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  • Chinese labour force embarking for France in 1918

    Subject
    Manpower, History, Twentieth century, Immigrants, World War (1914-1918), Foreign workers, Chinese, and Chinese Labour Corps
    Date created
    March 28, 1918
    Rights Statement
    In Copyright
    Resource Type
    Still Image
    Identifier
    C-09581
    Extent
    1 black and white photograph
    Geographic Coverage
    British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown and British Columbia--Victoria
    Coordinates
    48.4359, -123.35155 and 48.4294, -123.3679
    Physical Repository
    British Columbia Archives and Royal British Columbia Museum
    Collection
    Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians
    Provider
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre
    black-and-white photographs and photographs
    Is Referenced By
    Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html
    Date Digitized
    2012
    Technical Note
    Digitized by BC Archives. 300 dpi jpg, no colour correction. Archived in Cataloguing on server. Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

  • Nightwood (1936)

    Subject
    Fiction--Technique, Literature, Modern, Man-woman relationships, Nightwood (Barnes, Djuna), Lesbians--Social conditions, Twentieth century, Lesbians, Lesbians--Sexual behavior, Modernism (Literature), Manners and customs, Decadence in literature, Lesbians in literature, and Degeneration
    Creator
    Barnes, Djuna
    Contributor
    Robert MacLehose & Co. and Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
    Publisher
    Glasgow ; Printed by R. MacLehose and Company Limited, The University Press. and London : Faber & Faber, 24 Russell Square, Mcmxxxvi [1936]
    Language
    eng
    Date created
    October 1936
    Rights Statement
    Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
    Resource Type
    Text
    Identifier
    Call Number: PS3503 A614N5 1936
    Extent
    239 pages ; 21 cm
    Geographic Coverage
    France--Paris, Germany--Berlin, and Europe
    Coordinates
    48.85341, 2.3488 and 52.52437, 13.41053
    Physical Repository
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection
    Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection
    Provider
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre
    literature (general genre) and fiction (general genre)
    Date Digitized
    2014-01-30
    Technical Note
    Metadata by KD.
    Keyword in Context
    NIGHTWOOD by Djuna Bames This book, upon which Miss Bames has been at work for a long time, is ex­ tremely difficult to describe. It is in prose, but will appeal primarily to readers of poetry; it has something of the form of a novel, but the characters suffer ra...