RADIO
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- PLASTIC, RUBBER, LEATHERETTE
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041558
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- PLASTIC, RUBBER, LEATHERETTE
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 12.4
- Length
- 19
- Width
- 7.1
- Description
- RECTANGULAR RADIO HAS BROWN LEATHERETTE COVERING AROUND BODY, LEATHER HANDLE HINGED ON TOP AND PLASTIC FRONT WITH IMITATION HORIZONTAL WOOD SLATTING. RIGHT SIDE OF FRONT HAS TWO DIALS AND "STRAUSS" PRINTED BETWEEN THEM. BACK OPENS TO BATTERY UNIT AND ALSO HAS BLACK RUBBER COVERED POWER CORD. LEATHERETTE IS DRY, WORN AND PEELING ALONG EDGES.
- Subjects
- TELECOMMUNICATION T&E
- Historical Association
- HOME ENTERTAINMENT
- History
- RADIO BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA. 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
- P19970041558
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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