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Arthur Evan Boss fonds
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1 album (560 photographs : b&w)
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Biographical history
Arthur Evan Boss graduated from UBC as part of the Arts ’21 class. He then completed an M.A. in chemistry in 1923. Following graduation he appears to have gone to the Unites States. The 1932 edition of the Graduate Chronicle listed him among the alumni with whom the organization had "lost contact". In 1937 he was listed as working as a research chemist for the Columbia Alkali Corp. in Barberton, Ohio. According to the American Chemical Society, Boss died on May 18, 1949.
Custodial history
After Boss’ death it is presumed that the album remained with members of his family until 2010. An antiques dealer in New Jersey then purchased it from an estate sale, and eventually offered it for sale to UBC Library.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of an album created by former UBC student Arthur Evan Boss. It contains over 560 small black and white photographs of which approximately the first half relate to UBC and were taken between 1917 and 1924. The 232 UBC images include many views of students and student life at the original Fairview campus. As well as posed individual shots of students, there are many photographs of various student activities including the annual class picnic. Although there is limited duplication of images already in the Archives, the photographs are, for the most part, unique and a large majority of them have captions with enough information for identifying individuals. Images in the second half of the album are largely undescribed and undated, and do not seem to relate to UBC.
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The album pages containing the UBC images have been digitized and the original stored with Albums in the UBC Archives. Individual images from the album have also been scanned and added to the online UBC Historical Photograph Collection.
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Similar images from the same time period can be found in the Albert Richards fonds and the George Van Wilby fonds.
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Created 25 May 2011