Collection

Bill Dungate collection

Description Level

Series

GMD

graphic material

Creator

Bill Dungate

Various unknown photographers

Fonds No.

C8

Series No.

S1

Accession No.

2021.23

Physical Description

638+ identified negatives, slides, prints, and photographs

1000+ unidentified negatives, slides, prints, and photographs

Date Range

[1910s-1990s]

History / Biographical

William 'Bill' Dungate (1909-1993) lived most of his life in and around Houston, B.C. He played a key role in preserving the area's pictorial heritage, both through his own photography as well as by the collection and restoration of historic photographs.

Custodial History

The photographs, prints, negatives, and slides in this fonds were all created, collected, and/or reproduced by Bill Dungate during his lifetime. They were donated to the Bulkley Valley Museum by Dino Laramie both pre-2020 and on August 12th 2021.

Scope and Content

Series contains over 600 negatives, prints, slides, and photographs depicting Houston, its people, and its enrivons from the early 1910s to early 1990s.

Arrangement

Items are numbered in the order in which they were processed.

Geographic Access

Houston, B.C.

Notes

Not all of the original donation (1000+ photos) has been retained. Of those kept, only those with identifiable context and relevance to the Museum’s mandate were selected for scanning and accessioning into the database. Additional and unidentified negatives have been retained (see file list).

Type of Record

Archival Description

Less detail