Cecelia Davies Sylvester Early Scrapbook - Traditional Scrapbook Pages


Description:
Pages from the Cecelia Davies Sylvester Early Scrapbook.
Scrapbook title:
Cecelia Davies Sylvester Early Scrapbook
Creator:
Sylvester, Cecelia Davies
Dates of creation:
1854-1928
Format-Extent:
137 pages
Full scrapbook description:
This scrapbook, created primarily in San Francisco, CA and 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 album-maker, and this volume contains newspaper clippings (tidbits; birth, death, and marriage announcements), greeting cards, souvenirs, photographs, and report cards.
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: 2002-029, 2.2
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