Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Indian Commission album
General material designation
- graphic material
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Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title taken from a label on the album spine.
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Series
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Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
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1879-1881 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
1 album (100 photographs : b&w)
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
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Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Custodial history
Custodial history unknown.
Scope and content
The series consists of a photograph album, known as the Indian Commission album, but possibly created by or for Dr. I.W. Powell (Superintendent of Indian Affairs for British Columbia) or A.C. Anderson (Commission and Fisheries Inspector) after 1881. It contains 100 photographs from Powell and Anderson's visits to First Nations communities on the British Columbia coast in 1879 and 1881. The photographs were taken by various photographers who accompanied Powell on his trips, including O.C. Hastings and Edward Dossetter. They are of the First Nations villages and people, the ship HMS Rocket and its crew, and landscapes encountered.
Notes area
Physical condition
Album is in poor shape. The spine has broken and pages have come loose. The pages are acidic board or card and the photographs have been glued in. Many of the prints have been poorly processed and are fading. Archives staff have stamped the pages next to the photographs with a Provincial Archives of British Columbia stamp and have written photograph numbers (HP numbers) in pen.
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
The photographs have been numbered from 1 to 100, probably by Archives staff. Caption information written in pencil was probably added by Archives staff. Attributions and dates have been assigned using the Dept. of Indian Affairs annual reports from 1879 and 1881.
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Records digitized in 2020.
There are copies of some of the photographs, including some glass negatives, catalogued under the same HP numbers in the Archives general file. Other copies of the photographs appear in other albums, most notably MS-3429.
Restrictions on access
Conservation restriction: access to original record(s) is restricted, use digital copy.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
There are item level descriptions with scanned images attached.
Associated materials
See MS-3429 for another album that contains many of the same images.
Accruals
General note
Accession number(s): 198904-001
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Powell, Israel Wood (Subject)
- Dossetter, Edward (Subject)
- Hastings, Oregon Columbus (Subject)
- Canada. Department of Indian Affairs (Subject)
- Anderson, Alexander Caulfield (Subject)
Genre access points
Control area
Description record identifier
Digital object metadata
Filename
MS3433.pdf
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Text