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  • Abkhazi Archives

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    35Works
    Description:
    This exhibit includes selections from the records of Peggy and Nicholas Abkhazi held in the University of Victoria Archives, including material relating to the interwar period, World War II and the design and creation of the Abkhazis' internationally renowned...
    Subject
    Local History, Families, and Military History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photograph albums, photographs, correspondence, and manuscripts (documents)

  • Agnes Deans Cameron Collection

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    1Works
    Description:
    The collection consists of two photograph albums comprised of photographs taken during Cameron's travels up the Mackenzie River with her niece, Jessie Cameron Brown, May to September, 1908, and photographs taken during Cameron's trip to Britain, 1909-1911. There...
    Subject
    Voyages and travels and Authors
    Location
    Great Britain, England, United Kingdom and Canada, , Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photograph albums and photographs

  • Else Lübcke Seel Digital Collection

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    432Works
    Description:
    <b>Else Lübcke Seel (1894-1974)</b> Else Lübcke Seel was born in 1894 in Schivelbein, Pomerania. After the end of World War I, she moved with her mother and aunt to Berlin, where she worked in the archives of a bank. She began writing and became well-known...
    Subject
    Authors and Voyages and Travels
    Location
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

  • Gisèle Freund Photographs of James Joyce in Paris

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    161Works
    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

  • Herbert Geddes

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    100Works
    Description:
    Herbert Geddes was a manager for G.R. Gregg and Company, importers and exporters, in Vancouver and Winnipeg. He was sent to Japan and was based in Yokohama between 1908 and 1918. Geddes was manager for Gregg and Company in Vancouver until the mid 1950s. He willed the...
    Subject
    Voyages and travels
    Location
    Japan, , Japan
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs

  • Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

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    497Works
    Description:
    Ian McTaggart Cowan (1910–2010) is often referred to as the “father of Canadian ecology.” From his formative years roaming the mountains around Vancouver collecting museum specimens of mammals and birds to his last years as a major contributor to the voluminous and...
    Subject
    Voyages and travels, Environmental Studies, and Local History
    Location
    Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    diaries, video recordings (physical artifacts), and 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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    1Collections
    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

  • Robert Graves Malahat Review Photographs

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    74Works
    Description:
    The photographs in this collection were taken to supplement the July, 1975 edition of the University of Victoria's Malahat Review, issue number 35. The edition was subtitled "A Gathering in Celebration of the Eightieth Birthday of Robert Graves". The...
    Subject
    Authors
    Location
    Eastern Europe,
    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