"Artifacts" found 59 records | Heritage Burnaby

Personal material

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1910-1978]

Collection/Fonds: Hazel Simnett collection

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlai…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1910-1978]

Collection/Fonds: Hazel Simnett collection

Series: Simnett personal papers series

Physical Description: 9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS167-008

Accession Number: 2013-22

Scope and Content: File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlain from Liverpool and a letter from the Office of the Mayor addressed to Mary Ann Simnett for her ninetieth birthday. Also included is a photograph (see item 559-001). Also included are newsclippings regarding Robert Burnaby and the "Bygones of Burnaby" book, a programme of the Robert Burnaby Commemorative Dinner, a photocopy of "The Argus" (Burnaby South High School's newspaper) from 1938, a programme from Madys Pridmore Brown's Variety Programme, "The Buzzer" Volume 40 Issue 16 advertising Vancouver street cars, New Vista Society certificate addressed to Hazel Simnett, an envelope of Fenwick Lansdowne bird prints from 1957 and a print of the Royal Family found in a cardboard envelope postmarked 1972.

Subjects: Arts - Paintings; Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers; Documentary Artifacts - Photographs; Performances - Concerts; Organizations - Societies and Clubs; Personal Symbols - Certificates; Transportation; Persons - Royalty

Names: Simnett, Hazel; Simnett, Frederick "Fred"; Simnett, Mary Ann; Lansdowne, James Fenwick

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph; Graphic Material

Notes: Title based on note accompanying file on folder ; The Argue was stapled together; Simnett personal papers series

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Clinton-Glenwood Area

Brown's guide to British Columbia

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Brown, Conway

Publication Date: 1934

Call Number: 317.1 BRO

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Textual Record

Accession Code: HV975.15.13

Call Number: 317.1 BRO

Author: Brown, Conway

Place of Publication: Ottawa

Publisher: Conway Brown

Publication Date: 1934

Series: Brown's guide to British Columbia, no. 4

Physical Description: 112 p. : ill. (maps) : 17 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Guidebooks; Canada, Western; British Columbia; British Columbia--Maps; British Columbia--Politics and government

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts; Documentary Artifacts - Booklets; Elections; Geographic Features - Districts - Electoral Districts

Notes: Includes index.; "This issue contains federal electoral map of B.C. showing boundaries of new ridings clearly, so that every riding is easily distinguished." -- Cover

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Burnaby British Columbia : reference and year book 1931

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: 1931

Call Number: 317.133 BUR Copy 1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Textual Record

Accession Code: HV978.48.11

Call Number: 317.133 BUR Copy 1

Place of Publication: Vancouver

Publisher: Burnaby Broadcast

Publication Date: 1931

Physical Description: 42 p. : ill. : 31 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Burnaby (B.C.)--Statistics; Burnaby (B.C.)--History

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts; Documentary Artifacts - Booklets; Advertising Medium; Government; Government - Local Government; Organizations; Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs

Notes: Copy 1 of 2

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Foods, nutrition, and home management manual : home economics circular no. 1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: British Columbia. Department of Education

Edition: Rev.

Publication Date: 1930

Call Number: 641.1 FOO

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV008.18.1

Call Number: 641.1 FOO

Edition: Rev.

Author: British Columbia. Department of Education

Place of Publication: [Victoria, B.C.]

Publisher: Province of British Columbia. Department of Education

Publication Date: 1930

Printer: Charles F. Banfield

Physical Description: 156 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Inscription: Front end paper: "MAC'S" "Confectionery & Tobacco." "E. Hastings" [stamped in purple ink. possibily faded blue ink?] "KATHLEEN WYLLIE." "3735 PANDORA ST.' "VANCOUVER" "B.C." "SCHOOL GILMORE AVE." "DIV 7" [Printed in pencil] Paper cover: "Kay Wyllie" "Div __" [upper right side, handwritten in blue ink] "HOME EC. MANUAL" "May Wyllie" "Gi[l]more Ave. Junior High" [printed in blue ink]

Library Subject (LOC): Home economics; Nutrition; Home economics--North America--History; Cookbooks--1930-1939; Cooking, Canadian; Juvenile literature

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts; Documentary Artifacts - Books

Object History: Donor inherited object from her mother.

Notes: "Authorized by the Ministry of Education" - cover "Printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellant Majesty."

