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Richard Harwood (Dick) Chambers Alpine Photograph Collection

Richard Harwood (Dick) Chambers Alpine Photograph Collection

This digital collection consists of more than 800 colour slides and black-and-white prints, with corresponding photography logbook, created by Richard (Dick) Harwood Chambers (1922-1999), and donated by his niece and nephew, Barbara and Jim Diggins.

Richard Chambers was a prominent...
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Ruth Emerson Wortis dancing

Ruth Emerson Wortis Collection

Born in Palo Alto, California on March 16, 1938, Ruth Emerson Wortis was a dancer, choreographer, dance educator, and a pioneer of postmodern dance. The photographs included here are from her fonds held by Special Collections and...
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Vancouver Punk Rock Photograph Collection

The "Last Pogo" Vancouver Punk Rock Photograph Collection

Six weeks after moving to Vancouver in 1979, I went down to the Smilin' Buddha with a couple of women I had just met knowing nothing at all about the CBGB's of Canada, nor did I know anything about the headliners that night (July 13th), the Dead Kennedys, the seminal San Francisco punk band...
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Vancouver Punk Rock Collection

Vancouver Punk Rock Collection

"A brief noisy movement which still reverberates" is how the New York Times (12 June 2008) described Punk, a movement which was much more than music or clothes; it supported and promoted various social political causes, such as the environment, women's rights, and opposition to...
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