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Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Annie Sara Kenrick (later, Annie Hill). She was the wife of Louis Claude Hill and the mother to Kitty Hill.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1885]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-1036

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Annie Sara Kenrick (later, Annie Hill). She was the wife of Louis Claude Hill and the mother to Kitty Hill.

Names: Hill, Annie Sara Kenrick

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Antwerp, Belgium

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 17.7 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Antwerp, Belgium. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 17.7 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-811

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Antwerp, Belgium. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Buildings

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Appliance display at Simpsons-Sears Days

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1954]

Collection/Fonds: Simpsons-Sears Limited Burnaby fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 20.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a display of appliances set up in the parking lot of the Simpsons-Sears store located at 3660 Kingsway (after 1959, 4750 Kingsway) during Simpsons-Sears Days. A tarp is covering the appliance display to protect it from the rain. An unidentified man and child are standing under the tar…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Simpsons-Sears Limited Burnaby fonds

Series: Simpsons-Sears scrapbook series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 20.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a display of appliances set up in the parking lot of the Simpsons-Sears store located at 3660 Kingsway (after 1959, 4750 Kingsway) during Simpsons-Sears Days. A tarp is covering the appliance display to protect it from the rain. An unidentified man and child are standing under the tarp. The pavement is wet from the rain.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Department Stores

Names: Simpsons-Sears Limited

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 4750 Kingsway

Accession Code: BV021.26.112

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [1954]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photograph was removed from original scrapbook with newspaper clippings, photographs and ephemera

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Appliance display at Simpsons-Sears Days, [1954] thumbnail

Arc de Triomphe

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.3 x 14.4 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photorgaph of the Arc de Triomphe. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.3 x 14.4 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-790

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photorgaph of the Arc de Triomphe. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Structures - Arches

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Arthur W. Mawbey

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1959 and 1964]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.5 x 13.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of World War I veteran Arthur W. Mawbey sitting in front of the Union Jack in uniform during a Remembrance Day observance ceremony. He is smoking a pipe, with one hand resting on his cane, and the other hand holding a white wooden cross with maple leaf resting on it.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1959 and 1964]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.5 x 13.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-1147

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of World War I veteran Arthur W. Mawbey sitting in front of the Union Jack in uniform during a Remembrance Day observance ceremony. He is smoking a pipe, with one hand resting on his cane, and the other hand holding a white wooden cross with maple leaf resting on it.

Subjects: Persons - Veterans; Wars - World War, 1914-1918; Symbols - Flags; Clothing - Military Uniforms

Names: Mawbey, Arthur W.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Arthur W. Mawbey, [between 1959 and 1964] thumbnail

Astor Hotel

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1958

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Astor Hotel at 4561 Kingsway and McKay Avenue. A hotel sign reads, "Welcome HRH Princess Margaret to Burnaby." The Astor Coffee Shop is to the right of the hotel.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1958

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.6 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 060-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Astor Hotel at 4561 Kingsway and McKay Avenue. A hotel sign reads, "Welcome HRH Princess Margaret to Burnaby." The Astor Coffee Shop is to the right of the hotel.

Subjects: Advertising Medium - Signs and Signboards; Buildings - Commercial - Hotels and Motels

Names: Astor Hotel

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 4561 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

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At the Gai Paree Supper Club

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: March 6, 1952

Collection/Fonds: Grieve family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm, mounted in card ; 12.5 x 33.5 cm, folded to 12.5 x 17 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of William Ewart "Bill" Grieve sitting at a table at the Gai Paree Supper Club with Clifford G. Brown. The four other individuals at the table have not been identified.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: March 6, 1952

Collection/Fonds: Grieve family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm, mounted in card ; 12.5 x 33.5 cm, folded to 12.5 x 17 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 523-010

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2011-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of William Ewart "Bill" Grieve sitting at a table at the Gai Paree Supper Club with Clifford G. Brown. The four other individuals at the table have not been identified.

Subjects: Events - Parties

Names: Grieve, William Ewart "Bill"; Brown, Clifton Gilbert, 1889-1960; Gai Paree Supper Club

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on recto of card mount reads: "2004 January I believe the Gai Paree has disappeared"; Notes inside card on recto of photograph mount read: "Maybe wartime?", "Bill Grieve, Chair of Burnaby School Bd circa 1955?" and "Clifford [sic] G. Brown, a school superintendent after whom a Pool named by Burnaby Lake"

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 6669 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Kingsway-Beresford Area

At Tucks Station, Richmond

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: June 1957

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of British Columbia Electric Railway Company trams no. 1232 (and 1231) reaching Tucks Station in Richmond.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 8.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of British Columbia Electric Railway Company trams no. 1232 (and 1231) reaching Tucks Station in Richmond.

