Series 8 Prints. – [ca. 1910-1960s]. -- [ca. 180 photo prints]. – Series consists of personal photographs of Bert Smith as a boy and young man; prints produced from some of the commercial negatives; and miscellaneous others.

PA-4104-1a Bert and Lloyd Smith on snow bank at the back of their family’s farm house, Saskatchewan. – Winter, 1942

PA-4104-1b Bert Smith with family pets on steps of farm house, Saskatchewan. – 1943

PA-4104-1c “Pause for a Laugh.” Bert Smith playing the witch while helping to white-wash farm house with a broom, Saskatchewan. – [ca. 1945]

PA-4104-1d Bert Smith posing in yard. – [ca. 1946]

PA-4104-1e Bert Smith in uniform of the royal Canadian Engineers Reserve, Regina, Saskatchewan. – [ca. 1946]

PA-4104-1f Bert Smith posing beside his Uncle Dick’s automobile. – [ca. 1946-1947]

PA-4104-1g Bert Smith’s nephew with dog. – 1946

PA-4104-1h Bert Smith’s niece and nephews with toy chuckwagon.

PA-4104-2a Colour postcard “Branding Cattle, Western Canada.”

PA-4104-2b Colour postcard, “Saddling a Western Outlaw.” – 1910

PA-4104-2c Phil Bishoff (lead) and Bert Sheppard (behind) leading pack horses from to Storm Creek to Highwood Pass. – 1920

PA-4104-2d Yearling cattle on the Gilchrist Ranch, Wild Horse, Alberta. – [ca. 1930s]

PA-4104-2e Beginning construction on bridge over the Highwood River below Longview, Alberta. – May, 1960

PA-4104-2f Girl barrel racing.

PA-4104- 3 Pages from “This is Canada” album. – [ca. 1950]

PA-4104-9 Chipmunk.

PA-4104-14A Catkins and Cumulus.

PA-4104-15 Playing Host to the Sun. – Meadow blooming with wild flowers.

PA-4104-16 Corral gate.

PA-4104-17 Furrowed Bark. – Looking up into and old Cottonwood tree.

PA-4104-18 Horses in corral.

PA-4104-19 Contrasts. – House and fence with blanket of snow.

PA-4104-21 Winter Shadows. – Sullivan Creek frozen over and covered with a soft blanket of fresh snow on the TL Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-24 Poplar Silhouettes. – Poplar trees and fresh snow.

PA-4104-25E Trees and snow.

PA-4104-28 Weatherbeaten. – Steer skull.

PA-4104-30 Mountain shower over Mount Head, west of Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-31 Foursome. – Four Cottonwoods against a winter’s sky.

PA-4104-33A Bull pines.

PA-4104-34 No steps intrude in that solitude. – Trees, stream and snow.

PA-4104-37 The Marching Sentinels. – Fence posts topped with snow and fresh snow on the ground.

PA-4104-40 Small ranch building and snow.

PA-4104-47 Winter Wonderland or To the Mountains Away. – Fresh snow on the range land and mountains in southern Alberta. On bob Burles’ ranch near Cowley, Alberta.

PA-4104-53 Flat Creek Valley.

PA-4104-54 Razor-back Ridge. – First range of the Rockies.

PA-4104-55 Beyond and Below. – Mountains and Sheep Creek.

PA-4104-58 Garlands of Snow. – Snow-covered evergreen tree.

PA-4104-61 To the Summit. – Junction Mountain in the first range of the Canadian Rockies. Altitude of about 9,000 feet. Looking in a north-westerly direction.

PA-4104-62B1 Man with horse, scenic clouds.

PA-4104-62C Water Sign on the Ranch! – Windmill beside pond. Cattle around the pond.

PA-4104-62F Two cowboys and three horses.

PA-4104-62N Picking posies. – Young girls picking wild flowers.

PA-4104-62P The Saddle Band. – Cowboy and horses.

PA-4104-62Q On the Round-up. – Distant view of cattle round-up.

PA-4104-62Q1 Distant view of cattle round-up.

PA-4104-63 Broken down fence.

PA-4104-63C Skull of a long-horn steer.

PA-4104-63E Old abandoned farm house.

PA-4104-63G Broken Down Corral. – At a deserted place on Parsons’ Land and Cattle Company, Weston, Colorado.

PA-4104-65 Utter desolation. – Aftermath of a forest fire.

PA-4104-67 Near and Far. – Highwood terrain.

PA-4104-75 Valley of the Livingstone. – View of Bob Burles ranch at Cowley, Alberta. Livingstone range of mountains in the distance.

PA-4104-80 Rider on the Skyline. – Gary Malmberg at Riverbend Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-83 Brent Malmberg and Bill Eden as seen through the wheel-spokes of a California cart, Riverbend Ranch, Alberta.

