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  • Gisèle Freund Photographs of James Joyce in Paris

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    Description:
    This exhibit features a series of photographs taken of James Joyce during his last years in Paris. The photographs were taken by Gisèle Freund and feature Joyce, his friends, family, and contemporaries including W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Henry Miller and Virginia Woolf....
    Subject
    Arts and Culture, Authors, and Artists
    Location
    Paris, Île-de-France, France
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs

  • Karl Spreitz Collection

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    214Works
    Description:
    Karl Spreitz was a documentary and experimental filmmaker, graphic artist, and photojournalist. He died in Victoria on May 13, 2016 after a lifetime of contributions to contemporary art and documentary film in Western Canada. Born in Gratz, Austria, in 1927, he taught...
    Subject
    Artists and Arts and Culture
    Location
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    video recordings (physical artifacts) and photographs

  • Katharine Maltwood Collection

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    54Works
    Description:
    Katharine Emma Maltwood (nee Sapsworth) was an artist and author who held a life-long fascination with ancient history, folklore, mythology, spirituality, and the occult. Born in London in April 1878, Maltwood was influenced by the arts and crafts movement and studied...
    Subject
    Artists, Local History, Authors, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    United Kingdom, , United Kingdom
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs

  • Saul Holiff Collection

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    80Works
    Description:
    This collection features materials from the archives of Saul Holiff, the Canadian manager of one of the most iconic figures in American music history: Johnny Cash. Holiff, who started out as a concert promoter in the late 1950s in London, Ontario, managed Cash from...
    Subject
    Performing Arts, Arts and Culture, and Local History
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs

  • Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

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    423Works
    Description:
    This digital exhibit originates with a web site, <a href="http://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/">Victoria’s Chinatown: A Gateway to the Past and Present of Chinese Canadians</a>, a partnership project between the Asian Canadian Working Group at the...
    Subject
    Local History and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs

  • World of Mary's Wedding Reminiscences of World War One

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    85Works
    Description:
    In 2008, <a href="https://pacificopera.ca/">Pacific Opera Victoria</a> commissioned an opera from the play, Mary's Wedding. The play tells a story of love and remembrance set in the Prairies, the trenches of France, and the Battle of Moreuil Wood...
    Subject
    Military History, Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence and photographs