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1938Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office at Hope; 3 pages re: 'Up-to-the-minute' phone system for Vancouver's city hall; Article and photo of J.C. (Joe) Armstrong, founder of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Hope Joins our Phone System; 3 page article with photos re: The Jeffrees and the Pendrays - telephone pioneers in Victoria; The Birthplace of the Telephone - 2 page article; Employee sales plan resutls; Table of number of phone sets per B.C. community, January 1, 1937; The McMicking Family Tradition - 3 pages with photos; Roland (Sam) Nosworthy; North Vancouver Phones to Llanerchymedd; E.J. Haughton of Victoria; Linemen best Coquihalla avalanches; Lloyd Purdy; Peter McNeish; 'Thank-you' replaces repetition of numbers in Vancouver; George H. Halse, former CEO, passes away - 3 pages with photos; Cavalsky's Store was Nanaimo's first telephone office - 2 pages with photos; E. Purcell Johnston; Fire sweeps the Vancouver Sun - 2 pages; Harry Wilson; Great photo of construction men in front of Nanaimo phone office 25 years ago; 1886 fire leaves the Janes family home as Vancouver's telephone office - with photo; Robert Daniel Davies; We can telephone to China!; Life as a Vancouver operator; Low rates for Long-Distance calls Sundays and every night - with full-page rate sheet; Service to Britannia and Texada; Mrs. George Pittendrigh - Vancouver's first Toll Operator; PNE parade float cover photo; Service to Alaska now available; Operators rally to relieve load during Marpole fire; Edmund Esson; Juanita Booth, Seymour chief operator; James Cummins of Victoria - pioneer phone man; Newcastle Island picnic; Flat Rate Telephone Service for Greater Vancouver - 4 pages with photos; Dominion phone organization meets at Minaki Lodge; We can now talk to Haiti; "Operator, Get Me to the Police!" - 3 pages with photos; Anchor fouls North Vancouver cable; Engineers 'see' by phone during construction of new Pattullo Bridge, with photo; Photo of the London international switchboard - heart of the world telephone network; Ocean Falls and Edinburgh linked; Vancouver's phone directory - with photos; Vancouver can now 'magic carpet' from Vancouver to Bagdad; T. Percy Waters; Ten Years of Transoceanic Telephone Service, with photos; B.C. ship-to-shore service now available on commercial basis; Voices under the sea, by Al Miller; Reginald H. Milner; Pioneer James Cowherd; Submarine link with Britannia - 4 page article with photos; New Whytecliff office; Alfred Crickmay and his brothers; Development of the phone in B.C., by James Hamilton, V.P.; Operators used to need great memories - 2 page article with great Victorian-era operating room photo; Zeballos and Alert bay join phone system - article and photos; Prince Rupert centre of new radiotelephone network; Police session told of proposed teletype network; First call from Atlantic ship to Vancouver; Radio hams in our company; Newcastle Island picnic; Miss Almina Eligh; West Van exchange now includes Whytecliff; PNE float details and photos; F.C. Patterson retires, replaced by C.C. Simpson; Two submarine cables severed by Pier D Fire - with photos and text; Ship-to-shore demonstration on CJOR radio; Vancouver's telephone system will be converted to dial; C.A. (Charlie) Price; Frank C. Paterson; Beware of the common cold; Vancouver toll ro Book
1979réf. 230931979. Cold War Nuclear History Activism "No Nukes" rally photograph archive May 6 1979 documents the largest anti-nuclear demonstration in United States history organized in direct response to the March 28 1979 partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania. Held on the National Mall in Washington DC forty days after the accident the demonstration drew tens of thousands of participants and marked the rapid consolidation of a national anti-nuclear movement linking environmental activism Cold War energy policy and public distrust of federal regulatory authority. The photographs document speakers addressing the assembled crowd massed protesters carrying anti-nuclear signage including a banner reading "Nu/oclear Answer" and the presence of the Public Interest Video Network establishing a visual record of a protest movement at the moment of national expansion. Archive of 10 large-format silver gelatin photographs Washington DC May 6 1979 each measuring approximately 14" x 10". Photographs capture multiple vantage points including podium-level speaking events crowd formations across the Mall street-level marching and on-site broadcast operations. Several images document the Public Interest Video Network with visible signage camera equipment and production staff indicating organized independent media coverage of the demonstration. Additional frames include close portraits of participants and organizers small-group discussions and a broadcast interview setup