Historical Photographs at RBSC

James Goldie, a graduate student at UBC's School of Information in 2020, describes his experience arranging and describing the Hanne Wasserman-Walker fonds. The blog post shares more information about the fonds, including some images of items from the fonds.

This blog post, written by Forestry Archivist Claire Williams when she was still a graduate student, shares information about Lilian Bland, the first women to design, construct, and fly her own aircraft, in celebration of International Women's Day. Claire's blog post shares information about Bland in three of her roles: as an equestrian, as a motorwoman, and as a pilot, and also includes three images from the fonds related to these topics.

Brandon Leung, a graduate student in the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management program at Ryerson University, completed an archival internship with Rare Books and Special Collections in December 2020. In this blog post, he shares his experience identifying photographic processes in the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs.

In this blog post, Barbara Towell of University Archives uses a portrait from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs to introduce us to the history of women's fashion and, in particular, watches in the 19th century. The blog post is the first in a series that Barbara will publish related to women's jewellery in historic photographs.

Brandon Leung, a graduate student in the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management program at Ryerson University, completed an archival internship with Rare Books and Special Collections in December 2020. In this blog post, he shares his experience working with historical photographs in the Jim Wong-Chu fonds, including learning more about Jim Wong-Chu, the Chinese-Canadian community, and Vancouver's Chinatown.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, archivist Krisztina Laszlo offers a selection of photographs related to past summer activities in British Columbia.

This exhibition, curated by Archives and Reference Assistant Ashlynn Prasad, explores themes of land rights, urban development, environmentalism, and the relationships between settler-colonists and Indigenous peoples in the area now known as the Lower Mainland.

Professor Allen Hockley and Naoko Kato, Japanese Language Librarian, curated an in-person exhibition in 2017 to highlight four major themes in the Cooper Robinson collection: Robinson and the Economies of Japanese Photography, Robinson and the M.S.C.C. Mission in Japan, Robinson and Japanese Religions, and Robinson’s Photographic Practices. Although the exhibition is not available to be viewed digitally, this blog post provides more information about the exhibition and the collection.

Emily Homolka, a 2020 graduate of UBC's School of Information, curated Ghost Towns in British Columbia, a digital exhibition of historic photographs from the Uno Langmann collection and the Chung Collection. The exhibition explores the phenomena of ghost towns, considering their connection to history, memory, and memory institutions, such as libraries, museums, and archives. A blog post written by Emily about the experience of curating the exhibition can be found here: https://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/2020/11/30/digital-exhibition-ghost-towns-in-british-columbia/.

In this blog post, Ashlynn Prasad, a 2020 graduate of UBC's School of Information, discusses the process of curating an exhibition of photographs from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs, which was installed in a cafe on the UBC Vancouver campus for one year. The blog post contains modern-day photographs of the scenes depicted in the historic photographs, offering a comparison.

In this article, Paula Arasaki focuses on images of arches that used to decorate the streets of downtown Vancouver to commemorate the visits of members of the royal family. The images come from the Uno Langmann collection.

In an article celebrating the beginning of warm weather, Kelly Stathis shares historical photographs of some iconic, as well as some lesser-known, beach locales in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.

This two-part series by Kelly Stathis features some of the earliest Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) hotels in British Columbia. The photographs hail from the Uno Langmann collection and the Chung collection.

In this resource, Risa Hatanaka gives photographic examples from the Uno Langmann collection and the Chung collection of British Columbia's famous mountains.

This playful blog post by Kristina McGuirk presents photographs of cats from different collections, including the Chung collection, the Uno Langmann collection, the Tremaine Arkley Croquet Collection, and the WWI British Press Photograph collection.

In this post celebrating autumn, Alyssa Hamer showcases historical photographs from the Chung collection and the WWI British Press Photograph collection.

In celebration of Bike Month at UBC in 2016, Alyssa Hamer put together an article highlighting various bicycle-related images from the Tremaine Arkley Croquet Collection, the Chung collection, and the WWI British Press Photograph collection.

This article by Alyssa Hamer explores world fashions through the lens of historical photographs. The images in this article come from the Chung collection, among others.

Written by Kelly Stathis, this is another celebration of the variety of leisure activities that British Columbians have enjoyed in the past and continue to enjoy today. It draws from the Uno Langmann Collection, the Tremaine Arkley Collection, and from University Archives' photograph collections.

