NAMEPLATE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- GLASS, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19960000001
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- GLASS, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 11.8
- Length
- 34.1
- Width
- 1.4
- Description
- GLASS NAMEPLATE WITH WOOD FRAME. RECTANGULAR WOOD FRAME IS DARK FINISHED WOOD HELD IN DOVETAIL CORNERS. ENDS OF FRAMES HAVE SINGLE LOOPED SCREW EACH FOR HANGING. FLAT GLASS PANE IS HELD IN FRAME BY NAILS SUNK INTO BACK OF FRAME. GLASS HAS GOLD COLORED SILVERING TO MAKE DULL MIRROR. DULL FINISHED AREA AT MIDDLE IS EMBOSSED ON MIRROR WITH "DR. A.A. HAIG" IN CENTER. BACK OF GLASS IS PAINTED BLACK. FRAME AND GLASS HAVE WHITE PAINT SPLATTERS. BACK OF MIRROR ALSO HAS A NUMBER OF SMALL SCRATCHES, AS DOES WOOD FRAME.
- Subjects
- DOCUMENTARY ARTIFACT
- Historical Association
- HEALTH SERVICES
- History
- DR. ARTHUR A. HAIG WAS BORN IN DEVIL'S LAKE, NORTH DAKOTA AND MOVED TO CLARESHOLM IN 1902. HE THEN ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA AND THEN MCGILL UNIVERSITY GRADUATING IN 1926. HE SET UP PRACTICE IN LETHBRIDGE IN 1928 AND WAS JOINED BY HIS BROTHER WILLIAM IN 1934. DR. HAIG THEN FOUNDED THE HAIG CLINIC IN 1939 WITH OTHER LOCAL DOCTORS. DR. HAIG PRACTICED IN LETHBRIDGE MOST OF HIS LIFE UNTIL HE DIED NOV. 14, 1986. THIS ARTIFACT WAS DISCOVERED IN THE CONSERVATION LAB OF THE MUSEUM WITHOUT DOCUMENTATION OR OTHER ASSOCIATIONS. IT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED INTO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION BY THE ACCESSION COMMITTEE.
- Catalogue Number
- P19960000001
- Acquisition Date
- 1996-01
- Collection
- Museum
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