TOWEL, HAND
https://collections.galtmuseum.com/link/artifact10055
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041780
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.3
- Length
- 80
- Width
- 59.6
- Description
- RECTANGULAR COTTON TOWEL WITH HORIZONTAL PINK AND WHITE STRIPES WHICH PROGRESS FROM THIN TO THICK AND BACK TO THIN. ONE CORNER HAS COTTON LABEL WITH "GALT TOWEL" AND A COAT OF ARMS ON IT.
- Subjects
- TOILET ARTICLE
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- TOWEL IS A HOUSEHOLD ITEM USED BY DONOR'S FAMILY WHILE LIVING AT COALDALE. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041780
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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