The tasteful interlude : American interiors through the camera's eye, 1860-1917
Domesticating history : the political origins of America's house museums
Fashions of the roaring '20s
The great American carousel : a century of master craftsmanship
Mourning dress : a costume and social history
Reference book of men's vintage clothing, 1900-1919
Reference book of women's vintage clothing, 1900-1919
Reference book of women's vintage clothing, 1900-1919
A living history reader, vol. 1 : museums
American dress pattern catalogs, 1873-1909 : four complete reprints
American Family of 1900-1920 : paper dolls in full color
An iIllustrated history of hairstyles 1830-1930
The art of the tinsmith : English and American
A school history of the United States
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.165.126
- Call Number
- 973 MAC
- Edition
- 1915 ed.
- Author
- Mace, William H. (William Harrison), 1852-1938
- Contributor
- Colby, Homer Wayland, 1874-1950
- Dietzler, H. W.
- Fink, Denman, 1880-1956
- Reich, Jacques, 1852-1923
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Rand, McNally & Company
- Publication Date
- 1915
- Physical Description
- xiii, 273 p., xvii-xcvi, 16 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), col. ports. ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- "--Made--1915--" [handwritten in black ink on front cover]
"C.Norman Yount
____[Lone?], Washington
November" [handwritten in black ink on front cover]
"C. Norman Yount
_______ _______" [handwritten in black ink on front cover]
"He must have had a very large nose" [handwritten in pencil above portrait of George Washington with line drawn from "nose" to George Washington's nose]
"C. Norman Yount." [Signed in purple ink below facsimile of George Washington's signature]
"Norman C. _____[Yount]" [handwritten in pencil at top of t.p.]
"Norman Yount
Lone, Washington" [handwritten in purple ink at top of t.p.]
"C. Norman Yount
Lone, Wash
May 19, 1925" [handwritten in purple ink on back of "Columbus sighting land" port. Above initials N.Y. coloured in red and green]
"Ca
Claren" [handwritten and crossed out in pencil on back of "Wolfe's victory on the Heights of Abraham" p.130]
"Clarence
Norman
Yount
May, 1925" [handwritten in pencil on back of "Wolfe's victory on the Heights of Abraham" p.130]
"Norman Yount
_ove to me
by De_ _bert at school.
_ it was his s__ters[sisters]
book before he had it" [handwritten in purple ink on back endpaper]
"C. Norman Yount
Lone, Washington
November 24, 1924" [handwritten in black ink on back cover"
Study notes and other writings found on front paste down, front endpaper, back endpaper and back paste down. As well as other pages throughout the book.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- United States--History
- Notes
- "Illustrated by Homer W. Colby, H. W. Dietzler, and Denman Fink" --T.p.
- "Portraits by Jacques Reich"
- Author's given name and dates: Mace, William H. (William Harrison), 1852-1938
- Illustrator's given name and dates: Colby, Homer Wayland, 1874-1950
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Battles for the union : comprising descriptions of many of the most stubbornly contested battles in the war of great rebellion, together with incidents and reminiscences of the camp, the march and the skirmish line. Embracing a record of the privations, heroic deeds, and glorious triumphs of the soldiers of the republic.
Christmas with Grandma Elsie
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV997.45.23
- Call Number
- 813.4 FIN
- Author
- Finley, Martha, 1828-1909
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Publication Date
- 1889
- Series
- Elsie Books
- Printer
- L. Upcott Gill
- Physical Description
- 317 p. : 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Children--Conduct of life
- Conduct of life
- Grandmothers
- Intergenerational relations
- Christmas
- Families
- Christian life
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States
- Juvenile fiction
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Geographic Access
- Cumberland Street
- Object History
- This artifact has been passed down to all the girls in subsequent generations of the family, eventually to the donor, Mrs. Whiting. This series of 26 "Elsie" girls books are said, by the donor, to have been purchased by Jesse Love and his son in law Wallace (Flash) Whiting for the youngest of Jesse and Martha Love's children Hannah Victoria (Girlie) Love, age 10 at the time, and Annie (Love) Whiting's daughter Edith, age 8 at the time. The book series seems to have made their way through some of Jesse Love's daughter's children. Mrs. Whiting. Sarah (Love) Parker, daughter of Jesse Love, even named her daughter Elsie (Parker) Hughes after the main character of the series. The books seem to have made their way through the children and grand children of Annie (Love) and Wallace Whiting. The were donated by Edna Whiting, the daughter in law of Alfred Whiting, one of Annie's sons.
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First steps in the history of our country
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.170.16
- Call Number
- 372.89 MOW
- Author
- Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917
- Mowry, Arthur May, 1862-1900
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Silver, Burdett and Company
- Publication Date
- c1898
- Physical Description
- 315 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "Property of the
Town of Millinocket
No. 200" [label pasted on front pastedown. 200 handwritten in pencil]
"S16" [phrase crossed out and handwritten in black ink on front endpaper]
"50¢" [handwritten in black pencil on front endpaper]
"Premium Stores
4543 Kingsway
Burnaby 1, B.C., Canada" [stamped in black in on front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- United States
- United States--History
- Notes
- Author's given names and dates: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917
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For God, country and Coca-Cola : the unauthorized history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it