- Other Name
- PLAINS INDIGENOUS, SET OF 2
- Date Range From
- 1800
- Date Range To
- 1900
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- WILLOW STICKS, COTTON FLANNEL, BEADWORK, PAINT
- Catalogue Number
- P19738058000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- PLAINS INDIGENOUS, SET OF 2
- Date Range From
- 1800
- Date Range To
- 1900
- Materials
- WILLOW STICKS, COTTON FLANNEL, BEADWORK, PAINT
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Description
- .1 28 CM WTH. (TOP) 87.7 CM (BASE) X 127 CM LTH. TRIANGULAR BACK REST CONSTRUCTED OF WILLOW STICKS LASHED WITH SINEW. BACKREST IS EDGED WITH SEWN COTTON STRIPS AND GREEN FLANNEL TAPE DOWN SIDE. HEAD PIECE IS CONSTRUCTED OF BLACK FLANNEL EDGED WITH RED FLANNEL, INSET WITH RED FLANNEL GEOMETRIC DESIGNS ARE OUTLINED IN BROWN AND WHITE BEADS. PICTOGRAPH STORY OUTLINING A BATTLE IS PAINTED IN BLACK ON THE BACK REST SURFACE. .2 25.4 CM WTH. (TOP) 83.8 CM (BASE) X 130.8 CM LTH. TRIANGULAR BACK REST CONSTRUCTED OF WILLOW STICKS LASHED WITH SINEW. BACKREST IS EDGED WITH SEWN COTTON STRIPS AND GREEN FLANNEL TAPE DOWN SIDES. HEAD PIECE IS MADE OF RED FLANNEL EDGED WITH BLACK COTTON AND WHITE BEADS GEOMETRIC DESIGN BROWN EDGED WITH BLUE & BLUE EDGED WITH BROWN PICTOGRAPH STORY OUTLINING A BATTLE AND RAID IS PAINTED IN BLACK PAINT ON THE BACKREST SURFACE. CONSERVATION REPORT ON FILE.
- Subjects
- INDIGENOUS
- FURNITURE
- Historical Association
- ETHNOGRAPHIC
- History
- PLAINS INDIGENOUS.
- Catalogue Number
- P19738058000
- Acquisition Date
- 1973-07
- Collection
- Museum
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- STEEL, RUBBER, IRON, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19750078000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- STEEL, RUBBER, IRON, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 30.5
- Length
- 73.6
- Width
- 38.0
- Description
- .1 BASSINET. ABOVE DIMENSIONS. STEEL, RUBBER. STEEL SLATS 1.3 CM WIDE USED TO FORM BASSINET. THERE ARE 4 SLATS GOING LENGTHWISE AND 8 SLATS GOING WIDTHWISE. 2 STRIPS OF RUBBER RUN ALONG THE OUTSIDE SLATS GOING LENGTHWISE. 1 PIECE OF RUBBER IS BROKEN INTO 3. PAINTED WITH WHITE ENAMEL. PAINT CHIPPED A LITTLE. .2 BASSINET TROLLEY. 97.8 CM HT. X 43.8 CM WTH. X 80 CM LTH. IRON, WOOD. WHITE ENAMEL PAINT ON IRON FRAME. CHIPPED IN PLACES. 4 WOODEN CASTORS ON BOTTOM OF LEGS.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- MEDICAL & DENTAL T&E
- Historical Association
- HEALTH SERVICES
- History
- HOSPITAL BUILT IN 1943 BUT MUCH OF EQUIPMENT WAS TRANSFERRED FROM ANOTHER HOSPITAL. BASSINET IS BELIEVED TO DATE FROM 1930'S & WAS IN USE UNTIL1975.
