DAN MCCOWAN AND MARY McCOWAN Fonds :

DAN MCCOWAN SERIES : PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES; EPHEMERA

Dan McCowan series. -- [ca.1905-1967?]. -- ca.30 cm of textual records. -- ca.3400 photographs. -- 4 graphic records. -- Series consists of five sub-series:  A. Correspondence;  B. Writing;  C. Photography;  D. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES; E. EPHEMERA.  Correspondence includes incoming letters re writing, business and broadcasting.  Writing is in the form of notes and notebooks, unpublished and published manuscripts, newspaper articles and other materials. Photography includes negatives, lantern slides, 35mm transparencies and prints.  Material pertains to flora, fauna, people, places and scenery, also family, activities and events.  Photographs of Banff personalities and visitors are available in negative and lantern slide form, 254 items.  Lantern slides were designed for lectures. -- Title based on contents of series. -- Constitutes Series I of the Dan McCowan and Mary McCowan fonds.

Dan McCowan letters of appreciation from American audiences : [scrapbook]. -- 1927, 1949, 1952. -- 1 cm of textual records. -- Item includes correspondence from fans regarding lectures (1927) and inserted into binding. -- Title from scrapbook. -- Location : M55 / 15.

 

Scrapbook. -- 1929-1941. -- 1 vol of textual records (1cm) -- Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings regarding career of Dan McCowan. -- Location : M55 / 16.

 

Scrapbooks. -- 1936-1938. -- 2 vol of textual records (6 cm) -- Scrapbooks contain international newsclippings, media coverage, book reviews, fan letters and other correspondence, lecture programmes. -- Title taken from contents. -- Location : M55 / 17, 18.

 

Newspaper clippings. -- File consists of newspaper articles of McCowan's lectures and shows. -- Title based on contents. -- Location : M55 / 19.

 

Advertising and promotion. -- [ca.1940] -- 3 posters : 2 oversize. -- Posters advertise book, photographic display and lecture by Dan McCowan. -- Title based on material. -- Location : M55 / 20.

 

Ephemera. -- 1906-1948. -- ca.2.5 cm of textual records. -- Includes menus, concert programs, Banff Springs Hotel sticker label, gallery catalogues, Royal Train Canada station stationery, newsclippings (obituaries, career, 1910 proclamation re death of King Edward VII), cartoons, Calgary Power biography of Dan McCowan, notes from book publisher, book order leaflets; ; items of interest (including business cards, programmes, advertising for books and lectures, press releases, Sherriff's State Association (Pennsylvania) membership card. -- Title taken from contents. -- Location : M55 / 21, 22.

 

Newsclippings. -- 1936-194-. -- File contains loose newsclippings pertaining to World War II, royalty, animals, Banff personalities (including obituaries of McCowan, Rungius, Ballard, Niven) -- Title taken from contents. -- Location : M55 / 23.

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