RACK

Description: 1. FOLDING RACK WITH FIVE PIECES OF WOOD BOLTED TOGETHER AT CENTRES AND TOPS. FORMS DOUBLE "X", WITH ONE APPENDAGE WHEN FULLY EXTENDED. FOLDING STEEL BAR LOCKS IN CENTRE TO STABILIZE. FOUR SEMI-CIRCULAR NOTCHES ON EITHER SIDE OF EXTENDED ARM. "I.P. HYDE SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS U.S.A." STAMPED INTO SIDE, AND "$3.75" MARKED IN PENCIL. NATURAL, UNFINISHED WOOD; MARRED SURFACE. CORROSION ON CENTER STEEL BAR. 2. IDENTICAL TO 1. OUTER WOOD PIECE NEAR CENTRE STEEL BAR IS CRACKED. WHITE SUBSTANCE ON LOWER END OF OPPOSITE OUTER WOOD PIECE.

History: PURCHASED IN LETHBRIDGE. DONOR MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1918 AS A TAILOR WITH MR. DODD AT A MENS WEAR SAPINA, ON THIRD AVE. SOUTH, ACROSS FROM GALT GARDENS (NICKS MENS WEAR). *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ABOUT THE DONOR, DOUGLAS PRIESTLEY, WAS FOUND IN LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES FROM 1983, 1986, AND 1995. PRIESTLEY WAS BORN IN NEW HAMPTON, ENGLAND IN 1903 AND IMMIGRATED TO CANADA AT AGE 15. HE WORKED AS A TAILOR AT NICK'S MENS WEAR, AND IN HIS LATE 30S BEGAN WORKING AS A PHOTOGRAPHER, EVENTUALLY OPENING HIS OWN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO, PRIESTLEY PHOTO ARTS. PRIESTLEY WAS ALSO AN ACCOMPLISHED MUSICIAN, PLAYING THE BANJO, GUITAR, AND DRUMS IN SOUTHERN ALBERTAN BANDS FOR OVER 60 YEARS, INCLUDING THE KINGS KANADIANS, THE SATELLITES, THE JACK PATEY TRIANON ORCHESTRA, PLINK, PLUNK AND THE PROFESSOR, AND THE OLD GUYS. DOUGLAS PRIESTLEY DIED ON MARCH 16, 1995. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPIES OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT DOUGLAS PRIESTLEY.