This scrapbook, created in Victoria, BC, belonged to Cecelia Davies Sylvester. Sylvester (1848-1935) was born in Sydney, Australia, grew up in San Francisco, and then moved to Victoria, BC, in 1863. In Victoria, she was a founding member of the local Jewish congregation. Sylvester was a life-long scrapbooker, and this volume contains pasted-in newspaper clippings about events related to Sylvester’s family and friends: birth, death, and marriage announcements. Sylvester also pasted in family photographs, and ephemera such as event programmes. The scrapbook itself is one of Mark Twain’s patented self-pasting scrapbooks.

In Collection:

• Frank and Cecilia Sylvester Collection

Creator

• Sylvester, Cecilia Davies

Subject

• Sylvester, Cecilia Davies
• Scrapbooks
• Families

Language

• eng

Date created

• 1886 to 1919

Resource type

• Still Image
• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 130 pages ; 26 x 19 cm

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155

Physical Repository

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

Collection

• Frank and Cecelia Sylvester Collection

Provider

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

Genre

• scrapbooks
• newspaper clippings
• programs (documents)
• photographs
• black-and-white photographs

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2001-006, Item: 1.18

Fonds title

• Frank and Cecelia Sylvester family fonds

Fonds identifier

• AR281

Is referenced by

• Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/frank-and-cecilia-sylvester-family-fonds

Date digitized

• September 14, 2020 to September 19, 2020

Technical note

• Scanned Sept 14,16,19 2020 on Betterlight-TTI at 600 DPI (camera height 900, 1/15; 246 ISO; bent5 tone profile) - PD ; Metadata by DS

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (speccoll@uvic.ca). Patrons may view the material through the Victoria's Early History Collection, but may not use images without permission of the University.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/y7an-ws56

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