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A school history of the United States
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3158
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.165.126
- Call Number
- 973 MAC
- Edition
- 1915 ed.
- Contributor
- Colby, Homer Wayland, 1874-1950
- Dietzler, H. W.
- Fink, Denman, 1880-1956
- Reich, Jacques, 1852-1923
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Rand, McNally & Company
- Publication Date
- 1915
- Physical Description
- xiii, 273 p., xvii-xcvi, 16 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), col. ports. ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- "--Made--1915--" [handwritten in black ink on front cover] "C.Norman Yount ____[Lone?], Washington November" [handwritten in black ink on front cover] "C. Norman Yount _______ _______" [handwritten in black ink on front cover] "He must have had a very large nose" [handwritten in pencil above portrait of George Washington with line drawn from "nose" to George Washington's nose] "C. Norman Yount." [Signed in purple ink below facsimile of George Washington's signature] "Norman C. _____[Yount]" [handwritten in pencil at top of t.p.] "Norman Yount Lone, Washington" [handwritten in purple ink at top of t.p.] "C. Norman Yount Lone, Wash May 19, 1925" [handwritten in purple ink on back of "Columbus sighting land" port. Above initials N.Y. coloured in red and green] "Ca Claren" [handwritten and crossed out in pencil on back of "Wolfe's victory on the Heights of Abraham" p.130] "Clarence Norman Yount May, 1925" [handwritten in pencil on back of "Wolfe's victory on the Heights of Abraham" p.130] "Norman Yount _ove to me by De_ _bert at school. _ it was his s__ters[sisters] book before he had it" [handwritten in purple ink on back endpaper] "C. Norman Yount Lone, Washington November 24, 1924" [handwritten in black ink on back cover" Study notes and other writings found on front paste down, front endpaper, back endpaper and back paste down. As well as other pages throughout the book.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- United States--History
- Notes
- "Illustrated by Homer W. Colby, H. W. Dietzler, and Denman Fink" --T.p.
- "Portraits by Jacques Reich"
- Author's given name and dates: Mace, William H. (William Harrison), 1852-1938
- Illustrator's given name and dates: Colby, Homer Wayland, 1874-1950
Christmas with Grandma Elsie
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3579
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Finley, Martha, 1828-1909
- Publication Date
- 1889
- Call Number
- 813.4 FIN
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV997.45.23
- Call Number
- 813.4 FIN
- Author
- Finley, Martha, 1828-1909
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Publication Date
- 1889
- Series
- Elsie Books
- Printer
- L. Upcott Gill
- Physical Description
- 317 p. : 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Children--Conduct of life
- Conduct of life
- Grandmothers
- Intergenerational relations
- Christmas
- Families
- Christian life
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States
- Juvenile fiction
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Geographic Access
- Cumberland Street
- Object History
- This artifact has been passed down to all the girls in subsequent generations of the family, eventually to the donor, Mrs. Whiting. This series of 26 "Elsie" girls books are said, by the donor, to have been purchased by Jesse Love and his son in law Wallace (Flash) Whiting for the youngest of Jesse and Martha Love's children Hannah Victoria (Girlie) Love, age 10 at the time, and Annie (Love) Whiting's daughter Edith, age 8 at the time. The book series seems to have made their way through some of Jesse Love's daughter's children. Mrs. Whiting. Sarah (Love) Parker, daughter of Jesse Love, even named her daughter Elsie (Parker) Hughes after the main character of the series. The books seem to have made their way through the children and grand children of Annie (Love) and Wallace Whiting. The were donated by Edna Whiting, the daughter in law of Alfred Whiting, one of Annie's sons.
The passing of New France : a chronicle of Montcalm
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5139
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Wood, William, 1864-1947
- Publication Date
- 1915
- Call Number
- 971 CHR v.10
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV004.106.31
- Call Number
- 971 CHR v.10
- Author
- Wood, William, 1864-1947
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Glasgow, Brook & Company
- Publication Date
- 1915
- Series
- Chronicles of Canada, 10
- Printer
- T. and A. Constable
- Physical Description
- xi, 149 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), col. maps, ports. ; 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Canada--History--1755-1763
- Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759
- United States--History--French and Indian war, 1754-1763
- Notes
- "Edited by George M. Wrong and H.H. Langton"
- "In thirty-two volumes"
- "Part III The English Invasion"
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Author's given names and dates: Wood, William Charles Henry, 1864-1947
- Editor's given names and dates: Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948
- Editor's given names and dates: Langton, H.H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953