<img width="125" height="100" src="https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/files/2013/01/Kinesis_5_55_p01-125x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Kinesis, May 1976" decoding="async" />
By Larissa Ringham on January 11, 2013
A new year brings with it new projects, and we’re excited to spotlight an upcoming digitization project with valuable local content. Kinesis is an important local women’s newspaper that was published by the Vancouver Status of Women organization from 1974 to 2001 (the early iteration of the publication is entitled Vancouver Status of Women). It […]
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By Larissa Ringham on December 19, 2012
In order to track the digitization projects that are underway, we’ve put up a Gantt chart on our site that shows the timelines and overlap of all current projects. We will be updating this regularly, so check out our http://diginit.library.ubc.ca/projects page under the Current tab to view the most recent Digital Initiatives project list. Note […]
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<img width="125" height="100" src="https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/files/2012/11/rosetti_63_005_ed-125x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Siwash Rock, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C." decoding="async" />
By Rob on November 29, 2012
A beautiful glass plate negative from the Rosetti studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This image depicts Siwash Rock located on the northwest edge of Stanley Park in Vancouver. These negatives have a great depth to them yielding lustrous digital images. Check out the other images in the collection (N.B. We are in the process […]
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<img width="125" height="100" src="https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/files/2012/11/Photograph_of_Victor_Wong-125x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Photograph of Victor Wong" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />
By Mayu on November 14, 2012
Victor Wong is a WWII veteran from Victoria, BC. He was one of thousands of Chinese immigrants enlisted by the Canadian forces during the war and assigned to the British forces. The British territories in Asia had been occupied by Japan, and English speakers of Chinese origin were sent there to engage in guerrilla warfare […]
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By Larissa Ringham on November 9, 2012
Have you ever ordered food from hotel room service and were shocked when your clubhouse and coffee came to $30? Well, it looks like steep room service prices aren’t a recent phenomenon. Take this 1962 menu from the historic CP Empress Hotel in Victoria. Billed as a typical winter menu for the hotel dining room, […]
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By Mayu on October 23, 2012
The Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection (JCPC) chronicles the experiences of Japanese Canadians / Nikkei in British Columbia including their internment during World War II. These photographs from the JCPC are a testament to the popularity of baseball at internment camps. (Left: at Lucerne, B.C. in the Yellow Pass, Bottom: at an unidentified camp) Baseball was […]
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By Rob on October 18, 2012
The Berkeley Posters collection, housed in Rare Books & Special Collections at the UBC Library, comprises 250 posters from the years 1968 to 1973. Covering anti-war and pro-social justice themes the posters run the gamut of concerns of the time such as the Vietnam War and corporate responsibility. Produced by student and underground groups on […]
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By Mayu on October 1, 2012
In 1858, Japan signed the Ansei Five-Power Treaties with the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Netherlands, and France. The following year in 1859, the port of Yokohama opened to foreign trade as specified in these treaties. 御開港横濵之全圖 Gokaikō Yokohama no zenzu marks the opening of the port and depicts ships from the five nations […]
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By Larissa Ringham on September 28, 2012
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 […]
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By slindber on September 27, 2012
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 […]
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