Subjects: Transportation - Electric Railroads

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Accession Code: BV992.23.14

Access Restriction: Restricted access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: June 1957

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 01-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Photographer: Webster, Robert D. "Bob"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on verso of photograph reads: "BCER 1232-1231/ RUCKS BC 6/57"; Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "BOB WEBSTER/ 9068 - 146th STREET/ SURREY, B.C. CANADA/ 584-9495 V3R 3S8/ RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY"

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At Tucks Station, Richmond, June 1957 thumbnail

"Aunt" Cammell

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 16.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of "Aunt" Cammell of the Cammell-Laird shipbuilding clan. Ms. Cammell was the aunt (on the mother's side) of Claude and Bernard Hill, early Burnaby Lake residents. A note on the back of the photograph indicates that Ms. Cammell had a great deal of influence on Clau…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 16.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-050

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of "Aunt" Cammell of the Cammell-Laird shipbuilding clan. Ms. Cammell was the aunt (on the mother's side) of Claude and Bernard Hill, early Burnaby Lake residents. A note on the back of the photograph indicates that Ms. Cammell had a great deal of influence on Claude and Bernard Hill's upbringing and schooling.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Books

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Austin Heights School

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1951

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photographs of thirty-nine students and their teacher, Mrs. V. Cuthbertson, on the steps of Austin Heights School in Coquitlam. A note on the back of the picture indicates that this was the grade one class.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1951

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 463-030

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photographs of thirty-nine students and their teacher, Mrs. V. Cuthbertson, on the steps of Austin Heights School in Coquitlam. A note on the back of the picture indicates that this was the grade one class.

Subjects: Occupations - Teachers

Names: Austin Heights School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.; Photographer identified as "Layton"

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Automatic equipment being installed

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1959

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of three men working with rows of equipment at the British Columbia Telephone Company Glenburn Exchange at Delta Avenue and Parker Street. A typed description on the back of the photograph reads, "Automatic equipment being installed in the new Glenburn exchange. / B.C. Telephone Company…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1959

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 111-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of three men working with rows of equipment at the British Columbia Telephone Company Glenburn Exchange at Delta Avenue and Parker Street. A typed description on the back of the photograph reads, "Automatic equipment being installed in the new Glenburn exchange. / B.C. Telephone Company."

Subjects: Telecommunication Tools and Equipment

Names: British Columbia Telephone Company

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Williams Brothers Photographers Limited

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Stamp and annotation at bottom of photograph reads, "Williams Bros. Photographers Ltd. / 413 Granville St. Vancouver 2, B.C. / Phone Tatlow 8588 / 06569-7"

Geographic Access: Delta Avenue; Parker Street

Planning Study Area: Brentwood Area

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Automatic equipment being installed, 1959 thumbnail

Automobile on road

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1947 and 1957]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an automobile coming down roadway. Dark shadow at bottom of hillside made be a bear.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an automobile coming down roadway. Dark shadow at bottom of hillside made be a bear.

Subjects: Transportation - Automobiles; Geographic Features - Roads

Accession Code: BV022.32.559

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1947 and 1957]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-08-25

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 2 (BV032.22.431)

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Automobile on road, [between 1947 and 1957] thumbnail

Award winning pianists

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1958

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of three boys in front of a piano, holding trophies. The two boys seated in front are identified only as the Mandy brothers and the third is unidentified.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1958

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Norah Code subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 345-013

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS1997-05

Scope and Content: Photograph of three boys in front of a piano, holding trophies. The two boys seated in front are identified only as the Mandy brothers and the third is unidentified.

Subjects: Musical Instruments - Pianos; Personal Symbols - Trophies

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Code, Norah

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.; Photographs in this collection were taken and compiled by Norah Code, former editor of the "Burnaby Courier" newspaper during the course of her work for the newspaper.

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Baby Janice Bower

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: March 1950 (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Studio portrait of little girl, identified as Janice Bower, aged about 18 months. Child is seated with legs stretched out in front of her. She wears a gold necklace with pendant, white dress, and white leather booties.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Studio portrait of little girl, identified as Janice Bower, aged about 18 months. Child is seated with legs stretched out in front of her. She wears a gold necklace with pendant, white dress, and white leather booties.

Subjects: Persons - Children

Names: Flintroy, Janice Bower

Accession Code: BV015.40.34

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: March 1950 (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 09-Sep-18

Notes: Title based on annotations on digital file name; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Baby Janice Bower, March 1950 (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail

Back yard of 5118 Douglas Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1951]

Collection/Fonds: Small family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 cm x 11.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the backyard and screened summer house at 5118 Douglas Road after a snowfall. The summer house was used by the Roberts children for sleeping outdoors in the summertime and by the Small children as a playhouse. It rotted and collapsed in the 1960s, likely following the "Big Snow" of …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1951]

Collection/Fonds: Small family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 cm x 11.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 620-019

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No reproduction permitted

Accession Number: 2017-01

Scope and Content: Photograph of the backyard and screened summer house at 5118 Douglas Road after a snowfall. The summer house was used by the Roberts children for sleeping outdoors in the summertime and by the Small children as a playhouse. It rotted and collapsed in the 1960s, likely following the "Big Snow" of December 1964.

Subjects: Natural Phenomena - Snow; Buildings - Residential - Cabins

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Transcribed title; Title transcribed from donor's notes; Note in black ink on verso of photograph reads: "Summer House in the Snow / Burnaby - 1951?"; Note in blue ink on verson of photograph reads: "P.19"; 5118 Douglas Road renumbered to 3131 Douglas Road in 1958 and to 5538 Dominion Street in 1970 or 1971

Street Address: 3131 Douglas Road; 5118 Douglas Road; 5538 Dominion Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Ardingley-Sprott Area

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Back yard of 5118 Douglas Road, [1951] thumbnail

Backyard of 6131 Silver Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: August 1954 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.1 x 2.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the backyard of 6131 Silver Avenue, facing the back of McKay Avenue. Two people are in a wading pool and houses are in the background.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: August 1954 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.1 x 2.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-245

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the backyard of 6131 Silver Avenue, facing the back of McKay Avenue. Two people are in a wading pool and houses are in the background.