A photograph of a bronze kylin, or Chinese unicorn, that holds a book. Characters on the book: 麟吐玉書. It was one of the items placed into the time capsule of the association's new headquarters at 1715 Government Street in 1905, and discovered by the owner of the building during recent renovations.

In Collection:

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Contributor

• Yang, Charles

Subject

• Bronzes, Chinese
• Time capsules
• Chinese Empire Reform Association

Language

• chi

Identifier

• IMG_0650

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 colour photograph

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown

Coordinates

• 48.4294, -123.3679
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Physical Repository

• Yang, Charles

Collection

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• color photographs
• photographs

Is referenced by

• Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• These images are provided for research use only. These images are provided with the consent of the Victoria’s Chinatown Project and cannot be reproduced or copied without permission. For more information, contact Dr. Zhongping Chen at zhchen@uvic.ca

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/svbs-1n27

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