Newspaper clipping of a stone archway with a child standing underneath. Caption reads "Old Archway, Blackgate".
Collection of paper and leather-bound booklets, including bank books and ledgers, music [song lyrics], short stories, and of various newspaper clippings compiled by William Stanger and the Stanger family.
Of note are William Stanger's bank ledger from the Banque D'Hochelaga dated 1919, a notepad designed for recording bridge scores with a note about a sale of hay dated 13 May 1940 and otherwise empty with a newspaper clipping entitled "Embarrassing Moment" tucked in it, a booklet entitled "The Universal Songster - A Collection Comprising Sixty of the Choicest and Most Popular Songs of the Day", a copy of "Just for To-day" by William Wilberforce, and a copy of "Wehman's Book of Yankee Stories".
Sem títuloA clipping of a newspaper article called "Ocean Tramps." The newspaper source and date are unknown, though someone has written '95' in pencil at the top of the article. The author is also not stated but it is very likely written by Pocock.
Clippings pasted onto scrapbook sheets of the serial novel "By My Own Hand" by Pocock. The periodical publication and date are unknown, but it is likely around the time Pocock's book The Dragon Slayer (1896) was published.
A clipping of a newspaper article called "Concerning Tramp Steamers." The newspaper source and date are unknown, though someone has written '[January] 96' in pencil at the top of the article. The author is also not stated but it is very likely written by Pocock.
Newspaper clipping of an image of a cowboy on a horse. Caption reads "996 Cowboy on bucking horse".
Newspaper clipping from The Daily News dated 10 July 1903 announcing the release date (16 July 1903) of A Frontiersman.
Subseries consists of images used in Pocock's book Chorus to Adventurers, first published in 1931. Subseries is arranged according to the order that photographs were processed.
Newspaper clipping, likely from The Herald, containing various news items about Fernie, British Columbia., from 26 July, [year unknown].
Newspaper clipping about the departure of the boat the S.Y. Frontiersman from London, the ship used to refuel the plane for the World Flight. Undated, likely from 1922.