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Mayor's Office General and Administration series

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1828 (date of original) -2002

Collection/Fonds: Mayor's Office fonds

Description Level: Series

Scope and Content: Series consists of records created in the administration of the Mayor’s Office. This includes: reports, file lists, address books, subject files, correspondence, memoranda, photographs and ephemera. The Office of the Mayor is managed by an administrative staff who maintain the Mayor’s schedule, l…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1828 (date of original) -2002

Collection/Fonds: Mayor's Office fonds

Series: Mayor's Office General and Administration series

Description Level: Series

Scope and Content: Series consists of records created in the administration of the Mayor’s Office. This includes: reports, file lists, address books, subject files, correspondence, memoranda, photographs and ephemera. The Office of the Mayor is managed by an administrative staff who maintain the Mayor’s schedule, liaise with other City officials, and assist the Mayor fulfill his duties and responsibilities to the citizens of Burnaby. As a by-product of these activities, the Mayor’s Office maintains files related to general administrative tasks like record-keeping as well as collecting subject files and records of general interest to the Mayor and Council. These records were used as reference material and have been maintained for their informational value.

Media Type: Textual Record

Legal document and certificate series

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1867-1961]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 2 cm textual records

Scope and Content: Series consists of legal documents including as wills, birth certificates and military papers pertaining to Claude Hill and Annie Sara (Kenrick) Hill. Documents also include a diary kept by Claude, a few pieces of correspondence, ledgers related to Claude's land transactions and certificates of ci…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1867-1961]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Legal document and certificate series

Physical Description: 2 cm textual records

Description Level: Series

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Series consists of legal documents including as wills, birth certificates and military papers pertaining to Claude Hill and Annie Sara (Kenrick) Hill. Documents also include a diary kept by Claude, a few pieces of correspondence, ledgers related to Claude's land transactions and certificates of citizenship and identification. Also in the file is a sketch showing a “Birds Eye View of the Burnaby Lake Area circa 1910,” a book of Common Prayer Hymns, a Bible, a Post Card Album, address book, a Birthday Book and a cross-stitch sampler done by Annie Kenrick in 1877.

Media Type: Textual Record

Elmire Beaudoin

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1873 or 1874]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w tintype hand-tinted into col. ; 8.8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic tintype of a small girl named Elmire Beaudoin sitting on a table draped with patterned material. She is wearing a dress with a hairband and a necklace. An envelope in which the tintype was enclosed is annotated, ""Elmire Beaudoin/ b. 1868 - Montreal P.Q."

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w tintype hand-tinted into col. ; 8.8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic tintype of a small girl named Elmire Beaudoin sitting on a table draped with patterned material. She is wearing a dress with a hairband and a necklace. An envelope in which the tintype was enclosed is annotated, ""Elmire Beaudoin/ b. 1868 - Montreal P.Q."

History: 1871 census records show that Elmire Beaudoin was born in 1868 to Ephrem and Philomene Beaudoin in the region of St. Henri Quebec. The family had many children: Marie, Elmire and Arthur, Rosanna, Emma, Amedea, Alphonsine, Josephe and Eladora, Marie Louise. Ephrem worked as a "cultivator". By the 1891 census, Elmire has married and presumably taken her husband's name.

Names: Beaudoin, Elmire

Accession Code: HV971.124.14

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1873 or 1874]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-03-28

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Elmire Beaudoin, [1873 or 1874] thumbnail

Photograph and case

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1854 and 1870]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : ambrotype ; 8.5 x 9.5 cm in leather case

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : ambrotype ; 8.5 x 9.5 cm in leather case

Material Details: Photograph case with convex glass front with ambrotype photograph of man in dress suit, from waist up. The subject's cheeks have been toned pink.The interior back of the case is lined with cream paper and printed with "MYRON SHEW, Dealer in Daguerreotype Materials No. 116 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA". Gold matting; "CHASE" stamped into matting, lower right; exterior of frame is covered in leather; interior is red-coloured velvet; both surfaces embossed with floral motif.

