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Colonel Thomas O. Townley

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription436

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1979

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.1 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Colonel Thomas O. Townley in dress uniform, taken in a photographic studio. He is leaning against a leather chair on which a helmet with a crest is resting. He is holding a staff with his left hand, and wearing leather gloves. Colonel Townley was a member of the the Duke of Connaught'…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.1 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Colonel Thomas O. Townley in dress uniform, taken in a photographic studio. He is leaning against a leather chair on which a helmet with a crest is resting. He is holding a staff with his left hand, and wearing leather gloves. Colonel Townley was a member of the the Duke of Connaught's own Rifles, and became the mayor of Vancouver in 1901. In 1912, he built the Deerholme house designed by his architect son, Fred Laughton Townley.

Subjects: Officials - Mayors and Reeves; Clothing - Military Uniforms; Occupations - Military Personnel

Names: Townley, Thomas O

Accession Code: HV979.33.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1979

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-09-12

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Otto Gossell

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66456

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1860]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a man identified as Otto Gossell. A note accompanying the photograph reads: "Otto Gossell who married C's mother's sister." Otto would have been an uncle to Bernard and Claude Hill. In the photograph, he is pictured wearing a dress uniform, with a medal affixed to the…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1860]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-1070

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a man identified as Otto Gossell. A note accompanying the photograph reads: "Otto Gossell who married C's mother's sister." Otto would have been an uncle to Bernard and Claude Hill. In the photograph, he is pictured wearing a dress uniform, with a medal affixed to the lapel.

Subjects: Clothing - Military Uniforms

Names: Gossell, Otto

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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