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File consists of photographs from an album showing the C. Itoh & Co. reception at the Bayshore Inn on December 21, 1966. Photographs include group shots of guests sitting at tables and dancing, as well as images showing other activities at the event.

File consists of group shots taken during an event at the Chinese Consulate.

File consists of photographs of a Chinese New Year celebration at the Royal Bank of Canada branch at 400 Main Street.

File consists of photographs of a school reunion, most likely a reunion of King Edward High School graduates.

File consists of photographs taken at a dinner which took place at the Ming Ho Gardens restaurant at 5728 Victoria Drive.

File consists of twelve photographs of a February 1960 fashion parade in Chinatown attended by Mayor A.T. Alsbury and Miss Vancouver Chinatown 1960 Donna Yee, as well as two photographs of a parade in Chinatown, likely taken in 1960.

File consists of an event that took place at the Northpark Restaurant.

Item is an amateur video recording taken at the King Edward High School 50th reunion event for the class of 1949.

File consists of photographs taken at the fiftieth reunion event for the King Edward Class of 1949.

File consists of group photographs taken for the "Blue and White" newspaper at King Edward High School in 1948. Includes photographs of divisions, the orchestra, publications board and sports groups, including the girl's basketball and grass hockey teams. Some names of students have been written on the back of the prints.

File consists of four photographs of the Middle Arm Bridge taken on May 31, 1957 and five photographs of road construction on the 800 block of Thurlow Street, showing CustomColor Laboratories Ltd. at 819 Thurlow Street, circa 1957.

Item is an album containing photographs of the Parade of Oriental Fashions event at the 18th convention of the Canadian Food Processors Association as well as a program for the convention. The parade took place on January 22, 1965 in the Mai Tai Room of the Bayshore Inn. Photographs show female models wearing Asian dress, a fashion show and attendees.

The album also includes photographs of the Year of the Serpent Chinese New Year Festival Banquet held at the W.K. Gardens on February 26, 1965. The banquet was held in conjunction with the Spring Carnival Committee, and was sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Vancouver Visitors Bureau and the Chinese community. Included are photographs of various Vancouver pageant queens, Miss San Francisco Chinatown, Miss Chinatown USA first princess, and the crowning of a young woman with a serpent headdress and crown.

Notes at the back of the album list orders received for copies and provide some identification of those individuals appearing in the photographs.

Item is an album containing photographs relating to the Republic of China (Taiwan)'s participation in the 1959 Pacific National Exhibition (PNE), the theme of which was "Salute to the Pacific." Includes photographs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) pavilion, the visit of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to the pavilion and the PNE Outdoor Theatre, and various Chinese musical and dance performances on the theatre stage. Also included in the album are photographs of a traditional Chinese dress fashion show, an aerial motorcycle act, the acceptance of a painting by Mayor A.T. Alsbury and Alderman F. Fredrickson, women and a girl in traditional dress posing with a dragon statue, and what appears to be a group of Chinese officials standing in front of the pavilion.

File consists of photographs of a Royal Bank of Canada dinner introducing John Cleghorn as Senior Vice-President and General Manager.

File consists of photographs (slides) of the visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Vancouver in 1959. Includes photographs of the opening of the Deas Island Tunnel and the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on July 15, 1959.

File consists of photographs of a staff Christmas party at the Bayshore's Trader Vic's restaurant. Includes group shots taken at various tables, and photographs of guests with Santa Claus. There appears to be some duplication between the negatives and the photographs.

File consists of photographs pertaining to Sylvia Ablowitz (nee Goldstein), after whom the Sylvia Hotel was named; including photograph prints showing celebrating Sylvia's 100th and 102nd birthdays, family members sitting shiva following her death in 2002, as well as a negative of her graduation portrait from UBC in 1921.

File consists of photographs of University of British Columbia students at various parties or "bashes" from May 18, 1953 to December 31, 1954.