Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

HAT - BOER WAR 1899

Date Range From

1889

Date Range To

1902

Materials

FELT, LEATHER

No. Pieces

1

Height

14.0

Diameter

50.0

Description

SIZE: 7 1/8. LEATHER HAT & SWEAT BAND. "JOHN B. STETSON CO. PHILADELPHIA NO. 1 QUALITY, JOHN B. STETSON COMPANY" MARKED ON INSIDE SWEATBAND. OUTER LEATHER BAND WITH STRAP & LEATHER COVERED BUCKLE; STAINED. FELT, STIFFENED FLAT BLOCKED BRIM. RAWHIDE LEATHER CHINSTRAP KNOTTED.

Subjects

CLOTHING-HEADWEAR

Historical Association

MILITARY

History

MRS. DUPEN, DONOR STATES HAT USED IN SOUTH AFRICAN (BOER) WAR OF 1899-1902. FURTHER INFORMATION OR DOCUMENTATION UNAVAILABLE. *UPDATE* IN 2012 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT DAVID SMITH CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MILITARY OBJECTS. CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING ARCHIVAL FILES REFERENCED AND AN INTERVIEW WITH KAREN DANFORTH WAS CONDUCTED. IN 1967, AN INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED WITH ALFRED DUPEN. THIS INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND IN THE GALT MUSEUM ARCHIVES 19694050000. ACCORDING TO THE INTERVIEW, “[ALFRED DUPEN] I CAME DOWN HERE [LETHBRIDGE] IN 1903, I WAS ON MY WAY TO REGINA TO COOK AT THE WINDSOR HOTEL. MY BROTHER WAS WORKING FOR FRED ROONEY WHO WAS UNDER THE ARLINGTON, AS SOON AS HE KNEW I WAS A COOK, HE OFFERED THE ADDITIONAL MONEY THAT I COULD GET ANYWHERE AT THAT TIME THEY WERE PAYING COOKS AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS A MONTH AND AN EXTRA GOOD COOK FIFTY DOLLARS A MONTH. NOW THEY’RE PAYING ABOUT FIVE-HUNDRED A MONTH AND WORKING A THIRD OF THE TIME. I COULD ALWAYS EAT MY OWN COOKING SO THAT HELPED A LOT. I STARTED WASHING POTS AT THE ELEVATOR HOTEL IN CALGARY FOR FIFTEEN DOLLARS A MONTH AND I WORKED FROM 6 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING TILL 10 O’CLOCK AT NIGHT AND I WENT TO BED CRYING. I WAS ONLY ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. THEY DIDN’T PAY GOOD WAGES THERE, BUT THEY FED YOU WELL SO THERE WAS ALWAYS LOTS TO EAT AND ALWAYS PLENTY OF WORK. I STARTED WASHING POTS AND FLOORS AND I WENT FROM A VEGETABLE COOK TO A PASTRY COOK AND MY BROTHER HAPPENED TO BE A CHEF IN THERE AT THAT TIME, HE WAS GETTING SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS A MONTH AND THAT WAS BIG MONEY. MY SISTERS WERE COOKS, SO WE WERE ALL LEANING THAT WAY. I DON’T KNOW WEATHER I LIKED THE FOOD MORE OR THE WORK OF A CHEF. I ENLISTED IN THE STRATHCONA HORSE IN 1900. I WAS IN NO.1 B SQUADRON I ENLISTED FROM CALGARY. THERE WERE SIXTY MEN THAT PASSED THE TEST, AND I WAS THE TENTH MAN THAT PASSED ON THE FIRST DAY. WE WENT OVER THERE AND CAME BACK IN 1901. WE WENT ACROSS THERE ON THE OLD MONTEREY BY BOAT FROM ST. JOHN’S IN EASTERN CANADA. THERE WERE SIX-HUNDRED MEN IN THE