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Read Stone Company Fond

  • CA THT ReadStone
  • Fonds
  • 1800-2009

First accession contains items from six plywood boards used in the Grindstone Museum set up by Herbert C. Read in the “Carriage House” of the Marshlands Inn, which includes various materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company and grindstone production, including primarily photographs, as well as graphic drawings, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.

Second accession, contains materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company, grindstone production, and the Read family. Content includes primarily photographs, as well as postcards, articles, and a guest book from the Marshlands Inn which was formerly the Read home, and that contained a museum devoted to displaying the history of the grindstone industry in Sackville.

Wry Family Fonds

  • CA THT IWFFonds
  • Fonds
  • [185-?] to 1997

Fonds contains photographs and textual records pertaining to the descendants of Isaac Wry, which were handed down to and kept by his great granddaughter, Pauline Mary (Alward) Spatz. Most of the content refers to Pauline, her parents John Bunyan and Mabel Lena (Wry) Alward, and her grandparents John Willard and Jennie Grace (Snowdon) Wry, as well as other close relatives. The records listed here were part of a donation that also included a number artifacts.

Fonds is divided into four sousfonds which are further divided into relevant series. All content has been arranged chronologically.

Sub-fond 1: John Willard Wry and Jennie Grace (Snowdon) Wry
Sub-fond 2: Mathilda Wry and Mary Elsie Wry
Sub-fond 3: John Bunyan Alward and Mabel Lena (Alward) Wry
Sub-fond 4: Pauline Mary (Alward) Spatz

Pauline M. Alward Spatz

  • CA THT IWFFonds-2006.14.04
  • Subfonds
  • [after 1850] to 1997
  • Part of Wry Family Fonds

Subfonds contains personal papers of Pauline (Alward) Spatz, including records pertaining to her schooling, her career as a registered nurse, and other personal papers, as well as a group of family photographs dating back to her great grandfather, Isaac Wry, and succeeding generations. Content is divided into four series: Photographs, School Records, Nursing Records, and Other Personal Papers.

Wry Reunion Newspaper Clipping

Item is a newspaper clipping from the Sackville Tribune documenting a family reunion held in 1991 for the descendants of Willard and Jennie Wry.

John Bunyan Alward & Mabel L. Wry Alward

Subfonds contains textual items pertaining to John B. Alward and Mabel Lena (Wry) Alward. Content is divided into three series: Incoming Correspondence, Financial Records, and Other Personal Papers.

John B. Alward Memorial Record

Item is a book documenting the funeral of John B. Alward. Item contains information regarding the service, floral tributes, and signatures from guests of the funeral.

Miscellaneous Records

  • CA THT IWFFonds-2006.14.03-2006.14.03/34
  • Item
  • 1940-1965
  • Part of Wry Family Fonds

Items are the following, concerning John Alward: receipt from Tingley Monument Ltd., Amherst, NS (1951), five tax notices (1961-1965), one receipt from the water and sewage department, one registration card for Electoral District for voting (1940), one gasoline ration coupon book (1943-1944), one driver’s license (1963), and the original envelope.

John & Pauline Alward in Dining Room

Item is a photograph of the dining room looking into the living room of the house on Lansdowne Street, Sackville, NB, taken in summer 1963. Seated in the dining room are John and Pauline Alward.

John & Pauline Alward on Porch

Item is a photograph of John and Pauline Alward sitting in the sun porch of the house on Lansdowne Street, Sackville, NB.

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