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Digitizers’ Blog
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Know Your Enemy
Second World War era Japanese poster depicting allied bombers from UBC Rare Books and Special Collections’ David Conde fonds. David Conde was born in Ontario. He moved to the United Sates in the early 1920s and became an American citizen in 1932. In 1945/1946 Conde worked for the U.S. State Department during the occupation of […]
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Vancouver, 1880
Souvenir of British Columbia, No. 1 printed by T.N. Hibben & Co. circa 1880. Look for lots more photographs of historic Vancouver in the upcoming B.C.Bibliography Collection!
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Birds’ Eye View: UBC’s Planning Stages
Hooper was one of the original bidders for the construction of the University of British Columbia, and while this European-style campus plan was never made a reality, the sketch, along with the rest of the original submissions, persist in the UBC Library Archives.
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British Columbia Historical Newspapers
Search and view B.C. community newspapers published from 1865 to 1924. The British Columbia Historical Newspapers Collection makes 24 of B.C.’s earliest newspapers freely available in digital format for the first time! http://historicalnewspapers.library.ubc.ca
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Allan Bell talks digitization
photo by Martin Dee
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Tour UBC Library’s Digitization Centre
Jennifer Yip, researcher with the Community Historical Recognition Program, gets a tour of the brand new scanning facilities at UBC.
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New Westminster in Flames
See the stunning art collection held in the UBC Library Framed Work Collections.
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The Long Ride Home?
Learn about the injustices endured by Japanese Canadians during WWII through the Japanese-Canadian Photograph Collection.
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Traité Général des Pesches, et histoire des Poissons
Research 18th century scientific studies of fishing and economy through Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau‘s depictions.
