City of Vancouver Archives

"Bonds Buy Ships" sign

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1012
Item
[1943?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Group portrait around sign provided by Burrard Dry Dock

Purex Paper [advertisement photography at Coltman Studio]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1863
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Purex advertisement

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1906
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a roll of bathroom tissue

Purex advertisement

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1907
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a roll of bathroom tissue

Woodward's catalogue - hats

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2980
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Woodward's catalogue - hats

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2981
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Woodward's catalogue - hats

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2982
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Woodward's catalogue - hats

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2983
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Woodward's catalogue - hats

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2984
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Woodward's catalogue - hats

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2985
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Woodward's catalogue - hats

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2986
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Woodward's catalogue - hats

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2987
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

B.C. Electric bus [interior]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4377
Item
June 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Hudson Bay display window

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4764
Item
Oct. 4, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a sign advertising The Bay's fall fashion show and tea at the Commodore Cabaret

B.C. Electric Railway window display [promoting business in B.C. and] Canada Kelp Company

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4765
Item
Oct. 4, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

B.C. Electric Railway window display [promoting the] Community Chest

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4767
Item
Oct. 4, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[B.C. Electric Railway Company's building under construction]

AM54-S4-1-M-14-: M-14-55
Item
Sept. 21, 1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is progress photograph of construction of B.C. Electric Railway building at 435 Carrall Street (at Hastings). Item also shows a number of billboard advertisements by the Vancouver Gas. Co.

[Interior of Secord House showing reception area]

AM54-S4-: Hot P23.2
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

400 Homer Street west side

COV-S509-: CVA 778-193
Item
May 1974

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Image shows, the foreground, the low parkade at Pender Street & Homer Street, and in the background, the side of the Niagara Hotel (on Pender Street, includes a painted wall advertisement).

400 Homer Street west side

COV-S509-: CVA 778-194
Item
May 1974

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Image shows, the foreground, the low parkade at Pender Street & Homer Street, and in the background, the side of the Niagara Hotel (on Pender Street, includes a painted wall advertisement).

Urban Safari

AM1553-6-S1-: 2011-119.1
Item
[1995]

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Item is an original promotional poster for the film, "Urban Safari."

12 inexpensive ideas : to beautify your home with weldwood

AM1519-: 2010-125.34
Item
1952

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

"Ever notice how just a touch can make all the difference in a room?" "Albion offers Weldwood for these 12 inexpensive ideas . . . . "

B.C. Electric Bus

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4378
Item
June 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Item consists of a photograph of BC Electric streetcar #430, on route #11, with passengers boarding. The vehicle was referred to as a bus by the photographer.

View of Ladner station, showing Imperial advertising

AM1669-: CVA 389-152
Item
Jul. 1923

Part of Imperial Oil Company fonds

View of Ladner station, showing Imperial advertising

AM1669-: CVA 389-151
Item
Jul. 1923

Part of Imperial Oil Company fonds

View of Ladner station, showing Imperial advertising

AM1669-: CVA 389-150
Item
Jul. 1923

Part of Imperial Oil Company fonds

View of Ladner station, showing Imperial advertising

AM1669-: CVA 389-149
Item
Jul. 1923

Part of Imperial Oil Company fonds

View of Ladner station, showing Imperial advertising

AM1669-: CVA 389-148
Item
Jul. 1923

Part of Imperial Oil Company fonds

Pacific Highway 100 feet from customs [on] south side [of] highway incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-1
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Company billboard advertising The Plantation Orchestra in Port Moody

Pacific Highway 1/4 mile from Campbell River Road [on] south side [of] highway incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-3
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Company billboard advertising Church's Shoes and Ingledew's

Pacific Highway [near] Kiwanis Arch incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-4
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Company billboard advertising David Spencer Ltd.

Pacific Highway and Meridian Road

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-8
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Company billboard advertising oil filters and signs for: Quaker State Motor Oil, the Trocadero Cafe and the New Your Fur Company

Pacific Highway and Old Yale Road incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-9
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Company billboard advertising David Spencer Ltd.

Pacific Highway and gravel pit

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-14
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows two billboards advertising Church's Shoes and Ingledew's, and Hotel Russell (partly obscured)

Kingsway and Gilley [Avenue on] south side city outgoing

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-23
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Ruddy-Druker Company billboard advertising Graham automoiles at Bingham-Tyrwhitt Motors

Kingsway and Waltham [Avenue] south side city incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-24
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Harry Duker Ltd. billboard advertising McCallum's Scotch Wiskey

Kingsway and Tyne [Street] south side city outgoing

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-29
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Ltd. billboard advertising thr Hotel Frye in Seattle and a Casano billboard advertising Munro's Highway Fur Store in New Westminster

Kingsway and McHardy [Street] north side city

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-31
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a billboard advertising Sherwin-Williams Paints, a carbon electric street light and a Richfield and Richlube garage in the background

Kingsway and Spencer [Street] north side city outgoing

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-33
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows billboards advertising Wrigley's Spearmint Gum and "Gutta Percha" Tires

Kingsway and Clark [Drive] southeast city

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-37
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Kingsway Cleaners and a billboard advertising The Devonshire Apartment Hotel

Kingsway and Clark [Drive] northeast city

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-38
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a sign painted on a building for Wayside Tobacconist and Confectionery and Old Chum Tobacco, a grocery store and a billboard for Hills and Underwood Dry Gin

4th [Avenue] and Main [Street] southwest

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-46
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Ruddy-Duker Ltd. billboards advertising Restmore Furniture and Mattresses and Stevenson's Bread (with lights) and a street car in the background,

Georgia [Street] and Beatty [Street]

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-50
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking west from the Georgia Viaduct including Ruddy-Duker billboards advertising Crone Moving and Turret Cigarettes, a sign for Fort Garry Coffee and the houses in the 100 Block of Georgia Street in the background

Hastings [Street] and Vernon [Drive] southwest city

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-55
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows E.J. Harrison Druggist, a Ruddy-Duker Ltd. billboard advertising Turret Cigarettes, National Dairies and a David Hall Sign Company billboard

Hastings [Street] and Clark [Drive] northwest city

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-56
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a billboard with a clock advertising Purity Bread

Georgia [Street] and Howe [Street] northeast roof

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-59
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Company billboard advertising Turret Cigarettes on the roof of 785 Georgia Street, a billboard advertising Buckinham Cigarettes and Model TV6 Trucks and a sign for Waghorn Gwynn and Company on the roof of the Granville-Georgia Block (709 West Georgia), a tourist's direction and mileage sign at the corner of Granville and Georgia Streets and the Hotel Georgia in the background

Granville [Street] and Pacific [Street] southwest city

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-61
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Ltd. billboard advertising Westinghouse Flavor Zone Cooking and partly obscured billboards for Union Oil

[Looking northwest from the Granville Bridge towards Pacific Street]

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-62
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Ruddy-Duker Ltd. billboards advertising Vancouver, Aylmer products, Empress Jam, "Gutta Percha" Tires and others, a carbon electric light

Pacific [Street] and Burrard [Street] northeast

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-65
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking northwest from the Granville Bridge including a Ruddy-Duker Ltd. sign advertising Burn's Bakeasy on the roof of the Continental Hotel, a billboard for Sterling Gin and carbon electric lights

Granville [Street] near 3rd [Avenue]

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-69
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows lighted Ruddy-Duker Company billboards advertising Polar Furs Ltd. and Dominion Furniture and carbon electric lights

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