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.
Subfonds contains various textual items pertaining to Mathilda “Tillie” Wry and her sister Mary Elsie Wry. Includes an autograph album, incoming correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.
Item is a leather bound autograph album given to Mathilda Wry as a gift on her twentieth birthday. Amongst the autographs are two adjoining pages from roommates in the Mount Allison Ladies’ College (1887), a poem from her sister Mary E. Wry, and several entries from Great Village where Tillie visited and where her fiancée George was later the post master. Some of the entries are probably from sewing clients. There are also additional autographs from 1938 and 1941 written to Tillie’s niece, Mabel Alward.
Item is a photograph of Willard and Jennie Wry with their family of eight children photographed by R. S. Pridham of Sackville, NB.
From left to right: First row: Jennie Pearl Caulkin Wry, Aubrey Willard Wry. Second row: John Willard Wry, Kenneth Oscar Wry, Jennie Grace (Snowdon) Wry, Mabel Lena Wry. Third row: Bessie Jean Wry, Minnie Jean Wry, Alice Pauline Wry, Clarence Hassel Wry.
Item is a letter of recommendation written for Mabel Wry by George E. Ford, for whom Mabel worked for a few years. Item was written in the year prior to her marriage to John Alward.