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Ms. Que Banh

Did you know? The #UnitedChurch once operated a home and school in #VictoriaBC for #Chinese and #Japanese girls and women. Today, many are surprised to learn this. Margery Hadley, a professional #archivist and member of #FirstMetropolitanUnitedChurch in Victoria, has recently completed a #digitization project that makes the images of the Oriental Home and School available online. It opens to us a now distant world and its concomitant issues.

pacificmountain.ca/oriental-ho

#FirstMetArchives has been privileged to care for two important historical documents from the #OrientalHomeAndSchool. The first is the #ChineseRescueHome Advisory Committee minute book, 1896-1915. The second is the Oriental Home and School album, a fascinating assemblage of 95 photographs of the Oriental Home community, mainly between 1907 and 1916.

The Oriental Home and School album is now available online. It is part of First Met’s #historic #photographs digitization project that involved digital scanning and description of over 500 images from our #archival collections. These photographs are available to the public on #Flickr. The Oriental Home and School album is one of ten sets of First Met’s #HistoricalPhotographs available for public viewing.

First Met gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of the #BritishColumbia #History #Digitization Program (2015), sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, #UBC.

flickr.com/photos/firstmetarch

pacificmountain.caOriental Home and School Photos Online – Pacific Mountain Region
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Mark Stoneman

It's hard for me to believe that this Red Cross Moving "Fort" was actually used to convey soldiers between trenches. How could that small wheeled frame make it across the Western Front's rough terrain? And how could such a light-weight protective shield offer meaningful cover? -- Photo by Bain News Service, ca. 1914/15. Source: Library of Congress, loc.gov/pictures/item/20146994.
#GreatWar #WorldWar #WWI #HistoricalPhotographs #StrangeContraptions

Small cart covered from top to bottom in smooth sheet metal, verticle in back with a sloping nose in the front and small holes for whoever was supposed to make the thing go. Red cross symbol on front and side. Handwritten text on photograph reads "A red cross moving 'Fort.' For rescuing between trenches."
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Daniel Cavicchi

A recent NYT piece, on the endurance (and remaking) of Deadhead culture since 1995, has some great audience shots by photographer Peter Fisher.

Between that and Paul McCartney's new book, featuring photographs he took of fans and paparazzi while on tour in 1964, there is a bounty of new audience images to study.


nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/mu

The New York TimesWhy Can’t We Stop Quitting the Grateful Dead?By Marc Tracy
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Of Bookish Things

Winnipeg made #Skyscraper history 120 years ago with tower once tallest in Canada

Winnipeg's Main Street in the early #1900s was still mostly mud and #prairie gumbo, crosshatched by narrow wagon wheel tracks — vestiges of a frontier past as it teetered on the cusp of becoming one of #NorthAmerica's most robust cities.

In spring #1903 it crossed that threshold. That's when the corner of Main and William Avenue, the edge of a former creek bed, was chosen as the site for what would become western Canada's first skyscraper.

Construction of the Union Bank building marked a leap forward for the young city. Though it stood just 11 storeys tall, it towered over the two-and-three-storey buildings fronting Main.

When completed in November #1904, it was the second-tallest building in the #BritishEmpire. And for the next two years it was the tallest building in Canada.

"It is odd to reflect that the site which will be covered by this big modern block was, not long ago, the bank of a #Coulee or gully. The whole site of the city was either coulee or swamp," stated an article on May 23, 1903.

#UrbanLandscape #Manitoba #Canada #CanadianHistory #UrbanHistory #History #CanadianGeography #Geography #Environment #UrbanPlanning #Winnipeg #HistoricalPhotographs #Photography #HeritagePhotographs

cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/un

CBCWinnipeg made skyscraper history 120 years ago with tower once tallest in Canada | CBC NewsWinnipeg's Main Street in the early 1900s was still mostly mud and prairie gumbo, crosshatched by narrow wagon wheel tracks — vestiges of a frontier past as it teetered on the cusp of becoming one of North America's most robust cities.
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