LORD STRATHCONA, HE ARMED ALL OF HIS MEN WITH EVERYTHING AND TURNED IT OVER TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, AND WE WENT OUT WITH ABOUT SIX-HUNDRED STRONG IN MEN AND WE HAD FOUR-HUNDRED HEAD OF HORSES, ON THE WAY OVER WE HAD TO THROW BETWEEN TWO-HUNDRED AND FIFTY TO THREE-HUNDRED TO THE SHARKS, JUST THREW THEM OVERBOARD. WE LANDED IN CAPE TOWN AND LANDED ON THERE IN CAMP AND TRAINED A LITTLE AND THINGS. IN THOSE DAYS YOU TOLD A MAN TO MOUNT THOSE THINGS AND THEY DIDN’T KNOW IF THEY HAD TO MOUNT OVER THE TAIL OR THE HEAD, IT WAS VERY COMICAL TO WATCH SOME OF THOSE FELLAS. I LIKE I SAY I WAS A PRETTY GOOD BOY AT THAT TIME, I WAS ONLY NINETEEN AND TWO MONTHS. BEFORE I WENT TO THE FRONT, I WAS IN TRAINING FOR ABOUT 30 DAYS. BEFORE I LEFT I WAS OFFERED TO RE-ENLIST AND GO OVER TO CAPE MOUNTED RIFLES. I HAD SENSE ENOUGH NOT TO GO AS MUCH AS I LIKE THE ARMY, BUT I THINK NINE OF ELEVEN IN THE FIRST BATTLE GOT KILLED, AND OF COURSE IT’S ONLY THE GOOD THAT DIE YOUNG WHICH IS WHY I’M HERE! I WENT IN AS A SERGEANT COOK BUT GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH COLONEL SAM STEELS AND HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CHAMPION IN A 145 POUND CLASS AND HE WAS FIGHTING, EVERY NIGHT USED TO COME UP ON DECK AND WE’D STAND UP ON THE BRIDGE AND WATCH THE BOXING AND THINGS LIKE THAT. THIS FELLA THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CHAMPION, HE HIT ME BELOW THE BELT. I WAS TAUGHT TO FIGHT CLEAN RIGHT EVEN AND I TAUGHT MY BOY HAROLD TO FIGHT CLEAN. I SAID WELL, IT’S NO USE NOW THEY’LL TAKE MY STRIPES FROM ME AND SO I RESIGNED FROM MY RANK AND WENT BACK AS GENERAL. IT ONLY TOOK TEN MINUTES TO LICK HIM ANYWAYS AND SO I SAID I CAME OUT HERE TO FIGHT, NOT TO COOK, SO THAT FINISHED MY COOKING GIG.” ON JUNE 6, 2012, GALT STAFF CONDUCTED AN INTERVIEW WITH KAREN DANFORTH, GRANDDAUGHTER TO ALBERT DUPEN. ACCORDING TO DANFORTH, “WHEN I STARTED LOOKING AT HIS AGE AND HOW OLD HE SAID HE WAS WHEN HE SIGNED IN, 22 YEARS AND ONE MONTH AND THIS WAS MAY. I KNEW HE WAS BORN IN 1880 AND HIS BIRTHDAY WAS JULY 18TH AND I’M GOING “HMMM, OKAY.” ALL I REMEMBER HIM SAYING IS THAT BASICALLY TO GET IN HE HAD TO DO A LITTLE FUDGING ON FIGURES AND THAT’S ALL I REMEMBER HIM SAYING REALLY. I KNEW THAT HE WAS SUPPOSEDLY NOT OLD ENOUGH. I THINK THAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE 21 FOR LORD STRATHCONA’S, BUT THAT’S ALL I KNOW. GRANDPA DIDN’T TALK A WHOLE LOT ABOUT THAT EITHER. I GREW UP NEXT DOOR TO HIM, WE LIVED NEXT DOOR ALL MY LIFE SO WE’RE THE ONES WHO PROBABLY HEARD MOST OF THE STORIES AND HAD THE MOST TO DO WITH HIM. HE WAS BORN ON JULY 18, 1880 IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND IS WHERE HE WAS BORN, AND AGAIN IT (THE PAPERWORK) SAYS PORTSMOUTH, BUT MAYBE THAT’S JUST WHERE HE LEFT ENGLAND FROM. I DON’T KNOW. I TOOK IT THAT IT WAS 1898 THAT HE CAME TO CALGARY, BUT THAT I’M NOT SURE OF. I THOUGHT HE CAME IN 1898 TO CALGARY, BUT HE MAY HAVE COME EARLIER. WHEN HE CAME OVER, HE ENDED UP MARRYING GERTRUDE BARNES WHO IS NOT MY GRANDMOTHER. