Commonplace book of Frank Sylvester
Commonplace book (scrapbook) kept by Frank Sylvester from 1874 to 1907. Consists of miscellaneous information recorded from a variety of sources including newspaper clippings and journals about random facts, art, ships in port, recipes, accounting and bills, obituaries, a meteor falling, diseases and medicine, drawings, Alert Bay Canning accounts, etc. and a few entries of daily life and accounts.
- In Collection:
- 631 pages ; 24 x 36 cm
- 53.99983, -125.0032
- 48.4359, -123.35155
- Entries on ruled and numbered pages in "Record" book. NOTE: a number of pages have been excised from the original diary. Where this occurs, page numbering reflects missing pages [e.g. p. 352-401 where p 352-400 have been removed].
- Frank and Cecilia Sylvester Collection
- Acc. No.: 2002-029, 2.1
- January 17, 2008 to January 23, 2008
- 240 dpi RAW, Canon EOS 30D, photographed by KSW and CDW, edited by KM and CDW. Metadata by KD.
- 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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diary_000-001 | 2020-07-30 |
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diary_000-001_version2 | 2020-07-30 |
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diary_002-003 | 2020-07-30 |
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diary_002-003_version2 | 2020-07-30 |
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diary_004-005 | 2020-07-30 |
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diary_006-007 | 2020-07-30 |
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diary_008-009 | 2020-07-30 |
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