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Robert Eric Bowley fonds [textual record, philatelic record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1946-2000.

Reference:

R11300-0-9-E

Type of material:

Art, Photographs, Stamps and stamp products, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

616864

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Robert Eric Bowley fonds
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Date(s):

1946-2000.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

5 cm of textual records.
1 album of philatelic records and graphic materials.
1 postage stamp.
4 postal stationery items.
51 photographs: col., neg., slides.
50 pictures: postcards.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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The fonds is a manuscript of "China, Its Art and Culture. A Philatelic Study". It contains philatelic records such as postage stamps, souvenir sheets, maximum cards, postal covers from China and other postal jurisdictions, and some graphic materials such as photographs and postcards.

The fonds also includes some other files of textual records, philatelic records and graphic materials related to the production of the manuscript. These documents are drafts, notes, photographs, postcards, stamp and postal stationery items.

Provenance:

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Bowler, Robert Eric, 1922-2000

Biography/Administrative history:

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Bowler, Robert Eric, 1922-2000 : Robert Eric Bowley was born in Hagersville (Ontario) May 12, 1922. Gratuating from Welland High in 1941, he went to Queen's University for Engineering, joined the C.O.T.C. and in 1942 joined the Royal Canadian Artillery. Injured during training, he was sent to the Army Base in Kingston, where he served as Asjudant untill the end of the war. He went back to Queen's and earned his degree in Engineering Chemistry.

He took jobs in various mining camps in Ontario and Quebec doing metallurgy and went to work finally with Fischer Scientific. Shortly after his marriage with Kathleen R. Barclay in 1954, he was transferred to the research lab of Falconbridge Nickel in Richvale (Ontario). Attending Ontario College of Education during summers of 1963 and 1964, he got his certificate and become a science teacher in Peterborough (Ontario) at Peterborough Collegiate & Vocational School , where he taught for twenty-three years.

His major hobbies were philately and photography. At the age of nine years old, Robert Bowley received from his mother a stamp book and a selection of stamps to start a collection. Teacher in Peterborough, he went back to his hobbies and began researching stories and illustrating them with stamps and pictures of stamps. He wrote illustrated biographies of great chemists and physicists and prepared several thematic stamp collections of which a display for the former National Postal Museum called "Music on Stamps". He decided also to collect a whole country's output of stamps of Pitcairn Island.

He wrote a book about Pitcairn Island and had it published. He made up displays of Japenese Art on Stamps for Trent University and the Peterborough Art Gallery, and many other displays for the annual KAPEX exhibitions of the local philatelic society. He was a member of the Kawartha Philatelic Society. For over 65 years, he enjoyed himself with stamp collecting, photography and woodworking as well as studying postal history. He died on the November 26, 2000, two days after having finished his manuscript "China, Its Art, and Culture. A Philatelic Study" ready for publication.

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Physical description note:

The album includes around 366 postage stamps, 23 strips of postage stamps, 5 blocks of postage stamps, 41 souvenir sheets, 140 maximum cards, 23 postal covers, 7 photographs and 17 postcards.

Philatelic note:

China and other postal jurisdictions: various denominations.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2005-00169-4
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11300] 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11300] 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

Philatelic records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11300] 1--4

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11300] 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Textual record: Copyright of documents from M. Bowley belongs to Library and Archives Canada.
Graphic material (art): Copyright varies.
Graphic material (phopo): Copyright varies.
Philatelic record: Copyright varies. Copyright belongs to the postal jurisdiction that issue the philatelic document.

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