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN AND THEN SHE DIED AND HE LATER MARRIED MY GRANDMOTHER IN 1916. HER NAME WAS NELLIE GRIMM AND THAT WAS MY GRANDMOTHER, MY MOM’S MOM. I KNOW THEY OPERATED THE MINE, IT WAS ALWAYS CALLED DUPEN’S BOTTOM, THAT IS HOW IT WAS ALWAYS REFERRED TO, NORTH OF PAVAN PARK DOWN AT THE RIVER BEND, AND THEY HAD A COAL MINE DOWN THERE AND THEY SUPPLIED SOME RESIDENTS IN LETHBRIDGE WITH COAL. WE WERE DOWN THERE A LOT WHEN WE WERE KIDS, BUT HAVEN’T BEEN DOWN THERE FOR YEARS BECAUSE IT BELONGS TO SOMEBODY ELSE NOW AND I DON’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. AS I SAID, WE USED TO GO DOWN THERE A LOT AS I SAID GRANDMA AND GRANDPA LIVED DOWN ON 7TH STREET IN LETHBRIDGE AND I LIVED NEXT DOOR TO THEM. SO AT THAT TIME, ONE OF MOM’S HALF SISTERS AND HER HUSBAND LIVED DOWN THERE, AND LATER HER HALF BROTHER, SO OF COURSE WE WERE BACK AND FORTH VISITING. WE WERE DOWN THERE A LOT. WE JUST CALLED IT DUPEN’S BOTTOM AT THE TIME. YEAH, THEY HAD THAT AND GRANDPA WAS VERY INVOLVED WITH THE HOTELMAN’S ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA. HE MANAGED THE ALEXANDER AND THE ARLINGTON HOTELS. I BELIEVE HE WAS SECRETARY OF THE ALBERTA HOTELMEN’S ASSOCIATION FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. IN FACT I THINK HE WAS STILL IN THAT POSITION WHEN HE DIED. HE WAS AT A CONVENTION, AT THE OLD EL RANCHO AS A MATTER OF FACT; AT THE CONVENTION IS WHERE HE DIED. HE ALWAYS SAID HE ONLY HAD A GRADE 3 EDUCATION, BUT HE WAS A VERY, VERY SMART MAN. HE USED TO SPEND HOURS OF THE DAY DOWN AT THE BROKERS, JAMES RICHARDSON’S, WHICH WAS A STOCK BROKER HERE IN LETHBRIDGE. THAT’S HOW HE MADE MOST OF HIS MONEY, WAS WITH STOCKS. HE WAS A VERY, VERY SMART MAN, BUT HE ONLY SAID HE HAD A GRADE THREE EDUCATION. THAT WOULD BE ABOUT RIGHT IF HE CAME OVER IN 89, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 9 YEARS OLD, IN YOUR RECORDS, AND HE WOULD BE GRADE 3-ISH. THAT’S POSSIBLE. HE ALWAYS STRESSED EDUCATION. HE’S SAY “I ONLY HAD GRADE 3 AND I COULD HAVE DONE MORE IF I HAD HAD MORE” BUT, HE DID A LOT MORE WITH HIS LIFE. HE WAS A GREAT COOK, A CHEF! BASICALLY A CHEF. HE WAS A GREAT CHEF. I BELIEVE HE WAS PROBABLY SELF TRAINED. HE WOULD MAKE A LOT OF FANCY THINGS. MOST OF MY STUFF WAS JUST TALKING WITH GRANDMA AND GRANDPA BECAUSE I WAS OVER THERE ALL THE TIME. IT WAS JUST THE STORIES. BUT I REALLY HADN’T READ MUCH ABOUT HIM. [HE DIDN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES IN THE WAR] I JUST REMEMBER HIM SAYING AT ONE TIME THAT AFRICA WAS A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND HE ALWAYS SAID THAT WAR WAS A TERRIBLE THING, BUT HE WOULD