JACKET
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- COTTON, ACRYLIC
- Catalogue Number
- P20150013029
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- COTTON, ACRYLIC
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 46.7
- Width
- 100.4
- Description
- ZIPPERED JACKET. NAVY BLUE KNIT, WITH BURNT RED CORDUROY. KNITTED NAVY BLUE RAGLAN SLEEVES, SIDE PANELS, AND HEM. RED BURNT CORDUROY MAKES UP THE TWO FRONT PANELS AND A SINGLE BACK PANEL. TWO PATCH POCKETS, EACH TRIMMED AT THE TOP WITH NAVY BLUE KNIT. SILVER COLOURED METAL ZIPPER CLOSURE. ZIPPER PULL TAB AND RETAINER BOX READ "DOT". TAG AT BACK NAPE OF NECK READS "MADE IN CANADA - UNION MADE". IN FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION. KNITTED PORTIONS OF THE JACKET ARE STRETCHED OUT AND DO NOT RETAIN ANY REAL STRETCH. WEARER'S LEFT SLEEVE HAS TWO HOLES: ONE APPROXIMATELY HALF WAY BETWEEN SHOULDER AND ELBOW, ON FRONT SIDE OF SLEEVE; SECOND IS JUST BELOW ELBOW ON THE BACK. WEARER'S RIGHT SLEEVE HAS FOUR SMALL HOLES: TWO ARE AT THE WEARER'S ELBOW, ON THE BACK SIDE; THIRD IS SLIGHTLY BELOW AND A LITTLE MORE TO THE FRONT OF THE SLEEVE; FOURTH IS ON THE FRONT OF THE SLEEVE, JUST ABOVE THE CUFF. SLIGHT TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF THE ZIPPER, NEAR THE INSERTION PIN.
- Subjects
- CLOTHING-OUTERWEAR
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- THIS JACKET BELONGED TO ROBERT ALLAN SMITH (THE DONOR) AS A CHILD AND WAS SAVED FOR DONATION TO THE MUSEUM BY HIS MOTHER, PHYLLIS SMITH. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS COLLECTED FROM ROBERT SMITH IN AN ORAL INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY KEVIN MACLEAN ON 5 MARCH 2015. BEGINNING IN THE 1940S, THE SMITH FAMILY RESIDED AT 1254 7 AVENUE SOUTH. PHYLLIS REMAINED AT THE SAME ADDRESS UNTIL HER DEATH AT 104 YEARS OF AGE, ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2009. WHILE CLEANING UP HIS MOTHER’S HOUSE, THE DONOR CAME ACROSS SEVERAL BAGS MARKED ‘FOR MUSEUM’. THE ITEMS WERE USED COLLECTIVELY BY THE DONOR AS AN INFANT UNTIL THE AGE OF APPROXIMATELY 9 YEARS OLD. IN THE INTERVIEW, KEVIN ASKS IF ROBERT HE FELT HIS CHILDHOOD WAS IDYLLIC. ROBERT RESPONDS, SAYING: “I WAS BORN IN WARTIME STILL, AND MAYBE IT WASN’T IDYLLIC FOR MY PARENTS, BUT IT WAS FOR ME. AND THE NEIGHBOURHOODS WERE DIFFERENT THEN. YOU WERE JUST LET OUT THE DOOR AND YOU WENT OUT TO PLAY WITH THE NEIGHBOURHOOD KIDS AND THERE WERE NO CONCERNS THAT THE PARENTS HAVE TODAY. YES, A VERY HAPPY TIME, I WOULD SAY.” ROBERT WAS BORN IN OCTOBER 1940 TO PHYLLIS (NEE GROSS) AND ALLAN F. SMITH, AT ST. MICHAEL’S HOSPITAL. PHYLLIS WAS IN HARVEY, ND AND MOVED INITIALLY WITH HER FAMILY TO A FARM IN THE GRASSY LAKE AREA. SHE MOVED INTO LETHBRIDGE AND ATTENDED ST. BASIL’S SCHOOL IN THE 1910S. ALLAN WAS BORN IN ECHO BAY, ON. HE WAS OFFERED A JOB AT WESTERN GROCERS IN LETHBRIDGE AND MET PHYLLIS WHILE IN THE CITY. THEY WERE MARRIED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1939. ROBERT IS AN ONLY CHILD AND SUFFERED FROM RHEUMATIC FEVER AS A CHILD. HE BELIEVES THIS MAY BE PART OF THE REASON HIS MOTHER SAVED THESE ITEMS. HE EXPLAINS, SAYING: “I’M AN ONLY CHILD AND THEY WOULD BE MORE MEANINGFUL AND I WENT THROUGH A CHILDHOOD ILLNESS. I HAD RHEUMATIC FEVER. I MIGHT NOT HAVE SURVIVED. SOME OTHER KIDS DIDN’T SURVIVE, BUT I DID.” HE ALSO DESCRIBES HIS MOTHER AS BEING “A SAVER OF THINGS. HAVING GONE THROUGH THE DEPRESSION … THEY SAVED LOTS OF STUFF … ANYTHING THEY THINK THEY MIGHT USE IN THE FUTURE WAS SAVED.” PHYLLIS WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE LETHBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN THE 1970S AND WORKED AT THE GALT MUSEUM AS PART OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY”. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS AND COPIES OF LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES.
- Catalogue Number
- P20150013029
- Acquisition Date
- 2015-03
- Collection
- Museum
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