1938, ca.25 prints (+negatives)
28. Laidlaw trip, 1939, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
29. Plimpton trip, 1939, ca.15 prints (+negatives)
30. Lathrop and Elliot trips, 1940, 1941, ca.15 prints (+negatives)
31. Keeler, Norton and Haglin trip, 1941, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
32. Chapin trip, 1942, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
33. [Mueller trips], 1940-1942, ca.15 prints (+negatives)
34. [Schueren and Anderson trip], 1942, ca.10 prints (+negatives)
35. Staltze trip, 1942, ca.5 prints (+negatives)
36. [Mellon trips], 1942, 1943, ca.15 prints (+negatives)
37. Robinson trip, 1943, ca.5 prints (+negatives)
38. [Sellers trip], 1944, ca.5 prints (+negatives)
39. [Wranglers trip], 1937, ca.40 prints (+negatives)
40. [Trips, various clients], 1907-1944, ca.20 prints (+negatives)
41. Marmot hunting, 1937-1945, ca.30 prints (+negatives); trips by various clients' children
Sub-series pertains to wildflowers, domestic flower studies, Riggalls' Pincher Creek home and environs, British Columbia trip, Carl Austin at Cochrane, Bill Wilson and Barbara (Riggall) Wilson, Burton / Riggall family, Dora Riggall's grave
Sub-series pertains to wildflowers, domestic flower studies, Riggalls' Pincher Creek home and environs, British Columbia trip, Carl Austin at Cochrane, Bill Wilson and Barbara (Riggall) Wilson, Burton / Riggall family, Dora Riggall's grave
Sub-series pertains mainly to household and business purchases, taxes, insurance, pension, properties, livestock, beaver trapping, other. Also pertains to guiding business, including trip accounting, wages and licences obtained for clients; hunting; other. Includes legal papers, licenses, permits,…
Sub-series pertains mainly to household and business purchases, taxes, insurance, pension, properties, livestock, beaver trapping, other. Also pertains to guiding business, including trip accounting, wages and licences obtained for clients; hunting; other. Includes legal papers, licenses, permits, 1915-1947; bank records, 1922-1952; asset, expense and revenue records, 1909-1957
Sub-series consists of views produced in the course of Riggall's guiding, hunting, naturalist and photography activities. Images are primarily mountain and high alpine views in and around Waterton Lakes National Park; Glacier National Park (Montana); continental divide of British Columbia and Albe…
Identifications by the photographer have been supplemented by Doris "Babe" Burton, daughter, in the 1980s and 1990s; and by John Russell, donor and grandson of Bert Riggall, 2000
Date Range
[ca.1910s-ca.1955]
Physical Description
ca.2200 photographs (ca.1000 prints, ca.1000 negatives) : 9.5 x 30 cm and smaller
Scope & Content
Sub-series consists of views produced in the course of Riggall's guiding, hunting, naturalist and photography activities. Images are primarily mountain and high alpine views in and around Waterton Lakes National Park; Glacier National Park (Montana); continental divide of British Columbia and Alberta; prairie views east of Waterton. Includes Riggall homes and home ranch, Hawk's Nest lodge, Waterton townsite and surrounding areas in Waterton Lakes National Park, vicinities of Twin Butte and Pincher Creek; backcountry hunting and fishing trips, clients, camps, horses, climbing, parties on summits and views from same; South Kootenay Pass, Akamina-Kishenina areas, Oldman River Valley including gap in the Livingstone Range, South Castle and West Castle areas. Some negatives have imprint captions and are marked "Riggall Photo"
Notes
Negatives are 6cm x 17.5cm and 9.5cm x 30cm, taken with Kodak Panoram cameras #1 and #4.
Sub-series consists of published reproductions of Goodwin hunting paintings with note by Doris (Babe) Burton: "Dad (F.H.R.) took him on a mtn. trip in Aug.1909"
Sub-series consists of published reproductions of Goodwin hunting paintings with note by Doris (Babe) Burton: "Dad (F.H.R.) took him on a mtn. trip in Aug.1909"
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Items from file: Philip R. Goodwin reproductions. -- 10 print material items (.5 cm) -- Sub-series consists of published reproductions of Goodwin hunting paintings with note by Doris (Babe) Burton: "Dad (F.H.R.) took him on a mtn. trip in Aug.1909" -- Title based on contents of subseries. -- Location: M376 / 149. Held in oversize "H"
Sub-series consists of government publications, pamphlets, catalogues and poster re human and natural history, outdoor equipment, tools, tourism, Ed Burton (son-in-law of Bert Riggall) wildlife films; guns, sights, gunsmithing tools; photography and optical catalogues, magazines and databooks, some…
Sub-series consists of government publications, pamphlets, catalogues and poster re human and natural history, outdoor equipment, tools, tourism, Ed Burton (son-in-law of Bert Riggall) wildlife films; guns, sights, gunsmithing tools; photography and optical catalogues, magazines and databooks, some annotated; articles from "The Field", the country gentlemen's newspaper
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Oversize items are held in the following:
"A" (Posters, placemats, etc.)