BLENDER
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- STEEL, ALUMINU, PLASTIC, RUBBER
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041529
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- STEEL, ALUMINU, PLASTIC, RUBBER
- No. Pieces
- 3
- Height
- 35
- Diameter
- 19
- Description
- BLENDER IS MADE UP OF THREE PARTS: MOTOR BASE, PLASTIC PITCHER AND BLACK RUBBER LID. BASE IS CIRCULAR IN SHAPE WITH "PHILIPS AUTO BLENDER" LOGO ON TOP LEDGE. BOTTOM HAS "MODEL KB 5402" STAMPED INTO IT WITH MANUFACTURE INFO AND PATENT INFORMATION. PITCHER IS CLEAR PLASTIC PITCHER WITH GRADUATED MEASURING NUMBERS RAISED ON SIDES AND ALUMINUM COLLAR ON BOTTOM. LID IS CIRCULAR RUBBER WITH MILKY PLASTIC CENTER/HANDLE.
- Subjects
- FOOD PROCESSING T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- BLENDER WAS A HOUSEHOLD ITEM USED BY DONOR'S FAMILY. DONOR RELATES THAT HER FATHER USED IT LATER IN LIFE TO BLEND FOOD FOR HER MOTHER WHO HAD GONE SENILE. 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.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041529
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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