Explore Open Collections: David Conde Fonds
This image is from a project currently underway: the digitization of the David Conde Fonds. A Canadian journalist working in Japan from the 1940’s through the 1960’s, David Conde reported on the IMTFE (International Military Tribunal for the Far East) trials for Reuters from 1946-1948. Also known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trials, the tribunal […]
Explore Open Collections: Rosetti Studios – Stanley Park Collection
The following images, part of UBC Library Archive’s Haweis Family fonds (PDF link), are from of a series of images taken by Rosetti Photographic Studios in Vancouver’s Stanley Park in 1912. Lionel Haweis emigrated to Canada from England in 1907, where he opened Rosetti Photographic Studios on Pender St., and later on Robson St. In 1918 he was […]
BC Historical Newspapers
Digital Initiatives has added two new titles to the BC Historical Newspapers website. In collaboration with the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives, we have uploaded 40 years of the Coast News to our collection. The Coast News issues span the 1940s to 1980s documenting some of the most significant social and technological changes in BC […]