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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Everyday classics first reader
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.195.21
- Call Number
- 428 DUN
- Author
- Dunn, Fannie Wyche, 1879-1946
- Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas), 1864-1949
- Thorndike, Ashley Horace, 1871-1933
- Contributor
- Petersham, Maud Fuller, 1890-1971
- Petersham, Miska, 1888-1960
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
- Publication Date
- c1922
- Series
- Everyday classics
- Printer
- L. H. Jenkins, Inc.
- Physical Description
- 156 p. : ill. (col.) ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "S33" -- crossed out
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Study and teaching (Elementary)
- Children--Conduct of life
- Children's stories
- Conduct of life
- Notes
- "Acknowledgements are made for the selection 'The Little ant,' used by permission of Thomas Y. Crowell Company, and for the poem 'Foot soldiers,' by Father Tabb, used by and with the permission of Small, Maynard and Company."
- Includes index.
- Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas), 1864-1949
- Illustrated by Maude and Miska Petersham
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Young folks' queries : a story