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Joe Weiss fonds
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40 negatives
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Biographical history
Joseph A. Weiss was born in Zug, Switzerland in 1896. He immigrated to Canada circa (ca.) 1922 and acquired a homestead in Alberta. He worked a trapline north of Jasper National Park and began to operate as a photographer and ski and mountain guide in the area. From 1945 until ca. 1955 he operated a photograph studio in Jasper, Alberta, and after 1955 he was a warden and manned a lookout in Jasper National Park. In 1972 a mountain in the Winston Churchill Range was named after him and in 1980 an exhibition of his photographs was held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. Weiss died in February 1995.
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Fonds consists of negatives depicting various people, views, animals, buildings and sporting events in the Jasper area, Alberta.
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The Provincial Archives of Alberta purchased these records from Mr. Joe Weiss in 1976.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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An inventory is not available.
Associated materials
Other records pertaining to Joe Weiss can be found in accession PR1977.0166, and an oral history by Joe Weiss can be found in accession PR1971.0283. Other records pertaining to Joe Weiss can be found in the Joseph Weiss fonds at the Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives in Jasper, Alberta, the Joe A. Weiss fonds at the City of Calgary, Corporate Records, Archives in Calgary, Alberta, and in the Joe Weiss fonds at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library in Banff, Alberta.
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Further accruals are not expected
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Reference prints of negatives from this fonds can be found in A File under location numbers A.3064-A.3103. Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the January 25, 1980 <em>Edmonton Journal</em>, and from the biographical sketch provided for the Joe Weiss fonds at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1976.0444<br><br>
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- Weiss, Joe (Subject)