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Easter Card - 1
CA MRM 01170-1-6-3 · Item · n.d.
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

Easter greeting card sent by Helen to Lawrence.

Recto of card features purple flowers with metallic silver stems, gathered with a lavender ribbon. Sentiment "To Love Is to Remember: HAPPY EASTER" in printed purple script. Inside-left features similar flowers. Inside-right bears handwritten inscription "L." in top-left and "H." in bottom-right in black ink. Purple pre-printed poem on inside right. Silver foil separates inside-right from reverse and extends past cream paper.

Verso bears small purple printed text: "GIBSON CINTI., U.S.A. 15 E 9690".

Christmas Card - 1
CA MRM 01170-1-6-5 · Item · n.d.
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

Christmas card sent by Helen to Lawrence, unknown date.

Recto of greeting card bears the greeting "A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GREETING TO YOU". It features a framed rectangular cutout, revealing printed clear film, depicting a scene of a red house in a snow drift. This is set against a background of blue paper and silver foil. A blue ribbon is tied in a bow on the upper-left and three star-shaped cutouts adorn the recto. Inner-left shows the reverse of the ribbon, threated through a hole. Inner-right bears a black printed poem. Handwritten inscriptions in black ink "To Larry" and "From Helen".

Helen in White
CA MRM 01170-1-6-1 · Item · n.d.
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

Photograph depicts Helen in a white or light-coloured outfit posing before bushes, hands in her pockets.

Verso bears a blue stamp: "WILL NOT FADE, 315, CRYSTAL FINISH"

Birthday Card - 1939
CA MRM 01170-1-6-4 · Item · 1939
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

Birthday card sent by Helen to Lawrence in 1939.

Recto of greeting card is light blue, bearing the greeting "Happy Birthday to a Special FRIEND" in blue preprinted ink. A printed red wagon bears blue, yellow, and red flowers, with yellow floral textile displayed through an umbrella-shaped cutout. Inside-left bears floral header and graphite "1939". Inside-right bears blue printed poem on cream background. Underlined handwritten inscription of "Helen" in black ink under poem.

Verso bears green pre-printed text "153270 ; NORCROSS ; NEW YORK".

Christmas Card - 2
CA MRM 01170-1-6-6 · Item · n.d.
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

Christmas card sent by Helen to Lawrence, unknown date.

Recto of greeting card depicts a print of a graphite drawing of the New York City skyline set over silver metallic paper, matted onto red paper. Drawing shows copyright "W.C.M." with printed title "Towers in the Sun" by William C. McNulty. Inner-left is blank. Inner-right bears a pre-printed Christmas greeting, with an inscription handwritten in black in: "I wish I might send more than a card but "war" is war. Love Helen".

Verso bears black pre-printed text. "from the Etching by Wm. C. McNulty © AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP, N.Y. No. 15202 PRINTED IN U.S.A."

Graphic Material
CA MRM 01170-1-6 · File · 1938-1947
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

2 photographs, 12 greeting cards, 1 empty envelope sent by Helen Waugh to Lawrence Broe in the 1930s and 1940s.

Undated Letters
CA MRM 01170-1-5 · File · n.d.
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

File consists of 10 letters from Helen Waugh to Lawrence Broe that could not be confidently dated due to lack of marks.

Letters - 1941
CA MRM 01170-1-4 · File · 1941
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

1 letter and 1 envelope written and sent from Helen Waugh to Lawrence Broe during the year 1941.

Letter - August 26, 1940
CA MRM 01170-1-3-3 · Item · 26/08/1940
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

Helen expresses to Lawrence her disappointment that he did not contact her while she was in Vancouver.

Letters - 1940
CA MRM 01170-1-3 · File · 1940
Part of Lawrence Broe fonds

3 letters and envelopes sent from Helen Waugh to Lawrence Broe during the year 1940.

Broe, Lawrence