City of Vancouver Archives

[Bicycle racers and others at Brockton Point]

AM54-S4-: Sp P15.1
Item
[after 1901]

Group portrait showing high wheel and regular bicycles and W.H. Blackmore, Fred Blackmore, Bill Findlay, Lionel Yorke and others

Mount Sir Donald from Mount Abbott Glacier National Park

AM54-S4-: Out P111.1
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Malkin family with servants on steps of house at 1406 Davie Street]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-35
Item
[1907?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows men, women, and children assembled along the steps of a house. Three servants are included in the photograph.

J. Gillis putting the weight [at Brockton Point]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-570
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Duncan Gillis throwing the weight

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-568
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing Gillis completing a hammer throw.

Duncan Gillis throwing the weight

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-569
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing Gillis completing a hammer throw.

Pete Muldoon New Westminster Hockey Team Champions P.C.H.A.

AM54-S4-: Sp P113.10
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

U.C.T. Convention Group on Courthouse Steps

AM1535-: CVA 99-4416
Item
May 18, 1934

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Group portrait

[F.V. Longstaff at an Alpine Club camp at Peyto Lake in Banff National Park]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-486
Item
Jul. 1948

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of B.C. Transfer Co. Ltd. horse drawn wagons and men gathered at Carrall Street on False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LP 137
Item
[ca. 1899]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows barges under construction and the B.C. Cement Co. plant in the background. Men identified: Joseph McDonald, Henry R. McDonald and Mr. W.W. Burrough

[S.S. "Cutch" and men on a picnic at Hermit Island]

AM54-S4-: Bo P228.1
Item
1892

Part of Major Matthews collection

Some of the men are identified (left to right): Isaac Oppenheimer, J.C. Keith, Mr. McKee, H.T. Ceperly, J.T.C. Williams and Harry Abbott

[Rev. Charles Montgomery Tate and others]

AM54-S4-: In P59.2
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mr. W.R. Russell and Mr. Alex W. Fisher at the sod-turning ceremony for the Kerrisdale Community Centre]

AM54-S4-: Bu P453.6
Item
Mar. 19, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pipe manufacturing at] Tait Pipe Company Limited

AM1535-: CVA 99-4612
Item
Apr. 12, 1934

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Group portrait of fire chiefs in civilian dress with reporter Simma Holt

COV-S280-: CVA 354-363
Item
ca. 1955

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): seated - E.L. Erratt, J.H. De Graves, Simma Holt, C.W. Thompson, A.McDiarmid, A.R. Murray ; standing - Malcolm MacDonald, William Plumsteel, Angus Lougheed, Walter Fox, Harvey Bowering.

[View of Squad Wagon car wreck at Broadway and Clark Drive]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-139
Item
June 3, 1952

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing the car collision of Firehall No. 3 lnhalator involving firefighters Ken York, Don McLeod, Percy Richards, and Captain Oswald Howell (Howell later died in hospital).

[Group of men and women assembled for a picnic on the lawn in front of the Vancouver Waterworks Company house in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 175B
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with negative states, "End of Pipe Line Road. First Narrows. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris have lived here almost fifty years.; Picnic is on the edge of beach. Her Lord Stanley dedicated. Oppenheimer opened.; Stanley Park water works house. Pipe Line Road. Prospect point.; Old Indian [indigenous] clearing. Occupied Chief Haatsalanogh (Kitsilano) 1863.; See R.E. [Royal Engineers] survey this is Chaythoos. Here Hay-tulk was buried."

[Richard Trodden at the wheel of a "Wolseley" car]

AM54-S4-: Trans P150
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Unidentified Ukrainian man - late 1930s

AM1688-S1-F6-: 2021-034.393
Item
[ca. 1940] (Reproduced 2021)

Part of Yucho Chow Community Archive collection

Collector/curator’s description reads: “Circa 1940, Vancouver. Unidentified Caucasian man dressed in a suit. Photo has been handpainted. Was found in the family collection of John Shapka, who was a Ukrainian immigrant.”

[Two men with a dead swan]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1018
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows William Hood and John holding the wings of a swan which has been strung up by its feet.

Radio Sales Service Ltd. giant radio at Victory Square

AM1535-: CVA 99-4143
Item
1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows the Daily Province building in the background

Radio Sales Service Ltd. giant radio at Victory Square

AM1535-: CVA 99-4145
Item
1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows the Daily Province building in the background

Radio Sales Service Ltd. giant radio at Victory Square

AM1535-: CVA 99-4144
Item
1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Five members of the Empress Jazz Orchestra of Vancouver's Empress Theatre. Dated Nov. 1, 1919 &a...

[Five members of the Empress Jazz Orchestra of Vancouver's Empress Theatre. Dated Nov. 1, 1919 & members identified on back]

AM1645-: CVA 19-81
Item
[ca. 1919]

Part of Vaudeville photograph collection

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): Charles Sievers, drummer, Florence Munroe, piano, Elwood Munro, banjo, and (back row) Trevor Thomas, cornet, and C.O. Ashworth, saxophone.

