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Win Sheppard collection

  • Collection
  • 1922- 1980

The collection consists of photographs and negatives of Prince Rupert between 1920 and 1966, two scrapbooks containing clippings from the Prince Rupert Daily News' "A Look Back" column published in the 1960s and 1970s. The photograph collection includes boats and ships in the harbour, the Prince Rupert Drydock buildings and staff, Miller Bay Hospital, Booth Memorial High School, City Hall on Fulton Street, views of Prince Rupert's downtown, parks, and scenery along the Skeena River Highway. Twenty-nine of the photographs are postcards and the remaining are originals. The collection also includes a subdivision plan from 1912 for Smith Island Lots 529, 927, 4415 and Part 926.

Sheppard, Win

William Baillie collection

  • Collection
  • 1928- 1935

The collection consists of photographs of the 1928 Prince Rupert City Billiard League winners, and employees of the Canadian Fish & Cold Storage plant in Seal Cove.

Baillie, William

W. H. (Buster) Hill collection

  • Collection
  • 1914-1954

The collection consists of photographs. It includes scenes of people swimming at Salt Lakes, a family photo, a fire truck in the 1920s, lawn bowling at C.N. Park, the government boat "Newington" up on Barret Rock, 16 fishermen in the hold of a boat with a herring catch, armed forces parade on the main street, portraits of J.E. Unwin, Pte. William Booth taken overseas at a camp, Lt. Col. C.W. Peck, 120th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery in 1954 in Prince Rupert, and five postcards.

Hill, W. H. (Buster)

Virginia Kimmett collection

  • Collection
  • 1984-1989

The collection consists of photographs, negatives, slides, and textual records related to Virginia Kimmett's work as a photogapher in Prince Rupert. It includes portraits, wedding photos, landscapes, commercial work with ICBC claims, and brochures.

Kimmett, Virginia

Vienna Ciccone collection

  • Collection
  • 1909 - 1981

The collection consists of items belonging to Vienna Ciccone. It includes photographs of basketball teams from Prince Rupert and Anyox, a booklet with handwritten notes referring to sales that was produced by C.D. Rand in Vancouver for the auction of Prince Rupert lots in 1909, two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings of both historical and contemporary photographs, and ephemera.

Ciccone, Vienna

Stuart Carson collection

  • Collection
  • [194-]

The collection consists 76 negatives and 9 photographs from the 1940s. It includes scenes around Prince Rupert during the Second World War such as gun placements, artillery on boats, soldiers, ship building at the dry dock, Hays Creek, CN Park, downtown views, fish boats, family, and a concert.

Carson, Stuart

Sprague family collection

  • Collection
  • 1909

The collection consists of 12 photographs of Prince Rupert in 1909 with notes written on the borders. Originally the photographs were stored in an album with a card addressed "to Mr. and Mrs. Bohanon from Mrs. Danly D. Sprague with kindest remembrances." The photographs were taken by Prince Rupert photographer J.D. (James Dennis) Allen and depict scenes of the townsite.

Sprague family

Samuel Needleman collection

  • Collection
  • 1943-1944

The collection consists of photographs and textual records relating to Samuel Needleman's stay in Prince Rupert. It includes 14 photographs of the S.S. Alaska, his dental lab, the barracks, company kitchen, the drydock, Acropolis Hill and streets nearby, the Canadian Grain Elevator, and a wedding that took place at Acropolis Hill.

Needleman, Samuel

Russell Frederick collection

  • Collection
  • 1965-1979

The collection consists of 605 colour slides. They include images of the Prince Rupert Grain Elevator, the "Queen of Prince Rupert's" first trip to Prince Rupert, CN dock and ships loading, tug boats, fish boats, naval ships, freighters, views from Digby Towers Apartments, aerials of Digby Island and the airport, yacht club, boats at Armour Salvage, Mt. Hays, construction of evaporators at Skeena Cellulose B Mill, homes under construction at Raven Crescent and 180 11th Avenue East, planes, Rupert Square Shopping Mall and Ocean Centre Mall under construction, Court House, and halibut and salmon catches.

Frederick, Russell

Rimmer family collection

  • Collection
  • 1938 - 1956

The collection consists of items and photographs belonging to Blanche and Charles Rimmer. It includes an unemployment insurance book for Charles, two Second World War ration books, a program from a 1938 Vancouver play that Charles was in, two brochures, photographs of Orme's Drugs staff, drug store customers, the shop's interior in the 1950s, and Blanche with Amy Dibb and two other women on the front steps of a building.

Rimmer (family)

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