Accession Code: BV000.8.11

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [between 1854 and 1870]

Media Type: Photograph

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Photograph and case, [between 1854 and 1870] thumbnail

Richard Love

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [ca. 1870]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm

Scope and Content: Photograph portrait of Richard Love seated next to a decorative wooden desk. He is seated on a chair with a velvet and tassels and is wearing a large black suit coat, a white blouse with a tie at the collar, pants with long velvet chaps that go up to his knees and cover the tops of his shoes. He is…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Jesse Love farmhouse series

Subseries: Love family photographs subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm

Scope and Content: Photograph portrait of Richard Love seated next to a decorative wooden desk. He is seated on a chair with a velvet and tassels and is wearing a large black suit coat, a white blouse with a tie at the collar, pants with long velvet chaps that go up to his knees and cover the tops of his shoes. He is holding a wooden cane between his legs and there is a top hat and a book on top of the desk and a back drop hanging from the wall behind him. Richard Love is the father of Jesse Love.

Names: Love, Richard

Accession Code: BV018.41.181

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [ca. 1870]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 2400

Scan Date: 4-Mar-2019

Scale: 100

Photographer: Dodson, Z.

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy print accompanying; Stamp in black ink on verso of original photograph reads: "Z.DODSON, / Photographer / PROSPECT PLACE, / NEAR VICTORIA STREET / SWINDON."

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Elizabeth Love

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [ca. 1870]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm

Scope and Content: Photograph portrait of Elizabeth Love (nee Prince) seated next to a decorative wooden desk with a book on top. She is seated on a velvet chair and is wearing a long black silk dress with a decorative lace collar and bonnet. Eizabeth Love was married to Richard Love and is the mother of Jesse Love.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Jesse Love farmhouse series

Subseries: Love family photographs subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm

Scope and Content: Photograph portrait of Elizabeth Love (nee Prince) seated next to a decorative wooden desk with a book on top. She is seated on a velvet chair and is wearing a long black silk dress with a decorative lace collar and bonnet. Eizabeth Love was married to Richard Love and is the mother of Jesse Love.

Names: Love, Elizabeth Prince, 1809-1881

Accession Code: BV018.41.182

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [ca. 1870]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 2400

Scan Date: 4-Mar-2019

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy print accompanying; Stamp in black ink on verso of original photograph reads: "Z.DODSON, / PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE / PHOTOGRAPHER / PROSPECT PLACE, / (Near Victoria Street.) / SWINDON."

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Bateman family photographs series

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1857]-[195-]

Collection/Fonds: E.W. Bateman family fonds

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 63 photographs

Scope and Content: Series consists of family photographs of the Edwin Wettenhall Bateman family including the children and grandchildren of E.W. Bateman and Catherine "Cassie" (Dale) Bateman; parents of E.W. Bateman; parents of Catherine "Cassie" (Dale) and Mary (Dale) Bateman; Mary Bateman (second wife of E.W. Batem…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: E.W. Bateman family fonds

Series: Bateman family photographs series

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 63 photographs

Scope and Content: Series consists of family photographs of the Edwin Wettenhall Bateman family including the children and grandchildren of E.W. Bateman and Catherine "Cassie" (Dale) Bateman; parents of E.W. Bateman; parents of Catherine "Cassie" (Dale) and Mary (Dale) Bateman; Mary Bateman (second wife of E.W. Bateman); Dora Coulton Bateman (third wife of E.W. Bateman) along with photographs of Elworth house in Burnaby and other family residences.

