Artist Emily Carr on the beach at Tanu.
- A-09014
- Item
- 1912
Image of Emily Carr, Clara Russ and Edna Leary on the beach at Tanu. Carr is at the easel sketching the poles and housefronts.
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Artist Emily Carr on the beach at Tanu.
Image of Emily Carr, Clara Russ and Edna Leary on the beach at Tanu. Carr is at the easel sketching the poles and housefronts.
Artist Emily Carr on the beach on Tanu.
Image of Emily Carr, Clara Russ and Edna Leary on the beach at Tanu. Carr is at the easel sketching the poles and housefronts.
Blank Ontario Drawing Book No. 1. Nass River, Q.C.I. sketchbook
Part of Emily Carr art collection
Sketchbook with drawings from Carr's 1928 sketching trip. Includes monumental poles, village sites, landscape and forest forms. Geographical areas are the Nass River and Haida Gwaii, with emphasis on Skedans village site.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
one watercolour on paper sketch, framed ca 1977.
Detail of Haida monumental pole.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One page in sketchbook.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
one watercolour on paper sketch of a Haida pole. Carr estate stamp on lower left front.
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Katie O'Neill : the Veasy, O'Neill and Alexander families PERIOD COVERED: 1860s-1944 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Katie O'Neill speaks about her mother, Marianne Veasy coming out from New York with her family who pre-empted the Bonaparte Ranch outside of Ashcroft (1860's). After her mother and father, Charles Patrick O'Neill, were married they went to Barkerville (1879), there were 3 children in the family and her father worked as a blacksmith. Following her father's death, her mother married James M;orrison Lindsey Alexander and the family moved to the Queen Charlotte Islands to take up cattle ranching, later moving to Port Simpson. She relates childhood memories of the cattle ranch in the Queen ;Charlotte Islands near Masset and growing up in Port Simpson c.1900. She talks about the Minskinisht village, Rev. Robert Tomlinson and her position as telegraph operator at Minskinisht (1906-1909), and the wreck of the "Mount Royal". She later trained as a nurse (1909) and worked in Victoria. Katie O'Neill nursed Emily Carr in 1944 during her old age and she relates some memories and impressions.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One page in sketchbook.
Part of Newcombe family fonds
Correspondence, notebooks, subject files, accounts, annotated books, etc., of C.F. Newcombe and his son W.A. Newcombe, reflecting their interest in the ethnology, natural history and history of British Columbia. Newcombe family papers. The G.T. Emmons collection, consisting of correspondence, notes and manuscripts, mainly on the Tlingit Indians. Maynard family papers, consisting of diaries and papers of Richard and Hannah Maynard, Victoria photographers, and their son Albert. Papers of Emily Carr, and re her estate, of which W.A. Newcombe was an executor.
Volumes 21 to 30 were arranged by the BC Archives in 1975.
Volumes 31 to 59 were arranged by the Royal BC Museum, ca. 1970. BC Archives volume and file numbers have been added to the these volumes.
Volumes 239/240 were Found In Collection in the Archives in 2022 and added to the collection.
Table of Contents: Box/file
Table of Contents: Microfilm reels
Detailed box and file list
People in landscape : The Agnes Russ story
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
SUMMARY: The story of Agnes Russ, granddaughter of a Haida chief. She was born in the 1850's and married to a young chief who died, and later married Amos Russ, also the grandson of a Haida chief and a Methodist missionary. She tells stories of her long life with the aid of her daughter, Grace Stephens, and another Haida missionary, her son-in-law, Dr. Peter Kelly.
Picnic with Edna Leary, Haida guide Clara Russ, and old Billie dog at Ts'aahl Llnagaay (Chaatl)
Item is a single photograph from one of the album pages (originally from a bound album) received in association with MS-2094.
The photograph depicts from left to right: Edna Leary, Emily Carr, and Clara Russ. In "Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr" (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), Gerta Moray identifies the image in the following caption: “Emily Carr at Ts'aa7ahl ‘llnagaay/Chaatl, Haida Gwaii, in 1912, with her Haida guide Clara Russ and ‘chaperone’ Edna Leary. Clara’s husband, William, is taking the photograph."
Skidegate houses and monumental pole.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One page in sketchbook.
Skidegate houses and monumental poles.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One page in sketchbook.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
The item consists of an oil on canvas painting set within a wooden frame designed by Lawren Harris affixed by the executors of Carr's estate.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
The item consists of an oil on canvas painting signed M.Emily Carr, titled "Tanoo Q.C.I." dating 1913 set within a wooden frame designed by Lawren Harris affixed by the executor's of Carr's estate.
Ts'aa.ahl Llnagaay, Haida Gwaii
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One watercolour on paper painting, framed ca 1977.