Zone du titre et de la mention de responsabilité
Titre propre
Montreal Book Auctions Limited archival records collection
Dénomination générale des documents
Titre parallèle
Compléments du titre
Mentions de responsabilité du titre
Notes du titre
- Source du titre propre: Title based on donor of collection.
Niveau de description
Collection
Cote
Zone de l'édition
Mention d'édition
Mentions de responsabilité relatives à l'édition
Zone des précisions relatives à la catégorie de documents
Mention d'échelle (cartographique)
Mention de projection (cartographique)
Mention des coordonnées (cartographiques)
Mention d'échelle (architecturale)
Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)
Zone des dates de production
Date(s)
Zone de description matérielle
Description matérielle
141 photographs and other material
Zone de la collection
Titre propre de la collection
Titres parallèles de la collection
Compléments du titre de la collection
Mention de responsabilité relative à la collection
Numérotation à l'intérieur de la collection
Note sur la collection
Zone de la description archivistique
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Bernard Amtmann was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907. He immigrated to Canada in 1947 to join his brother in Ottawa, Ontario and started a small antiquarian bookselling business. He transferred his business to Montreal, Quebec in 1950 and founded Montreal Book Auctions Limited (Ltd.) in 1967. Amtmann died in January 1979 and Montreal Book Auctions was sold to Canada Book Auctions Ltd. and relocated to Toronto, Ontario.
Historique de la conservation
These records were purchased from Montreal Book Auctions Ltd. by the Provincial Archives of Alberta in seven separate accessions from 1973-1979.
Portée et contenu
Collection consists of lantern slides depicting photographs and drawings of First Nations people in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, maps depicting the Dominion of Canada, a photograph album depicting farm scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railways (CPR) line in Manitoba and Assiniboia and a souvenir album for the Fifth Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire which depicts members of the congress as they traveled to various cities across Canada. The collection also includes a letter from William Aberhart to R.H. Babbage of Westmount, Quebec.
Zone des notes
État de conservation
Includes 53 transparences, 6 maps, and 0.01 m of textual records. Copies of the lantern slides have been made in slide form.
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Classement
Some books received with the records of the Montreal Book Auctions Ltd. have been transferred to the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library.
Langue des documents
- The material is in English.
Écriture des documents
Localisation des originaux
Disponibilité d'autres formats
Restrictions d'accès
Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication
Instruments de recherche
An inventory is not available.
Éléments associés
Records pertaining to Montreal Book Auctions Ltd. can be found in the Canada Book Auctions collection at the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and in the Canada Book Auctions fonds and the Bernard Amtmann fonds, located at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
Accroissements
Further accruals are not expected.
Note générale
Deposited at the same time in accession PR1975.0572 is the following unrelated collection: James Ferrier Canadian Methodist collection. Other records deposited by Montreal Book Auctions Ltd. can be found in PR1272 Montreal Book Auctions Limited. collection of letters to Robert Bell, PR1268 James Ferrier Canadian Methodist collection, and PR1271 Montreal Book Auctions Limited collection of letters by Nellie McClung. Information for the administrative history was taken from the biographical sketch provided for the Bernard Amtmann fonds at the National Library of Canada.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1973.0542, PR1975.0313, PR1975.0480, PR1975.0572, PR1976.0062, PR1979.0199<br><br>
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Zone du numéro normalisé
Numéro normalisé
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
- Montreal Book Auctions (Sujet)