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About the photographs

There are more than three thousand images in the entire Philip Timms Photograph Collection, fifteen hundred of which have been digitized through funding from Industry Canada's Digital Collections Program. Images in the collection exist in a variety of formats, including: glass plate negative, film based negative, lantern slide, and display print. Subjects include: children, the city's first car, streetscapes, houses, ships, ferries, CPR land sales, hobble skirts, parks, and local industry.

Timms' photographs provide a rich resource that lends itself well to a wide variety of audiences locally, nationally and internationally, including: film and television companies, architects and city planners, students, teachers, historians, librarians, and writers.

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Top Right: VPL 6713, P. Timms, 1906, Vancouver's first baby in parade wagon in 700 block Hornby Street. Hotel Vancouver #2 is in the background.

Bottom Left: VPL 6699, P. Timms, 190-, Henry Avison, first zookeeper in Stanley park, feeding a bear.

Bottom Right: VPL 7695, P. Timms, 190-, Fire apparatus on Dunsmuir Street east of Granville Street.

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This digital collection was produced with financial assistance from Canada's Digital Collections Initiative, Industry Canada.