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[Front] An illustrated postcard depicting hotels and businesses in a section of Vancouver, B.C. [Back] A blank postcard with pencil numbers in the upper left corner.

The Marco Polo Scrapbooks are invaluable historical artifacts of Vancouver’s Chinatown nightlife in the 1960s and 1970s. The two books - containing photographs, menus, posters, letters, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera - catalogue the…

Item is an image of the stern and port side of the sailing vessel Ajax underway. Written on the back of the image is "Ajax ex. St. Andrew. Wooden bark... built 1872. Lovitt, St. John N.B." and the dimensions of the vessel.

Item is an image of the starboard side of the vessel Aladdin docked in harbour. Written on the back of the image is "Aladdin. Saint John." Image is faded.

Volume 1, Copy 8 of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter. The issue is 8 pages long. Contents include columns such as Editorial, Student's Essay, School Activities, Personal column, and Lovelorn among others. Hand drawn ads and an announcement regarding…

Medium-sized least weasel, dorsal view, shown with three handwritten specimen labels.

This table photo features two young men who are sitting at a table at the Palomar Supper Club. Both men are smoking cigarettes and grinning at the camera, and on the table are two bottles of Coca-Cola. Below the picture is a signature that states…

Sepia-toned photo of a house with three people on the porch. The house is believed to have been on Cleveland Ave, built around 1905 and demolished in the 1960s. A description is handwritten in pencil on the back.

Sepia-toned photo of a house with three people on the porch. The house is believed to have been on Cleveland Ave, built around 1905 and demolished in the 1960s. A handwritten description is on the back.

Volume 1, Edition 12 of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter. The 8 pages feature columns such as Editorial, multiple Student's Essays, Welfare Committee Report, School Activities, Social News, Lovelorn Column, Humour, Personal Column, and hand-drawn…

The collection holds three different versions of a map of Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest; originally produced in 1973 by Wayne Suttles and Cameron Suttles. The map is oriented according to up-river (top of map) and down-river (bottom…

Tells the story of a mystery writer who convinces his wife's lover to stage of robbery of her jewelery. The play is designed to leave the reader questioning where the distinction between the writer's imagination and reality lies.

Syd Freedman's credit card for the Cave Supper Club.

An illustrated postcard showing the Giant Dipper rollercoaster in Hastings Park, Vancouver, B.C.

[Front] An illustrated postcard showing the Giant Dipper rollercoaster in Hastings Park, Vancouver, B.C. [Back] A postcard written on vertically with blue ink, not postmarked.

Item is an image of the starboard bow of the passenger/freighter vessel Alameda. Written on the front of the image is "Alameda around at Petersburg Alaska Aug 15-1914."

McCance draws three features and the floor plan of a set design featuring rotatable entrances to a building. Created for an unknown production, but Vancouver Ballet Society's 1965 production of ""Coppelia"" or Theatre Under…

This table photo includes eleven people sitting around a table at the Palomar Supper Club. Most are smiling and looking at the camera, but some are engaged in conversation. The group is composed of five men and six women, most of whom are presumably…

Poster advertising the performance of BODYGlass, with a dancer's face photo-shopped onto a piece of glass artwork. The poster also details the names of the people involved in the production, the dates of the performance, the location, and…

To celebrate its 75th anniversary a brochure was made that details the history of the hotel through some photographs throughout the years.

[Front] An illustrated postcard showing twelve adults and children walking across the suspension bridge overtop the first Canyon. [Back] A postcard written in pencil with a red three cent stamp and one postmark.

Five children in playing attitude with the sea in the background. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay and the children might have been students at St. Michael's Residential School. The…

Commercial off-print of map from Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada; (1973). The national atlas of Canada, ed. 4