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placemat

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV021.11.19

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV021.11.19

Description: placemat; paper promotional placemat with scalloped edges; coloured white, blue and yellow cartoon illustration map of Canada with British Columbia in yellow and oversized. At top: "and there shall be a pause to give thanks..100 YEARS..to the splendor that surrounds us..BC GOVERNMENT" and "TRAIL CAFE / HOPE, B.C., CANADA" at the centre bottom. "1866 The Union of the Colonies on Vancouver Island and on the Mainland as BRITISH COLUMBIA" and "1867 CONFEDERATION OF CANADA" Some folding at corners and brown stain over upper Pacific coast area.

Object History: Souvenir placemat was made available as a commemorative item in celebrating Confederation Centennial of British Columbia.

Category: 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials

Classification: Food Service T&E - - Food Service Accessories

Object Term: Placemat

Marks/Labels: "G.H. WOOD"; "Printed 1966 Canada"

Measurements: Length: 24.5 cm x Width: 37 cm

Subjects: Events; Events - Anniversaries; Advertising Medium; Buildings - Commercial - Restaurants; Food Service Tools and Equipment

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tape recorder with time code generator

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV014.18.1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV014.18.1

Description: Portable audio tape recorder with a time code generator attached underneath the recorder. The tape recorder is a "NAGRA IV - S" model with serical number "0604219", marked as made by "NAGRA KUDELSKI Made in Switzerland 1033 Chessaux Switzerland". Originally intended for use with 5 inch spools, this machine has been adapted to accomodate 7 inch spools. The clear plastic lid is moulded to allow 7 inch spools and wings have been added to the sides to support the larger spools. Toogle switches are recessed and setting switches are flat and notched both to prevent accidental changes while recording. There is no power pack with the machine. There is a battery compartment for 12, "D" size batteries located on the underside of the machine.. The tape machine has a sticker at the centre top reading: "AUDIO CINE SERVICES Inc. [address line struck out] 416-461-5015 FEB 9/99 468 71/2 99068" This may indicate the company and date of the addaptation to the larger spools The attached time code reader is marked "Tape Recorder Module TC 200A" "COHERENT COMMUNICATIONS INC." There are two male, seven pin DIN connectors extending from each side of the time code reader on short 4 to 5 inch blue cables. There are two female RG59 BNC connectors on the back of the module and a female 15 pin digial cable socket. There is a socket for plugging in a time code reader.

Object History: This machine was used by the donor to record sound on TV and movie location shoots in Burnaby and the Lower Mainland. The Nagra IV was preceeded by the Nagra III, which revolutionized the recording of sound for film in the early 1960's. The IV was introduced in 1971 and used until the 1990's.

Reference: http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/22/07/2011/the-nagra-iv-s-two-track-magic-in-a-portable-tape-machine/; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/business/stefan-kuldelski-inventor-of-the-nagra-dies-at-83.html?_r=0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudelski_Group; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagra

Category: 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology

Classification: Sound Communication T&E - - Sound Communication Devices

Object Term: Recorder, Audio

Maker: Nagra Kudelski Company; Coherent Communications Incorporated

Country Made: Switzerland; United States of America

Patent Date: 1971

Subjects: Data Processing Tools and Equipment; Sound Communication Tools and Equipment

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sign

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact23322

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV976.216.79

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV976.216.79

Description: Money Orders - Sign. Advertising sign for a safe way to send money by mail through Royal Bank of Canada Money Orders. Rectangular sign that has yellowed, with red and blue text. The sign shows the rates for purchasing a money order. The back side is black with a string for hanging.

Subjects: Advertising Medium; Advertising Medium - Signs and Signboards; Exchange Medium

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headphones

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: X3036

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: X3036

Description: headphones made by the Hamburg Brothers. The speakers are mainly metal with hard plastic around where the ear would rest. There is cloth around the metal that attaches the speakers together. On the back of both speaker is "PENNSYLVANIA/ TYPE/ E-25/ HAMBURG BROTHERS/ PITTSBURG/ U.S.A."