The modern chatterbox

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: 1935

Call Number: 813.4 LEB

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV010.12.1

Call Number: 813.4 LEB

Contributor: Lebeck, Oskar, 1903-1966

Place of Publication: Racine, Wis.

Publisher: Whitman Publishing Company

Publication Date: 1935

Physical Description: 190 p. : ill.

Inscription: "to. Raymond Colter. / From. Dady. 1937.", handwritten in black ink on front endpaper

Library Subject (LOC): Juvenile fiction

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts; Documentary Artifacts - Books

Notes: "192 pages of stories-verses and things to do"--cover; "Illustrated by Oskar Lebeck"

Andrew Sloane Johnson graduates

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 22.5 x 17.5 cm (sight) in frame 14.5 x 31.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Andrew Sloane Johnson taken in a photographic studio on the occasion of his graduation. He is wearing a robe overtop of a tweed suit and is holding a rolled diploma in his hand.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Andrew Johnson subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 22.5 x 17.5 cm (sight) in frame 14.5 x 31.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 244-008

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1990-10

Scope and Content: Photograph of Andrew Sloane Johnson taken in a photographic studio on the occasion of his graduation. He is wearing a robe overtop of a tweed suit and is holding a rolled diploma in his hand.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names: Johnson, Andrew Sloane

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Andrew Sloane Johnson graduates, [1930] thumbnail

Annie Sara Hill

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1940]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w hand-tinted into col.; 5.5 x 6.8 cm oval

Scope and Content: Photograph is a hand-coloured, head and shoulders portrait of Annie Sara Hill. Mrs. Hill was the wife of early Burnaby resident, L. Claude Hill.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1940]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w hand-tinted into col.; 5.5 x 6.8 cm oval

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-005

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a hand-coloured, head and shoulders portrait of Annie Sara Hill. Mrs. Hill was the wife of early Burnaby resident, L. Claude Hill.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names: Hill, Annie Sara Kenrick

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Booking photograph

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1924 and 1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a two-part, right-profile and front-view booking photograph of a prisoner, said to have escaped from Oakalla Prison Farm on July 14, 1930.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1924 and 1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: George Jeffery subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 12 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 013-020

Access Restriction: In Archives only

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph is a two-part, right-profile and front-view booking photograph of a prisoner, said to have escaped from Oakalla Prison Farm on July 14, 1930.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts

Names: Oakalla Prison Farm

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Booking photograph

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1926 and 1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a two-part, right-profile and front-view booking photograph of a prisoner, said to have escaped from Oakalla Prison Farm on July 14, 1930.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1926 and 1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: George Jeffery subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 12 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 013-022

Access Restriction: In Archives only

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph is a two-part, right-profile and front-view booking photograph of a prisoner, said to have escaped from Oakalla Prison Farm on July 14, 1930.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts

Names: Oakalla Prison Farm

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Handwritten note on verso of photograph reads: "Escaped from Oakalla / 14.7.30 / 18255 / EDWARD BOYD / @ / SILAS SIMON / 14290 / Welsh. / Age 24. / 5 ' 5 5/8. Weight 136 / DK BROWN Curly Hair / Brown Eyes"

Cylinder records 1901-1919

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1901-1919] (date of original content), April 1987 (date of recording), digitized in 2020

Collection/Fonds: Century Park Museum Association fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette (28 min., 48 sec.)

Scope and Content: Audio recording titled "Cylinder Records 1901-1919". Recording consists of samples of music recorded from the Burnaby Village Museum cylinder record collection. This recording may have been used for an exhibit or as part of a public or school program.

1 audio

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Century Park Museum Association fonds

Series: Heritage Village Museum exhibits and artifacts series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette (28 min., 48 sec.)

Material Details: Track Number: 1 (side A of audio cassette); Total Number of Tracks : 1

Scope and Content: Audio recording titled "Cylinder Records 1901-1919". Recording consists of samples of music recorded from the Burnaby Village Museum cylinder record collection. This recording may have been used for an exhibit or as part of a public or school program.

