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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.
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.
Images
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Nurse Elizabeth Smellie

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
December 1940
Collection/Fonds
Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 23.5 x 19 cm, matted in frame 35 x 28 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of VON nurse Elizabeth Smellie in uniform. She was Chief Superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses from 1924 to May 1947, except during World War II, when she was called back into the Canadian army as Colonel and Matron-in-chief of the Canadian Women's Army Medical Corps from 1940 …
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
December 1940
Collection/Fonds
Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 23.5 x 19 cm, matted in frame 35 x 28 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
153-074
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2010-09
Scope and Content
Photograph of VON nurse Elizabeth Smellie in uniform. She was Chief Superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses from 1924 to May 1947, except during World War II, when she was called back into the Canadian army as Colonel and Matron-in-chief of the Canadian Women's Army Medical Corps from 1940 until 1944. She was the first woman to achieve the rank of colonel in the Canadian army.
Subjects
Occupations - Nurses
Documentary Artifacts - Portraits
Names
Victorian Order of Nurses
Smellie, Elizabeth
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Karsh, Yousuf
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Photographer’s name "Karsh" signed on recto of card mount at bottom left, “Elizabeth Smellie” signed on card mount at bottom right.
Sticker on verso of frame reads: “Framed by The Stride Studios / Chas. E. Stride / 657 Columbia St. New Westminster B.C. / We carry an exclusive line of framed pictures”
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