PA-4104-89 Bill Lea and Bob Wessel at the Stampede Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-89C Bill Lea and Bob Wessel at the Stampede Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-89A Lone tree growing from a rocky outcrop.

PA-4104-94 Bunkhouse on the Mel Nelson TL Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-103 The Highwood. – View of river with poplar tree in foreground.

PA-4104-107A Circle C Ranch house.

PA-4104-109 Joe Bews and Lou DePaoli riding on Flat Creek.

PA-4104-112 Highwood bridge.

PA-4104-115 Texture. – A fallen and rotting Tamarach tree, British Columbia.

PA-4104-121A Larry Boyd mowing hay west of Royalties, Alberta.

PA-4104-127 4 Views of mountains and power lines.

PA-4104-135 Leading to a Picture. – Skull on Riverbend Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-138 An Oldtimer on the Top Rail! – A 1900 W.D. Horner saddle from Pendleton, Oregon.

PA-4104-142 Necessities for the Cowhand. – Rawhide set of hobbles which are used on the horse’s fore legs to discourage them from moving.

PA-4104-143 The Cowboy’s Lariat. – There are many kinds of ropes and each cowhand has his own preference. The length of the present day rope averages around 30 feet.

PA-4104-149D Highland cattle on an Alberta ranch, Canada.

PA-4104-150 Lake behind the Ghost River dam at Cochrane, Alberta.

PA-4104-152 Stooked oats south of Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-154 Fireweed.

PA-4104-162 A thick, lush, carpet of grass stretches out before the eyes! It reaches to the Rockies lying on the horizon far away. – Grass land at Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-162B Grass land at Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-164 Sign at Columbia Icefields.

PA-4104-165 Mountain scene with evergreens in the foreground.

PA-4104-168A Picnic by the Highwood. – The Grahams on a picnic at Riverbend Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-169 Two elderly men and a woman.

PA-4104-173C Mountain scene.

PA-4104-175 Forest scene.

PA-4104-177 Mountains with scrub in foreground.

PA-4104-181F Columbia Icefields sign.

PA-4104-184 Mountains.

PA-4104-185 Mountain lake.

PA-4104-186 Trees, mountain.

PA-4104-189 Heading In. – Riverbend Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-190 Lake in the Mountains. – Kananaskis, Alberta.

PA-4104-193 Farmland to the Rockies. – West of High River, Alberta.

PA-4104-194A All Day in the Saddle. – The evening finds the cowhand in the bunkhouse with the rest of the men.

PA-4104-200 A Cliff Along the Highwood – British Columbia/Alberta boundary line.

PA-4104-202 Autumn in the Mountains.

PA-4104-206 Mount Warspite and King Creek.

PA-4104-208 On the way to the head of the Highwood.

PA-4104-213 Pekisko Creek.

PA-4104-221 Mother and Son. – A purebred Hereford cow and calf on the Burns’ Bow Valley Ranch, Midnapore, Alberta.

PA-4104-221A A purebred Hereford calf on the Burns’ Bow Valley Ranch, Midnapore, Alberta.

PA-4104-222 Steer decorating event at the High River rodeo.

PA-4104-222A Lawrence Bews on a saddle bronc.

PA-4104-224 Cowboy on horseback looking at the mountains.

PA-4104-225 Springtime on the Highwood, Longview, Alberta. – Cows and calves on the range.

PA-4104-225D Springtime on the Highwood, Longview, Alberta. – Cows and calves on the range.

PA-4104-226 Two Stars! Photo taken on the Burns’ farmland southeast of Calgary, Alberta during threshing time.

PA-4104-228 The Wire Gate. – Joe Bews on saddle horse Echo, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-236 Stooked oats and abandoned farmhouse, south of Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-237A Home of Mrs. Henry F. Sheppard. – Oldest home in the High River district. Located a mile south of the town of High River and was over 75 years old at the time the photograph was taken.

PA-4104-239 Standing Against Time. – Desolate tree in the mountains.

PA-4104-240 Wagon Wheels. – An abandoned running-gear on a deserted farm south of Calgary, Alberta.

PA-4104-241 Foothill Country. – Stavely terrain in Southern Alberta.

PA-4104-242 Serpent in the Snow. – Sullivan Creek near the TL Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-248 Real mountain goat country west of Invermere, British Columbia.

PA-4104-254 Castle in the Air. – The Dutch Creek hoodoos west of Dutch Creek, British Columbia.

PA-4104-256D Western Larch trees, British Columbia.

PA-4104-257 Silhouette on the Skyline. – Tamarach tree on mountain ridge, British Columbia.

PA-4104-263 A big game hunter’s cabin in the Rockies on the east side of Columbia Lake.

PA-4104-267 Pasture Gate. – Bun Burles, Cabin Creek Ranch, Cowley, Alberta.

