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"Small Gardens for Small Folks" booklet
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
ephemera
Date Range
1912
Scope and Content
File contains a small booklet published by Burpee Seed Company.
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Students gardening at Manson's Landing school
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1917
Scope and Content
Students gardening at the Manson's Landing school, doing spring work and planting.
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.002
Series Number
2
Item Number
2004.002.005
Material Type
graphic material
Responsibility
Katherine Lettice
Date Range
1917
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Students gardening at the Manson's Landing school, doing spring work and planting.
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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School and garden, Manson's Landing school
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1917
Scope and Content
Flower border along the road side of the log school house, Manson's Landing
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.002
Series Number
2
Item Number
2004.002.009
Material Type
graphic material
Responsibility
Katherine Lettice
Date Range
1917
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 10.5 x 6 cm
Scope and Content
Flower border along the road side of the log school house, Manson's Landing
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Geographic Access
Manson's Landing
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"Siwash Rock, Stanley Park, Feb 20/21"
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1921
Scope and Content
Photograph of Siwash Rock, a large outcrop with a tree growing at its tip, at the shore in Stanley Park, Vancouver.
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"Raus - King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of a crowd of people in an open field backed by houses.
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"Cadets - King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of a line of cadets at the far side of a field.
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"Stretcher bearers, First Aid Corps - King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of stretcher bearers in the center of an open field.
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"Color Bearers - King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of flag carriers at the front of a parade.
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"King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of a marching band.
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"Raus - King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of a crowd of people watching a game in a large field.
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"Raus - King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of a group of people assembled on a large field.
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"Cadets - King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of a line of cadets at the periphery of a field.
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"Sports - King Edward High School Proficiency Day - May 12, 1922 - 'Ad Summum" "
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of a crowd of high school students.
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"Rock, Whaletown Road, Aug. 1922
Part Of
Dorothy Huck Whalley fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1922
Scope and Content
Photograph of a woman holding a walking stick, possibly Dorothy's Aunt Wells, beside a rock face.
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"Professor David A Nick leaving seat of learning", Alert Bay
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1933
Scope and Content
Photograph of a man in front of a school building, Alert Bay.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.039
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1933
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w: 8.5 x 6 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a man in front of a school building, Alert Bay.
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Geographic Access
Alert Bay
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David Morrison and Al. Hood, Alert Bay, 1933
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.734
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1933
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 12.5 x 10 cm
1 photograph print: b&w; 12.5 x 17.5
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Geographic Access
Alert Bay
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Women sitting on a rock in Von Donop Inlet
Part Of
Peggy Newsham fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Accession Number
2019.007
Date Range
1939
Part Of
Peggy Newsham fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2019.007
Item Number
2019.007.003
Accession Number
2019.007
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1939
Physical Description
1 photograph print : b&w ; 9 x 6 cm
Custodial History
Donated by Dennis Newsham and Frances Guthrie after Peggy Newsham's death.
Storage Location
Photograph Box 3
Name Access
Newsham, Peggy
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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Edward Beesley & daughter Dorothy
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1942
Scope and Content
Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.680
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1942
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 6 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph comes from an envelope marked "Beesley family photos, 1920s"
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
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"Seal Boy" - John Manson in front of black seal shape on surface of rock
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1946
Scope and Content
Photograph is a print taken from the same negative as photograph 2004.001.043 (Florence McKay fonds). The legend of "Seal Boy" is handwritten in Salish (? check language) on the back, with a typed English translation taped on.
Part Of
May and Elmer Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2007.001
Series Number
13
Item Number
2007.001.310
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1946
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 9 x 6.5
Scope and Content
Photograph is a print taken from the same negative as photograph 2004.001.043 (Florence McKay fonds). The legend of "Seal Boy" is handwritten in Salish (? check language) on the back, with a typed English translation taped on.
Storage Location
Photograph Box 4
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John Manson in front of black seal shape on surface of rock
Part Of
Florence McKay fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1946
Scope and Content
John Manson in front of black seal shape on surface of rock. The back of the photograph has a typed explanation of the legend of the Seal Boy, as follows:
"According to Indian legend, an Indian boy who persisted in going in swimming in spite of his mother's repeated warnings, was turned into a seal visible here as the black rock formation I am looking at. Summer, 1946."
"Ankity tillicum wawa, Ikt wake kloosh Sliamin tenasman quansum tickie klatawa cupa chuck. Yaka mama wawa, 'Klush halo!' Tenasman delate sahalie tumtum, halo iskum okok wawa. Wight wawa yaka mama, 'Spose halo kopate kloness elkie mica clap hias cull.' Pe nawitka yaka chaco delate klahowyum, chako kohkwa Siwash cusho mitlite cupa okok klale tone. Nika nanitch alta. Waum Illahee, 1946."
Part Of
Florence McKay fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.001
Item Number
2004.001.043
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1946
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 14 x 19 cm
Scope and Content
John Manson in front of black seal shape on surface of rock. The back of the photograph has a typed explanation of the legend of the Seal Boy, as follows:
"According to Indian legend, an Indian boy who persisted in going in swimming in spite of his mother's repeated warnings, was turned into a seal visible here as the black rock formation I am looking at. Summer, 1946."
"Ankity tillicum wawa, Ikt wake kloosh Sliamin tenasman quansum tickie klatawa cupa chuck. Yaka mama wawa, 'Klush halo!' Tenasman delate sahalie tumtum, halo iskum okok wawa. Wight wawa yaka mama, 'Spose halo kopate kloness elkie mica clap hias cull.' Pe nawitka yaka chaco delate klahowyum, chako kohkwa Siwash cusho mitlite cupa okok klale tone. Nika nanitch alta. Waum Illahee, 1946."
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
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