Item #2441 [Charming Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Assembled by Students of the North Galiano School and Given to Their Teacher in British Columbia]. British Columbia Photographica, Education, Mary S. Waugh.
[Charming Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Assembled by Students of the North Galiano School and Given to Their Teacher in British Columbia]
[Charming Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Assembled by Students of the North Galiano School and Given to Their Teacher in British Columbia]
[Charming Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Assembled by Students of the North Galiano School and Given to Their Teacher in British Columbia]
[Charming Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Assembled by Students of the North Galiano School and Given to Their Teacher in British Columbia]

[Charming Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Assembled by Students of the North Galiano School and Given to Their Teacher in British Columbia]

[Mainly Galiano Island, B.C. 1911-1919]. [25] leaves, illustrated with 100 vernacular photographs, the great majority annotated in white pencil on the album pages. Contemporary suede souvenir snapshot album with image of Native American on front cover, string-tied. Minor chipping and light soiling to covers. Two leaves detached, and two photos removed, but pictures in overall very nice shape. Very good. Item #2441

A unique look into the life of Mary S. Waugh, a rural teacher from Vancouver during her time teaching in a one-room school on Galiano Island, part of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the lower mainland of British Columbia. According to a handwritten gift bookplate on the inside front cover, the album was given "To M.S. Waugh from the pupils of the N. Galiano School as a small token of their esteem July 1918." Ms. Waugh then added more photographs through 1919. The photographs, most of which are annotated, document various locations on Galiano Island (population 1,044 as of 2016) and greater Vancouver, Trincomalie Channel (including a small two-part panorama), Cowichan Gap, Active Pass, Point Atkinson, various island residents, the school pupils (all eight of them), the Galiano School itself, mountain climbing, Ms. Waugh and her friends, and two pictures of the Glee Club at Britannia High School in Vancouver, two views of the Queen Mary School in Point Grey, and a sixth-grade school class picture at Provincial Normal School in Vancouver. Waugh also apparently spent some time in Virginia before her time in British Columbia, with a handful of the photographs recording her time teaching at Buena Vista, Virginia and a few other locations in Charlottesville and Lexington (including Robert E. Lee's chapel).

Price: $950.00