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- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0010
- Description
- Handmade quilt with red, green, and beige star pattern. Quilt has plain backing. The coloured fabric is faded. There is slight staining, and one small section is damaged.
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- Title
- Quilt
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Dimensions
- 206.0 x 222.0 cm
- Description
- Handmade quilt with red, green, and beige star pattern. Quilt has plain backing. The coloured fabric is faded. There is slight staining, and one small section is damaged.
- Subject
- households
- furnishings
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0010
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- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0009
- Description
- Handmade quilt with star pattern in red, green and beige. The backing of the quilt is plain. There is a large stain in the centre of the quilt, all over small stains, slight yellowing, and the quilting is worn in all four corners.
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- Title
- Quilt
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Dimensions
- 218.0 x 218.0 cm
- Description
- Handmade quilt with star pattern in red, green and beige. The backing of the quilt is plain. There is a large stain in the centre of the quilt, all over small stains, slight yellowing, and the quilting is worn in all four corners.
- Subject
- households
- furnishings
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0009
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0033
- Description
- A cloth Bull Durham tobacco bag with a yellow drawstring at the neck and a tag hanging from the string reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull.
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre; paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 0.3 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- A cloth Bull Durham tobacco bag with a yellow drawstring at the neck and a tag hanging from the string reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0033
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper; leaf, tobacco
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0031
- Description
- A cotton Bull Durham tobacco bag with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper label attached reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. A paper stamp label stuck on the front of the bag reads “TOBACCO” and there is a red paper strip stuck on next to it. …
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper; leaf, tobacco
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm
- Description
- A cotton Bull Durham tobacco bag with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper label attached reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. A paper stamp label stuck on the front of the bag reads “TOBACCO” and there is a red paper strip stuck on next to it. The bag is full of tobacco.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0031
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0032 a-c
- Description
- Three empty cotton “Bull Durham” tobacco bags, each with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper tag attached to the drawstring reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. One bag, (b), has part of a torn paper strip at the top reading “ONE FIF...”
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre, cotton; paper
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 0.3 x 6.2 cm
- Description
- Three empty cotton “Bull Durham” tobacco bags, each with a drawstring at the neck and a circular paper tag attached to the drawstring reading “None genuine without the Bull on each package” and a picture of a bull. One bag, (b), has part of a torn paper strip at the top reading “ONE FIF...”
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0032 a-c
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- Date
- 1915
- Material
- satin; fibre; cotton
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.1008
- Description
- The quilt is made primarily of a blue fabric on the front and back. The front of the quilt presents a series of squares in blue, white, and red. Each square has the name or initials of the women that worked on the quilt. The central area is embroidered “The Bankhead Ladies Patriotic Society.” At ea…
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- Title
- Quilt
- Date
- 1915
- Material
- satin; fibre; cotton
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 1.5 cm
- Description
- The quilt is made primarily of a blue fabric on the front and back. The front of the quilt presents a series of squares in blue, white, and red. Each square has the name or initials of the women that worked on the quilt. The central area is embroidered “The Bankhead Ladies Patriotic Society.” At each of the four corners of the internal detail there is a small red cross within a white square. On the inside of each of these white squares there is a red square with an embroidered flower.
- Subject
- households
- furnishings
- crafts
- quilting
- Bankhead
- Credit
- Gift of Ruth A Biss, Nanaimo, 2013
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.1008
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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0035 a-c
- Description
- Three “Old Chum” tobacco bags, each printed on one side with “Old Chum best sun cured Virginia Tobacco - specially adapted for pipe use/made in Montreal, Canada, America” and with “Old Chum Virginia flake out Smoking Tobacco (cap trademark), manufactured by D. Ritchie & Co., Imperial Tobacco Compan…
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- Title
- Tobacco Bag
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 0.3 (a,b); 0.3 (c) x 10.6 (a,b); 10.5 (c) x 14.0 (a,b); 13.5 (c) cm
- Description
- Three “Old Chum” tobacco bags, each printed on one side with “Old Chum best sun cured Virginia Tobacco - specially adapted for pipe use/made in Montreal, Canada, America” and with “Old Chum Virginia flake out Smoking Tobacco (cap trademark), manufactured by D. Ritchie & Co., Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Limited, Montreal” on the other side. a) Bag with yellow at the bottom and a wide orange band stitched on. The bag has a rounded bottom and one red and one blue drawstring through a casing at the top. b) Same markings and design as (a), but not faded, and with remnants of paper excise stamps along each side.c) Similar to (a), but with a square bottom and the orange band printed on the yellow fabric. The bag is made of lightweight cotton and has remnants of paper excise stamps along the sides.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0035 a-c
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