City of Vancouver Archives

[The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Percy Vincent visits City Hall]

AM54-S4-: Port P919.2
Item
Aug. 20, 1936

Group portrait showing Major A.E. Wood, Commander J.R. Poland, W.T. Boston, Alderman Frederick Whittingham, Frederick Rowland, Sir Vansittart Bowater, His Worship G.G. McGeer, Colonel J.D. Laurie, Colonel William J. Waldron and others

[A class of the steps of Central School]

AM54-S4-: Sch P65
Item
1891

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Miss Buttimer and her students

[A class on the steps of Central School]

AM54-S4-: Sch P64
Item
1891

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Miss Hartney and her students

[Phillip Sullivan]

AM54-S4-: Port P858
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Josephine Sullivan]

AM54-S4-: Port P67.3
Item
[1889 or 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Ball Family

AM54-S4-: Port P338
Item
[189-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group photograph

[Joe (Seraphim) Fortes in front of the boulder on the beach at English Bay]

AM54-S4-: Port P1775
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Joe (Seraphim) Fortes in front of his tent at English Bay]

AM54-S4-: Port P1725
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mrs. Edward Boynton (102 years old) smoking a cigar]

AM54-S4-: Port P1622
Item
[ca. Feb. 15, 1960]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing a portrait of Matilda Boynton. Inscription on verso states "Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boynton 4195 Fraser St. Mrs. Boynton will be 103 years old Feb. 13th 1961. Born, Victoria, Tennessee. Ed. Boynton was born [Aurora] Ontario March 10th 1876. She still use no glasses, no hearing aid, does her own house work. Smokes the odd cigar and like a drink of Rum. Presented by Reuben Hamilton, Pioneer."

[Two portraits of Fielding William Spotts, age 78, at 217 1/2 Hogan's Alley, Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Port N3.2
Item
[28 May 1935]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Two portraits of Fielding William Spotts, age 78, at 217 1/2 Hogan's Alley, Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Port N3.1
Item
[28 May 1935]

Part of Major Matthews collection

See J.S. Matthews' notes on prints (border and verso) in Archives.

[The Salvation Army Band marches on Second Avenue near Moncton Street]

AM54-S4-: Out P682
Item
[between 1898 and 1900] ; reproduced 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows S. Petersky and Company's Vancouver General Store and the Misfit Clothing House

Employees Hastings Sawmill, Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Mi P4
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing a group of mill workers. Persons in the front row identified are Yasukichi Yoshizawa (second from left), Rusty Pleece (third from left), and Tom Hunter (fifth from left).

[Joe Fortes in front of his cottage on English Bay at the foot of Bidwell Street (1700 Beach Avenue)]

AM54-S4-: Bu P111
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

"Opening Game Base Ball Season 1915" "Vancouver vs. Victoria"

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N14B
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

The game was played at the Athletic Park at 5th Avenue and Hemlock Street.

Walter Crumbly

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2169
Item
[ca. 1922]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait of a vaudeville actor who performed at the Orpheum Theatre

[Vaudeville actors who performed at the Orpheum Theatre]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2168
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait

Al Anderson

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2167
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait of a vaudeville actor who performed at the Orpheum Theatre

Jay Goines

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2166
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait of a vaudeville actor who performed at the Orpheum Theatre

[Vaudeville actors who performed at the Orpheum Theatre]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2164
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing the vaudeville duo Sam Cook (right) and Jim Stevens (left), in costume likely for their comedy show titled "The Chinese and the Coon" which depicted racist and racialized impersonation.

[Vaudeville actors who performed at the Orpheum Theatre]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2163
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Joe Fortes in front of his cottage at the foot of Bidwell Street (1700 Beach Avenue)]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1977
Item
[191-?] ; reproduced 1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An unidentified group in front of a C.P.R. car]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1046
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An unidentified group in front of a C.P.R. observation car]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1045
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Joe (Seraphim) Fortes in his swimming costume]

AM54-S4-: Port P114.1
Item
[between 1915 and 1920]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mrs. Josephine Sullivan's house - N.W. corner of Gore Avenue and Oppenheimer (E. Cordova) Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P73
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing the house of the Sullivan family, early Black settlers in Vancouver.

