More like 'basket with lid'
Storage Box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact49891
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV006.7.1
- Description
- Storage box. Wooden box with slanting top, hinged to open upwards. Lid closes with a clasp. Box is painted black on the outside and is unfinished on the inside and bottom. The box is made from 3/4 inch thick boards. There are two rings at the back edge of the top.
- Object History
- Collected by Raymond Menah when the Central Park British Columbia Electric Railway Interurban Tram line was shut down in late 1950's. It appears that the box was designed to hang on a wall.
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Transportation - Public Transit
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- Container
- Container - Box
- Geographic Access
- Central Park Interurban line
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postcard
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact84670
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV007.43.3
- Description
- [Duke of Connaught] - Postcard -- [1912]. Postcard with a black and white photograph of the arrival of the Duke of Connaught, then Governor General of Canada. The image was taken at Edmonds and Kingsway with a welcome arch and a banner reading "Burnaby Welcomes You". In the image there is the interurban tram and Edmonds station in the background, surrounded by many onlookers. Verso of postcard includes stamp at top reading: "CANADIAN SOUVENIR POST CARD"; divided into two sections "THIS SPACE FOR CORRESPONDENCE" / "THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY"; includes marking to place postage stamp "POSTAGE / ONE CENT / FOR / CANADA / AND U.S. / TWO CENTS / FOR / ABROAD". Annotation in pencil on verso of postcard reads: "Sept 21 / 1912 / Duke of Connaught / at Edmonds and / Kingsway"
- Object History
- Souvenir photograph postcard documents the Duke of Connaught's visit to Burnaby in 1912.
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E - - Writing Media
- Object Term
- Postcard
- Colour
- Black
- White
- Measurements
- w: 14 cm h: 9 cm
- Geographic Access
- Edmonds Street
- Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Richmond Park Area
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