PA-4104-269 Patterns in the Sky. – The scorched top of an old Cottonwood tree.

PA-4104-277 Springtime in the Rockies. – Trees and mountain.

PA-4104-281D 1,000 head of Herefords on the Bar U Ranch, south of Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-283 Reflections. – Deep-water spring on the TL Ranch, west of Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-288 Tranquility. – Tree and mountain.

PA-4104-292 Derrick and horse-head pump.

PA-4104-295 Looking up in an oil-well derrick, near Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-299 Ready to Take to the Air. – A spruce grouse hen that has successfully managed to get her young into a hide-a-way place.

PA-4104-303 White Monarch in the Blue. – Mist Mountain in the background. New growth and dead trees in foreground.

PA-4104-305 Bert Sheppard (left) and Frank Baker (right) at the Medicine Tree, 1952.

PA-4104-305A Bert Sheppard (left) and Frank Baker (right) at the Medicine Tree, 1952.

PA-4104-310 Rangeland Railbirds!. – Ranchers and corral at Cabin Creek Ranch, Cowley, Alberta.

PA-4104-316 It’s Chinookin! – Looking west from studio at south end of Longview. Rocky Mountains on the horizon and Mount Head towards the right.

PA-4104-319? Rural Alberta. -- Two horses grazing.

PA-4104-319 Down to the River’s Edge. – Looking down through the Hoodoos on Findlay Creek, British Columbia, west of Canal Flats.

PA-4104-321 Snowbound. – Gate with blanket of snow. Fresh snow on ground.

PA-4104-324 Equine Study. – Horse’s head.

PA-4104-326 White Frost in the Forest. – Hoar frost on bushes and trees.

PA-4104-327 Horses pulling load of hay.

PA-4104-328A Bull pines.

PA-4104-332G Man hanging from a hoist. – [ca. 1958]

PA-4104-332MS Bert Smith at easel in studio, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-338 Timothy Thomas. Cat posing for his portrait at the TL Ranch, Longview, Alberta. Had to be put away in August, 1960 at the age of 23 years.

PA-4104-339 Powder. – An R.Y. Burles’ saddle horse, Cowley, Alberta.

PA-4104-342 Close-up of stone crop growing out of the rocks on a mountain at approximately 7,000 to 8,000 thousand feet.

PA-4104-344 Bill and Bob Burles of the Bar T Ranch discussing saddle horse, with ranch dog looking on and enjoying the sunshine.

PA-4104-348G Winter Chore. – Warren Zimmerman opening up water hole on the creek at the Rio alto Ranche, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-355 Stables at the Bar U Ranch, owned and operated by J. Allen Baker, west of High River, Alberta.

PA-4104-357 Curiosity! – A mountain gopher. These animals are common in the mountains on both sides of the border and are about twice the size of a prairie dog.

PA-4104-362 Mountain scene.

PA-4104-369A On Top of Flat-Top! – A $65,000 road to the top of 8,200 foot Flat Top Mountain, in the Highwood Range, Alberta.

PA-4104-369C On Top of Flat-Top! – A $65,000 road to the top of 8,200 foot Flat Top Mountain, in the Highwood Range, Alberta.

PA-4104-369D On Top of Flat-Top! – A $65,000 road to the top of 8,200 foot Flat Top Mountain, in the Highwood Range, Alberta.

PA-4104-370B The country from which the cattle were gathered.

PA-4104-370C The country from which the cattle were gathered. 19 cowboys gathered some 2,000 head of cattle out of about 1,500 acres of this type of country. It was during the Big Horn round-up on Sheep Creek, Alberta in 1955.

PA-4104-372A Cattle.

PA-4104-373 Cattle round-up.

PA-4104-374 Cattle round-up.

PA-4104-375 Cattle round-up.

PA-4104-376 Cattle round-up.

PA-4104-378 Cattle round-up.

PA-4104-379 Cowboys on cattle round-up.

PA-4104-382 Bighorn round-up on Sheep Creek.

PA-4104-404B Bill Bews packing out salt to the livestock on the Y Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-407 Barn on the TL Ranch.

PA-4104-407B Winter sunset on the TL Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-430 Running the colts in for branding on the OH Ranch, 1956.

PA-4104-437 Cowboys eating at chuckwagon after the last calf has been branded.

PA-4104-441B Trees and clouds.

PA-4104-442A Branding on the OH Ranch, Longview, Alberta.

PA-4104-443D Branding on the A7 Ranche, Nanton, Alberta.

PA-4104-451A The Rocking P summer range camp on the Livingstone.

PA-4104-475 Alberta Gas-Trunk Line near Longview, Alberta. – 36” pipe line that goes down to the Crowsnest; across into British Columbia; then across the 49 th Parallel down into Washington State and then into California.

PA-4104-505-1 Sign of Spring! – Farmer plowing the ground with two-horse team.