NEVER REALLY TALKED THAT MUCH ABOUT IT. I JUST REMEMBER HIM SAYING THAT AFRICA WAS A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND THAT WAR WAS A TERRIBLE THING. THAT SURPRISED ME WHEN I WENT INTO THE ARCHIVES, WITH THE MEDICAL AND THE WHOLE THING, AND “22 YEARS AND ONE MONTH, MAY? NO, THAT WASN’T QUITE RIGHT.” I SAW THAT AND THOUGHT “HMM.” I DID FIND THAT IT WAS QUITE INTERESTING AND I DIDN’T REALIZE, BUT I BELIEVE I DID REMEMBER GRANDPA SAYING THAT IT WAS LORD STRATHCONA‘S OWN UNIT, AND I GUESS I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANT BY THAT, AND THEN THAT IT SAID THAT HE FUNDED THE WHOLE UNIT, AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS DIFFERENT AND THEN ABOUT THEIR STETSONS AND THE RCMP DRESSED IN BOOTS RIGHT NOW AND ARE THE EXACT SAME ONE OR REPLICAS OF THOSE DESIGNED FOR THE LORD STRATHCONA HORSE. [I DO] REMEMBER SEEING THE HAT, I THINK I REMEMBER SEEING IT. IT WAS IN A HAT BOX. I REMEMBER, GRANDMA OR GRANDPA HAD IT IN SOME SORT OF HAT BOX. I REMEMBER SEEING IT AND THINKING “OOH WOW IT LOOKS LIKE A COWBOY HAT.” I HADN’T SEEN IT FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND I WOULD’VE SEEN IT JUST WHEN I DON’T KNOW 10 OR 12 YEARS OLD THEN AND I DON’T REMEMBER SEEING IT AFTER THAT. I DO REMEMBER WHERE IT WAS KEPT, THEY HAD A BIG HOUSE AND UPSTAIRS THERE WERE BEDROOMS AND WHATNOT. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE HOUSES THAT HAD AN ATTIC AND YOU WENT UP THESE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS INTO THE ATTIC, AND I REMEMBER IT WAS UP THERE. AND WHETHER US KIDS FOUND IT OR WHETHER MY BROTHER AND I FOUND IT OR WHETHER I WAS UP THERE WITH MY GRANDMA SOMETIME AND SHE SHOWED IT TO ME, I DON’T KNOW. BUT I DO REMEMBER IT WAS UP IN THE ATTIC. IT SEEMED TO ME, AND I COULD BE WRONG, BUT IT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN THE BOER WAR THING, BUT IT SEEMED TO ME HE HAD WHAT I WOULD CALL THE GUN HOLSTER THING WITH THE STRAP BUT I DON’T KNOW WHETHER THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FROM THE BOER WAR. IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT HELD A GUN, NOT THAT THE PISTOL WAS THERE BUT JUST THAT IT WAS THERE. I DON’T KNOW IF IT WAS SOMETHING FROM THE BOER WAS OR THAT HE HAD GOT IT FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE. WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN NEAT IT IF WAS TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. MAYBE BY THEN IT HAD ROTTED, I DON’T KNOW. IT SEEMED TO ME THERE WAS SOME SORT OF GUN HOLDER, NOT THE COWBOY KIND, BUT SOMETHING WITH A STRAP. I CAN’T GIVE YOU MANY STORIES ABOUT IT BECAUSE GRANDPA DIDN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT IT, THAT HE HAD BEEN THERE, BUT THAT’S ABOUT IT. IN FACT, I DON’T THINK WE EVEN KNEW ABOUT THAT FOR A LONG TIME, IT WAS JUST NEVER MENTIONED ESPECIALLY WITH