MODEL-STEAM ENGINE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1890
- Date Range To
- 1900
- Materials
- STEEL, NICKEL PLATE, BRASS, IRON
- Catalogue Number
- P19651970000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1890
- Date Range To
- 1900
- Materials
- STEEL, NICKEL PLATE, BRASS, IRON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 14.6
- Length
- 15.0
- Width
- 13.6
- Description
- "WEEDEN TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. O55" EMBOSSED ON BRASS BOILER TANK. RED IRON STAND. CONSERVATION REPORT ON FILE.
- Subjects
- ENERGY PRODUCTION T&E
- TOY
- Historical Association
- LEISURE
- TRANSPORTATION
- History
- DONOR, A FORMER C.P.R. CONDUCTOR. SEE ALSO P19640152000-GA, FOR EXAMPLE OF MODEL MADE BY DONOR. REF. MONTGOMERY WARD CATALOG 1894-5. UPDATE: ON 12 MARCH 2019, MUSEUM STAFF WERE CONTACTED BY EMAIL BY JOAN (BOUCK) PATENAUDE – THE GREAT NIECE OF OBJECT DONOR ELMER R. MCINTOSH. ACCORDING TO PATENAUDE, HER GREAT UNCLE WAS A FORMER CPR CONDUCTOR, RUNNING TRAINS OUT OF LETHBRIDGE. IN HER EMAIL, SHE WROTE, “ELMER WAS A GREAT COLLECTOR OF ALL THINGS…WHEN HE PASSED AWAY MY DAD DONATED [ELMER’S COLLECTED] ITEMS TO BOTH THE GALT IN LETHBRIDGE AND THE GLENBOW IN CALGARY. I WAS ABOUT 12-13 YEARS OF AGE WHEN…I REMEMBER MY DAD DISPOSING OF HIS COLLECTION OF ITEMS.” PATENAUDE ALSO STATED THAT HER FAMILY IS RELATED TO THE HISTORIC JOHN MCINTOSH (1777-1845) WHO GREW AND PROMOTED THE FAMOUS MCINTOSH RED APPLE. ELMER IS JOHN MCINTOSH’S GREAT-GRANDSON BY WAY OF JOHN’S SON ALLEN (1815-1899.
- Catalogue Number
- P19651970000
- Acquisition Date
- 1965-09
- Collection
- Museum
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