CASE, EYEGLASSES
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- STEEL, LEATHERETTE
- Catalogue Number
- P19940040000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- STEEL, LEATHERETTE
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 2
- Length
- 13.5
- Width
- 5.5
- Description
- STEEL HINGED CASE WITH REDDISH BROWN LEATHERETTE COVERING. RECTANGULAR SHAPE WITH ROUNDED ENDS AND CORNERS. INSIDE OF CASE IS LINED WITH BURGUNDY COLORED VELVET. ACROSS BOTTOM FRONT OF CASE IS FOLDED EDGE IN WHICH TO PLACE GLASSES. ACROSS EDGE IN GOLD LETTERING IS "WILKINS & NUTTALL LETHBRIDGE". ON INSIDE OF LID IS CRUSTED WHITE STAIN. LEATHERETTE IS WEARING ALONG EDGES AND CORNERS, AND BADLY ALONG BACK HINGE. HINGE IS SPRING LOADED.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL GEAR
- Historical Association
- PROFESSIONS
- History
- FRANK WILKINS AND FRED NUTTALL WERE EARLY OPTOMETRISTS IN LETHBRIDGE AROUND 1920. IN 1925 THEY WENT INTO PARTNERSHIP AND WERE LOCATED AT 319A 6TH STREET SOUTH. THEY MOVED TO 7TH ST. AND 5TH AVE. SOUTH IN 1947. THEY WERE IN BUSINESS TOGETHER UNTIL 1966.
- Catalogue Number
- P19940040000
- Acquisition Date
- 1994-08
- Collection
- Museum
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