US KIDS. BUT I THINK PROBABLY AS WE GOT OLDER, MY BROTHER AND I WOULD ASK HIM IF HE HAD EVER BEEN IN A WAR, YOU KNOW, AS KIDS’DO, THAT IS PROBABLY WHEN HE DID MENTION IT. AND WE PROBABLY WERE A BIT MORE SNOOPY AND PROBABLY ASKED MORE QUESTIONS. I KNOW HE WASN’T IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. OF COURSE BY THEN HE WOULD’VE BEEN SIXTY YEARS OLD. NO, I KNOW HE WASN’T BECAUSE AT THAT TIME, HIS WIFE HAD ALREADY DIED AND HE ALREADY HAD THREE YOUNG CHILDREN AND VERY LIKELY WHY HE WASN’T, CAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE DIED, I THINK SHE DIED IN 1912 AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1902 I THINK. SHE DIED IN 1912, YEAH, AND THEY HAD THREE LITTLE KIDS. SO I’M THINKING VERY LIKELY THAT’S WHY HE WASN’T. HE REMARRIED IN ‘16, MY GRANDMA, IN 1916. SO THAT’S VERY LIKELY I PRESUME THAT’S WHY HE WASN’T AND HE WAS THE ONLY ONE THERE TO RAISE THE KIDS AND TAKE CARE OF WHATEVER IT WAS, THE COALMINE OR THE CATTLE DOWN THERE. BUT I KNOW HE WAS NOT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. I’M JUST PRESUMING THAT THAT WOULD BE THE REASON THAT… I’M NOT SURE. [GRANDPA] WAS A TEASER. AND HE HAD THIS THING ABOUT, YOU HAD TO… IT’S VIVID IN MY MIND. YOU HAD TO WALK WITH YOUR HEAD UP. NOW THIS WAS, I MEAN, IF MY BROTHER AND I, AND HE SAW US, WE COULD BE WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL OR DRESSED UP TO GO, OR DRESSED UP TO GO SOMEWHERE WITH MUM AND DAD, AND IF HE SAW US WALKING ON THE STREET AND WE WERE WALKING WITH OUR HEAD DOWN, IF HE HAPPENED TO BE WATERING HIS FLOWERS WITH A HOSE YOU GOT IT! YOU COULD BE … “STAND UP STRAIGHT!” YOU KNOW, MY MOM USED TO GET QUITE UPSET. US, WE’D JUST BE READY TO GO SOMEWHERE AND WE’D BE WALKING AROUND SLOUCHING LIKE KID’S DO AND YOU GOT SQUIRTED WITH THE HOSE IF NEED BE! NO, HE WAS A GREAT GRANDPA AND HE’S VERY WELL KNOWN AT THE TIME. HE PLAYED SANTA CLAUS AND EVERY CHRISTMAS EVE FROM THE TIME I CAN REMEMBER HE WENT TO ST MICHAEL’S HOSPITAL, CHRISTMAS EVE, AS SANTA CLAUS FOR THE KIDS. HE DID THAT EVERY YEAR; I CAN NEVER REMEMBER HIM NOT DOING IT. HE HAD A SPECIAL SANTA CLAUS OUTFIT AND IT WAS LIKE A REAL AUTHENTIC, AND GRANDPA WAS BUILT FOR A BIG SANTA CLAUS. AND UH, THAT WAS HIS THING. CHRISTMAS EVE HE SPENT AT ST MICHAEL’S HOSPITAL BEING SANTA CLAUS TO THE PATIENTS. AND GRANDMA WAS A NURSE AT ST. MICHAEL’S HOSPITAL. SO UH, YEAH, IT’S ODD GRANDMA WAS A NURSE THERE. AND ACTUALLY SHE TOOK HER TRAINING HERE. SHE’S GOT QUITE A HISTORY. IN 19- I THINK SHE CAME OVER… SHE GRADUATED IN 1916, SHE CAME OVER FROM ENGLAND, THERE WAS UH, ONLY FOUR OR SIX OF THEM WENT AND SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO LASTED AND HER PICTURE IS AT THE HOSPITAL, THE REGIONAL HOSPITAL AS THE ONLY GRADUATE OF 1916 AND SHE CAME OVER FROM ENGLAND HERSELF, SHE MUST’VE HAD QUITE THE TIME INTERPRETING ……. SHE