The stuffed and mounted head of a bighorn sheep with large horns curling forward on either side of the head. The fur is light brown with a pale muzzle and split black nostrils. Glass eyes have been inserted.
The stuffed and mounted head of a bighorn sheep with large horns curling forward on either side of the head. The fur is light brown with a pale muzzle and split black nostrils. Glass eyes have been inserted.
The stuffed and mounted head of a bighorn sheep with large horns curling forward on either side of the head. The head is light brown with a pale muzzle and split black nostrils. Glass eyes have been inserted.
The stuffed and mounted head of a bighorn sheep with large horns curling forward on either side of the head. The head is light brown with a pale muzzle and split black nostrils. Glass eyes have been inserted.
A small curved pointed horn from a bighorn sheep (either young sheep or ewe). The horn is hollow and ridged on the outside with heavy horizontal ridges.
A small curved pointed horn from a bighorn sheep (either young sheep or ewe). The horn is hollow and ridged on the outside with heavy horizontal ridges.
General colour: black on pink. a mountain goat and a mountain sheep stand left and right respectively on a rocky ledge. They face left. Behind are distant peaks and clouded sky.
General colour: black on pink. a mountain goat and a mountain sheep stand left and right respectively on a rocky ledge. They face left. Behind are distant peaks and clouded sky.
Spiral sketchbook with sketches of sheep, and groups of sheep in various poses and configurations. On cover Bighorns Banff One morning above vermillion lakes. 1950 inside back cover Above Vermillion Lakes 1955 Illingworth Kerr
Spiral sketchbook with sketches of sheep, and groups of sheep in various poses and configurations. On cover Bighorns Banff One morning above vermillion lakes. 1950 inside back cover Above Vermillion Lakes 1955 Illingworth Kerr
File consists of Eleanor Luxton's personal album which contains 195 black and white prints pasted in, most spreads are captioned. Content pertains to family and school photographs, events and travels between 1921 and 1925, in addition to potentional childhood photographs as well. Locations include …
Photograph Album: 1 image from album (195 b&w prints)
Scope & Content
File consists of Eleanor Luxton's personal album which contains 195 black and white prints pasted in, most spreads are captioned. Content pertains to family and school photographs, events and travels between 1921 and 1925, in addition to potentional childhood photographs as well. Locations include Banff, Lake Louise, Yoho, Marble Canyon, Takakkaw Falls, Lake Minnewanka, Summit Lake, Victoria, Vancouver, Yoho Valley Bungalow Camp and Radium Hot Springs. Events include the opening of the Banff-Wintermere Highway at Kootenay Crossing in 1921, a dog derby on frozen Lake Minnewanka, Banff Indian Days, Banff Winter Carnival. Subjects include unidentified and identified people including Norman Luxton, Georgina Luxton, Enos Hunter, Ben Kaquitts, Hector Crawler, John Englishman, Mrs. Wood, Edmée, Mrs Mitt and Miss Maemillan. Album cover is leather with burned annotation "Snap Shots" with paint and cloth leaf detailing. The album i sbound by a cord with leather tassels.
Notes
File consists of several loose photographs. Some photographs are detaching from the paper.
File consists of 87 b&w photographs [including 17 stereograph photos] pertaining to various wildlife living in the Rockies. File includes images from a [1907] buffalo roundup in Montana, and other untitled photographs of buffalo; a bird sanctuary in Calgary; a fox farm; wildlife images from an albu…
Items LUX/I/D6c/PA-1 to 16 produced by N.A. Forsyth [Butte, Montana]; PA-57 to 59 produced by Pete Tasker; PA-69 produced by E.C. [Elliott Chappel?] Barnes
Date Range
[ca.1905-1910]
1906-1908
[ca.1915-1930]
1920
[ca.1930-1940]
Physical Description
87 photographs : b&w ; 20.5 x 25 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 87 b&w photographs [including 17 stereograph photos] pertaining to various wildlife living in the Rockies. File includes images from a [1907] buffalo roundup in Montana, and other untitled photographs of buffalo; a bird sanctuary in Calgary; a fox farm; wildlife images from an album titled “Banff the Beautiful”; two unidentified women posing near black bears at a local dump; and other animals in and around the Banff area, including beavers, moose, bighorn sheep, and deer.
Notes
LUX/I/D6c/PA-45 and 46 accompanied by handwritten note with printing instructions for negative copy of photograph [see Related Material]
File contains some duplicates
Material Details
Items LUX/I/D6c/PA-53 to 56 are scanned paper copies of original images retrieved from an album
File consists of 59 photographs collected by Eleanor Luxton as research material for the book Banff: Canada's First National Park. Images pertain to skiing and ski jumping, canoeing, Banff Indian Days, the King Edward Hotel, swimming at the Cave and Basin, the Banff Winter Carnival, wildlife, and v…
59 photographs : b&w prints ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 59 photographs collected by Eleanor Luxton as research material for the book Banff: Canada's First National Park. Images pertain to skiing and ski jumping, canoeing, Banff Indian Days, the King Edward Hotel, swimming at the Cave and Basin, the Banff Winter Carnival, wildlife, and various views in and around the town of Banff.
File consists of 2 volumes of "The National Collection of Heads and Horns" [Part I and II] published by the New York Zoological Park in 1907 and 1908. Pertains to antler, horn and skull specimens from various animals which were held in the Zoological Park's collection.
1 cm of textual records (2 volumes ; 24 x 30.5 cm)
Scope & Content
File consists of 2 volumes of "The National Collection of Heads and Horns" [Part I and II] published by the New York Zoological Park in 1907 and 1908. Pertains to antler, horn and skull specimens from various animals which were held in the Zoological Park's collection.
Notes
1908 volume in file has large curved, handle-shaped pencil tracings on back cover