More Byron Harmon Postcard Pairs

The first pair of Byron Harmon postcards today shows both the entrance and the exit of the lower spiral tunnel. Unlike the trains in yesterday’s postcards, this one is traveling westbound.

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Harmon’s photo business was successful enough that he retired as a photographer in 1934 when he was just 58; at least, a book of his photos is subtitled, The Photographs of Byron Harmon: 1906-1934. Sadly, he died in 1942 at the young age of 66.

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This pair of photos shows Castle Mountain — later renamed Mt. Eisenhower and later renamed back to Castle Mountain — with CP tracks in the foreground but no train. In line with the name changes, some editions of this postcard are labeled Castle Mountain while others are labeled Mt. Eisenhower (though the postcard number remained 64). Since the mountain wasn’t named after the American general until after World War II, it is clear that the Harmon photo studio remained active making and selling postcards after Harmon himself retired and passed away.

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That’s even more clear from the fact that collector McLaughlin has at least four Harmon postcards featuring Diesel-powered trains. All of these postcards are numbered above 1000. Canadian Pacific didn’t begin using Diesels to haul its passenger trains until around 1949.

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CP acquired the locomotive in the postcard below, number 4062, in 1952. The black-and-white version of the photo is numbered 1084 and the back, like all the others shown above and yesterday, says “Photographed by Byron Harmon, Banff, Canada.”

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Harmon had several children and it is possible that one or more of them kept the business going, including taking new photographs. However the following two color photos were not published by the Harmon studio. They show the same train, but in slightly different locations. If you look very closely, the train in the color photo below is perhaps a couple of feet forward of when the black-and-white photo was taken. The back of the card says it was issued by Coast Publishing Company.

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In the next postcard, which says it was published by the Gowen, Sutton Company, the photo was taken when the train was about 50 feet behind its position in the other two photos. The postcard says it is a “SceneOcrom,” and its colors are either poorly reproduced or have faded.

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Did Harmon’s heir take all three of these photos and then sell two of them to other postcard companies? Or was he (or she) out taking photos with photographers representing the other companies? I suspect the former is most likely.


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More Byron Harmon Postcard Pairs — 1 Comment

  1. The diesel train at the bottom appears to be a photo special run by CPR in the early fifties. Photographs were courtesy of Nicholas Morant. A book I have on Nicholas Morant’s CP photos has a whole section on this train.

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