MIRROR, HAND

Description: YELLOW MARBLED PLASTIC HAND MIRROR WITH BROWN PLASTIC EDGING. MIRROR GLASS IS BEVELED ALONG EDGE AND OVAL IN SHAPE. 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: DONOR RELATES THAT MIRROR BELONGED TO HER MOTHER, LOIS, WHO WAS VERY CONSCIOUS OF HER APPEARANCE. MIRROR IS MENTIONED IN DONOR'S NOVEL "OBASAN". THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.