CARD, CALLING
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BUSINESS CARDS
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1990
- Materials
- PAPER
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041887
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BUSINESS CARDS
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1990
- Materials
- PAPER
- No. Pieces
- 778
- Description
- 778 PAPER BUSINESS AND PERSONAL CALLING CARDS OF VARIOUS SIZES, DESIGNS AND FONTS. SOME ARE IN ENGLISH, MANY IN JAPANESE. SOME CARDS ARE PROFESSIONALLY MADE AND OTHERS ARE HAND MADE OR CLIPPED FROM ENVELOPES.
- Subjects
- DOCUMENTARY ARTIFACT
- Historical Association
- BUSINESS
- History
- DONOR RELATES THAT HER FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, KEPT ALMOST EVERY BUSINESS CARD HE EVER GOT. THIS COLLECTION REPRESENTS PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WHICH HE MET ON HIS TRAVELS AS A MISSIONARY FOR THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. 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
- P19970041887
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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