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L.D. Taylor family fonds
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Osborne J. Pierce family sousfonds

Sousfonds consists of records of the Osborne J. Pierce family, most notably records of Osborne J. Pierce, Caroline Little Pierce, Winifred Mabel Pierce, Annie Louise (Pierce) Taylor, and, to a lesser extent, those of L.D. Taylor, Theodore Pierce Taylor, and Kenneth Osborn Taylor. The sousfonds includes correspondence, diaries, journals, photographs, and financial and investment records relating to members of the Pierce family. Also included are records of Osborne J. Pierce relating to his business affairs as an architect and a drawing instructor and his military service during the American Civil War, as well as various autobiographical, prose and poetic writings by Osborne. The sousfonds also contains records relating to Winifred s career as a schoolteacher, and records concerning Annie s education, her marriage to L.D. Taylor, and the time that she spent living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among the correspondence there are several letters to and from L.D. dating from the time that he left Chicago and came to Vancouver, British Columbia, through his ownership and loss of the World newspaper, 1905 to 1915, and during his first three terms as Mayor of Vancouver in 1910, 1911 and 1915.

Record types include correspondence; photographs and photograph albums; bank statements, receipts, invoices, cheque books and accounting records; journals, diaries, notebooks and record books; legal documents and agreements; architectural plans and drawings; certificates and a patent; written poetry and prose, including essays, short stories, speeches, notes and outlines; books, newsletters, and reports; advertisements, an editorial cartoon, and newspaper and journal clippings; postcards; pamphlets, programs, invitations, and other ephemera; business cards and membership cards; as well as report cards and school assignments.

Sousfonds has been arranged into 14 records series: Family letter files (1862-1925); Family photographs ([ca. 1858]-[ca. 1928]; Osborne J. Pierce autobiographical and other writings ([189-?]-[ca. 1905]; Osborne J. Pierce American Civil War records (1862-1865, 1890); Osborne J. Pierce correspondence (1890-1893, 1904); Osborne J. Pierce business records (1858-[1908]); Osborne J. Pierce architectural drawings and plans (1875-[1893]); Osborne J. Pierce and Caroline Little Pierce real estate, investment and other financial records (1891-1941); Osborne J. Pierce photographs (1890-1891, 1900); Annie Louise Taylor educational records (1883); Annie Louise Taylor correspondence ([188-?]-1917); Annie Louise Taylor financial records (1902-1925); Annie Louise Taylor photograph albums (1896-[1906]; and Winifred Mabel Pierce journal (1910-1914)

Pierce family, Osborne J.

1915-1917 - A.L.T. [Annie Louise Taylor] vs. L.D. T[aylor]

File consists of Annie Louise Taylor's incoming and outgoing correspondence and notes pertaining to her divorce from L.D. Taylor, as well as a letter from L.D. Taylor to Caroline Little Pierce and a final decree of divorce. Includes incoming letters from L.D. Taylor, Charles E. Chapman, Kate Cooley, Winifred Mabel Pierce.

Pierce family, Osborne J.

Annie Louise Taylor photograph albums

Series consists of two photograph albums assembled by Annie Louise Taylor. Includes baby and childhood photographs of Theodore Pierce and Kenneth Osborn Taylor, Taylor family group photographs, individual photographs of Annie and L.D. Taylor and Caroline Little Pierce, and interior and exterior photographs of the Taylor's Fairview home.

Pierce family, Osborne J.

[Mrs. Harriett E. Henry]

Photograph is a studio portrait of a women from Vancouver, B.C., who was featured in the Los Angeles Examiner, February 1, 1910

[Family 1910]

File includes incoming correspondence of Caroline Little Pierce, Osborne J. Pierce, Annie Louise Taylor, Kenneth Taylor and Theodore Taylor, and outgoing correspondence of Caroline Little Pierce, L.D. Taylor and Annie Louise Taylor. Includes correspondence from Caroline to Annie Louise, Annie Louise to Theodore, and L.D. to Theodore and Kenneth. Includes postcards from various places in the United States and from Ottawa and Medicine Hat, Alberta. File also includes twenty-seven photographs and a report card for Theodore.

Pierce family, Osborne J.

[Family] 1902, May to Oct[ober]

File includes correspondence between Osborne J. Pierce and Caroline Little Pierce, and correspondence from Winifred Mabel Pierce to Annie Louise Taylor, including postcards from Vermont. File also includes some financial records, and two photographs.

Original file folder was inscribed with the following notes by Ted Taylor: "K[enneth] T[aylor] born 22 July '02, Vancouver; summer - Pierces at Hardwick, VT; July-Aug[ust] - C[aroline] L[ittle] P[ierce] and W[inifred] M[abel] P[ierce] in VT and NH; Sep[tember} '02 - A[nnie] L[ouise] T[aylor] and T[heodore] T[aylor] and unnamed baby in Chicago with C[aroline] L[ittle] P[ierce]; 24 Oc[tober]? - O[sborne] J. P[ierce] returns to Chicago."

Pierce family, Osborne J.

[Mountain scene in Vermont]

Photograph taken during Winifred Mabel Pierce and Carolyn Little Pierce's trip to Vermont. Grand Trunk Railway train cars visible in the foreground.

[Family] 1906, Jan[uary] to Aug[ust]

File consists of correspondence of Annie Louise Taylor, L.D. Taylor, Osborne J. Pierce, Winifred Mabel Pierce and Caroline Little Pierce, as well as newspaper clippings, two photographs, a notebook, and a report card. File contains material relating to Osborne and Caroline's trip to Vancouver in 1906, including a notebook in which Osborne documents places visited and photographs taken during the trip. File also includes postcards from various places in the United States and Canada, including ones sent to Vancouver by L.D. Taylor during a trip to the United States and central Canada.

Original file folder was inscribed with the following notes by Ted Taylor: "1906, Jan[uary]-Aug[ust]: T[heodore] T[aylor] finish school Vancouver; O[sborne] J. P[ierce] trip north, June to July; J[un]e '06, summer, Pierces O[sborne] J. P[ierce]-C[aroline] L[ittle] P[ierce]-W[inifred] M[abel] P[ierce] at Alberni Street, Vancouver B.C."

Pierce family, Osborne J.

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