Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
William Edgar Knowles Middleton fonds
General material designation
- Photograph
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- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
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Fonds
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Statement of scale (cartographic)
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Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
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Physical description area
Physical description
350 photographs
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Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
William Edgar Knowles Middleton was an amateur photographer from Vancouver. He was also a researcher and writer on meteorological instruments, meteorology and general science. He was an honorary member of the American Meteorological Society.
Custodial history
Scope and content
The fonds consists of two albums containing Middleton's photographs depicting Stanley Park, downtown Vancouver, the West End, Gastown, beaches, buildings, ships, docks, bridges and monuments. Middleton created edited prints and the fonds contains one edited print and the original unedited negative for nearly all of the photographs.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
- Fonds came to archives in 2 or 3 albums (conflicting documentation). After arriving at the archives, the albums were broken down into individual pages and it is unclear the album from which each photograph originated from.
- Fonds was previously referred to using the identifier CVA 293.
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Finding aids
Item list available.
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Rights
Copyright: City of Vancouver; expiry: 2049
Conservation
Album pages were detached from their original bindings and re-housed in envelopes.