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Herbert Geddes collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC045
  • Collection
  • 1907-1959

The collection consists of photographic glass-plate transparencies depicting life in Japan, including scenery, street scenes, workers, farming, fishing, silk production, stone carvers, wood carvers, metal workers, potters, and artists. These "Yokohama photographs" were sold to foreign tourists between about 1868 and 1912, before cameras and postcards were generally available. They have been described in: Meiji no Nihon: Yokomana shashin no sekai: Saishoku arubamu. Yokohama-shi Yurindo, 1990. (Meiji Japan in tinted album: the world of Yokohama photographs -- includes bibliographical references). The collection also consists of photograph and postcard albums collected by Herbert and Annie Geddes between 1907 and 1959.

Geddes, Herbert, 1877-1970

Victoria College Basketball Club

Photograph contains view of the Victoria College Basketball Club. Standing: B. Erb (captain), B.J. Johnson (forward), A. Spencer (centre) and D. Campbell (guard). Seated: A. Carss (treasurer), S.J. Willis (president), R. Green (guard) and A. Erb (secretary).

Victoria College Second Year Arts Class

Photograph contains view of Victoria College Second Year Arts Class. Front row: Erna Papke, Katie Coates, Jean Robinson. Middle row: Edna Lehman, Alice Corry, Nita McKillican, Jean Roberts, Winnifred Fox, Mamie Logan, Helen Luscombe, Mildred Ross. Back row: Albert Hartmen, Harold Eberts, R. F. Loenholm, Kenneth Drury, Harold Beckwith. Missing: Rena Chandler, Marshall Goderon, Mary Hamilton, Barbara Mowat.

Victoria College faculty

Photograph contains view of the staff of Victoria College faculty. Front row: Jeanette A. Cann (Lecturer in English), Samuel J. Willis (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Classics) and Edna Henry (Lecturer in Modern Languages). Back row: Percy H. Elliot (Lecturer in Science), Alexander Smith (Lecturer in History), and E. Howard Russell (Professor of Mathematics).

Agnes Deans Cameron holding up snowshoes

Photograph contains image of Agnes Deans Cameron holding up a pair of snowshoes outside in a fenced yard. Agnes Deans Cameron was a journalist and suffragist from Victoria B.C. Agnes and her niece spent 6 month s journeying down the Mackenzie River. They are credited as the first white women to travel to the Canadian Arctic.

Agnes Deans Cameron and others in front of a building

Photograph contains image of Agnes Deans Cameron and others standing in front of a building somewhere on Cameron's journey down the Mackenzie River in 1908. Agnes Deans Cameron was a journalist and suffragist from Victoria B.C. Agnes and her niece spent 6 months journeying down the Mackenzie River. They are credited as the first white women to travel to the Canadian Arctic.

Ezra Pound collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC096
  • Collection
  • 1908 - 1961

The collection consists firstly, of poetry manuscripts and proofs including "Personae", "Lustra", and "Canzoni and Ripostes"; secondly, a prose manuscript of "That Audience, or the Bugaboo of the Public"; and thirdly, of correspondence to Elkin Mathews (publisher), St. John Adcock, Harry and Caresse Crosby (Black Sun Press), Louis Zukofsky, The British Union of Fascists, T. S. Eliot, Montgomery Belgion, Michael Harald, Clifford Gessler, and others.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

Agnes Deans Cameron with rifle

Photograph contains image of Agnes Deans Cameron with gun in hand, her niece and others standing by a dead moose. Agnes Deans Cameron was a journalist and suffragist from Victoria B.C. Agnes and her niece spent 6 month s journeying down the Mackenzie River. They are credited as the first white women to travel to the Canadian Arctic.

Agnes Deans Cameron and her niece in field

Photograph contains image of Agnes Deans Cameron and her niece seated in a field. Agnes Deans Cameron was a journalist and suffragist from Victoria B.C. Agnes and her niece spent 6 month s journeying down the Mackenzie River. They are credited as the first white women to travel to the Canadian Arctic.

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