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Photograph of three teepees
FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.9.11 · Item · [193-?]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph of several teepees, mostly focused on one with a bison motif. They are likely of the Nakoda (Stoney) or Niitsitapi/ Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot) Nations.

FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.2.3 · Item · [1890?]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph of two unidentified men dressed in hunting gear. One of them holds a rifle. There is a dog sitting in front of them. Writing on reverse reads "no 10; British Columbians in shooting kit".

Pocock, Roger
FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.9.9 · Item · [183-?]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph of two Indigenous men in full regalia on horseback. They are likely from the Nakoda (Stoney) or Niitsitapi/ Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot) Nations. They are riding down a street with many people standing on the sidewalk behind them.

FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.4.1.10 · Item · 10 June [1913?]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph of two men standing outside a log cabin in a forest. Cabin, trees, and ground are covered in snow. Writing on reverse reads "Trappers' Shed; 10 June".

Pocock, Roger
FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.9.5 · Item · [193-?]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph of Indigenous women in full regalia on horseback, almost all facing away from the camera. They are likely from the Nakoda (Stoney) or Niitsitapi/ Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot) Nations. Writing on reverse reads "Squaws; Note travois".

FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.5.8 · Item · [ca. 1913]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph overlooking an unidentified town on the Canadian Prairies from the railway tracks. Notable in the photo are a Canadian Pacific Railway Colonization Office and an advertisement for the C.P.R. Irrigation Canal east of Calgary. Writing on reverse reads "a prairie town".

FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.3.4 · Item · [1899]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photographs showing a panoramic-like view in Monumental Park (now Monument Valley) in Arizona. Writing on front reads "Distant Views in Monumental Park, Northern Arizona, no. 302." and on reverse reads "No.5 Wonders of the Desert, City of Rocks 1200 ft high + 6 miles distant colour scarlet in Navajo Desert California."

Photographs of Randle Cecil
FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.4.1.1 · Item · [1913]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph of Randle Cecil sitting on the step of a stable door. Beside him a child plays with two dogs. Writing on the reverse of one reads "Randle Cecil".

Pocock, Roger
FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.4.2.15 · Item · [1913]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph (3 copies) of Randle Cecil on horseback beside another horse and a cabin somewhere in the Selkirk Mountains near 'Well's Pass' in BC. Writing on one photograph reverse reads "Cecil [rode?] in with the [stray?] horses; Earl Grey's cabins; Wells Pass; Selkirks".

FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.7.5 · Item · [1930]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Photograph of two unidentified men standing beside a giant skull-like object. Writing of reverse of each reads "Skull of a Sea-Serpent, From Chorus to Adventurers By Roger Pocock (John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd. London).

FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.7.12 · Item · [1931]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Two plates of photographs used in Pocock's book Chorus to Adventurers. Writing on front of one reads "Chapter VIII ; Plate 1 ; "... forest dense as a hairbrush..." ; A park bridge in the Selkirks". Writing on front of the other reads "Chapter VIII ; Plate 2 ; Paragraph beginning ; "Following the Fraser R." ; Randle Cecil ; The Trapper feeding a pet fisher".

FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3.1.2 · Item · 1903
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Portrait of Pocock wearing a light-coloured button-up shirt and a bandana around his neck. Text on reverse reads "Roger Pocock, photograph taken in London in 1903" and writing reads "Pictorial Mag".

FC 3216.3 P63 R64 3 · Series · [188-?] - [193-?]
Part of Roger Pocock archives

Series documents some of the travels of Pocock and consists of photographs, postcards, and negatives. Images are primarily of the Canadian North-West along with portraits of Pocock and others, and photos of Mexico, Canadian Prairies, and Noway. Images were either taken by Pocock or purchased during his travels and usually correlate to the places he visited, as documented through his scrapbooks, diaries, and published autobiographies. Series is arranged chronologically into nine subseries: Portraits, Images of British Columbia, Journey from Fort Macleod to Mexico City, Journey with Randle Cecil, Images of the Canadian Prairies, Journey to Spitzbergen, Images used in Chorus to Adventurers, Semi-Retirement at Charterhouse, and Trip to Canada.