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Old Curly

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1930 and 1949] (date of original)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.5 x 25.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the steam locomotive known as "Old Curly" at the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in Vancouver, surrounded by a locked gate fence. Two groups of unidentified men standing at the fence look to be involved in a presentation of some kind.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.5 x 25.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the steam locomotive known as "Old Curly" at the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in Vancouver, surrounded by a locked gate fence. Two groups of unidentified men standing at the fence look to be involved in a presentation of some kind.

Subjects: Transportation - Locomotives

Names: Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: BV985.5995.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [between 1930 and 1949] (date of original)

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 1/11/2010

Scale: 100

Notes: Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "Emory #2, or 'Old Curly.' Original photo at Hastings Mill encaptioned [sic] 'The First Locomotive 1888 used in logging in B.C. Presented by E.W. Hamber, on behalf of the B.C. Mills Timber & Trading Co. Ltd. in 1930, to the Vancouver Harbour Commission, and by them to the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., who reconditioned it and made a gift of it to the Vancouver Exhibition Association, who assigned it to the present site at Hastings Park.' "

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