File consists of 1 hand-made album comprised of 6 colour photographs, 13 x 9 cm. File pertains to the Wardle family's Christmas visits to the Seigniory Club in Montebello, Quebec. File documents the interior and exterior of the hotel during the winter, including the lounge, ice rink, and the Papine…
File consists of 1 hand-made album comprised of 6 colour photographs, 13 x 9 cm. File pertains to the Wardle family's Christmas visits to the Seigniory Club in Montebello, Quebec. File documents the interior and exterior of the hotel during the winter, including the lounge, ice rink, and the Papineau Manor.
Notes
Album is made with yellow paper and bound with a green ribbon.
The Seigniory Club is now known as the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello. The album is undated, but the Seigniory Club opened in 1930 and was leased to the Club until 1970.
Album has "To Mother and Dad, With happy memories of our wonderful Christmases at the Seigniory Club, Dorie" written on the front.
Album contains 140 b&w prints and colour postcards, tipped in. Photograph and memorabilia album documents Aleen Aked's trip to the Rocky Mountains with her parents in 1939. Photographs and postcards include images of Stoney Nakoda First Nations at Morley and Banff Indian Days, Town of Banff, Banff …
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Scope & Content
Album contains 140 b&w prints and colour postcards, tipped in. Photograph and memorabilia album documents Aleen Aked's trip to the Rocky Mountains with her parents in 1939. Photographs and postcards include images of Stoney Nakoda First Nations at Morley and Banff Indian Days, Town of Banff, Banff National Park, Lake Louise, Lake Agnes, Snowsqualmie Pass, Columbia River, Chukanut Drive (Washington), Puget Sound, Aked and her parents. Album also includes newsclippings and pamphlet pertaining to Banff Indian Days, pamphlets from Radium Hotsprings lodge and hot springs, and the Banff Springs Golf course pamphlet.
Fern Brewster album. -- [ca.1922-ca.1930]. -- 1 photograph album (217 prints). -- Album pertains to Fern Brewster, family, friends, activities; includes movie stars - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alma Rubens, Lew Cody, Frank Borzage, Estelle Taylor; scenes from movies being filmed, some from Banff area,…
Fern Brewster album. -- [ca.1922-ca.1930]. -- 1 photograph album (217 prints). -- Album pertains to Fern Brewster, family, friends, activities; includes movie stars - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alma Rubens, Lew Cody, Frank Borzage, Estelle Taylor; scenes from movies being filmed, some from Banff area, including "Valley of Silent Men", "The Alaskan", "Thief of Bagdad"; Lou Crosby, Peter Whyte, Phil Moore, Edmee Moore, Oliver Kahdahl, Jim and Dell Brewster; also includes some views from Hawaiian trip, ca.1922-1930. -- Condition is fragile. -- Title based on item.
File consists of one album containing 28 colorized postcard print images, 227 black and white prints and one annotated hand-drawn diagram on paper. Content pertains to a boat cruise attended by Eleanor Luxton to Hawaii, Japan and China [1937]. Includes images of the interior and exterior of the cru…
1 album (255 b&w and col. prints ; 13.5 x 19.5 cm or smaller -- 1 diagram ; 6 x 4 cm)
Scope & Content
File consists of one album containing 28 colorized postcard print images, 227 black and white prints and one annotated hand-drawn diagram on paper. Content pertains to a boat cruise attended by Eleanor Luxton to Hawaii, Japan and China [1937]. Includes images of the interior and exterior of the cruise ship, as well as cruise staff members and on-board entertainment; landscapes, monuments and buildings; surfing; historic sites; dockyard scenes with unidentified workers; local individuals and families; and fishing and harvesting. Album also includes small tissue-like paper sheet with hand-drawn diagram of mechanical parts and measurements with annotations [possibly belonging to Eleanor Luxton, n.d.]
Notes
Most photographs are annotated on the lower front in white text with contextual information - location, name of landmark, etc.
Date provided is based on dating of similar items pertaining to cruise to Hawaii, Japan and China collected by Eleanor Luxton. Photographs are likely from the same trip, but not confirmed.
Fonds consists of a photograph album pertaining to unidentified pack trip to the Red Deer Valley, Big Horn Creek, Molar, Ptarmigan Pass and Deception Pass and Ya-Ha-Tinda areas of Alberta with guides "Tex Vernon Wood, and Bert "Red" Johnson - the two other people on the trip may be A.O. Wheeler and…
Fonds consists of a photograph album pertaining to unidentified pack trip to the Red Deer Valley, Big Horn Creek, Molar, Ptarmigan Pass and Deception Pass and Ya-Ha-Tinda areas of Alberta with guides "Tex Vernon Wood, and Bert "Red" Johnson - the two other people on the trip may be A.O. Wheeler and his second wife and former hostess and secretary of the Alpine Club of Canada Banff chapter, Emmaline Savatard.