Accession Code: HV974.22; HV974.90; HV975.120; HV976.37; HV979.32; BV985.1003; BV986.21; BV992.29; BV994.22; BV004.28; BV004.84; BV020.27

Date: [1857]-[195-]

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of series

Marriage certificate for Jesse and Martha Love

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1879-1879

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p. : 24 x 30 cm

Scope and Content: Item consists of a marriage certificate issued to Jesse Love and Martha Love nee Leonard on May 5, 1879. The certificate is presumed to be removed from a bible, potentially the Love family bible (BV992.26.1). The information on the obverse reads "WHAT GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDE…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Series: Love family vital events and correspondence series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p. : 24 x 30 cm

Scope and Content: Item consists of a marriage certificate issued to Jesse Love and Martha Love nee Leonard on May 5, 1879. The certificate is presumed to be removed from a bible, potentially the Love family bible (BV992.26.1). The information on the obverse reads "WHAT GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER / (image of wedding) / This Certifies / THAT THE RITE OF / HOLY MATRIMONY / WAS CELEBRATED BETWEEN / Jesse Love formerly of South Marston, Wiltshire, England / and Martha Leonard formerly of Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England / on the 5th day of may 1879 at Little Trinity Church, Toronto, Canada / by The Rev. Saunders / Witness: ___ Francis / Tom Barry". printed and hand written on the obverse of the certificate. The reverse has a printed border and two columns under the heading of "Marriages". There is no hand written information on the reverse side.

Subjects: Ceremonies - Weddings

Accession Code: BV008.20.2

Date: 1879-1879

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on the content of the page

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Marriage certificate for Jesse and Martha Love, 1879-1879 thumbnail

Births of Jesse and Martha Love

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1879-1902

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p. : 24 x 30 cm

Scope and Content: Item consists of a births record page listing the children of Jesse and Martha Love. The page is presumed to be removed from a bible, potentially the Love family bible (BV992.26.1). The information on the obverse reads "Births / George Richard Love born 6:30 P.M March 22nd 1880 / Annie Elizabeth " …

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Series: Love family vital events and correspondence series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p. : 24 x 30 cm

Scope and Content: Item consists of a births record page listing the children of Jesse and Martha Love. The page is presumed to be removed from a bible, potentially the Love family bible (BV992.26.1). The information on the obverse reads "Births / George Richard Love born 6:30 P.M March 22nd 1880 / Annie Elizabeth " August 24 1881 / Henry Love " August 24th 1883 / Edith Minnie " October 9th 1885 / Thomas Robert " September 17th 1887 / Martha "December 17th 1889 / Sarah Maria " February 8th 1892 / Phoebe Leonard April 15th 1894 / Esther August 28th 1896 / John Leonard June 7th 1899 / Hannah May 12th 1902". The reverse reads "Deaths" with no further notations.

Accession Code: BV992.26.30

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1879-1902

Media Type: Textual Record

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2022-06-10

Notes: Title based on the content of the page

Images

Births of Jesse and Martha Love, 1879-1902 thumbnail

Museum Oral Histories series

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1600-2023] (interview content), interviewed 2005-2023

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 52 sound recordings (wav) + 61 sound recordings (mp3) + 1 video recording (mp4) + 1 sound recording (m4a) + 51 video recordings (mov)

Scope and Content: Series consists of oral history interviews conducted by staff of Burnaby Village Museum for various projects. Series has been arranged into subseries: 1) Growing Up in Burnaby subseries 2) Museum research interviews subseries 3) Chinese Canadians in Burnaby subseries 4) South Asian Canadian Interv…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Museum Oral Histories series

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 52 sound recordings (wav) + 61 sound recordings (mp3) + 1 video recording (mp4) + 1 sound recording (m4a) + 51 video recordings (mov)

Scope and Content: Series consists of oral history interviews conducted by staff of Burnaby Village Museum for various projects. Series has been arranged into subseries: 1) Growing Up in Burnaby subseries 2) Museum research interviews subseries 3) Chinese Canadians in Burnaby subseries 4) South Asian Canadian Interviews subseries 5) Many Voices Project Interviews subseries

Accession Code: BV017.45; BV018.18.1; BV019.13.1; BV019.14.1; BV019.15.1; BV020.6; BV022.29; BV023.1; BV023.16; BV024.4

Date: [1600-2023] (interview content), interviewed 2005-2023

Media Type: Sound Recording; Moving Images

Notes: Title based on contents of series; Further accruals expected

William Holmes family records series

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1858-1941

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Series consists of letters and land title certificates of William Holmes along with a newspaper clipping refering to the European Ash tree that was planted by the Holmes family on their land in District Lot 1 in Burnaby.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Series: William Holmes family records series

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Series consists of letters and land title certificates of William Holmes along with a newspaper clipping refering to the European Ash tree that was planted by the Holmes family on their land in District Lot 1 in Burnaby.

