Date Range

1866-2010

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

5 newsprint publications. 3 booklets. 55 black and white photographs. 2 newspaper clippings.

Custodial History

These memorabilia are donated by members of the Crabb family. Richard Crabb, photographer, born in England and immigrated to Ontario. There he apprenticed as a photographer. Went to the West Indies on assignment for a couple years and upon his return worked for Steele & Co. photographing western Canada. Built a photography studio on 3rd Ave South, just east of 7th Street. Business was very slow during WW1 so the father took a position in the accounting department of the City of Lethbridge where he remained until his death in 1922 at the age of 55. Bert Crabb, son of Richard, was employed in the automotive trade in Lethbridge. Worked for D.S. Williamson and Imperial Motors.

Scope and Content

“Lethbridge, South-Alberta. The Colorado of Canada. Centre of the Chinook Belt." Souvenir Number Issued by the Lethbridge News. Established 1885”. 1906. Railway Edition, Lethbridge News. September 1890. Published on the Opening of the Great Falls and Canada Railway. 1955 reprint. Lethbridge: Alberta's Golden Jubilee. 1955. Newspaper clippings: Anniversary Countdown, Lethbridge Herald, June 30, 1983: Class of ’23 Grade 9B, Bowman School. Anniversary Countdown, Lethridge Herald. “353 days to go”: Wooden Trestle. Carbon copy of a typewritten document describing the various locations of Lethbridge City Hall and a discussion of where a new City Hall should be built. Author: B.G. Crabb. Matted black and white photograph: Hanover & Court Street, Boston. 1899. 21 black and white photographs: - Rural scene (photograph mounted on cardboard). Written on back: “Sawmills on river. Waterton Lakes in distance”. - Indigenous man on horseback with travois. -Post card captioned: “48. C.P.R. Hotel and Sulphur Mt. Banff.” Photo is of the Banff Springs Hotel. -Post card addressed to Mrs. R. Crabb. Date unreadable. -Winter scene of aircraft hangars: “The De Havilland Aircraft of Canada” on one of the buildings. -Group photograph of men, women and children. -Winter scene of a man standing beside an aircraft fitted with skis. De Havilland building in background. -Airplane. Caption: “Arrival First Air Mail Lethbridge Alberta Jan 15, 1931. 10:05 p.m. Photo A.E. Cross.” -Portrait of a man in military uniform. Written on back: “Insp. Jos. Howe”. -Two head and shoulders portraits. Written on back of each: “Major Steele”. -Head and shoulders portrait of a man in military uniform. Written on back: “Maj. Belcher”. -Two head and shoulders portraits of a man in military uniform. Written on back: “Insp. Cuthbert”. -Three photographs of two indigenous men wearing headdresses. At centre is Joe Healy. -Two photographs of Joe Healy. -Photograph of airplane beside airport hangar (Lethbridge?) -Winter scene of a train beside a water tank. -Lethbridge High Level Bridge with a train on it. 15 black and white photographs (were in an envelope labelled "Richard A. Crabb photographs. 1866-1922"). -View of Lethbridge looking southwest from 8 Street South. The tower is of the Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company building. 1907. Two copies. - View of NWMP barracks and the standpipe. On back: "Old RCMP stables". -View of two cars parked on a residential street. On back: "Burt (sic) Crabb's Columbia 6" - 2 views of airport in winter. - View of Lethbridge from 8th Street South, looking west across Galt Gardens. The steeple of St. Patrick's Church is in the front of the photograph. On back" "Downtown Lethbridge about 1905". - View of early Lethbridge. Caption: "Part of Lethbridge from N.W.M.P. Barracks." 1890 - 1910. - View of a man beside a decorated car. Banner on top of car reads "Canada's 60th Birthday". The car is in front of D.S. Williams. On back: "Burt (sic) Crabb (1905-1997). 1927 Oldsmobile. D.S. Williamson & Co." - Man sitting reading in a hammock. On back: "Richard Crabb". - Aboriginal man dressed in beaded costume with a headdress. - Man dressed in a fringed, beaded jacket wearing a stetson hat. On back: "Richard Crabb (self-portrait). 2 copies. -Aboriginal man dressed in fringed costume wearing a headdress, seated, holding a rifle. On back: "Joe Healy about 1885 (Wolfgang Moccasin)". - View of a harbour. On back: "West Indies. Late 1890. Port-au-Prince." - View of people standing in front of a grass-roofed hut. On back: 'West Indies. About 1880."

Accession No.

20161066

Collection

Archive

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