TYPEWRITER
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- UNDERWOOD 150
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- STEEL, PLASTIC
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041873
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- UNDERWOOD 150
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- STEEL, PLASTIC
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 22
- Length
- 55
- Width
- 37
- Description
- BEIGE METAL TYPEWRITER WITH WHITE AND GREEN PLASTIC KEYS. BRASS MONOGRAPH PLATE WHICH READS "UNDERWOOD" IS MOUNTED ON FRONT ABOVE KEYBOARD. PRINTED ON PAPER GUIDE IS "UNDERWOOD MADE IN CANADA 150". "UNDERWOOD" IS ALSO STAMPED ON BACK AND RIGHT SIDE HAS RED CIRCULAR SEAL LABEL WHICH READS "UNDERWOOD LIMITED TORONTO, CANADA".
- Subjects
- WRITTEN COMMUNICATION T&E
- Historical Association
- BUSINESS
- History
- DONOR RELATES THAT HER FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, USED THIS TYPEWRITER TO WRITE NUMEROUS LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS IN HIS BUSINESS WITH HIS CHURCH. THIS TYPEWRITER SAT ON A SMALL TABLE IN HIS OFFICE (SEE P19970041869-GA). 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
- P19970041873
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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