Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A sneak peek of Greg Houston, Digitization Administrator & New Media Administrator and his team digitizing one of the largest and heaviest pieces in the collection and an iconic symbol of McGill’s history - Percy Erskine Nobbs 9.5-foot framed 1925 watercolour painting, known simply as “Bird’s-Eye View of McGill University” or “Campus from the West".
Footage taken by Merika Ramundo, Communications Officer, McGill Library
Edited by Isabelle Camille Blaise, Student Marketing Assistant, Office of the Dean of Libraries
Read more about the digitization process: news.library.mcgill.ca/a-monumental-scan-nobbs-birds-eye-view-of-the-mcgill-university
Explore the Library’s Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds in our archival collections catalogue. For a listing and description of related holdings visit archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/percy-erskine-nobbs
This video is licensed under a CC-BY-NC license
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A sneak peek of Greg Houston, Digitization Administrator & New Media Administrator and his team digitizing one of the largest and heaviest pieces in the collection and an iconic symbol of McGill’s history - Percy Erskine Nobbs 9.5-foot framed 1925 watercolour painting, known simply as “Bird’s-Eye View of McGill University” or “Campus from the West".
Footage taken by Merika Ramundo, Communications Officer, McGill Library
Edited by Isabelle Camille Blaise, Student Marketing Assistant, Office of the Dean of Libraries
Read more about the digitization process: news.library.mcgill.ca/a-monumental-scan-nobbs-birds-eye-view-of-the-mcgill-university
Explore the Library’s Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds in our archival collections catalogue. For a listing and description of related holdings visit archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/percy-erskine-nobbs
This video is licensed under a CC-BY-NC license
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ca