CAME OVER WITH AN OLDER BROTHER AND I THINK SHE WAS LIKE ONLY SIXTEEN WHEN SHE WENT INTO NURSING HERE AND I GUESS IT WAS VERY, VERY RIGOROUS TRAINING HERE. AND SHE STUCK IT OUT. SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE CLASS WHO GRADUATED THAT YEAR. AND HER PICTURE’S ALL BY ITSELF, RIGHT AT THE END OF THE ROW AT THE REGIONAL HOSPITAL. THEN SHE WENT TO TAKE CARE OF…. WHILE SHE WAS IN TRAINING, BEFORE SHE FINISHED, SHE WAS TAKING CARE OF UM, RICHARD, SOMEHOW, SHE WAS TAKING CARE OF THE KIDS’ GRANDPA PART TIME, AND WHEN SHE GRADUATED THEN THEY GOT MARRIED IN 1916. [MY GRANDPARENTS] LIVED RIGHT NEXT DOOR. WE LIVED RIGHT NEXT DOOR FROM THE TIME I WAS BORN APPARENTLY. MY PARENTS USED TO LIVE IN THE BEDROOMS; A LITTLE APARTMENT, UPSTAIRS WHEN MY BROTHER WAS BORN AND I THINK IT WAS EITHER RIGHT AFTER I WAS BORN OR JUST BEFORE, THEY MOVED TO THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR, AND UH, BOUGHT THE HOUSE. SO I GREW UP NEXT DOOR. NO, UH, THEY WERE REALLY SPECIAL GRANDPARENTS, REALLY GREAT. SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH THEM. GOT SPOILED BY THEM, BUT THAT’S OKAY TOO. BUT GRANDPA WAS UH. HE DIDN’T SMILE MUCH, GRANDPA, WASN’T-. IN ALL THESE PICTURES, MIND YOU THEY WERE ALL LIKE THAT, EVEN IN THE FAMILY ONES. GRANDPA WASN’T A BIG SMILER, BUT HE HAD A VERY DRY SENSE OF HUMOUR. AND, UH, YOU NEVER KNEW QUITE HOW TO TAKE GRANDPA WHEN HE WOULD. AND IF HE WAS UPSET WITH YOU YOU’D KNOW IT TOO. BUT NO, HE WAS A GOOD GRANDPA. HE’D LET YOU KNOW. AND WE SPENT A LOT-. HE CARRIED ON A LOT OF THE ENGLISH TRADITIONS, LIKE CHRISTMAS DINNER AT MY GRANDMA AND GRANDPA’S HOUSE NEXT DOOR. THE TURKEY WAS ALWAYS BROUGHT IN, SET BEFORE HIM, THE WHOLE TURKEY, AND HE CARVED IT FROM THERE. THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING WAS BROUGHT IN FLAMING WITH BRANDY; YOU KNOW HOW THEY’D LIGHT IN ON FIRE. IT WAS ALWAYS A BIG THING FOR US KIDS WHEN THEY CAME IN WITH THAT. HE KEPT A LOT OF THE ENGLISH TRADITIONS, HE DID. JUST, THAT’S ALL I CAN REALLY TELL YOU ABOUT HIM. HE LIVED QUITE A LIFE I THINK. DID A LOT OF THINGS. AND LIKE I SAY, HE REALLY WAS A SELF-MADE MAN BECAUSE HE DIDN’T HAVE THE EDUCATION, AND HE WORKED, HE WAS A HARD WORKER. HE WORKED HIS WAY UP AND TAUGHT HIMSELF AN AWFUL LOT. I CAN REMEMBER ONCE, CAUSE I WAS WITH GRANDMA AND WE WERE GOING UP TO JAMES RICHARDSON’S WHICH IS YOU KNOW, AT THAT TIME HE’D HAVE ALL THE TICKER TAPES COMING’ THROUGH. AND HE’D SIT THERE FOR HOURS AND HE KNEW STOCKS LIKE YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE. HE COULD RECITE OFF…. HE BOUGHT A LOT, SOLD A LOT, DID WELL ON I THINK MOST OF THE STUFF. YEAH, THAT’S ABOUT ALL I CAN TELL YOU. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE.

Catalogue Number

P19694052000

Acquisition Date

1969-06

Collection

Museum

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