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Edith Low-Beer fonds
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0.03 m of textual records
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Edith Low-Beer was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia Dec. 1, 1904. She came to Vancouver with her husband, Max Low-Beer, 1938 as a political refugee. An avid collector of china and porcelain, she stimulated interest in a public local museum for decorative arts. This idea evolved into the Centennial Museum and Low-Beer chaired the Civic Arts Committee of the Community Arts Council during that period. She died Feb. 11, 1988.
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The fonds consists of personal correspondence, minutes, invitation and clippings pertaining to the planning phase of the Centennial Museum (now called the Vancouver Museum). The fonds also includes family and business correspondence of her husband, Max Low-Beer.
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Most of the Max Low-Beer correspondence is in German.
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