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Description: OFFICIAL STUDIO SITTING OF KING GEORGE V IS A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO OF HIM FACING THE CAMERA. WEARING A UNIFORM WITH A MALTESE CROSS TWO STRAND CHAIN AROUND HIS NECK. HE HAS A BEARD AND MUSTACHE. PICTURE SHOWS THE WAIST UP WITH A SOLID BLACK BACKGROUND. HAS BRAIDED TRIM ON SHOULDERS AND ELSEWHERE, HAS A HIGH COLLAR. PHOTO LAYS ON A CREAM COLOURED TEXTURED MAT WHICH ALSO LAYS ON A SLIGHTLY MORE BEIGE MAT WITH LESS DEFINED TEXTURE. FRAME IS WOOD WITH A GILTED INNER LIP AND BLACK OUTER FRAME. FACE OF BLACK FRAME IS SLOPED AND CONCAVE, WITH THE OUTSIDE HAVING A CONCAVE CURVE IN THE MIDDLE WHICH RUNS ALONG THE ENTIRE PERIMETER OF THE PICTURE. BACK IS COVERED WITH BROWN CARDBOARD WHICH HAS HORIZONTAL LINES. APPROXIMATELY ONE-THIRD OF THE WAY DOWN HAS TWO ROUND HOOKS SCREWED INTO EITHER SIDE OF THE FRAME. THESE HAVE A BRASS CORD TWISTED INTO PLACE ON EACH OF THESE TO ACT AS A HANGER. THE BRASS STRING HAS WHITE STRING WRAPPED AROUND IT. CARDBOARD HAS SMALL HOLES AND RIPS. PAINT IS CHIPPED AND FLAKED; SOME WATER MARKS ON PHOTO.

History: PHOTOS HUNG IN THE OLD EATON'S STORE IN LETHBRIDGE. WERE SALVAGED FROM THE DUMP WHEN EATON'S MOVED TO THE PARK PLACE MALL. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. THE FOLLOWING BRIEF HISTORY OF LETHBRIDGE'S EATON'S STORE WAS DEVELOPED WITH INFORMATION FROM GALT ARCHIVES AND LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES FROM THE FALL OF 1988. THE T. EATON COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN TORONTO IN 1869 BY TIMOTHY EATON. THE FIRST LETHBRIDGE EATON'S 'TECO' STORE WAS OPENED IN 1927 IN THE BASEMENT OF THE DOMINION BLOCK ON THE CORNER OF 4 AVENUE AND SIXTH STREET SOUTH. AFTER A FIRE, THE BUILDING WAS RENOVATED AND COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER BY THE EATON'S STORE, WHICH OPERATED IN THAT LOCATION UNDER PERIODIC RENOVATIONS FROM 1929 UNTIL THE OPENING OF THE PARK PLACE MALL IN 1988, IN WHICH EATON'S WAS AN ANCHOR RETAILER. IN 1989 A PORTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE ART COLLECTION WAS TEMPORARILY PUT ON DISPLAY IN THE VACANT EATON'S BUILDING, AND PROPOSALS WERE MADE TO MAKE THE INSTALLATION PERMANENT, BUT EVENTUALLY THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD AND DEMOLISHED TO MAKE WAY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BANK OF MONTREAL BRANCH. IN 1999 THE EATON'S STORE IN PARK PLACE MALL CLOSED JUST PRIOR TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE LARGER T. EATON COMPANY LIMITED. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPIES OF SOURCE MATERIAL.