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"Y" at Lumby
2013.6.36.1.145.04 · Item · [June 2003]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken looking towards a "Y." Only the left or northside of the "Y" appeared to be in use and was only about half the length. A crosspiece of it was actually unusable.

2004.2.1.14 · Item · 1898-1920
Part of Reverend R.W. Large fonds

Photograph depicts a totem pole along a shoreline with canoes overturned at its base. A forested area is visible in the background. Pole is likely on the territory of the Wuikinuxv Nation, also known as the Oweekeno Nation whose traditional territory includes the shores of Rivers Inlet and Owikeno Lake. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "Indian Totem Pole, Rivers Inlet, B.C"

Writing on a Rock
2012.13.1.56.73 · Item · 1973
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts an unknown individual pointing at some writing on a rock; it possibly reads "ACC Aug 10 1911."

Wrecked Plane
2012.13.1.46.42 · Item · 1980
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts Kent Sedgwick standing beside a wrecked plane somewhere in South Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.

Wrecked car, Vancouver, BC
2009.10.2.123 · Item · [between 1923 and 1926]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a 1920's model car that has been partially crushed. Handwritten annotation on verso reads, "This is the car that was wrecked at the Oak street crossing about the time you went north. One of the boy took my camera down and got it".

2009.10.1.23 · Item · Oct. 1926
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a wreckage of a small airplane. The wreckage is adjacent to a home. Handwritten annotation reads, "same as above 1926". This photograph may depict the plane crash that occurred in October 1926 in which a Victoria-to-Seattle airmail plane piloted by Gerald Smith crashed into the home of Senator Robert F. Green on 502 Rupert Street in Victoria, BC.

Wreck of an airmail plane
2009.10.1.22 · Item · Oct. 1926
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts a wreckage of a small airplane. Handwritten annotation below the photograph reads, "wreck of an Airmail plane". This photograph may depict the plane crash that occurred in October 1926 in which a Victoria-to-Seattle airmail plane piloted by Gerald Smith crashed into the home of Senator Robert F. Green on 502 Rupert Street in Victoria, BC.