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Siam photograph collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC359
  • Collectie
  • ca. 1884

The collection consists of a photograph album containing photographs of Siam [now Thailand]. The subject of most of them are Siamese people, including the Royal Family. Also included are some shots of Bangkok scenes, houseboats, and Europeans visiting the photographer's house. The hand coloured copperplates are of Switzerland.

Joaquin Miller fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC366
  • Archief
  • ca. 1897

The fonds consists of a b/w photograph of Joaquin Miller.

Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913

Boxer Rebellion photograph collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC357
  • Collectie
  • ca. 1900

The collection consists of a photograph album in an Japanese decorated lacquer case, done in the accordion manner. The two figures on the case have ivory heads inset. The album contains fifty 9.5 x 7.5 black and white photographs taken during the early part of the Boxer Rebellion, commencing in June 3 1900. It includes pictures of the destruction houses, larger buildings, railway lines, the capture of Chinese prisoners and various English, German and Japanese troops. Each photograph has its own typeset legend underneath.

W. S. Davidson collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC362
  • Collectie
  • 1899 - 1904

The collection consists of photographs and postcards from Africa, South East Asia, China, Japan, and Korea. Those items from China and surrounding countries appear to be from about the time of The Boxer Rebellion. Only one photograph is dated ( a Korean one -1899). Also included is a copy of the "Gaelic Roller". The S.S. Gaelic appears to have been an American vessel on a journey from Honolulu to the Philippines. The ship's 'paper' has as its editors J. S. MacNider (Shanghai), Grant Wallace (Evening Bulletin, San Francisco), and H. J. Whigham (Morning Post, London). They have signed the front page. The copy is a holograph paste-up version.

Davidson, W. S.

Midway & Vernon Railway Company collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC647
  • Collectie
  • 1905 - 1908

The collection consists of typewritten and handwritten business correspondence, notes, telegrams, and legal documents; one oversized b&w photograph 1906 (group photograph on lake shore); a photocopy of an unidentified book chapter (chapter 5) regarding history of Kettle Valley and Midway & Vernon Railway.

Midway & Vernon Railway Company

Frederic Seebohm fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC110
  • Archief
  • 1864 - 1909

The fonds consists of correspondence, mostly to Seebohm, plus a few notes and a photograph of "The Hales", birthplace of Colet. The material relates to his book "The Oxford Reformers" (1867, 2nd ed 1869).

Seebohm, Frederic, 1833-1912

Chinese Methods of Torture and Execution photograph collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC388
  • Collectie
  • 1890 - 1910

The collection consists of photographs of Chinese methods of torture and execution. Only one photograph is dated (1891). Most appear to be from the Imperial period, with a few from the early Republican period. The collection includes an envelope from King's Road Studio in Hong Kong.

Agnes Deans Cameron collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR023
  • Collectie
  • 1908 - 1911

The collection consists of two photograph albums comprised of photographs taken during Cameron's travels up the Mackenzie River with her niece, Jessie Cameron Brown, May to September, 1908, and photographs taken during Cameron's trip to Britain, 1909-1911. There are also photos of Cameron's trip to Alberta and the Northwest Territories along the Pace River. Some Canadian photographs were published in Cameron's book "The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey Through Canada to the Arctic" (1910).

Cameron, Agnes Deans

Unidentified artist fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC316
  • Archief
  • 1915

The fonds consists of a pen and ink cartoon (10 drawings), plus a pen and ink decorated covering card with "Many Happy Returns, 31st January 1915. On the verso of the card is another small cartoon. Two photograph faces have been pasted on figures; one on the front of the card, the other on drawing 5 of the cartoon.

World War I photograph collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC425
  • Collectie
  • ca. 1914-1918

The collection consists of 28 b/w photographs. Includes an oversized 1916 photograph of the 143rd Battalion C.E.F. and other materials pertaining to the 143rd Battalion (B.C. Bantams).

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