JON WHYTE Fonds :

PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMS,  sound recordings

Photographs and films series. -- [ca.1908]-1991. -- 7600 photographs : transparencies, prints, negatives.

-- 5 motion pictures. -- Series consists of four sub-series:  A. Transparencies, [1969?-1991];  B. Prints and negatives, [ca.1950-ca.1990]; C. Collected photographs, [ca.1908-1990];  D. Films, [196-]-1972. --  Video reference copy available for Jimmy Simpson: Mountain Man. -- Constitutes Series IV of the Jon Whyte fonds.    

V690 / NS - 1 to 201         

 

Transparencies. -- [1969?]-1991. -- ca.6400 photographs : transparencies. -- Sub-series consists mainly of photographs taken on hikes in the Canadian Rockies with dog, Brandy, and friends and during extensive travels in Canada, United States, Dominican Republic, USSR, Asia, Far East, India, etc., Africa and New Zealand, and others. See appendix X-I for inventory. -- Title based on contents of files. -- Chronological arrangement and presentations in carousels preserved. -- File inventory available. -- Related prints and negatives are found in sub-series IV.B. Jon Whyte photographs - prints and negatives.

 

V690 / PA, NA                  

 

Prints and negatives. -- [ca.1960?]-1991. -- ca.1100 photographs : prints, negatives. -- Consists of prints and negatives pertaining to Jon Whyte's travels, hiking trips and social life.  Includes rolls of photographs pertaining to trips, friends, events and activities in Banff and the Canadian Rockies, 1965-1991, ca.650 items, mainly negatives with prints; Africa trip, 1982-83, ca.335 photographs : colour prints (no negatives); exhibit photographs, 198-, 12 items : prints, colour, some from transparencies, accompanied by inter-negatives. -- Title based on contents of files. -- Chronological arrangement has been imposed. -- File inventory available. 

 

V690 / PA, NA, NS           

 

Collected photographs. -- [ca.1908]-1990. -- ca.450 photographs : prints, negatives, transparencies. -- 1. Portraits and candid views of Jon Whyte, ca.1944-1990, ca.100 items : prints and transparencies.  2. Book project photographs, 1974-1985, ca.340 items : prints, negatives, transparencies.  3. Artworks / dramatic productions, 1960s?-1980s, ca.80 items : prints, negatives.  4. People, ca.1908-198-, ca.50 items : prints, negatives and transparencies.  5. Other photographs: a. Miscellaneous, ca.1910-1980s, 24 items : prints (b/w, col), negatives; b. Skoki, 1948-1960, 31 items : prints, transparencies; c. Davey [Whyte], ca.1955, 64 items : transparencies. -- Title based on contents of files. -- File inventory available. 

 

V690 / NF - 1 to 4             

 

Films. -- [196-]-1972. -- 5 motion pictures : reels. -- Sub-series includes: MANI PULA TION, 196-, 16mm, silent, b/w (V690/NF-1); string quartet, audio mag track, 16mm, possibly to accompany MANI PULA TION (V690/NF-2); foliage, "October Woman" title shot, woman lighting cigarette, outtakes, 196-, (V690/NF-3); skiing at Skoki with Cliff White, Catharine Whyte and others, 197-, 8mm, silent, col, overexposed (V690/NF-4); Jimmy Simpson Mountain Man, directed by Jon Whyte, Filmwest Associates Production, 1972, 22 min, 16mm, sound, col (V690/NF-5) -- Title based on contents of files. -- Video reference copy available for Jimmy Simpson: Mountain Man.

Sound recordings series. -- [ca.1950]-1988. -- 43 sound recordings : audio tape reels, audio cassettes; mainly 1/4" x 600' tape reels. -- Series consists of sound recordings arising from Jon Whyte's personal, literary, broadcasting, and historical activities.  Includes seven sub-series:  A. Poetry, 1977-1986;  B. Broadcasts, 1972-1980s?;  C. Work tapes for Mountain Man, interviews with Jimmy Simpson by Catharine Whyte, 1972;  D. Interviews and discussions, n.d., 1981-1989?;  E. Meetings, ca.1975-1987;  F. Childhood, ca.1950;  G. Collected, 1969-1988. -- Title based on contents of series. -- Constitutes Series V of the Jon Whyte fonds.

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Poetry. -- 1977-1986. -- 11 sound recordings. -- Sub-series consists of practice, broadcast and off-air recordings of Jon Whyte reading his own short and long works, including Paley (incomplete), The Fells of Brightness, Minisniwapta and Ike Mills Finishing School.  Some of the off-air items are from CBC's Alberta Anthology. -- Title based on contents of recordings.

 

S28 / 12 to 19

Broadcasts. -- 1972-[198-?]. -- 8 sound recordings. -- Sub-series consists of work tape interviews with writers at the Conference of Canadian Writers and Critics, Banff, ca.1974, including Desmond Pacey, Sylvia Fraser and Irving Layton, accompanied by commentary by Jon Whyte; review of Edmonton Access Catalog, 1974, with transcript; Art in the Canadian Rockies, commentary by Jon Whyte, 1980s. -- Title based on contents of recordings.

 

S28 / 20 to 25

Work tapes for Mountain Man. -- 1972. -- 6 sound recordings.-- Sub-series consists of interviews with Jimmy Simpson by Catharine Whyte. -- Title based on contents of recordings.

 

S28 / 26 to 32

Interviews and discussions. -- 1981-[1989?]. -- 7 sound recordings. -- Sub-series consists of recordings that arise from research and writing projects. Informants include Nick Morant on Lake Louise; Dennis Burton? re Homage, Henry Kelsey; George Encil; Dorothy Wardle re Carl Rungius.

-- Title based on contents of recordings.

 

S28 / 33 to 35

Meetings. -- [ca.1975]-1987. -- 3 sound recordings. -- Recordings pertain to the formation of Banff Provisional Advisory Committee? and Banff Heritage Building Seminar. -- Title based on contents of recordings.

 

S28 / 36 to 38

Childhood. -- [ca.1950]. -- 3 sound recordings. -- Recordings are play/test tapes, speeches and dog barking. -- Title based on contents of recordings.

 

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Collected. -- 1969-1988. -- 5 sound recordings. -- Recordings are:  "CBR programme on Jimmy Simpson," April 3, 1969; Shawna Rolston with Vicki Gabereau (off-air); Bill Smythe interviewed by Joe Benge.-- Title based on contents of recordings.

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