We’ve uploaded a few new collection albums to our Flickr account! All of our Flickr account albums are curated to between 25 and 50 images that represent the collections. Check out all of our albums.
The newest collection is 50 curated bookplates from our RBSC bookplates collection. Here are a few of the images up on Flickr now.
![Reminder: No known copyright restrictions. Please credit UBC Library as the image source. For more information see http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/about. Date: [unknown] Notes: Pictorial bookplate. The bookplate portrays a landscape with either haystacks or large rocks in the foreground and rolling hills in the background ; Bookplate Type : Pictorial ; Bookplate Function : OwnershipPersonal Source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Collection Permanent URL: http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/ref/collection/bookplate/id/169](https://diginit.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2015/12/BP-GEN-SL-P-K693.jpg)
Date: [unknown]
![Reminder: No known copyright restrictions. Please credit UBC Library as the image source. For more information see http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/about. Date: [unknown] Notes: Printed in black ink on purple paper, this textual bookplate is framed by a single-lined border in which a circled design is place in each corner. Affixed by a paper clip to the top right corner is a square, white stamp printed in black ink. Its text is: Finsbury London / Institution, Circus. E. 642 21 days. ; Bookplate Type : Textual ; Bookplate Function : OwnershipCould possibly be related to the W.H. Smith Archive Ltd. The South West Museums Libraries & Archives Council relates the following information about this company: The family business started in London in 1792 and was called WH Smith & Son from 1846 and WH Smith & Son Ltd from 1929. It became the trading subsidiary of the public company, WH Smith & Son (Holdings) Ltd, in 1949. The styles changed to WH Smith Group plc and WH Smith Ltd in 1998 when family and business documents were placed with it. ; Manuscript Notes : A note is handwritten in pencil on the left-hand side of the bookplate. Although rendered difficult to read because of its age, it includes the following words: Besant 3 Sedley Place [Offoys?]. ; Institutional Source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Collection Permanent URL: http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/ref/collection/bookplate/id/244](https://diginit.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2015/12/BP-GEN-ENG-I-S6589.jpg)
Date: [unknown]
Notes:The family business started in London in 1792 and was called WH Smith & Son from 1846 and WH Smith & Son Ltd from 1929.
Date: 1910
Notes: Woman is Mnemosyne, personification of memory in Greek mythology, or Vigilanza
The other new collections include:
Epigraphic Squeezes (added to Flickr in November). Learn more about how we digitized the collection in our blog Digitizing the Ancient Past.
Date: 199-100 BCE
Alternative Title: De Hestaeensibus
Category: Decrees and laws dated to the second century
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Date: 440-439 BCE
Category: Tables of Hellenotamiae
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Cuneiform Tablets and Papyri (added to Flickr in October)- It’s the oldest collection we have on Flickr – dating up to Learn more about the provenance of our ancient collections by checking out our other blog posts: Relics from a Lost Age: Cuneiform Tablets & Provenance, Part 2: Mysterious Histories, Discover Lost Ancient Egyptian Papyri!
[Letter from an unknown writer to his or her mother] [Page1] Alternative Title:[Greek papyri fragment] Date: [between 100 and 199?]
[cuneiform tablet A] obverse Date: [between 2029 and 1982 BCE] Description: Originating from Umma, the tablet dates from the reign of Shulgi (also known as Dungi), King of Ur, between 2029 and 1982 B.C.E. It records the receipt of rent paid in kind to the temple authorities.
And last but not least One Hundred Poets Collection (added to Flickr in August).
![Reminder: No known copyright restrictions. Please credit UBC Library as the image source. For more information see http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/about Date: K_ka 4 [1847] Creator: Ryokutei Senryu_ shu_ ; Katsushika Manji R_jin, Ichiyo_sai Toyokuni ga Access Identifier: Mostow_006 Source: Original Format: Professor Joshua Mostow Private Collection. One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu) Collection. Permanent URL: http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/ref/collection/hundred/id/4456](https://diginit.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2015/12/Mostow_006_015_L.jpg)
Date: K_ka 4 [1847]
Creator: Ryokutei Senryu_ shu_ ; Katsushika Manji R_jin, Ichiyo_sai Toyokuni ga
![Reminder: No known copyright restrictions. Please credit UBC Library as the image source. For more information see http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/about Date: Meiji kanotomi [1881] Creator: Okada Ry_saku ; It_ Seisai egaku Access Identifier: Mostow_007 Source: Original Format: Professor Joshua Mostow Private Collection. One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu) Collection. Permanent URL: http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/ref/collection/hundred/id/2181](https://diginit.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2015/12/Mostow_007_006_R.jpg)
Date: Meiji kanotomi [1881]
Creator: Okada Ry_saku ; It_ Seisai egaku
