Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Photograph album
General material designation
- graphic material
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the series.
Level of description
Series
Reference code
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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1881-1882 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
1 album (59 photographs and illustrations : b&w)
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
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, possibly created by either photographer Edward Dossetter or Dr. I.W. Powell (Superintendent of Indian Affairs for British Columbia) in 1881-1882. The album contains 52 photographs, six illustrations apparently cut from a magazine or book and one postcard of an engraving.
The first 35 photographs were taken by Dossetter during the inspection of coastal Indian Reserves by Powell, on their 1881 trip on the HMS Rocket. The photographs are of First Nations people and villages. The album also contains a photograph of the Gorge in Victoria, seven photographs of celebration arches, four photographs of Esquimalt Harbour and two of Lytton, taken in 1882. These photographs may have been taken by Richard Maynard.
In addition there are six illustrations, mostly religious artworks, three photographs of Cornwall, England and a postcard engraving of a cannery.
Notes area
Physical condition
Album is in poor shape. The spine has broken and the back cover is missing. The pages are acidic board or card and the photographs have been glued in. The pages have buckled, possibly from moisture and many of the prints have been poorly processed. 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 pages in the album are numbered and there are captions written in below the photographs. When there is no title actually on the photograph, the captions have been transcribed for the item level description titles. The dates and other information have been taken from I.W. Powell's report to the Dept. of Indian Affairs, 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. In some, the captions and statement of responsibility can be seen on the loose photograph but have been cropped from the version in the album. The scanned copies may have been taken from the loose copies in those cases.
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-3433 for another album that contains many of the same images.
Accruals
General note
Accession number(s): 198604-012
General note
Archives code(s): Album 8
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Dossetter, Edward (Subject)
- Powell, Israel Wood (Subject)
- Maynard, Richard (Subject)
Genre access points
Control area
Description record identifier
Digital object metadata
Filename
MS3429.pdf
Latitude
Longitude
Media type
Text