- Catalogue Number
- P19750078000
- Acquisition Date
- 1975-06
- Collection
- Museum
- Date Range From
- 1925
- Date Range To
- 1935
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- WICKER
- Catalogue Number
- P19738879000
2 images
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1925
- Date Range To
- 1935
- Materials
- WICKER
- No. Pieces
- 3
- Height
- 39.4
- Length
- 99.7
- Width
- 52.1
- Description
- CHILD'S SLEEPING BASKET OR BASSINET. HANDLES ON SIDES & 2 HOOPS ON TOP POSSIBLY TO SUPPORT A NET.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- Historical Association
- FURNISHINGS
- History
- SEE P19738868000-GA FOR HISTORY. ACCORDING TO KENNETH ALLAN HUDSON’S OBITUARY IN THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD, “HUDSON PASSED AWAY ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1993 AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS, BELOVED HUSBAND OF MRS. FLORENCE HUDSON OF PICTURE BUTTE ALBERTA. BORN IN TABER, ALBERTA ON JANUARY 28, 1922, KEN MARRIED FLORENCE ANGLE ON JANUARY 19, 1949 IN LETHBRIDGE. KEN SERVED OVERSEAS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WITH R.C.A.S.C.. FOLLOWING THE WAR, HE RETURNED TO SOUTHERN ALBERTA. KEN RETIRED IN 1987, AFTER SELLING THE FARM AND HAS RESIDED IN PICTURE BUTTE UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS PASSING. KEN WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION AND ACTIVE WITH THE BOY SCOUTS OF CANADA IN HIS EARLIER YEARS.” ACCORDING TO THE LEGION MAGAZINE ONLINE, HUDSON WAS ISSUED THE SERVICE NUMBER M105776. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A COLLECTION AUDIT, WHICH INCLUDED THIS BASSINET DONATED BY KEN AND FLORENCE HUDSON. RESEARCH DOCUMENTS FROM A PREVIOUS AUDIT OF MILITARY ARTIFACTS CONDUCTED BY COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT DAVID SMITH WAS FOUND IN THE PERMANENT FILE. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN EXTRACTED FROM THOSE DOCUMENTS: THE OBITUARY OF FLORENCE HUDSON (NEE ANGLE) STATES SHE WAS BORN IN WINNIPEG AND HAD LIVED IN VANCOUVER AND LETHBRIDGE. AFTER HER MARRIAGE TO KEN HUDSON, THEY SETTLED IN PICTURE BUTTE AND MOVED TO THEIR FARM IN 1953. THE CHILDREN OF FLORENCE AND KEN WERE LINDA, RAYMOND, DONALD, HUGH, BRUCE, AND KEN. FLORENCE PASSED AWAY ON 21 MARCH 2008 AT THE AGE OF 77 YEARS. A FAMILY HISTORY READS: "KEN HUDSON IS THE OLDEST SON OF ALAN HUDSON, [WHO] WAS BORN IN MANITOBA. HE CAME TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1912. WHEN THE WAR WAS DECLARED IN 1914 HE JOINED THE CANADIAN ARMY... KEN'S MOTHER, IVY, WAS A NATIVE OF SURREY, ENGLAND.
- Catalogue Number
- P19738879000
- Acquisition Date
- 1973-02
- Collection
- Museum
Images
- Other Name
- BABY BASSINET
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- IRON
- Catalogue Number
- P19960116165
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BABY BASSINET
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- IRON
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 90
- Length
- 66.5
- Width
- 44
- Description
- WHITE PAINTED IRON FRAME WITH BASKET IN IT. FRAME IS IRON TUBING IN BOX SHAPE WITH SPHERICAL CORNER JOINTS. EACH LEG HAS GREY RUBBER WHEELS WHICH SWIVEL. TOP HAS FOUR WIDTHS OF IRON BANDS WOVEN AND BENT AT RIGHT ANGLES TO FORM BASKET FRAME. BASKET IS RECTANGULAR IRON BAND WITH RIVETED IRON BANDS WOVEN AND BENT AT RIGHT ANGLES TO FORM RECTANGULAR BASKET. PAINT ON BASKET AND WHEELED FRAME IS CHIPPED AND DIRTY.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- MEDICAL & DENTAL T&E
- Historical Association
- HEALTH SERVICES
- History
- BASSINET WAS REMOVED FROM ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL BEFORE THE HOSPITAL WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1996. FOR MORE HISTORY ON HOSPITAL SEE P19960116001-GA.
- Catalogue Number
- P19960116165
- Acquisition Date
- 1996-01
- Collection
- Museum
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1955
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- RUBBERIZED CANVAS, STEEL, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19890027000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1955
- Materials
- RUBBERIZED CANVAS, STEEL, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 84.5
- Length
- 91.4
- Width
- 51
- Description
- RUBBERIZED CANVAS FOLDING INFANT BATH WITH DRAIN HOSE, CHANGING PLATFORM & WOOD & STEEL ROD FRAME. SOAP POCKET AT ONE END. ACCESSORY POCKETS ON ONE SIDE. LABEL: "BATHINETTE COMBINATION BATH & TABLE" PATENT DATES IN CANADA OF 1938 & 1939. ORANGE/RED RUBBER HOZE IS DRY AND CRACKING. HOSE ALMOST SEVERED AT ONE POINT. SHOWS WEAR AND AGE.
