Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Beverley Brown fonds
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on provenance of fonds
Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
478 photographs : b&w ; 17.5 x 12.5 cm and smaller
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Eva Beverley Brown (nee. Mason) was born March 11, 1930 in Bella Bella, B.C. For seven and a half years beginning in 1937 or 1938, she was a student at the St. Michael’s Residential School in Alert Bay. After leaving St. Michael’s in 1944 or 1945, ... »
Scope and content
The fonds consists of 478 photographs, predominantly of students at the St. Michael’s Residential School in Alert Bay. Beverley Brown and her friends took the photographs between ca. 1937 and ca. 1945 using Brown’s camera. Photographs from this period ... »
Notes area
Immediate source of acquisition
Pam Brown, daughter of Beverley Brown.
Arrangement
Arrangement imposed by the archivist in apparent absence of original order.
Availability of other formats
Digital copies have been made of the photographs.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Use of the photographs must be approved by the Brown family. Consult archivist for details.
Conservation
Photographs a034204 to a034224 and a034310 to a034370 were removed from a photograph album. Their order within the album has been documented.
Accompanying material
Many of the photographs have been photocopied and the copies annotated by Beverley Brown. Fonds also contains an empty photograph album (see note above).
Access points
Control area
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Scope and content revised September 2018 by Katie Ferrante.