| Provenance: | Weiss, Joe
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| Title: | Joe Weiss fonds
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| Repository: | Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library |
| Dates: | [ca.1940-1959], 1975
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| Physical desc.: | 405 photographs : negatives, prints. -- 1 textual record (1 p.)
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| Bio/Admin History: | Joseph A. Weiss, 1896-ca.1990, was a professional photographer at Jasper and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Weiss was born in Switzerland and moved to Jasper in 1926, where he worked as a photographer, ski guide and mountaineering guide. He began his photographic business, ca.1930, specializing in guiding, outfitting and skiing and the production of commercial postcards. In addition to photography, Weiss continued to guide, served on the Charles Bedaux Expedition in 1934 and instructed military mountaineering camps during the Second World War. From 1945 until ca.1955, he operated a photography shop in Jasper and after 1955 he manned a look-out at the Palisades in Jasper National Park. Weiss's life and work is the subject of "One Man's Mountains: Joe Weiss in Jasper," by Helen Collinson (University of Alberta Collections, 1979).
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| Scope/Content: | Fonds is mainly negatives, 1940-1959, pertaining to Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, particularly the Maligne Lake area. Also includes some views of Banff, Lake Louise and Calgary, Alberta. Textual item is photocopy of a letter, 1975, to Joe Weiss from Alan Rayburn of Geographical Names, Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, announcing official approval of the naming of Mount Weiss in Jasper National Park.
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| Title source: | Title based on accession records
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| Acq. source: | Acquired by donation and purchase, 1973-1978
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| Language: | Language is English
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| Restrictions: | Some restrictions on access to originals
Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
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| Finding aids: | Finding aids and reference tools: basic description
modern reference prints
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| Associated/related: | Fonds is related by provenance to J. A. Weiss fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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| Record No.: | M371 / V673
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| Names: | Weiss, Joe
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| Topic: | Arts
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Environment
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