[BCMA] Online Photo Exhibit - Snapshots of the West

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Snapshots of the West Virtual Photographic Exhibition 

 

Touchstones Nelson is pleased to announce the launch of its newest online
exhibit Snapshots of the West. The site is a collection of glass plate
negatives taken by Nelson resident Jake Ludwig at the turn of the 20th
Century. 

 

This exhibit features digitized copies of over 200 glass plate negatives
taken by Jacob "Jake" Melville Ludwig, a local harness and hardware store
owner and musician. The images showcase turn of the 20th century mining
camps and equipment, trains, steamships and sternwheelers of Kootenay Lake,
Yukon River and the Coast; towns and cities from Alaska to California, parks
in Vancouver and Victoria, as well as, various Canadian government buildings
in British Columbia. These photographs are originals and are not reproduced
anywhere. 

 

Snapshots of the West is a companion project to the three previously
completed British Columbia History Digitization Program projects by
Touchstones Nelson, which includes Landscape Lost: Forestry and Life in the
Duncan River Valley (http://touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/wallace), A
Life in the Woods
(http://touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/forest/index.html), which was
presented at the BC Library Association Conference titled "Best of Digital
BC: Digitization around the Province" and Changes Upstream
(http://touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/triggs), a collection of images of
the area flooded by the Libby Dam by Stanley G. Triggs. 

 

The creation of the site has been funded in part by the Irving K. Barber
Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, British Columbia History
Digitization Program. The exhibit is available at
http://touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/ludwig/.

 

Laura Fortier, MAS

Archivist and Collections Manager

Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History

502 Vernon Street

Nelson, BC V1L 4E7

250-352-8268

touchstonesnelson.ca

 

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