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Bucknell family fonds

  • PAA paa-9667
  • Fonds
  • [195-]-[197-]

The fonds consists of 15 colour, silent 8mm home movies [1 hour 45 minutes] including footage of family events and activities such as weddings, anniversaries, vacations, picnics, waterskiing, camping, and hunting in locations such as Edmonton, Jasper, Lethbridge, Glenevis Alberta, Al Oeming's Game Farm outside Edmonton, Toronto Ontario, B.C., and the U.S. Also includes some footage of Don's work with the Northern Alberta Dairy Pool (N.A.D.P.) Don was one of Jim and Irene's sons.

Bucknell, Jim

Byron Harmon fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-272
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1890-ca.1975]

Fonds consists of the photographic records and sample materials of Byron Harmon Photos, the photographic business of Byron Harmon and his successors; as well as the personal photographs of Byron Harmon. I. Scenic / commercial, 1907-1975, ca.7600 items. Primary component of series is film and glass negatives, 1907-1942, ca.6500 items. Also includes: postcard negatives and positives and production negatives to ca.1955; original prints; a wide range of sample products, such as postcards, enlargements and framing prints, calendars and viewbooks, mainly by Harmon business, some by other photographers; and lantern slides, ca.1913-192-, pertaining to Columbia Icefield Expedition, mountaineering, mountain landscapes, Indians, wildlife, Canadian Pacific Railway and Asian travel. Scenic / commercial series pertains to annual camps and expeditions of the Alpine Club of Canada in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks, 1907-1913; private movie-making expeditions in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks; mountain scenic views, primarily for postcard purposes; Banff events and development; skiing; birds and animals. Includes some material by Don Harmon and Lloyd Harmon, sons of Byron Harmon. II. Personal, 189- to 194-, ca.370 items. Includes: family photographs and views received from others; motion picture out-takes pertaining to world travels, 1930s; and 35 mm. transparencies, ca.1940, pertaining mainly to world travels, also mountain and prairie scenics.

Harmon, Byron

C.C. Lumley fonds

  • GLEN glen-1504
  • Fonds
  • 1961

The fonds consists of his memoirs, "A Greenhorn in the Rockies", about his summer visits to the Rockies. Includes his reminiscences about Banff National Park, Robert E. Campbell, Emerald Lakes, Field, Fort Steele, Laggan, Sam McCann, W.G. Peckham, Stephen House, Takakkaw Falls, Edward Whymper, Yoho Valley, and other topics.

Lumley, C.C.

Canada and America album fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-147
  • Fonds
  • 1889

Fonds consists of a photograph album titled "Canada and America, 28 Sept. to 14 Dec. 1889" that chronicles a journey through Canada and the United States, specifically the Canadian Rockies, the interior of British Columbia to Vancouver Island, Canada and south through Washington state to California, USA. Views were probably purchased enroute from well-known artists, including Canadian photographers A. B. Thom and C. S. Bailey, and American photographers Taber, Fiske and C. R. Savage. Album was compiled by an unknown traveler, possibly British.

Canada and America album

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-311
  • Fonds
  • 1951, 1967-1973

Fonds consists of sound and video recordings, work tapes and copies of radio broadcasts and soundtracks for CBC radio and television programmes. I. Largest portion includes work tapes and finished radio programme for "Nashen Esen, Legend of the Rockies," re Jimmy Simpson, 1969, produced by Fred Diehl, 22 reels. Includes numerous interviews, mainly by Fred Diehl. Accompanied by manuscript continuities, notes and tape summaries. II. Other recordings include: Mountain Man, 1951, re Jack Walker Brewster; Sing the Rundle Round - Summer in Banff, 1969; recording pertaining to Edward Feuz and family, 1967; opening of Peter Whyte Foundation building, 1968; The Brewster Story, film and soundtrack, 1967; Communities West programme on Banff, 1971; damming of Canada's Rivers, 1973; the Brewsters of Banff, 1969; re Chief Tom Kaquitts, 1973; re Banff School of Fine Arts, ca.1974; CBR (Calgary) Friday Evening Arts Edition, 1970; Morningside, 1983, re John Murray Gibbon; video re Edward Feuz for This Land, by Bruno Engler, 1971.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Carl Rungius fonds

  • GLEN glen-2014
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1973

The fonds consists of personal correspondence, greeting cards, manuscripts of stories, genealogy of the Rungius family, newsclippings, copyright records for paintings, diary of trip to the "Wild West", and extensive photographs of animals, pack trains, mountain scenery and the Rungius family. Includes autobiography of sister, Elisabeth Rungius Fulda, and her biography of Rungius.

Rungius, Carl

Caroline Hinman fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-930
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1960

Fonds pertains to Hinman's career and travels in the Canadian Rockies and consists of I. Photograph albums; II. Motion pictures; III. Photographs (prints, lantern slides, 35mm transparencies); and IV. Textual records. Photographs and motion pictures pertain to mountain tours and trips led by Hinman, 1913-1960. Content includes Hinman, her associates and clients, activities and camps, and Banff and area and Rocky Mountain scenics. Textual records, 1915-1960, include diaries, notebooks, manuscripts, trip accounts, advertising materials, and other material. One of the diaries refers to an early trip (1915) with Mary Jobe and Curly Phillips, Robson Pass. The tour literature includes form letters, pamphlets, etc. containing itineraries for most of Hinman's trips in the Canadian Rockies.

Hinman, Caroline

Century II Motion Pictures fonds

  • PAA paa-9034
  • Fonds
  • [197-]

The fonds consists of four completed film productions, elements and cue sheets for the Alberta television series, Heading Out:;1. Cy Hampson Wilderness;2. Country Vacations and Lakeland Area;3. North Forestry;4. Backpacking;Also includes outtakes and raw footage of subjects such as coal mining and tree nursery operations, roadside signs, ferries, bridges, the Lethbridge Japanese garden, and the Prince of Wales Hotel at Waterton.

Century II Motion Pictures

Charles Denney collection

  • EDSON edson-19
  • Collection
  • 1961, 1980, 1987

The collection consists of maps, newspaper articles, and personal documents fathered by Charles Denney while he was a teacher ar Edson High School.

Denney, Charles

Charles de Volpi's Illustrated Newspapers collection

  • GLEN glen-3740
  • Collection
  • 1853-1888

The collection consists of magazine illustrations documenting the 1870 and 1885 Riel Rebellions, Manitoba, the Red River Expedition, Lake Neepigon (Nipigon), First Nations, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), The North-West Territories (later Alberta and Saskatchewan), British Columbia, the Marquis of Lorne's and Princess Louise's visit to the West, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

de Volpi, Charles

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