TOWEL, DISH
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041700
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.2
- Length
- 82.5
- Width
- 36.5
- Description
- RECTANGULAR WHITE COTTON CLOTH WITH LONG EDGES FOLDED AND SEWN. FADED LOGO IS STILL VISIBLE. SIMPLE PINK THREAD EMBROIDERED SYMBOLS ARE IN ONE CORNER.
- Subjects
- MAINTENANCE T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- TOWEL WAS MADE BY DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA, EITHER FROM A RICE BAG OR A FLOUR BAG. 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
- P19970041700
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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