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Grandmother's thimble

Date1882
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FormatBook
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    Pages24 pages
    Dimensions18 cm, 24Pages (7 1/16 in.)
    Language
      CollectionOsborne Collection of Early Children's Books
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object Number37131054824610D
      Mrs. M. E. Nicholson says, It will be hard to go back to housework after the war. Plant officials say of the grandmothers: They're better workers than(...)
      Mrs. M. E. Nicholson says, It will be hard to go back to housework after the war. Plant officials say of the grandmothers: They're better workers than(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/1/1943
      Small Arms Ltd., Long Branch, has 287 grandmothers among its war workers, and personnel heads say they're the best workers in the plant. Mrs. Almanda (...)
      Small Arms Ltd., Long Branch, has 287 grandmothers among its war workers, and personnel heads say they're the best workers in the plant. Mrs. Almanda (...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/1/1943
      The idler cured, or, Grandmother's lesson
      The idler cured, or, Grandmother's lesson
      Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
      1865
      Right on the nose is the salute Canadian grandmothers will give the dictators and there's 170 pounds of war energy behind this muscle flexed by 62-yea(...)
      Right on the nose is the salute Canadian grandmothers will give the dictators and there's 170 pounds of war energy behind this muscle flexed by 62-yea(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      2/10/1943
      Too bad Hitler's not here, lament these eight war-working grandmothers as they train Sten guns on the photographer's assistant. There are some seventy(...)
      Too bad Hitler's not here, lament these eight war-working grandmothers as they train Sten guns on the photographer's assistant. There are some seventy(...)
      James, Norman
      6/5/1943
      The something old that Inez Newbold wore Friday when she married Kent Gawler of New Jersey was her grandmother's wedding gown. It was first worn by Mr(...)
      The something old that Inez Newbold wore Friday when she married Kent Gawler of New Jersey was her grandmother's wedding gown. It was first worn by Mr(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      7/17/1976
      Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers, Wives, mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-f(...)
      Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers, Wives, mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-f(...)
      Rutherford, George
      4/7/1943
      Grandma's best: Jams and jellies made from his grandmother's recipe are the hallmark of the store run by William Greaves Jr
      Grandma's best: Jams and jellies made from his grandmother's recipe are the hallmark of the store run by William Greaves Jr
      Brennan, Pat
      11/22/1982
      Rosemary Ayling helps her son Francis, 4, serve tea to his grandmothers Teresa Canaletti, left and Maureen Ayling, far right, and to his great-grandmo(...)
      Rosemary Ayling helps her son Francis, 4, serve tea to his grandmothers Teresa Canaletti, left and Maureen Ayling, far right, and to his great-grandmo(...)
      Talotta, Vince
      5/2/1997
      Her grandmother's on welfare, so is her mother, can she fight her way out
      Her grandmother's on welfare, so is her mother, can she fight her way out
      Spremo, Boris
      5/24/1978
      Clothes with personality: Ballet dancer Margaret Illmann loves romantic styles: like this favorite dress - her grandmother's remodelled lemon yellow debutante ball gown
      Clothes with personality: Ballet dancer Margaret Illmann loves romantic styles: like this favorite dress - her grandmother's remodelled lemon yellow debutante ball gown
      Illmann, Margaret
      12/6/1991
      Grounded in Toronto: Lisa Weller, a 23-year-old student from Kitchener, who was trying to get to Germany for her grandmother's funeral, learned yesterday her trip would be delayed a day
      Grounded in Toronto: Lisa Weller, a 23-year-old student from Kitchener, who was trying to get to Germany for her grandmother's funeral, learned yesterday her trip would be delayed a day
      Bock, Tony
      8/1/1990