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Digitizers’ Blog
Exploring Open Collections: Kamishibai Propaganda Plays
The Kamishibai Propaganda Plays are an extremely rare collection of World War II-era propaganda plays from Japan. This digital collection contains 52 Kamishibai plays created between 1938 and 1945, from a private collection of Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh of the UBC Department of Asian Studies. Produced by quasi-governmental organizations and publishers in support of Japanese government […]
Subject Headings in the Rainbow Ranche Collection
We partnered with the Lake Country Museum and Archives to digitize the Rainbow Ranche Collection. It consists of over 1,300 items which include correspondence and financial ledgers, documenting the operation of fruit ranches managed by onsite partner James Goldie in the Okanagan, as well as diary entries and clippings of newspaper articles. To gain a […]
Exploring Vanished Buildings on UBC Vancouver Campus
Since UBC moved to Point Grey in 1925, the University has worked on campus planning. While many new buildings have been constructed, several campus facilities have been demolished, renovated, or absorbed into other buildings for various reasons; for example, to make room for future development and providing better services. If you are interested in discovering […]
Correspondence in Yip Sang Collection
We partnered with the City of Vancouver Archives to digitize over 630 items for Yip Sang Collection. The majority of the collection items are personal and business correspondence for Yip Sang, his family and the Wing Sang Company in the early 20th century. They were donated to the City of Vancouver Archives by Mr. Hoy […]
UBC Theatre Programmes
UBC Publications, one of our featured collections, consists of scanned copies of newspapers and other periodicals published at the University of British Columbia. This digital collection contains 22 publications, for example, the Alumni Association’s Alumni Chronicle, the student newspaper The Ubyssey, the University’s official news publication UBC Reports, and the UBC Science Undergraduate Association’s The 432. In this blog […]
Our First Digital Collection
Roughly 11 years ago, we worked in collaboration with UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) to build our first digital collection – German Consulate Fonds. Although we are uncertain of the chain of custody which resulted in the acquisition of these German Consulates records, existing documentation shows that the UBC University Librarian William […]
Tokyo maps of Edo Period
The Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era, one of the world’s largest collections of maps and guidebooks of the Japanese Tokugawa period (ca. 1600-1868), focuses on privately published and travel-related maps and guides. This unique collection has over 666,000 item views and around 18,000 item downloads, mainly from China and the U.S. In this post, […]
Exploring Open Collections: Alma Mater Society Image Collection: Part II
If you are a UBC student or alum, there is something you would not want to miss: the Alma Mater Society Image Collection. This two-part series will explore the historical photographs from the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia Vancouver. You can view Part I here. Included in this collection, developed and […]
Exploring Open Collections: Alma Mater Society Image Collection: Part I
If you are a UBC student or alum, there’s something you won’t want to miss: the Alma Mater Society Image Collection. This two-part series will explore the historical photographs from the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia Vancouver. Included in this collection, developed and maintained by the Alma Mater Society (or AMS, […]
New Items in BC Historical Books Collection
One of our biggest collections is BC Historical Books which features around 2,480 items as of June 2022. This collection combines the traditional tools of bibliography with the new tools of the digital world to transform our understanding of, and insight into, the history and life of British Columbia. The three bibliographies of British Columbia, […]