- Subjects
- HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY
- FURNITURE
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- PURCHASED BY DONOR'S MOTHER JOAN MCKENZIE FROM EATON'S LETHBRIDGE IN NOV. 1952, COST $29.00. USED UNTIL 1961. HAS BEEN REPAIRED. MANUFACTURED BY BABY BATHINETTE CORPORATION ROCHESTER N.Y. SOLE BUILDERS, AND "MANUFACTURED BY HENRY DAVIS WOOD PRODUCTS, LIMITED GEORGETOWN, ONT."
- Catalogue Number
- P19890027000
- Acquisition Date
- 1989-07
- Collection
- Museum
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date
- 1890
- Materials
- SHEET IRON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 26.0
- Width
- 23.0
- Diameter
- 93.3
- Description
- TUB PROBABLY USED IN A SITTING POSITION (ON RIM) FOR SPONGE BATHS. TUB APPEARS MANUFACTURED, WITH SOAP DISH, SEAT AND 2 BRACES. ADDED LATER BY HAND WELDING: SPOUT (FOR RETURNING USED BATH WATER TO BARREL TO SETTLE FOR REFUSE) HAS BEEN WELDED SHUT ON TOP. PAINTED WITH ALUMINUM PAINT. MANY SEAMS CRACKED.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- PLUMBING FIXTURE
- Historical Association
- FURNISHINGS
- History
- BROUGHT TO LETHBRIDGE BY DONOR'S GRANDFATHER IN 1898, FOR USE WHEN WATER WAS DELIVERED IN BARRELS AND HAD TO BE USED SPARINGLY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19672782000
- Acquisition Date
- 1967-08
- Collection
- Museum
- Date Range From
- 1910
- Date Range To
- 1920
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- BRASS, STEEL
- Catalogue Number
- P19739489000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1910
- Date Range To
- 1920
- Materials
- BRASS, STEEL
- No. Pieces
- 3
- Height
- 16.5
- Length
- 180.3
- Width
- 133.3
- Description
- PAINTED WHITE EXCEPT TOP PANEL FOOTBOARD & HEADBOARD. SPRINGS GILT SPRAY PAINT.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- Historical Association
- FURNISHINGS
- Catalogue Number
- P19739489000
- Acquisition Date
- 1973-11
- Collection
- Museum
- Date Range From
- 1890
- Date Range To
- 1895
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- WOOD, BRASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19740089000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1890
- Date Range To
- 1895
- Materials
- WOOD, BRASS
- No. Pieces
- 8
- Description
- .1 HIGH BACK BED. 190.5 CM HT. (WITH CASTORS) X 143.5 WTH. X 198.1 LTH. CHERRYWOOD-REFINISHED. 6 PIECES. HEADBOARD - FLORAL ORNATE DESIGN CARVED AT TOP OF HEADBOARD. WOODEN CASTORS ON BOTTOM LEGS. 190.5 CM HT. X 143.5 CM WTH. X 6.3 THICK. FOOTBOARD - ORNATE DESIGN. CASTORS MISSING. DIMENSIONS: 90.2 CM HT. X143.5 CM WTH. X 8.9 CM THICK. SIDE RAILS (2) - 188.0 CM LTH. X 27.3 CM HT. X 4.4 CM THICK. SLATS (2) MADE OF ROUGH WOOD. 137.2 CM LTH. X 8.9 CM WTH. X 10.2 CM THICK. .2 WASH STAND 97.1 CM HT. X 81.3 CM WTH. X 44.5 CM DEPTH. CHERRYWOOD-REFINISHED, BRASS HANDLES. MARKING ON BACK OF WASH STAND: "450 1/2". ONE LONG DRAWER FIRST WITH BRASS HANDLES. 2 SMALL DRAWERS BELOW ONE ANOTHER TO THE LEFT SIDE AND A SWINGING DOOR ON THE RIGHT OF THESE TWO DRAWERS. EACH HAS A BRASS HANDLE. 4 WOODEN CASTORS. THERE IS ONE BRASS BRACKET ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE CABINET. THE TOWEL RACK IS MISSING. .3 DRESSER AND MIRROR. 