Creator: Burnaby Village Museum

Subjects: Music

Responsibility: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV020.5.729

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [1901-1919] (date of original content), April 1987 (date of recording), digitized in 2020

Media Type: Sound Recording

Notes: Title based on contents of sound recording; Label on audio cassette reads: "Cylinder Records 1901-1919 / Recorded at BVM Apr 1987); Label on audio cassette case reads: "CYLINDER RECORDS 1901-1919"

Audio Tracks

Cylinder records 1901-1919, [1901-1919] (date of original content), April 1987 (date of recording), digitized in 2020

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Highland Park station dinky store

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1935

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the "dinky" store (so-called because of its small size) at Highland Park Interurban station at Buller Avenue. In front: Margaret Thould. Lionel Thould, who opened this store, later opened a similar store at Fraser Arm Interurban station and gave up the Highland Park store when buses…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1935

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-628

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the "dinky" store (so-called because of its small size) at Highland Park Interurban station at Buller Avenue. In front: Margaret Thould. Lionel Thould, who opened this store, later opened a similar store at Fraser Arm Interurban station and gave up the Highland Park store when buses replaced first street cars, then Interurban trams.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Stores; Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers

Names: Thould, Margaret; British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Buller Avenue; Central Park Interurban line

Planning Study Area: Windsor Area

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Highland Park station dinky store, 1935 thumbnail

Jean and Ian Macdonald with newspapers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.7 x 4.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 26.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of siblings Jean and Ian Macdonald, at Rumble Street and Patterson Avenue, holding World War One era newspapers. One of the newspapers covers the outbreak of the War and the other proclaims the end.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932] (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 ; 2.7 x 4.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 26.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-405

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of siblings Jean and Ian Macdonald, at Rumble Street and Patterson Avenue, holding World War One era newspapers. One of the newspapers covers the outbreak of the War and the other proclaims the end.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers

Names: Macdonald, Ian; Taylor, Jean Macdonald

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Rumble Street; Patterson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

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Jean and Ian Macdonald with newspapers, [1932] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Mary Isabel Buxton (nee Nattriss)

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1935]

Collection/Fonds: Buxton Family collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Mary Isabel Buxton (nee Nattriss). Mary was the wife of George Buxton who was born in England and was a carpenter by trade. They moved to Canada between 1911 and 1913 and had five children: Clara Violet (1910-1913), Mary (1900-?), Alice Clarissa (Clissie) (1902-?), Ber…

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1935]

Collection/Fonds: Buxton Family collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 513-015

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2010-05

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Mary Isabel Buxton (nee Nattriss). Mary was the wife of George Buxton who was born in England and was a carpenter by trade. They moved to Canada between 1911 and 1913 and had five children: Clara Violet (1910-1913), Mary (1900-?), Alice Clarissa (Clissie) (1902-?), Bernard (1897-1972) and Leopold (1893-1951). The Buxton house remains a heritage landmark in Burnaby to this day.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names: Buxton, Mary Isabel Nattriss

Media Type: Photograph

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Mary Isabel Buxton (nee Nattriss), [1935] thumbnail

May Queen Ada Hatt and her suite

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby May Queen Ada Hatt and her suite surrounded by flowers at a photographic studio.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 25 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 042-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby May Queen Ada Hatt and her suite surrounded by flowers at a photographic studio.

Subjects: Events - May Day; Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names: Hatt, Ada

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photograph removed from frame for conservation purposes; mat not retained

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May Queen Ada Hatt and her suite, [1933] thumbnail

The May Queen and her suite

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [193-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby's May Queen and her suite seated with flowers at a photographic studio.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [193-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 25 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 042-003

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby's May Queen and her suite seated with flowers at a photographic studio.

Subjects: Events - May Day; Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Stride, Charles Edgar

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Stamp on cardboard mat photograph originally framed with read: "The Stride Studios, New Westminster, BC". Photograph removed from frame for conservation purposes; mat not retained.

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The May Queen and her suite, [193-] thumbnail

Mildred Herolz

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.6 x 2.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.7 x 26.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mildred Herolz reading outside her Deer Lake Drive home.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (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 ; 4.6 x 2.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.7 x 26.2 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-568

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mildred Herolz reading outside her Deer Lake Drive home.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Books; Buildings - Residential - Houses

Names: Heroly, Mildred

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Drive

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

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Mildred Herolz, [1930] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Peers children

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1937

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of the three Peers children; Robert, Babs and Anne. Babs has a doll on her lap and Anne has a book. These are Bob and Kitty Peers' children. Photograph was taken in Vancouver, BC.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1937

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16.2 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-033

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of the three Peers children; Robert, Babs and Anne. Babs has a doll on her lap and Anne has a book. These are Bob and Kitty Peers' children. Photograph was taken in Vancouver, BC.