Cecelia Davies Sylvester Scrapbook

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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:
Creator Subject Language Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 130 pages ; 26 x 19 cm
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 48.4359, -123.35155
Physical repository Collection
  • Frank and Cecelia Sylvester Collection
Provider Genre Archival item identifier
  • Accession Number: 2001-006, Item: 1.18
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by 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.
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