Accession Code: BV997.50

Date: 1858-1941

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of series

Kirner Henry Hammett

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1870]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 14.2 x 10.2 cm mounted on cardboard 16.7 x 10.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a baby in a white dress seated on a fur lined chair at a photographic studio. According to the gift form signed by the donor and the acquisition record, the baby in the picture is Kirner Henry Hammett, born 1869. Mr. Hammett came to North Vancouver from England in 1913. The dress he i…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 14.2 x 10.2 cm mounted on cardboard 16.7 x 10.7 cm

Material Details: printed on the card, recto, l.l. , l.r. "STONEHOUSE/ PLYMOUTH.", verso, u.r. "Hill & Wakeling/ 61 UNION ST./ STONEHOUSE PLYMOUTH./ COPIES CAN ALWAYS BE HAD/ SEND No. 27997."

Scope and Content: Photograph of a baby in a white dress seated on a fur lined chair at a photographic studio. According to the gift form signed by the donor and the acquisition record, the baby in the picture is Kirner Henry Hammett, born 1869. Mr. Hammett came to North Vancouver from England in 1913. The dress he is wearing is in Burnaby Village Museum collections. Printed on the bottom front of the card: ""Hill & Wakeling / Stonehouse, Plymouth." Printed on the back of the card: "Hill & Wakeling / 61 Union St. / Stonehouse Plymouth. / Copies can always be had / Send No. 27997."

Subjects: Persons - Children

Names: Hammett, Kirner Henry

Accession Code: HV975.21.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1870]

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: The dress worn by Mr. Hammet in the photograph is in BVM collections, 71.142 and 72.177.

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-06-06

Photographer: Hill and Wakeling Studio

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

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Man in a tweed coat

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1870 and 1889]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w hand-tinted into col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified man dressed in a tweed coat and collarless jacket taken in a photographic studio. He has a full beard. The cheeks and the lips are hand tinted pink.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w hand-tinted into col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified man dressed in a tweed coat and collarless jacket taken in a photographic studio. He has a full beard. The cheeks and the lips are hand tinted pink.

Accession Code: BV985.5763.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1870 and 1889]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-02-02

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Man in a tweed coat, [between 1870 and 1889] thumbnail

Seated woman

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [187-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w tintype hand-tinted into col. ; 8 x 5 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic tintype of an unidentified young woman sitting on a chair. Her left arm is resting on a table with a cover on it. Her cheeks are hand tinted pink.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w tintype hand-tinted into col. ; 8 x 5 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic tintype of an unidentified young woman sitting on a chair. Her left arm is resting on a table with a cover on it. Her cheeks are hand tinted pink.

Accession Code: BV985.5809.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [187-]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-02-27

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Merchant Taylor's School, London

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1872

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 23 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of a large crowd outside the Merchant Taylor's School in London. Bernard and Claude Hill both attended this school.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1872

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 23 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-754

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a large crowd outside the Merchant Taylor's School in London. Bernard and Claude Hill both attended this school.

Subjects: Buildings - Schools

Names: Merchant Taylor's School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

Images

Merchant Taylor's School, London, 1872 thumbnail

Aunt Annie Hill

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1870]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Annie Hill, aunt to Louis Claude and Bernard Hill and matron of the North London Hospital, Highgate.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1870]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 10.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-923

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Annie Hill, aunt to Louis Claude and Bernard Hill and matron of the North London Hospital, Highgate.

Names: Hill, Annie

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer's stamp on verso; Photographer's information on recto

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Dear Mama, taken in Chester

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1870]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman, likely M.A. Kenrick, mother of Annie Hill. On the back of the photograph is written "Dear Mama, taken in Chester."

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1870]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-1027

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman, likely M.A. Kenrick, mother of Annie Hill. On the back of the photograph is written "Dear Mama, taken in Chester."