blotter
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV984.51.70
- Description
- May Your Troubles be Ink Bubbles - Ink Blotter. Circular blotter pad with three pages. The blotter is held together with a yellow ribbon through each page. The front page has an illustration of a house window with green shutters and pink curtains, and two blue birds on a tree branch. There is a poem on the front cover "May your troubles be ink bubbles, / That this blotter whisks away / And may bluebirds of happiness / Sing in your heart / each day."
- Subjects
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment - Blotter
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booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV983.9.57
- Description
- Beach Foundry Limited - Booklet -- [1923]. Christmas advertising gift from the Beach Foundry Limited in Ottawa. The cover of the booklet is possibly made of cellulose with an illistration of a village at winter time and a series of poinsettia and holly. There is a small calendar for the year of 1924 on the right hand side. The booklet is held together with a brad that has "Best Wishes" written on top. The pages in the booklet are a thick cardstock and could be used as an ink blotter. The booklet was produced by The Whitehead & Hoag Co and copyrighted in 1922.
- Object History
- Object inherited by donor from the estate of his parents, Albert Vincent Scott and Myrtle Edna (Broderick) Scott.
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment - Blotter
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ink blotter advertisement
typewriter
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV007.30.1
- Description
- Full-keyboard upstrike Smith Premier No. 2 typewriter made by Smith Premier Typewriter Company, 1904. It features a double keyboard, with rows of lowercase letters at the bottom and uppercase letters at the top. It includes typewriter, carrying lid, wooden platform, two typewriter ribbon spools, and an unrelated box that holds the spools.
- Object History
- Donor found object in an old building in Vancouver, ca. late 1950's - early 1960's.
Smith Premier manufactured double keyboards until 1921, long after their competitors had introduced the "Shift" key which allowed each key to type both an upper and lowercase letter.
- Reference
- http://www.typewritermuseum.org/collection/index.php3?machine=smithpr1&cat=ku
- Maker
- Smith Premier Typewriter Company
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Province Made
- New York
- Site/City Made
- Syracuse
- Subjects
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment - Typewriters
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sign
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.33.1
- Description
- Weathered wood sign in two parts; informs readers of the penalty for attaching any raft, vessel, boat, etc., to wooden bridges in the province of British Columbia in 1902.
- Category
- 06.Tools & Equipment for Communication
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E
- Object Term
- Sign
- Marks/Labels
- "The attention of Steamers and of any person in charge of any vessel, barge, boat, raft, or any floating body is directed to Clause 12 "Chapter 25" Bridges Act of the Revised Statutes of British Columbia.
Any person that shall moor, make or last or in any other way "Attach" any raft, vessel, boat, barge or any other floating body to any wooden or other bridge... shall be.. not exceeding fifty dollars.
Department of Land and Works, Victoria, BC 23rd June 1902.
- Subjects
- Recreational Activities - Boating
- Regulative and Protective Tools and Equipment
- Transportation - Boats
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
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catalogue
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV998.60.4
- Description
- Printing Machines - Catalogue -- [1952]. Catalogue of Printing Machines, Reliefite Heaters & Compounds, Type, Accessories, Tools produced in October 1952. The catalogue was created by Adana Limited of Canada, Head Office at 1508 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver 9, B.C. Stamped in blue ink on the front is "NEW/ADDRESS/ 54 LOMBARD ST. TORONTO". The catalogue measures 14cm x 22cm.
- Object History
- Donor was given the accessioned objects by Mr. Bob Hopson, ca. 1990.
- Colour
- Beige
- Title
- Catalogue of Printing Machines Reliefite Heaters & Compounds Type, Accessories, Tools
- Publication Date
- October, 1952
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
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envelope
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV019.6.21
- Description
- air mail envelope; white paper with triangular blue and red pattern along edges of exterior of envelope; return address printed in upper left corner of front of envelope: "WESTERN COMMODITIES LTD. / P.O. BOX 3042 / VANCOUVER, B.C. V6b 3X5; text half way down on right front of envelope: "VIA AIR MAIL / PAR AVION"; blue herring bone pattern with airplane sillhoette and text "Air Mail" on interior of envelope; text centred at bottom of back of envelope "DESIGN RD. 1929 B.E. LTD."
- Object History
- Item was part of a scrapbook created by Cecil Chue Kan Lee documenting the time he was employed as a Prodcue Buyer for Kelly Douglas and Company Limited and Western Commodities Limited in the 1970s and early 1980s. As a produce buyer for Kelly Douglas, Cecil Lee worked closely with local farmers along Marine Drive and in the Fraser Valley. The Burnaby company was one of the largest food distributors in Canada. In the mid-1970s, Lee was asked to oversee the import of Chinese mandarin oranges into Canada. Until that time, mandarin oranges had come from Japan and were sold in the winter, especially at Christmas. When the Japanese market could no longer keep up with demand, Kelly Douglas looked to China. The company relied on Lee’s cultural knowledge to build this very profitable part of their business.
- Reference
- For other records in this collection see: Business records series of Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Category
- 06.Tools & Equipment for Communication
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E - - Writing Accessories
- Object Term
- Envelope, Shipping
- Colour
- Blue
- Red
- White
- Measurements
- 10.5 cm height x 14 cm width
- Subjects
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
- Documentary Artifacts - Letters and Envelopes
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inkwell
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV993.9.1
- Description
- The inkwell is made of brass sheet in a pyramid form with the hinged lid forming a flat top. The inside of the lid is stained with old ink. There is a removable, white glass liner for holding the ink. The liner is slightly chipped at the edge. This is one of a pair used to hold red and blue ink.
- Object History
- Owned by the Sample family and used at their boarding house in South Burnaby. The boarding house was used as the first meeting place for Burnaby Municipal Council in 1892. The inkwells may have been used along with the candle holder and tray during meetings of the early council.
- Subjects
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
- Names
- Sample, Elizabeth “Minnie”
- Sample, Roderick "Rodney"
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inkwell
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV993.9.2
- Description
- The inkwell is made of brass sheet in a pyramid form with the hinged lid forming a flat top. The inside of the lid is stained with old ink. There is a removable, white glass liner for holding the ink. This is one of a pair used to hold red and blue ink
- Object History
- Owned by the Sample family and used at their boarding house in South Burnaby. The boarding house was used as the first meeting place for Burnaby Municipal Council in 1892. The inkwells may have been used along with the candle holder and tray during meetings of the early council.
- Subjects
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
- Names
- Sample, Elizabeth “Minnie”
- Sample, Roderick "Rodney"
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