Special Collections

"The Bible in Miniature, or, A Concise History of the Old and New Testaments" London: W. Harris, 1774.

Members of the Canadian Scottish Regiment returning from Europe, Victoria B.C.

Dr. Evanthia Baboula, of the Department of History in Art, and students using materials from the Brown Collection.

Watercolour image of a soldier's dugout from J.M.'s World War One Sketchbook, 1917-1918.

Broadsides printed by the Dun Emer Press, c. 1908.

Photograph by Gisele Freund of James Joyce, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier in Beach's Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.

Glass plate photograph, from the Life in Japan, c. 1910 Collection

Elizabeth Hazlitte interviewing WWI veteran Egbert Browning in 1983 for the Military Oral History Collection.

Detail of 15th century fragment from a Book of Hours.

Manuscript page of "At the Heart o' Me" by Ezra Pound.

Tanks at Amiens, photograph from the Archie Wills fonds.
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Regular Hours
- Mon-Fri
- 08:30 AM - 04:30 PM
- Sat-Sun
- Closed
Holiday Hours
- Dec 24, 2019
- 08:30 AM - 02:00 PM
Closed
- Dec 25, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019
- Closed

Address
University of Victoria Special Collections
Room A005, lower level, Mearns Centre - McPherson Library
Floor map of lower level
University of Victoria
PO Box 1800 STN CSC
Victoria, B.C., V8W 3H5
Canada
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Phone
250-721-8257