Killing seals, Saint Paul Island
- F-07628
- Item
- 1892
The item is a b&w print showing people gathering hunted seals on Saint Paul Island, Pribiliof Islands, Alaska.
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Killing seals, Saint Paul Island
The item is a b&w print showing people gathering hunted seals on Saint Paul Island, Pribiliof Islands, Alaska.
Item consists of one photograph of the Number 1 coal mine at South Wellington, Nanaimo. "King Photo Nanaimo" is inscribed on the photograph.
Nanaimo Industries Coal Mine No. 1, South Wellington
Item consists of one photograph of the Number 1 coal mine at South Wellington, Nanaimo. "King Photo Nanaimo" is inscribed on the photograph.
The item is a b&w photograph of a sawmill at Bennett.
Looking up the east fork of Skagway River, on White Pass and Yukon Route
Item consists of a mount of one landscape photograph on card. Includes mountains, a river, logged trees, and a railroad track. "735." and "E.A. Hogg" are captioned on the photograph in addition to the title. "no. 4" has been written on the verso in blue pencil.
The item is a b&w photograph of the Klondike River in the Northwest Territories.
"The main business street, Skagway, Alaska"
"Skaguay [Skagway] Trail, Alaska."
"Scales and summit of the Chilkoot Pass
"Ice jam, Lake Marsh"; Yukon Territory
Boats, one flying Union Jack, stuck in ice.
Church parade involving the 88th Fusiliers and the 5th Regiment C.G.A.
Item consists of a photograph of a church parade in Esquimalt consisting of members of the 88th Fusiliers and the 5th Regiment C.G.A. with the officers and ratings of the H.M.C.S. Rainbow as well as naval volunteers.
Church parade involving the 88th Fusiliers and the 5th Regiment C.G.A.
Item consists of a photograph of a church parade in Esquimalt consisting of members of the 88th Fusiliers and the 5th Regiment C.G.A. with the officers and ratings of the H.M.C.S. Rainbow as well as naval volunteers.
Item consists of a mount of two waterfront photographs adhered to card to create a panoramic view of Departure Bay, Nanaimo. Adhesive is unknown. The image includes a dock, buildings, and a small number of boats and ships. "Departure Bay" is written on the verso in pencil.
The sternwheeler on the left may be the S.S. Dakota. The ship on the right is the S.S. Abyssinia.
The item is a glass stereo negative of Bishop's Close, Victoria.
Skeleton bones of whales taken at Sechart, West Coast Vancouver Island
The item is a b&w copy print showing skeleton bones of whales taken at Sechart, Vancouver Island.
Skeleton bones of whales taken at Sechart
The item is a b&w copy print showing the skeleton bones of ca. 400 whales at Sechart, Vancouver Island.
Sulphur bottom whale or blue whale taken at Akutan, Alieutian Island
The item is a b&w copy print of a female blue whale taken at Akutan, Aleutian Islands.
Sulphur or blue whale taken at Akutan in Aleutian Is.
The item is a b&w copy print showing a female blue whale at Akutan, Aleutian Islands.
Humpback whale taken at Akutan, Aleutian Islands
The item is a b&w copy print of a humpback whale being processed at Akutan whaling station, Aleutian Islands.
Capt. Larsen at harpoon gun on S.S. St. Lawrence
The item is a b&w copy print showing Captain Larsen at the harpoon gun on the S.S. St. Lawrence in the Gulf of Georgia, 1908.
Whale carcass, Aleutian Island
The item is a b&w copy print showing a whale carcass being dragged up the beach at Akutan, Aleutian Islands.
Whaling station, Aleutian Island, barrels filled with whale oil
The item is a b&w copy print showing the whaling station at Akutan, Aleutian Islands.
"B" Platoon, 5th Regiment, Canadian Garrison Artillery, Victoria
Japanese internment camp photographs
File consists of 6 black and white photographs of Japanese internment camps. Typewritten and handwritten annotations on the verso describe them as follows (includes BC Archives PLAB numbers):
I-32057: Japanese evacuees leaving Vancouver
I-32058: Clinic at Slocan
I-32059: Japanese internment campground construction
I-32060: Main street - Kaslo, B.C.
I-32061: B.C. Security Commission houses for Japanese (photographer mistook Doukhobor in wagon for Japanese).
I-32062: Area under construction in Slocan area
Group from an unidentified mine.
Loading a cargo of BC canned salmon for export at a cannery on the Skeena River.
Archives visual records collection
The Archives photo collection (also known as the General file or genfile) consists of photographs collected by the Archives from around 1908 until the 1990s. The photographs were primarily collected because of their subject matter and little or no information was gathered as to their provenance and type. A single volume, arranged numerically by a classification code, appears to indicate that the first 14,000 or so photographs acquired were arranged by subject groupings.
By 1934, the annual report of the Provincial Library and Archives department noted that the "collection of photographs and prints in the Archives, which is estimated to consist of at least 14,000 items, is rapidly outgrowing the old filing system, and sooner or later the entire collection must be recatalogued and rearranged." In 1935 the new system of applying individual catalogue numbers known as "HP" or "Historic Photograph" numbers had begun. In 1940 the Provincial Archivist reported that half the photographs had been recatalogued. The cataloguing consisted of entering the photographs into registers in HP number order; the first number assigned was HP101 or HP000101. This system of item level numbering continued into the 1990s with over 100,000 photographs entered into the HP accession registers. While most of these photographs continued to be acquired because of their subject matter, selected photographs that formed part of original record groups, were also catalogued with an HP number.
The "original" photographs acquired in this way consist mainly of photographic prints in a variety of sizes and formats, but also include original negatives (both glass and flexible). In many cases, the Archives borrowed and copied photographs from individuals and other institutions. In these cases the "original" is a copy print made by the Archives at the time.
The prints are stored in HP number order in several runs: main run of several hundred boxes, one run of Maynard photographs, two runs of oversized photographic prints and one run of large oversized prints stored in map cabinets. Original negatives are stored by type (glass, nitrate, acetate, polyester etc.), usually by HP number. These original records are often know as "HP originals".
Copy prints were made of many of the prints and are arranged by subject in several runs. Portrait/family files are arranged in alphabetical order; topographic (place name) files are arranged alphabetically by place name and then by subject within the place; and a small set of subject files (including ships) are arranged alphabetically by subject. There are a variety of indexes and lists of files available in the Archives to help determine which general file copy print files are available on request.
Copy negatives (arranged by negative number or photo lab number) were made from many of the prints and original negatives. These records were used for reproductions and are stored in a large negative cabinet.
British Columbia Archives
Lenz and Leiser, Wholesale Dry Goods, 60 Government Street, Victoria.