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- Date
- 1775 – 1820
- Material
- glass; fibre; paper; bone; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1016
- Description
- Kit with various beads and supplies for working. 26 small paper bundles of beads, tied with string. One long beaded string, mauve. One piece of muslin 16.3 x 22.0, all edges whip stitched. Unfinished beadwork in blc 4.0 x 7.5, mauve background, green pot with stems and 2 hanging burgandy flower…
- Title
- Kit Beadwork
- Date
- 1775 – 1820
- Material
- glass; fibre; paper; bone; metal
- Description
- Kit with various beads and supplies for working. 26 small paper bundles of beads, tied with string. One long beaded string, mauve. One piece of muslin 16.3 x 22.0, all edges whip stitched. Unfinished beadwork in blc 4.0 x 7.5, mauve background, green pot with stems and 2 hanging burgandy flowers. Thin needle with string pinned in material. One bone crochet hook 8.5 x 1.8. One square paper box with lid with loose beads. Written on box in pencil: "Last piece beadwork by Grandmother Cope Sharples - 1820" Another piece of paper has written: "Elizabeth Jefferes last work about 2 years before she died."
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1016
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Mary Warren's letters from the home front 1916-1917
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14216
- Author
- Dempsey, Hugh A (ed.)
- Responsibility
- edited by Hugh A. Dempsey
- Physical Description
- p.2-15 : ill., ports
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Notes
- In Alberta History, vol. 63, no. 1 (Winter 2015). Includes the story how Mary Warren knit woollen socks for the men in the front during World War I with other Banff women. She recieved a thank you letter from one of the men and sent a copy of the letter to the New York Times. She recieved a letter a few days later from an Episcopal clergyman named William Henderson Watts. She had a 2 year correspondance with him about her view on the war, particularly the lack of American involvement.
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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