before a large audience. One photograph shows two speakers at a microphone addressing the crowd; another shows marchers carrying the "Nu/oclear Answer" banner; others document camera crews and production coordination situating the event within the emerging use of portable video technology in activist documentation. The demonstration occurred within weeks of the Three Mile Island accident and preceded the September 1979 No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden and the subsequent Battery Park rally placing this archive at the early stage of a national protest movement that reshaped public debate over nuclear power in the United States. The presence of independent media infrastructure within the photographs underscores the role of activist-controlled documentation in circulating protest imagery outside traditional press channels. Minor handling wear and edge silvering are present consistent with storage of large-format prints. Overall very good condition. A large-format photographic record of the moment anti-nuclear protest scaled from localized reaction to coordinated national movement in the immediate aftermath of Three Mile Island. unknown
1979réf. 230931979. Cold War Nuclear History Activism "No Nukes" rally photograph archive May 6 1979 documents the largest anti-nuclear demonstration in United States history organized in direct response to the March 28 1979 partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania. Held on the National Mall in Washington DC forty days after the accident the demonstration drew tens of thousands of participants and marked the rapid consolidation of a national anti-nuclear movement linking environmental activism Cold War energy policy and public distrust of federal regulatory authority. The photographs document speakers addressing the assembled crowd massed protesters carrying anti-nuclear signage including a banner reading "Nu/oclear Answer" and the presence of the Public Interest Video Network establishing a visual record of a protest movement at the moment of national expansion. Archive of 10 large-format silver gelatin photographs Washington DC May 6 1979 each measuring approximately 14" x 10". Photographs capture multiple vantage points including podium-level speaking events crowd formations across the Mall street-level marching and on-site broadcast operations. Several images document the Public Interest Video Network with visible signage camera equipment and production staff indicating organized independent media coverage of the demonstration. Additional frames include close portraits of participants and organizers small-group discussions and a broadcast interview setup before a large audience. One photograph shows two speakers at a microphone addressing the crowd; another shows marchers carrying the "Nu/oclear Answer" banner; others document camera crews and production coordination situating the event within the emerging use of portable video technology in activist documentation. The demonstration occurred within weeks of the Three Mile Island accident and preceded the September 1979 No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden and the subsequent Battery Park rally placing this archive at the early stage of a national protest movement that reshaped public debate over nuclear power in the United States. The presence of independent media infrastructure within the photographs underscores the role of activist-controlled documentation in circulating protest imagery outside traditional press channels. Minor handling wear and edge silvering are present consistent with storage of large-format prints. Overall very good condition. A large-format photographic record of the moment anti-nuclear protest scaled from localized reaction to coordinated national movement in the immediate aftermath of Three Mile Island. unknown books
1937réf. E9LCYI7HNBLJThe Netherlands Monte Carlo etc. 1937. An interesting collection of documents mostly in Dutch including a manuscript travel journal official documents photographs issues of three automotive magazines and newspaper clippings all concerning the 16th Monte Carlo Automobile Rally of 1937 described by one of the Dutch participants Bastiaan Cornelis Pieter Hendrik van Baak 1914-2010. Van Baak was a member of the "Wageningsche Studenten Motor Club" a group of 15 motoring and automobile enthusiasts all students at the University of Wageningen. In 1936 the club joined forces with Jan van de Weerd the owner of a neighbouring coach company to take part in this challenging and iconic road trip over a distance of more than 1700 kilometres from Amsterdam to Monte Carlo and the French Riviera.Detailed list of contents available on request ART ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY AUTOGRAPHS DOCUMENTS & MANUSCRIPTS EUROPE HORSES HUNTING SPORTS & GAMES LOW COUNTRIES France Games & Sports Manuscripts & Documents Photography unknown
