- UBC Museum of Anthropology Library & Archives
- Ben Williams Leeson collection
Ben Williams Leeson collection
collection[ca. 1908], [ca. 1972]93
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Where
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- Held by
- — via UBC Museum of Anthropology Library & Archives
- Creator
- Ben Williams Leeson
- Dates
- [ca. 1908], [ca. 1972] (indexed as 1908–1972)
- Level
- collection
- Extent
- 89 photographs. – 0.2 cm textual records
- Scope & content
- The fonds consists of 66 photographic prints, some of which are hand-coloured, stamped “B.W. Leeson Quatsino, B.C.”, labelled on the front or back with explanatory information, or signed in ink. One print of a longhouse is stamped “The Leeson Collection Copyright 1914.” The photographic subject matter relates to British Columbia’s Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations and the British Columbia landscape. Also included is a copy of Portraits of the Indians of Quatsino by Benjamin W. Leeson (Kit #20) by Susan Roper, produced by the Research Project on Early B.C. Photography at the Vancouver Public Library around 1972, and 23 duplicate slides which accompany it.
- Location
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- Subjects
- Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw
- Genre / form
- Graphic material; Textual record
- Harvested
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