[Men and a boy at a makeshift shelter in the 'jungle' at the City dump]

AM54-S4-: Re N3.2
Item
Sept. 1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Church picnic at Lynn Valley]

AM54-S4-: Port P334
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Miss Sentell, J.H. Carlisle, Miss Slade (Mrs. F.W. Sentell), F.W. Sentell, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Hooper and others

[Church picnic at Lynn Valley]

AM54-S4-: Port P335
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Group portrait of construction workers and the congregation at the Evangelical Tabernacle building site]

AM54-S4-: Bu P175.2
Item
May 12, 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Central School in the background.

[Barbara Howard]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1643
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Hamilton Hall (formerly First Baptist Church) at the corner of Dunsmuir Street and Hamilton Street]

AM54-S4-: Ch N29
Item
31 Jan. 1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[View from Thurlow and Melville Streets looking east]

AM54-S4-: Bu P508.100
Item
May 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Georgia Medical Dental Building and the Hotel Vancouver and a house behind trees

[Exterior of the Hudson's Bay Co. store - corner of Granville and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P414
Item
[between 1949 and 1952]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Troops on parade on Burrard Street at Melville Street]

AM54-S4-: Mil P64.3
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing spectators watching the parade. Also visible in the background are Wesley Church, Glencoe Lodge and the Ailsa Lodge.

Shirras, John, asst. commissioner, B.C. Prov. Police

AM54-S23-2--
File

Part of Major Matthews collection

File includes records relating to Tashme Japanese Internment Camp, which housed Japanese Canadians forcibly removed from the coast, ca. 1941.

Looking north from the Fraser Street Bridge showing the open swing span

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.5
Item
1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

Fraser Ave. bridge - Looking towards Lulu Island [Mitchell Island]

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.2
Item
1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing a group at the bridge with a diver in a boat preparing to dive to the submerged automobile.

Fraser Ave. bridge over North Arm - Fraser River

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.1
Item
1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing the gates of the draw bridge and bridge tender Thomas Dodson is standing far right.

Southern end Fraser Avenue Bridge

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.3
Item
1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

Looking north towards South Vancouver over Fraser Avenue Bridge

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.4
Item
1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

Book of Photographs : In the Privy Council : No. 2 of 1919

AM54-S4-2-F1
File
1919-1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

File consists of five photographic prints used as exhibits in a BC Supreme Court case regarding a fatal automobile accident at the site of the Fraser Avenue Bridge that occurred in 1916.

[German barque "Pallac" in Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-924.1
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The aftermath of a boiler explosion on Vancouver Island]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2637
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the remains of a boiler on a beach

[The aftermath of a boiler explosion on Vancouver Island]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2639
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the remains of a boiler on a beach

[Waterworks house at end of Pipeline Road in Stanley Park, covered in snow]

AM54-S4-: SGN 977
Item
[1900?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with negative states, "Old water works house, occupied by Frank Harris for over fifty years, end of Pipe Line Road, date about 1900."

[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]

AM54-S4-: SGN 199
Item
[1 July 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Charles Bailey, Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eva Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]

AM54-S4-: SGN 198
Item
[1 July 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Charles Bailey, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eve Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Construction of Trout (Buntzen) Lake Dam and other photographs]

AM54-S4-1-S-4
File
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File consists of an album showing photographs of the construction site at various stages as well as equipment, cabling, rail tracks for transporting material, exterior and interior views of the powerhouse, and views of cleared land for the site and surrounding scenery. Also included are a few photographs of Vancouver and other unidentified locations.

[View of road construction along] Commercial St., bet. Vanness & 22nd Ave's.

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-88
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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