Side 1: Pencil drawing of car driving on a highway to the viewer’s right and into the distance. Other more roughly sketched vehicles are in oncoming lanes. A sign to the right of the road reads: ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES/ TO THE PACIFIC AND/ VANCOUVERIn the top left corner, the number 13 is circle…
Across the Southern States to the Blue Pacific and Vancouver
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
14.5 x 21.0 cm
Description
Side 1: Pencil drawing of car driving on a highway to the viewer’s right and into the distance. Other more roughly sketched vehicles are in oncoming lanes. A sign to the right of the road reads: ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES/ TO THE PACIFIC AND/ VANCOUVERIn the top left corner, the number 13 is circled.Side 2: Pencil drawing of a car driving through a landscape of rolling hills. Mountains are barely visible in the background. This illustration is in a rectangular box. Below this box is a rectangle that is divided into four.
A herd of mountain sheep are mocing single file up a rocky slope, from centre bottom to right top, the slope covers two thirds of the foreground and is in quite good detail, the background has faint mountains.
A herd of mountain sheep are mocing single file up a rocky slope, from centre bottom to right top, the slope covers two thirds of the foreground and is in quite good detail, the background has faint mountains.
Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and angling up left is grass with trees, three at left and two at right, along the river's edge. The green river comes in from the right side, goes left and then up right side to disappear into the far shore of dark trees. The right shore juts in from that s…
Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and angling up left is grass with trees, three at left and two at right, along the river's edge. The green river comes in from the right side, goes left and then up right side to disappear into the far shore of dark trees. The right shore juts in from that side, halfway up. In the background across the top are purple mountains. Five peaks meet a green grey sky.
File consists of 31 postcards collected by Annie (Creagh) Wiseman between ca.1920-1940. Postcards pertain to natural views and tourist attractions in Banff, Lake Louise, the Great Divide, Kicking Horse Canyon and other nearby areas. Some postcards are annotated with correspondence sent between Anni…
Annie (Creagh) Wiseman (1891-1972) was born in Deptford, England, where she married Stanley Wilfred Ernest Wiseman. The couple had one daughter, Ethel, before moving to Winnipeg. The family returned to England following the outbreak of World War I, in which Stanley served as a Private in the 61st Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Annie and Ethel later returned to Winnipeg, where Stanley joined them following a serious injury which he sustained in active duty. In Winnipeg, Annie and Stanley had two more children: a daughter (Hilda) and a son (Stanley).
Stanley Sr. worked as a foreman for Canadian Pacific Railway, which enabled Annie to travel throughout the Canadian Rockies and other regions by train for free or a reduced price. Annie collected postcards from her travels, which included numerous visits to Banff National Park. Annie, Stanley Sr. and their two youngest children permanently settled in Victoria, B.C. in 1935.
Scope & Content
File consists of 31 postcards collected by Annie (Creagh) Wiseman between ca.1920-1940. Postcards pertain to natural views and tourist attractions in Banff, Lake Louise, the Great Divide, Kicking Horse Canyon and other nearby areas. Some postcards are annotated with correspondence sent between Annie, her children (including Hilda and Ethel), and friends of the Wiseman family.
Colour: black on white. Six antelope face right taking up the upper part of the picture. The lower half is bushes with a clear space in the lower right corner.
Colour: black on white. Six antelope face right taking up the upper part of the picture. The lower half is bushes with a clear space in the lower right corner.
General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. …
General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. Clear sky and a distant hill in the upper right corner.
A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …
A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.