Hints and practical information for cabinet-makers, upholsterers, and furniture men generally : together with a description of all kinds of finishing with full directions therefor, varnishes, polishes, stains for wood, dyes for wood, gilding and silvering, receipts for the factory, lacquers, metals, marbles, etc., pictures, engravings, etc., miscellaneous.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV011.7.3
- Call Number
- 684 PHI
- Author
- Phin, John, 1830-1913
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Industrial Publication
- Publication Date
- 1899
- Physical Description
- 130 p., [16] p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "Geo. Love Esq
From
Mrs Brandrith
Burnaby, B.C.
March 22nd 1901", hand written on inside front page in black ink
"H. MOREY & Co.
Booksellers & Stationers.
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.", printed on a green sticker inside the back cover
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Furniture finishing
- Cabinetwork
- Wood finishing
- Names
- Love, George Richard
- Exworthy, William Albert "Bert"
- Object History
- Book was the property of George Love and used by him
- Notes
- Attributed to John Phin
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The illustrated encyclopedia of woodworking handtools, instruments, & devices : containing a full description of the tools used by carpenters, joiners, and cabinet makers, with many examples of tools used by other woodworkers such as, woodsmen, sawyers, coach makers, wheelwrights, shipwrights, wainwrights, coopers, turners, pattern makers, and whittlers
Practical cabinet-making, volume 1
Practical cabinet-making, volume 2
Practical cabinet-making, volume 3
Pioneer tales of Burnaby
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 096928280x
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
- Contributor
- Sone, Michael
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Corporation of the District of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Physical Description
- 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Inscription
- "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Biography
- Object History
- Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.
- Notes
- "Editor Michael Sone".
- Includes index.
- 4 copies held: copy 4
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Inkwells to Internet: A History of Burnaby Schools
Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282826
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Physical Description
- 531 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes index.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
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Life with the Moores of Hart House : pioneer days on Burnaby's Deer Lake
Hand saws : their use, care and abuse : how to select, and how to file them
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- X3375
- Call Number
- 621.154 HOD
- Author
- Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The Industrial Publication Co.
- Publication Date
- 1883
- Physical Description
- vi, 96 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Saws
- Saw industry
- Notes
- "Being a complete guide for selecting, using and filing all kinds of hand-saws, back-saws, compass and key-hole saws web, hack and butcher's saws; showing the shapes, forms, angles, pitches and sizes of saw-teeth suitable for all kinds of saws, and for all kinds of wood, bone, ivory and metal; together with hints and suggestions on the choice of files, saw-sets, filling clamps, and other matters pertaining to the care and management of all classes of hand and other small saws. The work is intended more particularly for operative carpenters, joiners, cabinet-makers, cariage builders, and wood-workers generally, amateurs or professionals. Illustrated by over seventy-five engravings." -- Title page
- Author's full name and dates: Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919
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Cabinets of curiosities : collections of the Vancouver Museum, 1894-1981
In the shadow by the sea : recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village