Series includes 35 mm slides (negatives) of documents organized by location and/or subject. These documents were used a primary source material for the publication History of Music in British Columbia (1989), but only a fraction of the documentation appears in print. The collection, including a complete slide index, covers virtually all communities of any size in BC over the period 1850-1950, and sometimes beyond those dates. Series includes 35 mm negative film mounted in 2x2 slide holders, organized in plastic slide mounts, 20 to a page. Material consists of photographs or newspaper articles, programmes, photographs, and other documents collected in 1981-82 from communities across BC.
Each slide is identified by letter and number: A1, A2, etc. through H759 with 150 slides each in series A, B, and C, 999 slides each in series D, E, F, and G, and 759 slides in series H, for a total of 5,205 images.
The slides are fully indexed by place, subject, date, and description and the index is computer accessible. The index is located in Box 3.6-3.9.