Fonds PR-0846 - William and Jean Halliday fonds

Old Mission school at Alert Bay. "Sealing Schooner Diana Ready for Sea." Scene at Alert Bay; bags of flour to be given away at a potlatch. Scene at Alert Bay, BC, including bags of flour to be given away at a potlach. Scene at Alert Bay, BC, including blankets to be given away at a potaltch. Indian graves at Alert Bay, BC. Totem poles in front of a house at Alert Bay, BC. A collection of dance masks. Photo taken at Alert Bay, BC, Anglican Church parish hall Scene at Alert Bay, BC, including bags for flour to be given away at a potlatch A group of indians at Alert Bay, BC.  Lower right is Charlie Wilson with a baby in his knee. Indian graves at Alert Bay, BC. Three men at Alert Bay, BC, wearing button blankets, shown standing with carved figures A collection of dance masks.  Photo taken at Alert Bay, BC, Anglican Church parish hall Group photo showing Indian boy students at a schoolhouse in Alert Bay, BC Bringing in wild men. Indian potlatch Alert Bay A collection of dance masks.  Photo taken at Alert Bay, BC, Anglican Church parish hall View of the residential school at Alert Bay, BC. "Industrial School, drawing room at Alert Bay"; "Makers Newton & Co. 3, Fleet ... "Group of Indians at Alert Bay." "Indian Canoe" A collection of 'coppers'.  Photo taken at Alert Bay, BC,  Anglican Church parish hall. John Drabble (?) with potlatch items at Alert Bay, BC, Anglican Church parish hall. A display of articles to be given away at a potlatch,  Alert Bay, BC. A display of articles to be given away at a potlatch, Alert Bay, BC. A potlatch dancer in regalia.  Photo taken at the Alert Bay, BC, Anglican Church parish hall. A collection of potlatch dancing masks.  Photo taken at Alert Bay, BC, Anglican Church parish hall. View of Alert Bay, BC, showing totem poles and house-fronts. Indian children and Reverend A.W. Corker at Alert Bay, BC. From the William E. Halliday Collection. From the William E. Halliday Collection.
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William and Jean Halliday fonds

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PR-0846

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  • 1900-1929 (Creation)
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    Halliday, William May

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315 photographs

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William May Halliday was a photographer, author, and Indian agent at Alert Bay, B.C.

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William May Halliday was a photographer, author, and Indian agent at Alert Bay, B.C.

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The fonds consists of William and Jean Halliday's photographs, transparencies and copy negatives of family, native Indians, and Alert Bay scenes. Fonds includes photographs depicting native Indians, potlatches, carvings and residential schools used in William Halliday's books "Potlatch and Totem" and "Recollections of an Indian Agent".

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Archives code(s): 198812-001; 197902-012.

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Accession number(s): 198812-001; 197902-012

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  • Box: 001188-0001
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  • Box: 001188-0002
  • Box: 000471-0001
  • Box: 000471-0002