File consists of 63 b&w prints. File pertains to photographs collected and produced by Harmon in the process of his work. Photographs pertain to Banff personalities, events, activities, street views, facilities and buildings, and includes contact prints.
File consists of 63 b&w prints. File pertains to photographs collected and produced by Harmon in the process of his work. Photographs pertain to Banff personalities, events, activities, street views, facilities and buildings, and includes contact prints.
Fonds consists mainly of photographs collected by Harmon in the process of his work. Photographs pertain to Banff personalities, events, activities, street views, facilities and buildings, 1883-1967, and includes both original and copy material. Textual records include: undated notes re Byron Har…
163 photographs : prints, negatives. -- 11 textual records
History / Biographical
Don Harmon, 1917-1997, was a publisher, photographer and businessman at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Harmon operated Byron Harmon Photographs and the Harmony Drug Store after his father's death in 1942. Byron Harmon Photographs was subsequently run by Don Harmon's daughter, Carole Harmon.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists mainly of photographs collected by Harmon in the process of his work. Photographs pertain to Banff personalities, events, activities, street views, facilities and buildings, 1883-1967, and includes both original and copy material. Textual records include: undated notes re Byron Harmon, Harmony Block and business history; letters, 1967-1974, re photographs; Harmony Drug Store Ltd. stationary, ca.1925; photograph list, n.d.; newspaper, "The Climber," 1906; letters to Lloyd Harmon, 1941.
Image of ten men, three horses and a wagon posing in front of a log structure that served as the North West Mounted Police post in Banff [located at 422 Banff Avenue] - caption along bottom reads "N.W.M.P. Post Banff - 1888"
Image of ten men, three horses and a wagon posing in front of a log structure that served as the North West Mounted Police post in Banff [located at 422 Banff Avenue] - caption along bottom reads "N.W.M.P. Post Banff - 1888"
Image of building with signage reading "Grandview Bath House" offering "Electric and Turkish Bath with Massage and Swedish Treatment, Ice Cold Temperance Drinks" and "Billiard Hall" with a smaller building to right with signage reading "Feed and Livery Stables" - two carts pulled by two-horse teams…
Image of building with signage reading "Grandview Bath House" offering "Electric and Turkish Bath with Massage and Swedish Treatment, Ice Cold Temperance Drinks" and "Billiard Hall" with a smaller building to right with signage reading "Feed and Livery Stables" - two carts pulled by two-horse teams in foreground, team on left has sign advertising bath house - people standing along stairs in background left.