[Harry James sitting with masks]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-786
Item
[between 1941 and 1943]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Item is a photograph taken at the Nanaimo Reserve showing Harry James with masks. Inscription on verso of print: "No. 2994 - Indian ceremonial masks are handed down generation to generation. This Indian is nearly 80 years of age and keeps these masks hidden in an old chest in a smoke house on the Reservation. Considerable coaxing was necessary before he would produce them for photographing. It is his belief that if he should lose them a curse would descend upon his family. Don Coltman Photo."

Ex Magee Rugby Team - Winners Miller Cup 1932-33-34

AM1535-: CVA 99-4585
Item
Dec. 29, 1933

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Group portrait showing left to right: (back row): J. Hillier, L. Wright, S. Marrion, A. Applegarth, K. Farina, D. Matheson, J. Kent, P. Ford, R. Pearson, T. Ferris, Hoy Cameron; (front row): R. Gregg, J. Claerke, R. Cotton, Y. Ono, F. Lightheart, C. Pallott, G. Austin, A. Blakey and R. Van Horne

[Harry James holding two masks]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-785
Item
[between 1941 and 1943]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Item is a photograph taken at the Nanaimo Reserve showing Harry James with masks. Inscription on verso of print: "#2993 - Old ceremonial masks used by the Cowichan Indians on Vancouver Island, B.C. It is the belief of this descendent [sic] of the old mask makers that if these masks are sold or lost, a curse will descend on his family. Don Coltman Photo."

Kitsilano Boys Band

AM1205-S2-F18-: CVA 1205-37
Item
1933

Part of Dal Richards fonds

Item is a photograph showing the Kitsilano Boys Band at the Hall of Science, Chicago World's Fair.

Officers of the Force

VPD-S214-: CVA 480-155
Item
1962

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

Item is a composite photograph showing portraits of senior officials and names of individuals are included on the print.

[View of road with horse-drawn buggy and motor vehicles at Stanley Park Pavilion]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-110
Item
[1915-1918]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a roadway at the side of Stanley Park Pavilion with a horse-drawn buggy, motor vehicles and people walking.

[Couple sitting on steps at Stanley Park Pavilion]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-114
Item
22 Sept. 1919

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows ground level view of a man and woman sitting on steps between potted plants at the Stanley Park Pavilion.

1935-36 ARTS Club

AM1447-: CVA 1447-2
Item
[ca. 1934]

Part of ARTS Club fonds

Photograph is composite of club member's portraits. The following names and titles (if any) appear under portraits in the photograph: J. Taylor; B. Power; H. S. Bridgeman; Ed Lewis; H. Addington; Norm Allan; G. Glover; J. Rome; D. Cranswick; al McKinnon, membership; H. Burgoyne, social; C. Forman, athletics; Ed Wright, publications; F. Mantle, secretary; F. Holland, vice-president; J. O. Beale, president; J. Graham, honorary president; J. Dee, treasurer; S. Waring; M. Miller; N. Strugnell; L. Highet; D. Kenny; Norm Flowerdew; I. Huchinson; B. Bielby; J. Willet; J.S. Grahame; G. Sinker; J. Gemmell; B. Brevitt; D. Dunn; J. Mabel.

Roy Denny

VPD-S714-: CVA 480-588
Item
Dec. 6, 1912

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

L. Ed. Moseley - alias Ed Duffy

VPD-S714-: CVA 480-593
Item
Dec. 7, 1912

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

Francis R. Kennedy

VPD-S714-: CVA 480-587
Item
Dec. 6, 1912

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

B. H. Chandler - alias Black Chandler

VPD-S714-: CVA 480-586
Item
Dec. 6, 1912

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

Women athletes leaving [by train] for Eastern Trials

AM1535-: CVA 99-5032
Item
June 29, 1934

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

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

AM54-S4-: Port P219
Item
Aug. 20, 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

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

AM54-S4-: Port P919.1
Item
Aug. 20, 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

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

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Phillip Sullivan]

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

[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

[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

Hanbury's Indoor Baseball Team, 1924

AM1535-: CVA 99-3444
Item
1924

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph showing a group portrait of the team. Ab Mortimer is seated in the front row, far right.

I.L.A. [International Longshoreman's Association] Baseball Team - City League Champions - 1920

AM1535-: CVA 99 - 3234
Item
1920

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph showing a group portrait of the amateur city league team, the Dockers, posing with their trophies at Powell Street Grounds. Eddie Nahanee is standing far left and Ab Mortimer is seated in the front row, second from the right.

Thorpe's truck [delivering to La Fonda Restaurant at 3731 West 4th Avenue]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3872
Item
Apr. 24, 1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Dr. Alfred C. Lane]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4003
Item
1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph of Alfred Church Lane, Past President of the Geological Society of America and part of the group visiting from the Princeton University Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources.