AID, HEARING
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- STEEL, PLASTIC, PAPER
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041152
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- STEEL, PLASTIC, PAPER
- No. Pieces
- 8
- Height
- 2.6
- Length
- 7.8
- Width
- 9.8
- Description
- .1) CASE. ABOVE DIMENSIONS. RECTANGULAR CARDBOARD BOX WITH SILVER BOTTOM AND DARK BLUE LID. LID HAS SHIELD LOGO WITH CROWN ON TOP AND "Z" AT CENTRE IN SILVER COLOR. .2) HEARING AID. 6.6CM X 4.5CM X 1.7CM RECTANGULAR STAINLESS STEEL POWER UNIT WITH "ZENITH '50-X'" AND "THE ROYALTY OF HEARING" INSCRIBED ON FRONT. POWER UNIT HAS 46.0CM LONG WIRE WITH MOLDED PLASTIC EAR PLUG ATTACHED AT END. .4) BATTERY. 2.8CM (L) X 1.2CM (D) BLUE CYLINDRICAL BATTERY WITH "EVEREADY MERCURY BATTERY" ON LABEL.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL GEAR
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- HEARING AID BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA, WHO BEGAN TO LOSE HER HEARING ABOUT MID-LIFE. LOIS NAKAYAMA (NEE MASUI YAO) WAS FROM JAPAN AND A MISSIONARY TO THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY IN VANCOUVER IN THE 1920'S. SHE MET AND MARRIED G.G. NAKAYAMA IN 1926. REV. NAKAYAMA, AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE IN 1945 AFTER BEING RELOCATED FROM VANCOUVER IN 1942 TO SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. AT COALDALE HE FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041152
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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