DESK
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041860
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 76.9
- Length
- 91.7
- Width
- 61.4
- Description
- RECTANGULAR LIGHT FINISHED DESK WITH LEG OPENING AT LEFT SIDE. DESK HAS TOP DRAWER ACROSS FULL WIDTH WITH TWO STAINLESS STEEL HANDLES. TWO NARROWER DRAWERS ARE TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF LEG OPENING. BACK PANEL OF DESK HAS REVERSE HOUR GLASS SHAPE OPENING. FINISH ON TOP OF DESK IS WORN AND DIRTY.
- Subjects
- FURNITURE
- Historical Association
- BUSINESS
- History
- DESK BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO USED IT TO DO CHURCH AND PERSONAL BUSINESS. DONOR RELATES THAT HE SPENT MANY HOURS AT THIS DESK. 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
- P19970041860
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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