The fonds consists of 81 glass negatives and 1 negative taken or copied by A.C. Hirschfeld between 1894 and 1910. The photographs include images of the Golden Gate Midwinter fair in San Francisco in 1894; photographs of Alaska, Atlin and Dawson City as well as interior and exterior shots taken ca. 1910 of the Hirschfeld home in Vancouver. The fonds also includes 10 copy negatives and 10 prints showing the Klondike Gold rush. Some show gold rush people on their way through a unknown pass to the gold fields, some Dawson City and the mines circa 1898. Other pictures show "The Scales," and the horse train.

Sketchbook (1632) and miscellaneous prints; journals (1837-1840) providing accounts of voyages to Italy, Calcutta (via the Cape of Good Hope), and log book of a voyage from China to California and Mexico (1853-1855); miscellaneous notes and clippings.

The item is a print of a promotional film from ca. 1965. Newton Phillips Steacy, Commissioner at BC House in San Francisco, California, is shown around and about the city promoting British Columbia.

Steacy proposed a promotional film about the work of the Commissioner and British Columbia House in San Francisco. He was to write the script, and some black & white footage was shot. The film was never completed. This reel (a copy?) has been supplemented with miscellaneous colour footage from various BC productions, to provide opening and closing titles.

The item is a reel of film footage. Newton Phillips Steacy, Commissioner of BC House in San Francisco, California, is shown around and about the city promoting British Columbia. Steacy had proposed a promotional film about the work of the Commissioner and British Columbia House in San Francisco. He was to write the script, and some black & white footage was shot, but the film was never completed.

The item consists of a travelogue on four film reels. It shows an automobile trip to California and back, beginning at Port Angeles and ending in Victoria. The film is believed to have been made by an unidentified Victoria citizen.

News item. Vancouver filmmaker Phillip Borsos, whose NFB film NAILS was nominated for an Oscar, is interviewed at the Beverly Hills Hilton. He is also seen attending a party at the Canadian Consulate and arriving at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the 52nd Academy Awards ceremony.

Letters, 1901, 1903-1904, written to his mother and sister in Duncan, from California, Arizona, Texas, the St. Louis Worlds Fair, Toronto and Winnipeg; diary, 1904, of work in Arizona, and trip to St. Louis and across Canada to Duncan. Prevost worked as a mine labourer, and on a dredge in San Pedro.

Amateur film. Includes fish being landed at an unknown location; trip to California in 1931 (including a parade there); footage of a sawmill at an unknown location; children in costume parade and at play; dragline loading dirt onto truck; logging truck hauling logs to a railway siding and being unloaded, and the scaling of the logs.

Diary, 1836-1881; accounts, 1861-1867, correspondence inward, 1844, 1846.

The series consists of letters written by Jane Fawcett between 1849 and 1864, from Sydney, Australia, San Francisco and Victoria to her sisters. They refer to her family and family life. Also included are notes on Jane's funeral sermon delivered by the Rev. E. Cridge. This unit consists of a microfilm copy of the original and three typewritten transcripts (copy 1 of the transcripts contains photographs of various members of the Fawcett family).

Footage. Photographed at the site of the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco; shows buildings and surrounding features.

Amateur film. Vacation footage from Vancouver (Burrard Inlet, Lion's Gate Bridge); the town of Gibsons; Seattle (Space needle, monorail, World's Fair site, zoo). Harbour scenes. Aboard the liner "Oriana". Long Beach, California.

The fonds consists of three photo albums created by John Irvine between 1894 and 1910. Many of the photographs are of railway survey campsites and features in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and California but some of the earlier photographs are city views of buildings in Ottawa, including the Parliament buildings after the fire in February 1897. The albums are uniform in size and appearance: black, pebbled covers with the "Photographs" embossed in gold on the top left front. The pages, which are stiff gray cardboard, are bound with red cord. The albums measure 18 by 30 cm. The mounted prints vary in size and tone from 7 x 12 cm to 19 x 15 cm, and from b&w to sepia. Nearly all of the photographs have a double white line border drawn around them and almost all are captioned in white ink. Several of the photographs are identified with "Yours truly Jno Irvine" and may be portraits of Irvine himself.

Letters from Thomas McWatters to his father and sisters near Prescott, Ontario, written from New York and San Francisco and from Cameronton, where he worked as a miner. Photograph transferred to Visual Records accession 197811-9.

Purchased from C.M. Boyer, Kelowna, 1976.

File consists of 6 b&w photographs, some of which are copyprints from BC Archives, City of Victoria Archives, and Bancroft Library at University of California Berkeley. Photographs have captions on verso provided by Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher. Photographs are of a painted portrait, memorial to Robert Burns in Beacon Hill Park, Nan Cheney and Emily Carr, Architectural Museum in London, Mark Hopkins mansion in San Francisco, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carr (BC Archives reference number HP024834, A-9184)