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Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds Timms, Philip T. With digital objects
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[Vancouver Information and Tourist Association advertisement poster]

Photograph shows a sign, reading: "Investigate Vancouver. Unlimited opportunities for capital. The coming metropolis of Western America. The only terminal point and port in Canada on the Pacific." Photograph also shows another small sign, reading: "Advertising Vancouver. The Vancouver Information and Tourist Association have placed 100 of these posters in Seattle during the A.Y.P.E. through Bond and Ricketts Ltd., the designers."

AYPE is Alaska Pacific Yukon Exposition, held in 1909.

Vancouver's first baby [as grown woman in carriage on Hornby Street]

A note on the photograph reads: "This is a picture made on Hornby St. at the Court House site. Georgia Street and Hotel Vancouver in the background. At the close of Vancouver's 21st Birthday Parade this photo of our first white baby was made. This famous team of horses was known to many. Do you recognize the gentleman on the box? - Timms Photo."

[View along Granville Street looking south from the waterfront]

  • An attached label reads: "Looking south on Granville Street, during the 'Klondyke Boom,' 1898-9. The Williams stone buildings on the right gives the key to the picture. The Royal Bank and Post office are now on either corner. - Philip Timms."
  • Notes on the back of the photograph contain information regarding the purchase of the photograph by the Hudson's Bay Company.

[Wedge shaped rocks]

A note on the original mounting board reads: "The 'Wedge." The disintegration of rock formation is an interesting field for the nature photographer. Wet, frost, debris, and vegetation penetrates the fractures in the rock, forcing the mass apart to fall below and form the Talus. Sea Coast, near Vancouver, B.C. Philip Timms, A.R.P.S."

[Wesley Choir's last stand - flashlight taken Sunday evening, August 31, 1930, following the singing of "Handel's Hallelujah" - henceforth Wesley and St. Andrew's are one]

Photograph shows the choir of the Wesley Methodist Church posed in front of the church organ before the church's amalgamation with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church to form St. Andrew's Wesley United Church.

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