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Date
1920 – 1940
Material
glass; wood; fibre; metal
Catalogue Number
104.20.1017
Description
A typical flat glass flask, covered with woven wicker. The wicker has two loops on each side on which is tied a long cord. The mouth of the flask is metal , 3.0 cm wide, screw on metal top 3.4 dia.
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Title
Decanter
Date
1920 – 1940
Material
glass; wood; fibre; metal
Dimensions
22.5 x 12.0 cm
Description
A typical flat glass flask, covered with woven wicker. The wicker has two loops on each side on which is tied a long cord. The mouth of the flask is metal , 3.0 cm wide, screw on metal top 3.4 dia.
Subject
households
Earle Birney
activity
hiking
Credit
Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969
Catalogue Number
104.20.1017
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Date
n.d.
Material
glass
Catalogue Number
105.02.1004
Description
Small, red glass with handle belonging to Earle Birney; finger-size glass handle; red upper with Earl scratched out on one side and Lacombe, July.31.07 on the other; clear glass lower in patterned arches; clear glass bottom in flower pattern.
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Title
Glass
Date
n.d.
Material
glass
Description
Small, red glass with handle belonging to Earle Birney; finger-size glass handle; red upper with Earl scratched out on one side and Lacombe, July.31.07 on the other; clear glass lower in patterned arches; clear glass bottom in flower pattern.
Subject
households
Earle Birney
Credit
Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969
Catalogue Number
105.02.1004
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Date
1907
Material
hair; metal; paper
Catalogue Number
105.02.1005 a-c
Description
Lock of Earle Birney's hair (age 3) in Player's Cigarette tin. A lock of gold hair tied with beige lace, a white envelope with the message "Locks from head of E.B., age 3 cut by mother & kept by her & found in her effects at her death" written in blue ink on the outside. Both envelope and hair are …
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Title
Hair
Date
1907
Material
hair; metal; paper
Dimensions
14.8 x 11.8 cm
Description
Lock of Earle Birney's hair (age 3) in Player's Cigarette tin. A lock of gold hair tied with beige lace, a white envelope with the message "Locks from head of E.B., age 3 cut by mother & kept by her & found in her effects at her death" written in blue ink on the outside. Both envelope and hair are stored in a pale blue Players Navy Cut Cigarettes Mild metal container (14.8 x 11.8) gold trim, picture of sailor inside life buoy in upper left corner.
Subject
Earle Birney
Credit
Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969
Catalogue Number
105.02.1005 a-c
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Open wide a wilderness : Canadian nature poems

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15456
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Holmes, Nancy
Publisher
Waterloo, ON : Wilfird Laurier University Press
Call Number
05.1 N19h
Author
Holmes, Nancy
Responsibility
Edited by Nancy Holmes ; Introduction by Don McKay
Publisher
Waterloo, ON : Wilfird Laurier University Press
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
xviii, 511p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poems
Candian
Nature
Jon Whyte
Earle Birney
Notes
Partial of: David / Earle Birney : Bushed/Earle Birney : Larix Lyallii for Jean Finley / Jon Whyte.
ISBN
9781554580330
Accession Number
2017.8675
Call Number
05.1 N19h
Collection
Archives Library
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We go far back in time : the letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947 - 1987

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19782
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2014
Author
Bradley, Nicholas (editor)
Publisher
Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing
Call Number
05.1 Br72w
Author
Bradley, Nicholas (editor)
Responsibility
Edited by Nicholas Bradley
Publisher
Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing
Published Date
2014
Physical Description
479 pages ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Earle Birney
Poetry
Biography
Abstract
"Illustrates the long friendship between two of Canada's most highly regarded poets, Earle Birney and Al Purdy."--Jacket.
Contents
Introduction
Note on editorial procedures
Editorial abbreviations
Chronology
In Purdy's Ameliasburg
The letters
Earle Birney in hospital
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Glossary of selected names
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index of titles
Index of names
ISBN
978-1-55017-610-0
Accession Number
p2019-02
Call Number
05.1 Br72w
Collection
Archives Library
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