300 block West Hastings

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Details
Title

300 block West Hastings

Contributor(s)

Timms, Philip (Photographer)

Project Title

Philip Timms Collection

Project Partner

Industry Canada: Canada's Digital Collections

Type of Resource

still image

Genre

photographs

Date Created

1908

Publisher

Vancouver Public Library

Place

Vancouver

Description

View of Hastings from Homer. Mahon Block on the corner with a bookshop at street level and Buscombe's housewares store, right. Pedestrians, and a streetcar in the snow. The office for the Province newspaper is visible in the background, right. Also exists as a lantern slide (66972).

VPL Accession Number

7204

Form

Photograph

Digital Origin

Reformatted Digital

Note

Copy negative (10x13 cm). Lantern slide (8x10 cm). Glass negative (12x17 cm). Copy print (20x25 cm). Photocopy display print (20x25 cm). emulsion - peeling. deterioration - advanced emulsion - chipped. emulsion - cracked. Glass - brown tint. Glass - silvering. Lantern slide - black mounting around edges. Lantern slide - green masking around image. GN scanned at 1400 dpi on CD 1853. also on CD 74. F-7203. Epson Expression 10000XL. Microtek Scanmaker 4.

Subject(s)

Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - Hastings Street
Pedestrians
Stores, Retail
Street-railroads
Buildings
Winter
British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Frederick Buscombe & Co., Limited
Province Newspaper

Location(s)

British Columbia - Vancouver - West Hastings Street
British Columbia - Vancouver - Gastown

Time Period

1900s

Use and Reproduction

No copyright. For information about how you can use this item, see https://vpl.arcabc.ca/thisvancouver/use-reproduction

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