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A pen and pencil blueprint showing where certain set pieces should be placed in the Malkin Bowl outdoor theatre in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Created for an unknown production in 1953 by Theatre Under the Stars. Initialed by Gail McCance.

The backside of a black-and-white photograph, showing where tape once held a transparent cover in place. All that remains are darkened stains from that adhesive and the number '16' scrawled in pencil.

McCance draws numerous rough sketches of various scenes for the set for Gypsy. Created for the 1963 Theatre Under the Stars' production of Gypsy.

A notice containing a simple programme for Chinese New Year Evening, involving cocktails, dinner, and a lion dance with Orient Express music.

Back of the table card with four staples and a yellow post-it note reading 40s

The table card folded so that it shows the flaps that enclose the picture

The back of the table card showing space for the autographs and a title; also includes advertisment for the music groups that performed (Earle Hill, Cor. Donald, and Ellice from Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Colour photo of 10 Marco Polo guests seated around a round table. Other guests socialize in the background, and a musician plays drums around celebratory balloons.

Waterfront view of Alert Bay with Christ Church Anglican church in the background and two boats in the foreground.

A pen and pencil blueprint showing where certain set pieces should be placed in the Malkin Bowl outdoor theatre in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Produced for a 1953 production of Robert Wright's operetta Song of Norway by Theatre Under the Stars.…

Twenty one children in Winter clothes by a building. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken at Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls…

Black and white photo of the street entrance to the Marco Polo Theatre and Restaurant, with large sign advertising buffet. This image looks to the southwest corner of E Pender St and Columbia St, in Vancouver's Chinatown.

This table photo features two young men and two young women, who are presumably couples. They are sitting around a table at the Palomar Supper Club while smiling at the camera. In the background, additional people are visible sitting at their own…

A young couple standing in the Cave Supper Club; the man is in military uniform

Black and white photo of Victor Louie, owner of Marco Polo, tasting a dish prepared by chef, who holds up the dish.

The table card folded so that it shows the flaps that enclose the picture

McCance creates a set design in watercolors that is a visual masterpiece. It depicts a tree in the shape of a large hand set in a forest. This set design was created for an undated production of Brigadoon.

Landscape with the Choutla Residential School, Carcross, Yukon. Item is a duplicated of item no. 875, fonds 008 Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds, from the Anglican Church of Canada General Synod Archives. In 1903…

Four couples pose for the picture together with two couples standing and two sitting at the table

An illustrated postcard depicting tree trunks and the surrounding landscape in Vancouver, B.C.

Diazo print (blue-line) mock-up of map Washington in 1840 of unknown provenance. Map shows distribution of indigenous groups throughout the state.

Photograph of Marco Polo's busy dining room, with an instrumental group playing in the background.