This post by Alyssa Hamer spotlights one of our smaller collections, the Archibald Murchie collection, which consists of over 50 historical photographs taken in British Columbia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In this collection spotlight, Alyssa Hamer features historical photographs from the Capilano Timber Company fonds, offering an insight into the forestry industry in British Columbia.

This article by Alyssa Hamer spotlights historical photographs related to the fishing industry in British Columbia, from the Fisherman Publishing Society fonds.

This collection spotlight by Alyssa Hamer focuses on the history of Japanese people in British Columbia, as seen through the Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection.

This collection highlight by Alyssa Hamer features the MacMillan Bloedel Limited fonds, one of the largest forest product companies in the world and an important part of the history of forestry in British Columbia.

This post by Kelly Stathis gathers some favourite photographs from the Tremaine Arkley Croquet Collection.

This article by Kelly Stathis spotlights historical postcards found in the Uno Langmann collection.

This blog post by Paula Arasaki highlights photo albums from the Uno Langmann collection that are related to travel.

This blog post by Alyssa Hamer features historical photographs from the WWI British Press Photograph collection.

This post by Kelly Stathis explores photographs of historic towns in British Columbia that were once centres of railway or mining activity, and have since become significantly less populated.

In honour of Family Day 2020, this blog post by Margot Chen presents historical photographs from family photograph albums found in the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs.

A second post highlighting family photographs, this one written in 2018, can be found here: https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/digitizers-blog/family-day/

This article by Risa Hatanaka focuses on digitized photographs from the Fisherman Publishing Society Collection, as well as books from other collections.

Through historical photographs found in the J.E. Denison fonds, as well as other materials in other collections, Liz Otero explores the gold rush era in 1800s British Columbia.

In an article wishing viewers a happy holiday season, Kelly Stathis gathers historical photographs from the Uno Langmann collection, among others, related to wintry weather.

This blog post by Margot Chen focuses on historical photographs of notable buildings in downtown Vancouver in the early 1900s. The featured images come from the Uno Langmann Collection, housed at RBSC.

Written by Margot Chen at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, this article suggests images from both the Uno Langmann Collection and the Chung Collection that could be used as backgrounds for virtual meetings.

In celebration of International Youth Day, Alyssa Hamer features images from the Tremaine Arkley Croquet collection, the Uno Langmann collection, the Chung collection, and the Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection.

This post explores the history of Japanese-Canadian communities in B.C. in the 19th century through the use of images from the Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection. Risa Hatanaka delves into four particular towns in B.C. where Japanese-Canadians resided before relocation.

Written by Kelly Stathis, this article offers details and visuals related to the forced removal of Japanese-Canadians from their homes into internment camps in the 1940s. The photographs come from the Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection.

This blog post by Liz Otero takes another look at the internment of Japanese Canadians in B.C. in the 1940s. These powerful historical photographs come from the Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection.

Risa Hatanaka highlights some of the oldest historical photographs available to be viewed in Open Collections, some of which were originally taken as early as the 1850s.

This article by Risa Hatanaka features images from various collections, including the Chung collection, the Fisherman Publishing Society Collection, and the Uno Langmann collection, which focus on salmon fishing. As one of the primary industries in British Columbian history, fishing is represented prominently in many of RBSC's holdings.

This post, written by Risa Hatanaka, shows historical photographs of well-known streets in Vancouver, including Robson, Davie, Granville, Hastings, and more. The images come from the Uno Langmann collection and were mostly taken in the early 20th century.

Written by Margot Chen at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, this article honours healthcare workers by showcasing photographs related to the healthcare industry from both the Chung Collection and the World War I British Press Photograph Collection, housed at RBSC.

This two-part series of blog posts by Margot Chen features images from the Chung Collection and the Uno Langmann Collection which focus on winter scenes and depictions of winter sports and other leisure activities in British Columbia.

Written by Alyssa Hamer, this article celebrated Veterans' Week in 2016 by highlighting some historical photographs from the WWI British Press Photograph Collection.

Written by Paula Arasaki, this article features images from various collections that are related to winter sports, in honour of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. The article features historical photographs from the Uno Langmann collection.

This post by Alyssa Hamer celebrates World Oceans Day by gathering historical photographs related to the ocean from the Fisherman Publishing Society Collection, among others.

This blog post by Kristina McGuirk showcases one particular photo album, The World Travel Photo Album, from the Uno Langmann collection.