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Newcombe family fonds
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- textual record
- cartographic material
- graphic material
- multiple media
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- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
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1870-1955 (Creation)
- Creator
- Newcombe (family)
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Physical description
7.3 m of textual records, 270 photographs, 67 maps
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Dr. Charles Frederic Newcombe was born in England in 1851. Educated at the University of Aberdeen in medicine, he was a botanist and anthropologist. He came to B.C. in 1889 and died in 1924. His son, William A. Newcombe was born in 1884 and, like his father, became an authority on the ethnology of British Columbia's aboriginal peoples. He also served as a trustee of Emily Carr's estate in 1945. He died in 1960.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, accounts, and annotated books relating to the Newcombe family's interest in ethnology as well as the papers of C.F. and W.A. Newcombe and other members of the family. Fonds includes photographs of views of Victoria and of northwest Washington State and maps of various areas in B.C.
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File and reel lists available.
Associated materials
George T. Emmons's article "The Whale House of the Chilkat : an account of the Chilkat Indians of Alaska, and the most important of their ancient communal houses" may have been removed from this collection at some time and cataloged in the library (see NWp 979.8 EM54).
Also see library items NWp 970.004 SW972 (John R. Swanton's "The development of the clan system and of secret societies among the Northwestern tribes") and NWp 971.111204 B233 (Marius Barbeau's "How the raven stole the sun")
which were stamped with the Newcombe collection stamp and appear to have been removed from the archival records at some point.
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Archives code(s): MS-1077
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Accession number(s): MS-1077; 198202-017; 24907G
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- Newcombe (family) (Subject)
- Newcombe, Charles Frederic (Subject)
- Newcombe, William Arnold, 1884-1960 (Subject)