| Provenance: | Allan, Mary
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| Title: | Mary Allan fonds
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| Dates: | 1924-1983
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| Physical desc.: | 10 cm of textual records. -- 63 photographs (61 transparencies, 2 prints)
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| Bio/Admin History: | Mary Thomson Allan, 1913-1989, was a poet and homemaker at Banff and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mary Thomson was born in Banff, where her mother, Jeannie Thomson, ran the Cave and Basin Teahouse. In the 1980s Allan was involved in the Save the Cave and Basin Committee. Allan wrote poetry starting in the 1930s. A number of her poems were published in periodicals and anthologies during the 1950s to 1970s, and a selection, titled "The Inward Trail", was published posthumously in 1992. "Banff Collections and Recollections" was in process when Allan died and editing was continued by her daughter, Jannis Hare.
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| Scope/Content: | Fonds consists of: school notebooks, 1924-1932, 4 cm.; Banff Collections and Recollections / by Mary Allan : [manuscript] pertaining to reminiscences of Mary Allan and Banff history (354p); photographic prints of school friends, 1966, 2 items; photographic transparencies of Cave and Basin buildings and area before and during renovation, 1971-1983.
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| Acq. source: | Acquired by donation, 1992
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| Language: | Language is English
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| Originals: | Original manuscript retained by donor
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| Restrictions: | Some restriction/s on access
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Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
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| Record No.: | M139
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| Repository: | Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library |
| Names: | Allan, Mary
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| Topic: | Family and personal life
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