| Provenance: | Birney, Earle
|
| Title: | Earle Birney fonds
|
| Dates: | 1896-1982
|
| Physical desc.: | 2 cm of textual records. -- 2 sound recordings : audio discs. -- 4 photographs : prints
|
| Bio/Admin History: | Earle Birney, 1904-1995, was a writer, poet and educator at Toronto, Ontario. Birney lived in Banff from 1911 until 1917.
|
| Scope/Content: | Fonds consists of Earle Birney textual records, 1896-1971, n.d.; recordings of Birney reading his works, 1967, 1982; and portraits of Birney, ca.1967. Textual records are excerpts from the Earle Birney papers pertaining to Banff and the Canadian Rockies; including correspondence, 1918-1924, biographical material, 1971, drafts of poems, 1941-1952, printed material, 1948-1970, and Birney family correspondence, 1896-1917.
Poems include: "Ballad of Kootenay Brown", "Biography", "Bushed", "Conrad Kain", "Holiday in the Foothills", "Leaving Yellowstone", "Oldster". Correspondence is mainly from Charles Brown to Birney. Printed material includes short story: "Mickey was a Swell Guy," set in Banff during the First World War. Recordings are "David" [1967] and "Nexus and Earle Birney", 1982
|
| Title source: | Title based on contents of fonds
|
| Physical desc. note: | Photographs include oversize items.
|
| Acq. source: | Acquired by donation, 1969-1982
|
| Language: | Language is English
|
| Originals: | In part, textual records are copies of originals retained by donor
|
| Restrictions: | No restrictions on access
;
Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
|
| Finding aids: | Finding aids and reference tools: reference copy recordings
|
| Record No.: | M201 / S31 / V67
|
| Repository: | Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library |
| Names: | Birney, Earle
|
| Topic: | Arts
;
Family and personal life
|
|
