"Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds" found 26 records

Scope and Content: Photograph of Archie Brown-John and an unidentified man working with a crosscut saw to cut firewood. Archie is on the left, wearing a fedora.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [193-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-005

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Archie Brown-John and an unidentified man working with a crosscut saw to cut firewood. Archie is on the left, wearing a fedora.

Subjects: Woodworking Tools and Equipment

Names: Brown-John, Archie

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Archie Brown-John cutting wood, [193-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Aune and Gus Rintanen

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76948

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [193-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Aune and Gus Rintanen sitting together with North Vancouver's Seymour River in the background.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [193-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-079

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Aune and Gus Rintanen sitting together with North Vancouver's Seymour River in the background.

Names: Rintanen, Aune; Rintanen, Gus

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Aune and Gus Rintanen, [193-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Blasting stump

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76891

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1921 or 1922] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of members of the Brown-John family sitting and standing on the blasting stump. This stump was located near the corner of Gilmore Avenue and Napier Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1921 or 1922] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-008

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of members of the Brown-John family sitting and standing on the blasting stump. This stump was located near the corner of Gilmore Avenue and Napier Street.

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Names: Brown-John, Victor Joseph Charles; Brown-John, Archie; Brown-John, Frank; Brown-John, Roy; Ansdell, Elsie Brown-John; Brown-John, Clive

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Gilmore Avenue; Napier Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Willingdon Heights Area

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Blasting stump

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76892

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Brown-John children playing on the blasting stump that was located near the corner of Gilmore Avenue and Napier Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-009

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Brown-John children playing on the blasting stump that was located near the corner of Gilmore Avenue and Napier Street.

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Names: Brown-John, Victor; Brown-John, Archie; Brown-John, Frank; Brown-John, Roy; Brown-John, Clive

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Gilmore Avenue; Napier Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Willingdon Heights Area

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Blasting stump, [1920] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Brown-John family

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76887

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914 (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Brown-John family; Victor, his wife Winnifred, their two eldest sons Victor and Archie, and twin boys Frank and Roy.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914 (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-004

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Brown-John family; Victor, his wife Winnifred, their two eldest sons Victor and Archie, and twin boys Frank and Roy.

Names: Brown-John, Victor Joseph Charles; Brown-John, Winnifred Douglas; Brown-John, Victor; Brown-John, Archie; Brown-John, Frank; Brown-John, Roy

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Images

Brown-John family, 1914 (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Brown-John home

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76890

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Brown-John home in Burnaby. Four large trucks are visible parked in front of the house.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-007

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Brown-John home in Burnaby. Four large trucks are visible parked in front of the house.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses; Transportation - Trucks

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Hastings Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Willingdon Heights Area

Images

Brown-John home, [192-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Brown-John trucking office

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76896

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1935] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Brown-John trucking office.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1935] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-013

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Brown-John trucking office.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Hastings Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Willingdon Heights Area

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Brown-John trucking office, [1935] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Child in the yard

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76909

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1934] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified child standing next to a wheelbarrow, with a house in the background. These are the original owners of the lot at Hardwick Street that was later bought by Tony Fabian.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1934] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-029

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified child standing next to a wheelbarrow, with a house in the background. These are the original owners of the lot at Hardwick Street that was later bought by Tony Fabian.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Hardwick Street

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

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Child in the yard, [1934] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Class at Burnaby North High School

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76885

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1938] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elsie Brown-John's grade nine class at Burnaby North High School. Elsie Brown-John (later Ansdell) is standing in the bottom row, three in from the left.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1938] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elsie Brown-John's grade nine class at Burnaby North High School. Elsie Brown-John (later Ansdell) is standing in the bottom row, three in from the left.

Names: Burnaby North High School; Ansdell, Elsie Brown-John

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Pandora Street

Street Address: 4375 Pandora Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

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Class at Burnaby North High School, [1938] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Class at Kitchener Street School

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription74809

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1936] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elsie Brown-John's class at Kitchener Street School. Elsie Brown-John (later Ansdell) is sitting at the bottom row, on the far right.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1936] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elsie Brown-John's class at Kitchener Street School. Elsie Brown-John (later Ansdell) is sitting at the bottom row, on the far right.

Names: Kitchener Street School; Ansdell, Elsie Brown-John

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Gilmore Avenue

Street Address: 1351 Gilmore Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Willingdon Heights Area

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Class at Kitchener Street School, [1936] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Cut wood

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76889

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [193-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of two unidentified girls sitting on top of a large pile of cuts. Archie Brown-John was believed to have cut this wood down for firewood.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [193-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-006

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of two unidentified girls sitting on top of a large pile of cuts. Archie Brown-John was believed to have cut this wood down for firewood.

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Cut wood, [193-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Excavating the basement

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76899

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1946 (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of the hand-dug excavation at Willingdon Avenue where Cice and Dennis Brown first erected their home.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1946 (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-019

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of the hand-dug excavation at Willingdon Avenue where Cice and Dennis Brown first erected their home.

Subjects: Land Clearing; Transportation - Wheelbarrows

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Willingdon Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Excavating the basement, 1946 (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Gus Rintanen

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76945

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Gus Rintanen clearing land with an unidentified man in either Oregon or Washington.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-076

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Gus Rintanen clearing land with an unidentified man in either Oregon or Washington.

Subjects: Land Clearing

Names: Rintanen, Gus

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Gus Rintanen, [192-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Hazel Simnett

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76592

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [194-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hazel Simnett standing in a garden, with a small dog in her arms.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [194-] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-063

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hazel Simnett standing in a garden, with a small dog in her arms.

Subjects: Animals - Dogs

Names: Simnett, Hazel

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Hazel Simnett

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76936

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1942] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hazel Simnett standing in front of a house.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1942] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-064

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hazel Simnett standing in front of a house.

Names: Simnett, Hazel

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Hazel Simnett, [1942] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Junk yard

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76895

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Frank Brown-John's junk yard. Four unidentified men are visible sitting on the trucks in the parking lot of the junk yard.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-012

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Frank Brown-John's junk yard. Four unidentified men are visible sitting on the trucks in the parking lot of the junk yard.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial; Transportation - Trucks

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Junk yard, [1930] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Roy Brainerd

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription74825

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1945 or 1946] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Roy Brainerd walking along Granville Street, between Dunsmuir and Robson in Vancouver.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1945 or 1946] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-016

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of Roy Brainerd walking along Granville Street, between Dunsmuir and Robson in Vancouver.

Names: Brainerd, Roy George

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Foncie Fotos

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photograph believed to be taken by Foncie Pulice

Images

Roy Brainerd, [1945 or 1946] (date of original), digitally copied 2012 thumbnail

Sitting together on a felled tree

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76907

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of and unidentified man sitting on a large felled tree, with his arm around the legs of a young boy (also unidentified), standing next to him. A border collie is sitting next to them, facing away from the camera. These are the original owners of the lot at Harwick Street that was later b…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), digitally copied 2012

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 549-027

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of and unidentified man sitting on a large felled tree, with his arm around the legs of a young boy (also unidentified), standing next to him. A border collie is sitting next to them, facing away from the camera. These are the original owners of the lot at Harwick Street that was later bought by Tony Fabian.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Hardwick Street

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

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