Ephemera

Images of bookplates from books and collections donated to UBC Library. Collection developed and maintained by Rare Books and Special Collections.

250 posters concerned with the advocacy for peace, equality and harmony during the Vietnam War era from the University of California's Berkeley campus and other regions in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Contains materials, printed between 1886-1890, for businesses in Vancouver by R. Mathison Jr., The Job Printer.

A collection of framed visual works, including prints, photographs, charters, and documentary artworks, that originate from diverse sources.

Contains archival documents, photographs, books, and artifacts related to three broad themes: British Columbia History, Immigration and Settlement, and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

The BC Historical Newspapers project features digitized versions of historical papers from around the province. The titles, which range from the Abbotsford Post to the Ymir Miner, date from 1865 to 1994.

The British Columbia Sessional Papers contain materials that document the political, historical, economic and cultural history of British Columbia. The Sessional Papers include official committee reports, orders of the day, petitions and papers presented, records of land sales, correspondence, budgetary estimates, proclamations, maps, voters lists by district, and departmental annual reports.

The collection consists of photography of every aspect of World War I - from cadet training to soldiers' graves. Every theatre of war is represented, but the majority of prints were taken in Europe, particularly on the battlefields of France and Belgium. In Britain, there are prints of Gibson Girls welding ships or carting coal. There are prints of royalty and military commanders, including Greek, Belgian and Japanese aristocracy. The technology of war is illustrated in the numerous prints of planes, ships, tanks and guns of all kinds. The collection is strong in portraying the average "Tommy" and his role in the war.

Two collections of letters, written to and by Charles Darwin.

A collection of letters written by and to Florence Nightingale.

Fifty nine posters, broadsides, and ephemera from World War I and II, published in Canada, Belgium, England, France, Germany, and the United States. The posters cover a variety of subjects including recruitment and enlisting, savings stamps, savings and victory bonds, women, agriculture, and munitions.

Enjoy on-line access to scanned copies of newspapers and other periodicals published at the University of British Columbia. These include the Alumni Association's Alumni Chronicle, the student newspaper The Ubyssey and the University's official news publication UBC Reports. Also included are faculty/department-level periodicals, including UBC Medicine Magazine, the UBC Science Undergraduate Association's The 432, the Indian Education Newsletter (1970-1977) and FOCUS, from the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems. Collectively, these publications comprise more than 67,000 pages that chronicle the historical evolution of the University. Also available are annual publications such as the UBC Calendar, the Annual/Totem student yearbook (1916-1966) as well as other published materials.