199.4 CM HT. X 109.2 CM WTH. X 50.9 CM DEPTH. MARKING ON BACK OF DRESSER "450 1/2". ADJUSTABLE MIRROR. CANDLE OR LIGHT HOLDERS (BRASS) ON EITHER SIDE OF MIRROR. RIGHT HAND HOLDER HAS A MISSING PLATE. 2 SMALL DRAWERS SIDE BY SIDE WITH BRASS HANDLES AND BRASS KEYHOLES. 2 LONG DRAWERS UNDER THE SMALL ONES. THEY ALSO HAVE BRASS HANDLES & BRASS KEYHOLES. 4 WOODEN CASTORS. ADJUSTABLE MIRROR (HINGED ON MIDDLE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES. 82.5 CM X 67.3 CM.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- Historical Association
- FURNISHINGS
- History
- DONOR STATES SUITE OVER 100 YRS OLD, OWNED BY HIS GRANDPARENTS
- Catalogue Number
- P19740089000
- Acquisition Date
- 1974-11
- Collection
- Museum
- Date Range From
- 1900
- Date Range To
- 1910
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- WALNUT, IRON, STEEL
- Catalogue Number
- P19770319000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1900
- Date Range To
- 1910
- Materials
- WALNUT, IRON, STEEL
- No. Pieces
- 11
- Height
- 167.6
- Length
- 193.0
- Width
- 141.0
- Description
- HEADBOARD - CARVED DESIGN WITH CUT-OUT IN CENTRE AT TOP OF BOARD. 167.6 CM 141 CM X 5.1 CM. FOOTBOARD -CURVED CARVED DESIGN WITH CUT-OUT IN CENTRE. 73.6 CM HT. X 140.CM WTH. X 7.6 CM THICK. SLATS (6) - MADE OF UNFINISHED WOOD. 135.9 CM LTH. X 7.6 CM WTH. X 1.9 THICK. SIDE RAILS (2) - 2.7 CM THICK X 17.8 CM WTH. X 182.8 CM LTH. "TOPS" ON EACH SIDE RAIL HAVE SPLIT OFF AND HAVE BEEN REFINISHED. SPRINGS - MADE OF IRON & STEEL. 180.3 CM LTH. X 116.8 CM WTH. X 1.3 CM THICK. "PARKHILL" (DECAL) IS ALONG ONE SIDE OF SPRINGS. "NO. 315" AND "1-0" IS STAMPED ALONG SAME SIDE IN YELLOW.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- Historical Association
- FURNISHINGS
- History
- HIGH BACK BED ORIGINALLY OWNED BY JOHN MCDOWELL DAVIDSON, FATHER OF JOHN MCDOWELL WHO LIVES IN LETHBRIDGE. *UPDATE* IN 2010, NICOLE HEMBROFF, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT, CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PALLET RACKING. DONOR IS DECEASED. SHE WAS UNABLE TO CONTACT NEXT OF KIN.
- Catalogue Number
- P19770319000
- Acquisition Date
- 1977-06
- Collection
- Museum
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- WOOD, UPHOLSTERY, STEEL
- Catalogue Number
- P19990035206
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- WOOD, UPHOLSTERY, STEEL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 42.5
- Length
- 178.3
- Width
- 67.0
- Description
- SQUARE OAK BASE. RAISED ON FOUR LEGS WITH CASTORS ON THEM. A BROWN PADDED CUSHION, ON SPRINGS, IS ATTACHED TO THE BASE. ON TOP, A SEAM RUNS AROUND CUSHION ABOUT 5 OR 6 INCHES FROM EDGE. SMALL NAILS ARE VISIBLE ALONG THE SIDE, WHERE THE CUSHION IS ATTACHED TO BASE. UNDERSIDE IS OPEN SO SPRINGS ARE VISIBLE. LEGS ARE SLIGHTLY ROUNDED.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- Historical Association
- FURNISHINGS
- History
- SEE P19990035001-GA FOR DONOR HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19990035206
- Acquisition Date
- 2000-07
- Collection
- Museum