Byron Harmon
Illustration — Moose Canyon, British Columbia (1911) Byron Hill Harmon (1876–1942) was a pioneering photographer of the Canadian Rockies. Harmon was born in Tacoma, Washington. Prior to his move to Canada, Harmon got his start in photography as the proprietor of a photographic supply store in Washington State, where his employees included future dance photographer Wayne Albee.
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- 1876 · Tacoma.
- Died
- 1942
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- Canada
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- photographer
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Illustration — Moose Canyon, British Columbia (1911) Byron Hill Harmon (1876–1942) was a pioneering photographer of the Canadian Rockies. Harmon was born in Tacoma, Washington. Prior to his move to Canada, Harmon got his start in photography as the proprietor of a photographic supply store in Washington State, where his employees included future dance photographer Wayne Albee.
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In 1903 Harmon took up residence in Banff, Alberta and started a photography business there. He was a charter member of and the official photographer to the Alpine Club of Canada from its outset in 1906. Over the next 30 years Harmon became a leading citizen of Banff, founding the local Board of Trade, the Rotary Club, and serving in municipal government. His collection of more than 6500 photographs provides an outstanding, thorough, and vivid representation of the Canadian Rockies in the early 20th century. The collection is now housed at the Whyte Museum in Banff. • Illustration — Gussie Good Stonie and friends (1907) • Illustration — Rotary snow plow (1910)
Byron Harmon (1876–1942) was a Canadian photographer.
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1876
Byron Harmon born at Tacoma.
1942
Byron Harmon died.
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- 1.Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies: Biography: Byron Hill Harmon, 1876-1942
- 2.Holt, Faye Reineberg. Canada's Rocky Mountains: A History in Photographs, p. 81 (2010) ("The best known of Canada's mountain photographers")
- 3.Cronin, J. Keri. Manufacturing national park nature: photography, ecology, and the wilderness, p. 58 (2011) ("Harmon, one of the most famous and prolific photographers in the history of the Canadian Rocky Mountains parks ...")
- 4.Peterson, Christian A. Wayne Albee.
- 5.Peterson, Christian A. Pictorial Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
- 6.(3 June 1978). Mountain Man, Windsor Star
- 7.Pole, Graeme. The Canadian Rockies: A History in Photographs. Altitude Publishing. 71–2. 1993. 9781551539041.
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