Subjects: Sound Communication Tools and Equipment

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May Day celebration

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: May 20, 1933

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.1 x 17.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the May Queen and her first maid on a stage at the May Day Celebration in Burnaby in 1933. The two girls are standing in front of a microphone, and the rest of the girls in the Queen's suite are seated on chairs beside the stage. There are other girls and boys crowding behind the stag…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.1 x 17.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the May Queen and her first maid on a stage at the May Day Celebration in Burnaby in 1933. The two girls are standing in front of a microphone, and the rest of the girls in the Queen's suite are seated on chairs beside the stage. There are other girls and boys crowding behind the stage. Two older men in suits are flanking the stage. There are two union jacks flying behind the stage. Inscribed in the negative and printed on the photograph, bottom front: "May Day Celebration / Burnaby, B.C., May 20, 1933 / Stride Studios Photo / #7."

Subjects: Events - May Day; Sound Communication Tools and Equipment - Microphones; Symbols - Flags

Geographic Access: Central Park; Imperial Street

Street Address: 3883 Imperial Street

Accession Code: HV976.143.4

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: May 20, 1933

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-06-27

Photographer: Stride, Charles Edgar

Notes: The photographs in the accession HV976.143 are thought to be by the Stride studio, as the donor indicated in her letter that the Stride family were personal friends of her great-aunt and her husband, who resided in Edmonds. She wrote that she received a picture of the New Westminster or Burnaby May Day celebrations each year.

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May Day celebration

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [193-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.4 x 17.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the May Queen and her maid (or retiring Queen) on a stage at a May Day celebration (location and year unidentified). They are standing on a stage at a microphone, with another girl standing behind them. There are three older men standing in front of the stage, with two of them on the…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.4 x 17.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the May Queen and her maid (or retiring Queen) on a stage at a May Day celebration (location and year unidentified). They are standing on a stage at a microphone, with another girl standing behind them. There are three older men standing in front of the stage, with two of them on the left side of the photograph clapping. There is a group of boys and girls standing behind the stage. Hanging from two trees behind the stage is a large Union Jack. Inscribed in the negative and printed on the photograph, bottom front: "12."

Subjects: Events - May Day; Sound Communication Tools and Equipment - Microphones

Geographic Access: Central Park

Accession Code: HV976.143.9

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [193-]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-06-27

Photographer: Stride, Charles Edgar

Notes: The photographs in the accession HV976.143 are thought to be by the Stride studio, as the donor indicated in her letter that the Stride family were personal friends of her great-aunt and her husband, who resided in Edmonds. She wrote that she received a picture of the New Westminster or Burnaby May Day celebrations each year.

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phonograph

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: X3035

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: X3035

Description: Hand cranked Edison "Triumph" Phonograph that plays cylinder records. The player comes with the sound horn and separate stand, along with additional Model-H 4 minute reproducer and a Model-C reproducer (attached to the player). The serial number on the machine is "32372".

Object History: Edison “Triumph” cylinder player. Edison began manufacturing phonographs for the home market in c. 1896. Edison introduced the “Blue Amberol cylinder c 1913 as an attempt to compete with the dominant disk record on the market. Edison had started to manufacture disk records in 1913 but continued to produce Amberol cylinders until 1929 when Edison stopped making both cylinder and disk records. These Triumph machines were designed to play the “4 minute cylinders which were the same playing time as disk records.

Maker: Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated

Country Made: United States of America

Province Made: New Jersey

Site/City Made: Orange

Subjects: Sound Communication Tools and Equipment

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record player

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV022.11.1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV022.11.1

Description: Fleetwood brand radio and record player cabinet. The wooden cabinet has a cabinet door on one side and a control panel and speaker on the other.; Inside the cabinet is a shelf that holds the record turntable. The turntable has a plastic arm. The shelf below the turntable would be suitable for storing records.; The control panel includes four knobs for Off-Tone, Volume, Phono-Radio, and Tuning. The panel also includes a dial for AM radio tuning.; The speaker below has a four paned panel with speaker fabric in a brown tone.; The back of the cabinet is open on one side to reveal the radio mechanism and speaker.; The radio has a product stamp from Electrical Products Manufacturing of Montreal, Quebec.; Vols 115, Model 43-52, Amps 0.45, Cycle 6.0, Serial 31-1

Object History: The record player belonged to Adell Philips and was in her Spruce Street home in Burnaby for more than 50 years.

