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Steve Webster fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9711
  • Fonds
  • 1996-2000

<p>The fonds consists of material related to the Building Histories exhibition. The photographs are documentary in nature and depict dilapidated mining sites around Crowsnest Pass. The fonds includes the original negatives, slides of the images, small prints, and the large, framed prints that were used in the exhibit.</p>;<p>The fonds also includes textual material that provides context to the photos. This material includes exhibit programs, artist statements and biographies, correspondence with mining companies, art galleries, and funding agencies, and educational material for school projects related to the exhibit.</p>

Webster, Steve

Fay Steen collection

  • CA PAA paa-9688
  • Collection
  • 1913-1916

The collection consists of photographs that depict various sites, people, and community events in a quadrant of Alberta to the southeast of Red Deer that is bordered by the communities of Three Hills, Drumheller, and Youngstown. Most of the photos focus on Youngstown and surrounding villages. The photos depict baseball games, picnics, the interior of a Drumheller coal mine, a group portrait of recent army recruits from Youngstown in 1916, unidentified people and farm sites, and various businesses/buildings in the area.

Architectural site survey collection

  • CA PAA paa-9684
  • Collection
  • 1977-1988

The fonds consists of photographs taken at various architectural sites around Alberta. These include a survey of housing in the abandoned coal town of Nordegg that was created by the Woolfenden Group, a photographic survey by McIntosh, Workun & Chernenko Architects of a federal building, and architectural surveys of St. Joseph's College, St. Stephen's College, the Ukrainian Village, and Beaver House.

Andrew A. den Otter fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9662
  • Fonds
  • 1966-1967

The fonds consists of oral histories given by people who lived and worked in the Coal Branch from 1912 to 1966. The oral histories were recorded by den Otter during the course of research to complete his thesis for a Master of Arts degree in history at the University of Alberta.

Otter, Andrew A. den

Harry M. Lewis fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9644
  • Fonds
  • 1965-1967

The fonds consists of photographs and textual material created or received by Harry M. Lewis as part of his duties as an engineer for the construction of GCOS Plant near Fort McMurray.

Lewis, Harry M.

Sparling-Davis Company fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9583
  • Fonds
  • 1949-1965, 1983

The fonds consists of photographs which show examples of work completed by Sparling-Davis (including pipeline, oil tanks, refineries, and distribution systems), work in progress, and workshop/office/work site locations. The fonds also consists of a corporate profile of Sparling-Fowler-Murphy, Inc.

Sparling-Davis Company

Godby family fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9581
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1950

The fonds consists of photographs and negatives taken in or near Coal Branch, Jasper, Banff, Luscar, Mountain Park, Lovett, and Yellowhead County with some photos taken in Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia. The photos have a wide breadth of subject material including mining (including mine fires, rescue horses, miners, specific mines, equipment, and infrastructure), sports (including baseball, curling, tennis, soccer, and track), leisure activities (including music, parties, and performances), women, outdoor activities (including picnics, hunting, camping, ice skating, horseback riding, and snow-shoeing), landscapes, and people in a wide age range.

Godby (family)

Leslie Corness fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9564
  • Fonds
  • 1944-1971

The fonds consists of photographs taken by Leslie Corness over the course of his work and travels from 1944 to 1971. Photographs were taken in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Northwest Territories, the US, England, Scotland, and in various countries in continental Europe. Some of the photographs are arranged into a scrapbook.

Corness, Leslie

B.C. Tanner fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9464
  • Fonds
  • 1952 - 1972

The fonds reflects B.C. Tanners' business interests and professional work in the oil industry. The fonds pertains to his position as President of Lassiter Kuma Oils Ltd. and his position as an accountant with B.C. Tanner and Co. and consists of the records of Lassiter Kuma Oils Ltd. as well as the preceding bodies of Lassiter Kuma Oils Ltd. including financial statements, minutes, certificates of incorporation, agreements, and reports of Lassiter Petroleum Ltd., Lassiter Oil Syndicate, Kuma Oils Ltd., Lobitos Oil Fiels Canada Ltd, Horn River Resources Ltd, Round Valley Oil Co as well as maps, and reports related to artic petroleum industry. The fonds also includes materials reflecting his agricultural activities and includes notices, certificates, and a cattle inventory relating to the raising of Charolais Cattle; and an account of life growing up in Magrath, Alberta.

Tanner, B.C.

B. Gnatovich fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9389
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1972

The fonds relates to B. Gnatovich's career in the heritage industry and consists of copies of a photograph featuring a view of the Luscar Coal Mine acquired by B. Gnatovich.

Gnatovich, B.

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