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RBSC Reading Room Hours of Operation Summer (May – Aug., 2025) Monday-Friday 10:00 am-2:00 pm Closed on weekends and the following statutory holidays: Monday, May 19; Tuesday, Jul. 1; Monday, Aug. 4 We recommend that you request materials in advance to make your visit more efficient and to ensure materials are available.
The Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room has been temporarily relocated to Irving K. Barber Learning Centre room 142 due to upgrades.

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show and tell

This letter from the Crystal Bakery shows the network of connections that brought together Chinese Canadian communities.

Part 1: The Mah family of Crystal Bakery-Letters and Legacies

By Andrew R. Sandfort-Marchese on November 2, 2024

As part of a new series spotlighting items in the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection and the Wallace B. and Madeline H. Chung Collection, we look at the Mah family of Crystal Bakery.

Posted in Chung, Chung | Lind Gallery, Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Immigration and Settlement | Tagged with Bakery, Chung Collection, Chung Lind Gallery, Family History, Guangdong, History, letters, Saskatchewan, show and tell

Picture of a fireman in Dawson after a fire at 45 Below.

Dawson City Firemen

By Emily Witherow on October 18, 2024

As part of a new series spotlighting items in the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection and the Wallace B. and Madeline H. Chung Collection, we look at Dawson City’s firemen.

Posted in Chung | Lind Gallery, Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Lind, Research and learning | Tagged with Chung Lind Gallery, History, Klondike Gold Rush, Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection, show and tell, Yukon

Personal archives show & tell (VIII)

Personal archives show & tell (VIII)

By cshriver on October 27, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

Posted in Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Research and learning | Tagged with show and tell

Personal library/archives show and tell (VII)

Personal library/archives show and tell (VII)

By cshriver on August 31, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

Posted in Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Research and learning | Tagged with show and tell

Personal library/archives show and tell (VI)

Personal library/archives show and tell (VI)

By cshriver on August 4, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

Posted in Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Research and learning | Tagged with show and tell

Personal library/archives show and tell (V)

Personal library/archives show and tell (V)

By cshriver on July 27, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

Posted in Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Research and learning | Tagged with show and tell

Personal library/archives show and tell (IV)

Personal library/archives show and tell (IV)

By cshriver on July 20, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

Posted in Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Research and learning | Tagged with show and tell

Personal library/archives show and tell (III)

Personal library/archives show and tell (III)

By cshriver on July 13, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

Posted in Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Research and learning | Tagged with show and tell

Show and tell with the RBSC team, part II

Show and tell with the RBSC team, part II

By cshriver on July 6, 2020

Join the RBSC team for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

Posted in Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Research and learning | Tagged with show and tell

Show and tell with the RBSC team

Show and tell with the RBSC team

By cshriver on June 29, 2020

Join the RBSC team for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

Posted in Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Research and learning | Tagged with show and tell