While browsing by a digital collections, we competence start wondering how all of these equipment creatively came together. Every collection has a possess singular story, and we’ve selected to prominence dual such stories in this week’s post. Maybe it will motivate we to start your possess collection!
Chung Collection
The Chung Collection now has over 25,000 equipment and is a outcome of 60 years of collecting. The collection was donated to UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections by Drs. Wallace and Madeline Chung. The impulse to emanate such a collection came from when Wallace Chung was still a immature boy. He saw an illustrated print of a Canadian Pacific Railway’s Empress of Asia in his father’s tailor emporium in Victoria, British Columbia, and it changed him to start his possess collection.
Dr. Chung started collecting all a materials that he could, starting with tiny equipment such as clippings from newspapers and magazines for his scrapbook, posters and tickets. He afterwards began going to flea markets and antique shops as his collection grew. Eventually, after 25 years of collecting, he found that he didn’t need to revisit a shops any more, as they instead began to warning him when equipment came in that they suspicion he competence like.
Today, a Chung Collection contains many singular and singular items, including: books, maps, paintings, poster, photographs, silverware, tableware, ceramic ware and other artifacts. The collection allows a users to try themes relating to immigration and allotment in British Columbia, a early story of a province, and about a Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
Empress of Asia, 1920
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Hawthorn Fly Fishing Angling Collection
The Hawthorn Fly Fishing Angling Collection contains over 2,000 books, including singular and profitable equipment about angling and fly-fishing, and it began with a fishing trip.
In 1953, 8 UBC professors went fishing for a holiday, and motionless to start a substructure with a income from bets and fines for bootleg or non-ethical fishing methods. The income would be used to squeeze books about angling and diversion fish for UBC Library. The collection was afterwards serve grown with a squeeze of books from fines and it also perceived gifts of books and income to boost a collection.
The fly maker’s hand-book; representing upwards of fifty of a many useful synthetic flies for trout…, ۱۸۸۶
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Uno Langmann Family Collection of BC Photographs
Uno Langmann is a obvious Vancouver excellent humanities collector. He started a Family Collection of BC Photographs in a 1960s when he satisfied a significance of a albums for a story of British Columbia.
The collection underneath his name is a largest chronological print collection of BC, with over 18,000 photographs from a 1850s to a 1970s.
Views in British Columbia, 1868
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۱۸,۰۰۰ singular BC photos donated to UBC by Uno Langmann (CBC News)
Featured room: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung room (UBC Library RBSC)
The collection (UBC Library)
