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  • Book Arts Collection

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    1Collections
    11Works
    Description:
    The Book Arts Collection features selections from Special Collections relevant to historical and contemporary book arts and print culture, including binding, calligraphy, design, printing, papermaking, publishing, illustration, and typography. The purpose of this...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    books

  • Brocard Sewell Collection

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    5Works
    Description:
    Father Brocard Sewell (1912-2000) was a British Carmelite friar, a literary critic, and editor of the journal, "The Aylesford Review". The Brocard Sewell Collection is comprised of correspondence from Eric Gill to Clare Pepler dating from 1924 to 1925, which...
    Subject
    Authors and Arts and Culture
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Chinese Propaganda Poster Project

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    293Works
    Description:
    The University of Victoria digital archive concentrates on a golden age of poster production, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. At this time, a faction within a divided Communist Party both perpetuated the former image of harmony and prosperity, and simultaneously...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture and Military History
    Location
    China, , China
    Date created
    1992-06-03T00:00:00+00:00,1988-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    posters

  • Douglas Goldring Collection

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    2Collections
    56Works
    Description:
    Douglas Goldring (1887–1960) was a British writer and journalist. He left Oxford University without a degree in 1906 and subsequently served on the editorial staff of "Country Life", sub-editor under Ford Madox Ford of "The English Review", and edited...
    Subject
    Authors, Arts and Culture, and Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • E.J. Hughes Collection

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    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)

  • E.M. Forster Collection

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    18Works
    Description:
    E. M. Forster (1879-1970), British novelist and essayist, is perhaps best known for his novels, which include Howards End (1910), A Room With A View (1911), and A Passage To India (1924). He attended King's College, Cambridge (1897–1901) and was a member of the...
    Subject
    Authors, Literature, Arts and Culture, and Voyages and travels
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Eric Gill Collection

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    1Collections
    3Works
    Description:
    The Eric Gill Collection is comprised of items from the <a href="https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/eric-gill-collection">Eric Gill Archives</a> held at the University of Victoria Libraries. Eric Gill (1882–1940) was an English artist, craftsman,...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture and Artists
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Ezra Pound Collection

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    1Collections
    69Works
    Description:
    Ezra Loomis Pound was a major twentieth century poet, critic and translator. He was born in Idaho and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He went to England in 1908, living in London from 1908 to 1920 and became closely acquainted with T. S. Eliot and other...
    Subject
    Authors, Literature, and Arts and Culture
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents) and correspondence

  • F.T. Prince Collection

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    1Works
    Description:
    Frank Templeton Prince (1912-2003) was an English poet and academic. The collection consists of a handwritten letter to John Lehmann (dated 1940), together with a handwritten, signed poem "The Hanging Church". Lehmann has written a note on the top of the...
    Subject
    Authors, Arts and Culture, and Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Food Not Bombs Collection

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    1Collections
    38Works
    Description:
    The Food Not Bombs collection contains digitized material from the Food Not Bombs archival fonds (https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/food-not-bombs) at the University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives. It specifically focuses on the art work of...
    Subject
    Anarchism and Arts and Culture
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    drawings (visual works) and posters