BUTTONHOOK

Description: IVORY HANDLE, STEEL HOOK. UPDATE 19 DECEMBER 2012: THIS OBJECT WAS FOUND TO BE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED DUE TO ITS CELLULOSE NITRATE COMPOSITION IN THE LATE FALL OF 2012. IT AND A HANDFUL OF OTHER OBJECTS SUFFERED CORROSION BECAUSE OF THE OFF GASSING OF NITRIC ACID. THE DETERMINATION OF A CAUSE OF THE CORROSION AND THE SUBSEQUENT TREATMENT OF AFFECTED OBJECTS WAS ASSISTED BY AN AUTHORITY AT THE CANADIAN CONSERVATION INSTITUTE IN OTTAWA. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE OBJECTS’ TREATMENT AND PRE & POST-TREATMENT PHOTOS, PLEASE SEE THIS OBJECT’S PERMANENT FILE.

History: *UPDATE* IN 2017 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF BOXED TEXTILES AND ARTIFACTS IN RELATED LOCATIONS, INCLUDING THIS HAT PIN. IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONTACT NEXT-OF-KIN, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE IMMEDIATE NEXT-OF-KIN ARE DECEASED. LETHBRIDGE HERALD RESEARCH INDICATES THAT HARRY BOWEN WAS MARRIED TO LILLY HOLLAND LATHAM IN 1913. MRS. BOWEN ARRIVED IN LETHBRIDGE FROM HER HOME IN CROWE, ENGLAND – ALSO THE HOME OF HARRY BOWEN’S FATHER – THE DAY BEFORE THE COUPLE’S WEDDING. AFTER THEIR WEDDING, THE COUPLE SETTLED ON BOWEN’S RANCH IN MAGRATH. HARRY AND LILLY BOWEN HAD TWO CHILDREN, LATHAM AND MARJORIE “GRACE”. A NOTICE IN A 1926 EDITION OF THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD STATES HARRY BOWEN WAS ELECTED SCHOOL TRUSTEE FOR THE LENS SCHOOL DISTRICT. ACCORDING TO HER OBITUARY, LILLY BOWEN PASSED AWAY IN 1952 AT 68 YEARS OF AGE. NO OBITUARY WAS FOUND FOR HARRY BOWEN, BUT A NOTE IN THE PERMANENT FILE READS THAT HE WAS DECEASED THE SAME YEAR OF DONATION (1964). PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE P19641223000 FOR MORE INFORMATION.