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  • Robert Graves Malahat Review Photographs

    User Collection
    1Collections
    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 photographs were...
    Subject:
    Authors
    Location:
    Eastern Europe,
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    photographs

  • Provincial Normal School Oral Histories

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    1Collections
    23Works
    Description:
    These sound recordings are part of the Provincial Normal School Oral History Interview collection, held at the University of Victoria Archives. The Provincial Normal School (PNS) was established in Victoria, B.C., in January 1915, to provide preliminary and advanced...
    Subject:
    Local History, Oral histories, and Interviews
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    sound recordings and oral histories (literary genre)

  • Karl Spreitz Collection

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    1Collections
    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

  • Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939

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    1Collections
    1731Works
    Description:
    The collection consists of a complete autograph diary detailing four years in the lives of Robert Graves and Laura Riding. The period covered is from 22nd February 1935 to 6th May 1939, during which time Graves and Riding lived in Mallorca, Lugano, England, Brittany and...
    Subject:
    Authors
    Location:
    Western Europe,
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents), correspondence, and diaries

  • Cavenagh Family Collection

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    1Collections
    14Works
    Description:
    Sir Orfeur Cavenagh's private letterbooks from his time as Governor of the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malaya and Penang). Major General Sir Orfeur Cavenagh KCSI (1820–1891) was the last India-appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements. He governed there from 1859...
    Subject:
    Families and Politics and government
    Location:
    Malaysia, , Malaysia and Singapore, , Singapore
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    correspondence

  • Provincial Industrial School for Boys and Girls of the Province of British Columbia Collection

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    1Collections
    29Works
    Description:
    This collection is comprised of annual reports for the Provincial Industrial School for Boys of the Province of British Columbia and the Provincial Industrial School for Girls of the Province of British Columbia. Youth attended the schools when committed by juvenile...
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    publications (documents)

  • British Columbia Historical Maps

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    6Collections
    891Works
    Description:
    Subject:
    Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    historical maps and maps (documents)

  • E.J. Hughes Collection

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    1Collections
    113Works
    Description:
    Edward John (E. J.) Hughes was a Canadian painter best known for his paintings of British Columbia landscapes. Hughes was born 17 February 1913 in North Vancouver, and grew up in Nanaimo. After high school he attended the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts...
    Subject:
    Arts and Culture and Artists
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    drawings (visual works)

  • Victoria Fire Insurance Plans

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    1Collections
    5Works
    Description:
    The Fire Insurance Plans (FIPs) from 1885 to 1916 are undoubtedly the best maps of Victoria for the period. Created by Charles E. Goad and Company to assist insurance underwriters in determining fire insurance risk these coloured maps show the developing...
    Subject:
    Local History and Architecture
    Location:
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    maps (documents) and historical maps

  • British Columbia Legislative Assembly Sessional Clippings Books

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    1Collections
    266Works
    Description:
    These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)...
    Subject:
    Politics and government and Local History
    Location:
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type:
    Collection
    Genre:
    newspaper clippings and clippings (information artifacts)