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Columbia Street, New Westminster

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

1860

Reference:

Accession number: 00025, 1989-171 X DAP, Box number: A203-02

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2876727

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William Wynch George Back Willis collection

Columbia Street, New Westminster
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Date(s):

1860

Place of creation:

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Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper

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no language

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Artist: Willis, William Wynch George Back, fl. 1855-1896

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Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, recto l.r.: WW; in pencil, verso u.l.: Columbia Street. New Westminster. British Columbia / 1860. 'Corduroy road.'- / New Westminster was then the Capital of B.C. But after the / C.P. Railway came along the town of Vancouver was found / more suitable, and was constituted the capital as a 'city' / The Sketch gives a faint idea of what first streets may be like. / Some homes are built-elevated others sunk to suit the future level of the / Street and some have more pretentious fronts [^'sham'] than others and all are of wood; in brown ink, u.r.: 30
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British Columbia

Architecture
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Private

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1989-171 DAP

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00025
1989-171 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1989-171]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A203-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 25

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1989-171]

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C-014018 Item no. assigned by LAC 25

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-171-25
Copyright: Nil

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