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• Title:Adolphus Lindgren fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Lindgren, Adolphus
  
• Published/Created:[approximately 1900-1903]
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1683
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:box 1
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Lindgren, Adolphus
  Vancouver (B.C.)--Views
  
• Description:37 paintings : watercolour
  9 drawings : pencil
  
• Summary:Fonds consists of watercolour paintings and sketches completed by Lindgren, depicting scenes around the Vancouver area shorelines, including Brockton Point, English Bay, Burrard Inlet and the North Shore Mountains. The fonds consists of 1 sketchbook and 12 loose leaves of paintings and drawings, however, it is clear that at least 10 of the leaves (numbered 1-2 through 1-11 in the item list) were at one time part of a sketch book also.
  
• Biography/history note:Adolphus Hardisty Lindgren was born on March 7 1828 at Canonbury Fields, London. He and his son, Captain Albert Adolphus Lindgren, emigrated to Vancouver in May 1900. In his spare time, he composed music and sketched in pencil and watercolour, both for his own amusement and that he might send pictures of his new homeland to the family he had left behind in Europe. He died of gastroenteritis on 4th October 1908.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Item list available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the provenance of the fonds.