Description:

Else Lübcke Seel (1894-1974) 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 in Berlin's...

Subject:

Authors

Location:

British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

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

Description:

The John Gawsworth Collection is comprised of selections from the John Gawsworth Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries. John Gawsworth (1912-1970) was the pseudonym of Terence Ian...

Subject:

Authors and Arts and Culture

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

correspondence

Description:

Aidan Higgins (1927-2015) was an Irish novelist and writer, whose works include short stories, travel memoirs, essays, autobiographical fiction, and several dramas for BBC Radio 3 and RTÉ Radio 1. Born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, Higgins’ upbringing and...

Subject:

Arts and Culture, Literature, and Authors

Location:

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

manuscripts (documents)

Description:

The Canadian Military Oral History Collection is composed of interviews of veterans of WWI, WWII, the Korean War and the War in Afghanistan. Over 370 recordings done by Dr. Reginald H. Roy and his students are the largest holding in this category. Historian Hal Lawrence...

Subject:

Oral histories, Interviews, and Military history

Location:

Canada, , Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

sound recordings, oral histories (literary works), and video recordings (physical artifacts)

Description:

Photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and other records relating to the life and service of Brigadier General W.O.H. Dodds, CMG, DSO, in the Great War of 1914-1918 and extending to his death on 25 August 1934. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian...

Subject:

Military History

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

photographs and scrapbooks

Description:

Victoria to Vimy, sponsored by a World War Commemorations Community Fund grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage, is a digital collection of First World War materials held at the University of Victoria Libraries, Special Collections and Archives. For this...

Subject:

Military History and Local History

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Western Europe,

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

photographs and scrapbooks

Description:

Throughout the Victorian period, novels in serial parts were published in abundance in newspapers and magazines, by far the most popular form, or in discreet parts issued in instalments, usually twenty monthly issues. Many 19th century authors established themselves by...

Subject:

Literature

Location:

United Kingdom, , United Kingdom

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

serials (publications) and periodicals

Description:

In 2008, Pacific Opera Victoria 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 in March 1918. Three...

Subject:

Military History, Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and Culture

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

correspondence and photographs

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...

Resource Type:

Collection

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 rhododendron...

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)

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 are also...

Subject:

Voyages and travels and Authors

Location:

Great Britain, England, United Kingdom and Canada, , Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

photograph albums and photographs

Description:

This collection contains exhibition catalogues published by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Subject:

Arts and Culture and Local History

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

books

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

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

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

Description:

This collection consists of letters from Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) to Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968). Sir Herbert Read was a poet, art historian, anarchist, literary critic, philosopher, prolific author and champion of modern artists in Britain. Dame Barbara...

Resource Type:

Collection

Description:

The Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection is comprised of works created by authors associated with modernism, a literary movement with contested dates, but largely regarded as taking place between 1910 and 1940. Authors featured here include Mary Butts (1890-1937),...

Subject:

Literature, Authors, and Arts and Culture

Location:

Europe,

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

serials (publications) and books

Description:

This collection is comprised of periodical literature, including annuals and magazines, published during the 19th century. Included are selected issues of British publications Forget-Me-Not and Good Words. Forget Me Not is an example of an...

Subject:

Literature and Arts and Culture

Resource Type:

Collection

Genre:

serials (publications) and books

Description:

Subject:

Literature and Arts and Culture

Resource Type:

Collection