![Bell family house, [1935] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199500110002.jpg?width=280)
Bell family house
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- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1935]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a woman believed to be Flora Bell in a two piece polka dot dress on the front steps of the Bell family house located on Thirteenth Avenue. Flora Bell and her husband William were the proprietors of the Bell Dry Goods store which operated between 1924 and 1941 at the northwest corner o…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a woman believed to be Flora Bell in a two piece polka dot dress on the front steps of the Bell family house located on Thirteenth Avenue. Flora Bell and her husband William were the proprietors of the Bell Dry Goods store which operated between 1924 and 1941 at the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Thirteenth Avenue (1314 Sixth Street). The couple moved to this house in about 1927 while they converted the back of the store to include a Post Office. In 1938, the couple moved from this house into an apartment above a new store building that they built on the corner next to their old one storey building which now operated as Whitechurch Hardware.The Bells were members of the East Burnaby Gospel Hall located at Twelfth Avenue and Sixth Street.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Names
- Bell, Flora
- Accession Code
- BV995.11.2
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [1935]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 01-Jun-09
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black ink on verso of photograph reads: "Mrs. Bells home. I am wearing the two piece polka dot dress."
- Note in blue ball-point pen on verso of photograph reads: "Built about 1930-35"
Images
![Bell family house, [1935] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199500110002.jpg)