Category: 06.Tools & Equipment for Communication

Classification: Sound Communication T&E - - Sound Communication Devices

Object Term: Player, Record

Measurements: Height: 76.5 cm Width: 76.5 cm Depth: 39.5 cm

Subjects: Sound Communication Tools and Equipment

Names: Philips, Adell Greenwood

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whistle

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV999.24.21

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV999.24.21

Description: Whistle. Metal, World War 1 military, whistle on cord. Cord is attached to whistle's ring by metal clip.

Object History: Whistle belonged to Frederick Homer Cassels who was a World War I Veterinary Service Army veteran. Frederick immigrated to Burnaby from England in 1919.; Frederick Homer Cassels was born June 25th 1870 or 1872 in Paisley, Ontario. He moved to BC in 1914 and settled in Vancouver. Cassels was a veterinary surgeon in the 103rd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.; Prior to that, Cassels worked in Washington State. He married Emily Frances McMullen in England in 1919. They came back to Canada and settled in Burnaby the same year.; He later worked as a marble worker, sticker and polisher at Continental Marble Works until 1932. The family settled in Burnaby's "Skunk Hollow" area, an area off Boundary Road at 13th Avenue and Clydesdale. Their children attended Schou St. School.; He passed away July 31 1948.

Category: 06.Tools & Equipment for Communication

Classification: Sound Communication T&E - - Sound Communication Devices

Object Term: Whistle

Marks/Labels: "Patent 57208" "PATENT"

Subjects: Sound Communication Tools and Equipment; Wars; Wars - World War, 1914-1918; Clothing; Clothing - Military Uniforms

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advertising card

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV978.17.4

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV978.17.4

Description: Cynthia - Advertising card -- [1916]. Advertising card for Fletcher Brothers Limited. On the front of the card is a coloured picture of a women named Cynthia. Inside on the left is a calendar for December 1916, buff-coloured; coloured picture of woman on front, head and shoulders view, wearing hat and large rose on front of gown, pale green border, "CYNTHIA" below, and at bottom, "Have you looked inside?"; inside is calendar for December 1916 and ad copy for Edisons, available at Fletcher Bros., Vancouver

Subjects: Advertising Medium; Advertising Medium - Flyer

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advertising flyer

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.1

Description: Meat Specials! - Advertising flyer. Produced for Mayflower Meat Market, Douglas Road and Edmonds Street, Phone 152

Object History: Donor owned the Mayflower Meat Market.

Maker: Royal Press

Country Made: Canada

Province Made: British Columbia

Site/City Made: New Westminster

Subjects: Advertising Medium; Advertising Medium - Flyer

Geographic Access: Douglas Road; Edmonds Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

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advertising flyer

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.2

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.2

Description: Depednable Quality Plus Real Economy - Advertising flyer. Produced for for Mayflower Meat Market, Edmonds Street at Douglas Road; Phone 152

Object History: Donor owned the Mayflower Meat Market on Grandview-Douglas Highway.

Country Made: Canada

Subjects: Advertising Medium; Advertising Medium - Flyer

Geographic Access: Douglas Road; Edmonds Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

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advertising flyer

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.3

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.3

Description: Mayflower Meat Market - Advertising flyer. Produced for Mayflower Meat Market, Douglas Road and Edmonds Street; Phone 152

Object History: Donor owned the Mayflower Meat Market.

Subjects: Advertising Medium; Advertising Medium - Flyer

Geographic Access: Douglas Road; Edmonds Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

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advertising flyer

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.4

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.4

Description: Beef, Nutritious, Delicious! - Advertising flyer. Produced for the Mayflower Meat Market, Edmonds Street at Douglas Road; phone 152

Object History: Donor owned the Mayflower Meat Market.

Subjects: Advertising Medium; Advertising Medium - Flyer

Geographic Access: Douglas Road; Edmonds Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

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advertising flyer

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.5

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.105.5

Description: Week-End Specials - Advertising flyer. Produced for Mayflower Meat Market, Douglas Road and Edmonds Street; phone 152; J.A. McDonald, proprietor