Global commodities: trade, exploration and cultural exchange  🎓

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Visual, manuscript and printed sources relating to the history of fifteen global commodities. The material is taken from the collections of over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organisation

Documents include:

Business accounts, mercantile papers and correspondence, government reports, rare pamphlets and dock records.

Statistical records associated with global trade and commerce, including prices current, bills and entry and trade returns.

Historical maps.

Advertising memorabilia and ephemera, including posters and packaging.

Photographs, paintings and prints.

Objects and artefacts, including examples of finished consumer goods and raw materials.

 Access open only to UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)

Permitted Uses
Research or Private Study? Yes
Linking? Yes
Learning Management System? Yes
Text and Data Mining? No
Alumni Access? Yes
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Images, Primary Sources