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envelope
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact13092
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.4485.1
- Description
- West Burnaby Pharmacy - Envelope. Olive green envelope from the West Burnaby Pharmacy on Kingsway and Sussex. The envelope has the store delivery number posted on the top for "Prompt Delivery". The pharmacy sells drugs, cigars, magazines, stationary and school supplies, chocolate, films and ice cream. There is also a developing and printing service. The envelope has two illustrations printed on it, one of a telephone in the top left corner and one of a mortar and pestle in the middle. The envelope measures 20cm (including flap) x 10cm.
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E - - Writing Accessories
- Object Term
- Envelope, Shipping
- Names
- West Burnaby Pharmacy
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Street Address
- 4687 Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
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postcard
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact89212
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV018.20.4
- Description
- postcard; color lithographed scene of Second Avenue in Seattle, Washington. A sign says "The Gateway to Alaska, Seattle, Washington". There are trams and people in Edwardian clothes on the street, there's a horse and buggy and cars on the road. The back of the postcard addressed to Miss M. George. Postcard published by Trattner Post Card Co., Seattle, Washington. Cancelled in Seattle, Washington, Terminal Station on July 25, 1917 at 10am. "Rainier National Park opens June 15". Postcard addressed to "Miss M. George / c/o National Drug / Vancouver / B.C." Handwritten in ink: "July 23 / Dear Miss George: Am sure in some lively place, not like N.V. Will see you again before long. / Budd"
- Object History
- Wilhelmina (Mina) George was the second female pharmacist in BC and ran the West Burnaby Pharmacy.
- Elsie Impett (later MacDonald) was born in 1902 in England. Her family setted at Fenwick Avenue, Burnaby. She worked as a clerk and married James MacDonald in 1923 in New Westminster.
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E - - Writing Media
- Object Term
- Postcard
- Measurements
- L: 19.5 cm W: 18.5 cm
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