File consists of one photograph album, comprising 183 photographs, H12 x W17.5 cm or smaller. Photographs pertain to Charlie Reid and his family and friends during, predominantly, the 1920's. The first photograph is of a child and man; the child looks like it could be Charlie Reid at around 4 to 5 …
1 album (183 photographs : b&w ; 17.5 x 12 cm or smaller)
Scope & Content
File consists of one photograph album, comprising 183 photographs, H12 x W17.5 cm or smaller.
Photographs pertain to Charlie Reid and his family and friends during, predominantly, the 1920's. The first photograph is of a child and man; the child looks like it could be Charlie Reid at around 4 to 5 years old.
Photographs document sports and recreation (races, sledding, skiing, snowshoeing, track, canoeing, golf, camping, horseback riding, fishing), events at the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff Indian Days, Banff Winter Carnival (Festival), Highland gathering, Herald road race, and various activities in and around Banff.
Locations include: Banff, Medicine Hat, University of Alberta (Edmonton), and Lake Louise.
Notes
One of the photographs is a cut-out quote, "a canoo in foolish hands is probably the nation's greatest tipping well"
Album is bound in brown leather with "photographs" written on the cover. Some of the photographs have captions. Not every page is filled.
John Amatt (May 19, 1945 - ) was an educator, expedition leader, public speaker, and founder of One Step Beyond WorldWide. He was a climber, business manager, spokesman and press liason for the 1982 Canadian Mount Everest Expedition.
Scope & Content
V788/E contains one photographs album with 49 colour photographs pertaining to the Baffin Island trip in 1974
Robb / Morse family album, [1920 – 1923]. 55 pages, 549 photographs, small photos throughout album measured at approximately 4 cm x 6 cm. Some photographs captioned. Photographs pertain to Family and friends sailing at Seal Harbor, Maine, the Robb’s summer resort, Rockefeller brothers, pets, school…
Photograph Album : 1 photograph album (549 photographs; b&w).
Scope & Content
Robb / Morse family album, [1920 – 1923]. 55 pages, 549 photographs, small photos throughout album measured at approximately 4 cm x 6 cm. Some photographs captioned. Photographs pertain to Family and friends sailing at Seal Harbor, Maine, the Robb’s summer resort, Rockefeller brothers, pets, school days, sports, dressup/ theatre, picnics by the water, outdoor lawn games, swimming, swim team,
sailing, women’s track and field, wedding, Seal Harbor, Maine, the Robb’s summer resort, house interiors
Pages of note: #43 John D Rockefeller III, Catharine, Nelson A. Rockerfeller , #53 John D Rockefeller III and Nelson A. Rockerfeller, #55 John D Rockefeller III.
File consists of one album containing travel photographs, mostly captioned. Content pertains to Eleanor Luxton's national and international travels between ca. 1935 and 1940. Locations include the United States, Ontario, Quebec, Panama and Cuba. Subjects include unidentified Indigenous families and…
1 album (ca. 360 b&w and col. prints ; 9 x 14 cm or smaller)
Scope & Content
File consists of one album containing travel photographs, mostly captioned. Content pertains to Eleanor Luxton's national and international travels between ca. 1935 and 1940. Locations include the United States, Ontario, Quebec, Panama and Cuba. Subjects include unidentified Indigenous families and local scenics in Panama, buildings and landscapes, the 1939 World Fair in New York, boats and dockyard views, art portraits, Niagara Falls, monuments and statues. Most items are captioned with their respective subjects / locations, 4 items are colorized [rest are b&w].
Notes
Some items are postcard prints, vast majority are photograph prints
Material Details
Photographs are secured with paper corner fasteners attached to pages with adhesive
File consists of one album of colorized commercial postcards. Content pertains to tourist attractions and communities within Havana and other rural regions of Cuba. Subjects include unidentified local families and individuals, crop harvesting, livestock, boating scenes, market vendors, community ev…
Some items produced by Harris Bros. Co., and Curt Teich & Co.
Date Range
[ca. 1900 - ca. 1910]
1909
Physical Description
1 album (101 col. postcards ; 9 x 14 cm)
Scope & Content
File consists of one album of colorized commercial postcards. Content pertains to tourist attractions and communities within Havana and other rural regions of Cuba. Subjects include unidentified local families and individuals, crop harvesting, livestock, boating scenes, market vendors, community events, city views, Cuba's 1909 presidential inauguration, tourist attractions and landmarks in Havana, rural villages, and Cuban landscapes.
Notes
Many items are duplicates of postcards in album LUX / II / E / PD - 3