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Cecelia Davies Sylvester Scrapbook - Newspaper Scraps


Description:
Pages from the Cecelia Davies Sylvester Scrapbook.
Scrapbook title:
Cecelia Davies Sylvester Scrapbook
Creator:
Sylvester, Cecelia Davies
Dates of creation:
1886-1919
Format-Extent:
130 pages ; 26 x 19 cm
Full scrapbook description:
This scrapbook, created in Victoria, BC, belonged to Cecelia Davies Sylvester. Sylvester (1848-1935) was born in Sydney, Australia, grew up in San Francisco, and then moved to Victoria, BC, in 1863. In Victoria, she was a founding member of the local Jewish congregation. Sylvester was a life-long scrapbooker, and this volume contains pasted-in newspaper clippings about events related to Sylvester’s family and friends: birth, death, and marriage announcements. Sylvester also pasted in family photographs, and ephemera such as event programmes. The scrapbook itself is one of Mark Twain’s patented self-pasting scrapbooks.
Scrapbook category:
Traditional scrapbook
Language:
eng
Fonds / collection title:
Frank and Cecelia Sylvester family fonds
Fonds / collection identifier:
AR281
Fonds / collection creator:
Sylvester family: Frank Sylvester and Cecelia Davies Sylvester
Archival item identifier:
Accession Number: 2001-006, 1.18
Archival finding aid:
https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/frank-and-cecilia-sylvester-family-fonds
Rights:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Source:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Digitized scrapbook URL:
https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/69301858-7a91-4b87-a71c-6441ed106a70