greeting card
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV986.21.13
- Description
- Wishing You Many Happy Returns - Greeting Card -- [1886]. Birthday card for Cassie Bateman from Edwin Bateman in 1886. The front of the card has an illustration of flowers pinned to a letter. There is a short poem written on the front as well. The card was produced by Hildensheimer & Faulkner and is H & F 613. The back of the card is blue and handwritten on it is "To my dear Cassie/ from Edwin/ On her birthday 1886." The card measures 8.5cm x 12.5cm.
- Names
- Bateman, Edwin W.
- Bateman, Catherine "Cassie" Dale
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greeting card
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV974.90.2
- Description
- greeting card; Congratulations and Best Wishes -- 1926. The card is white with silver branches at left, with red, pink and white blossoms, gold and blue bar across top, yellow and black butterflies. There is a short verse "This merry little greeting...". Written in ink on the top right corner is "1926". Signature in black ink in lower right corner reads: "Mother".
- Object History
- Card received by Edna Caroline Corner (nee Bateman) from her mother, Mrs. E.W. Bateman, likely on the occasson of her daughter, Catherine Levins' birth. Item donated by Cathy Levins, grand-daughter of Elwin W. Bateman. Elwin W. Bateman and his second wife, Mary (Dale) Bateman moved into a landmark home built in the Deer Lake Crescent subdivision of Burnaby in 1922. The home is now a heritage landmark in Burnaby, and is located at the Burnaby Village Museum.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Correspondence
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Cards
- Names
- Bateman, Mary Dale
- Levins, Catherine Mary Corner
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postcard
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV004.28.3
- Description
- Postcard: black and white photo, glossy, white border; vertical; intricately-carved stone structures on stepped base in front of half-timbered building with sign "-LL & Co." "-ALES" "-OCKPORT"; printed across bottom in white, hand-lettered "ANCIENT CROSSES SANDBACH"; on reverse in black, "POST CARD"; dotted line up centre with "Published by: A.W. Bourne, 32, Babingley Drive, Leicester"; to left, "CORRESPONDENCE", to right, "ADDRESS"; printed at bottom left, "Greetings from"; handwritten in blue ink, "July 4th" "We are here for lunch at Grandpa Bateman's village" [crossed out] "town where he spent his boyhood days" "Dad"; addressed to "Mrs. R H Blackwood 2435 Richter" "Kelowna BC CANADA"; brown King George VI stamp at upper right, "POSTAGE REVENUE" "2D"; cancelled by seven wavy lines; postmark "CREWE CHESHIRE" "815 5 JLY 1953"; note that stamp was used during reign of Elizabeth II; slight wear on corners
- Category
- 06.Tools & Equipment for Communication
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E - - Writing Media
- Object Term
- Postcard
- Marks/Labels
- Ancient Crosses / Sandbach / Grandpa Bateman's town where he spent his boyhood days
- Colour
- Black
- White
- Maker
- A. W. Bourne
- Country Made
- England
- Site/City Made
- Leicester
- Title
- Ancient Crosses Sandbach
- Publication Date
- July 5 1953
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Postcards
- Names
- Bateman, Edwin W.
- Bateman Family
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postcard
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV004.28.4
- Description
- Postcard: black and white photo, glossy, white border; horizontal; shows street and buildings, Wheat Hotel in right foreground, women with bicycles; printed in white at lower left is handlettered "HIGH TOWN SANDBACH"; on reverse in black "POST CARD", dotted line below, dotted line up centre with "Published by: A.W. Bourne, 32, Babingley Drive, Leicester"; "CORRESPONDENCE" at left, at right "ADDRESS"; at bottom left, "Greetings from"; addressed in blue ink to "Mr and Mrs. E. W. Bateman 3896 - W. 25th Ave. Vancouver 8, BC Canada"; "July 4 - Here we are in Sandbach having our lunch. Ena & Raymond Slack are so hospitable & friendly. We had a fine day at the potteries yesterday - it was the first time Ena & Mrs Ludwig had been too. Thanks for air Mail letter received on arrival at Crewe" "Love Edna"; brown stamp at upper right with King George VI, "POSTAGE REVENUE" "2D", cancelled with wavy lines; postmark "CREWE CHESHIRE" "8-" "5 JLY 1953" [Related to BV004.28.3]; indentation down centre on front, some spotting and damage from liquid?, which took gloss off along indentation
- Category
- 06.Tools & Equipment for Communication
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E - - Writing Media
- Object Term
- Postcard
- Marks/Labels
- High Town Sandbach / Mr. & Mrs. Bateman / Edna
- Colour
- Black
- White
- Maker
- A. W. Bourne
- Country Made
- England
- Site/City Made
- Leicester
- Title
- High Town Sandbach
- Publication Date
- July 4 1953
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Postcards
- Names
- Bateman, Edwin W.
- Bateman Family
- Corner, Edna Bateman
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