Byron Harmon didn’t worked for the Canadian Pacific except, perhaps, on a contract basis. CP used one of his photos on a menu cover but mostly relied on other photographers. But for many years he was the leading photographer in the Banff area and the backs of all of the postcards he sold were marked, “Along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway” — even when they weren’t.
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He sold different versions of postcards based on the same original photo. First were black-and-white real photo postcards such as the one shown above. These had the advantage of being crisp and largely unretouched.
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Second were postcards tinted with several colors yet clearly based on the same black-and-white negative, as shown above. These had the advantage of highlighting different colors of terrain, though the colors weren’t always reliable.
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Harmon was born in 1876 near Tacoma, Washington. He began a career in photography when still in his teens. After traveling around the country for awhile, he opened the first photo studio in Banff in 1903. Over the next 30 years, he hiked throughout the Canadian Rockies, summited many of the mountain peaks, was in the first party to make the journey over what is now the Icefields Parkway between Lake Louise and Jasper, and took more than 6,500 photos.
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Harmon Photo often sold postcards in groups of 10 or 20. Real photo cards were available before he opened his studio, but the tinted cards with a white border only entered the market in about 1915. However, I have seen Harmon real photo cards with postmarks in the 1940s, so he must have sold both side-by-side.
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Harmon did more than sell postcards. He took movies of many of the sights and, in the late 1920s, traveled around Europe and other parts of the world showing his photos and movies of the region. Harmon, said a Banff newspaper, “has done more to advertise the holiday possibilities of the western mountains to tourists than any other man.”
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Most of Harmon’s real photo cards have a number as well as a title inked in on the cover. I don’t know how many he made into postcards, but a postcard collector named Toni McLaughlin has one of the Prince of Wales Hotel that is numbered 2823, and she also has some that aren’t numbered. However, her collection only has four cards numbered above 1,100, so it is possible that many of the numbers between were skipped.
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