Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.082.001 |
Object Name |
Wagon, Child's |
Title |
Child's Pull Wagon Made by George Rice |
Date |
c. 1940 |
Year Range from |
1939 |
Year Range to |
1945 |
Artist |
Rice, George |
Made |
Rice, George |
Place of Origin |
Massie, Township of Chatsworth, Grey County |
Description |
A red and black painted wooden and metal child's pull wagon. It has four factory-made pressed metal replacement wheels (with rubber tires on them) that were added. The maker, George Rice, likely also made the wooden components (he had a woodworking department at his shop). There are square nuts and convex-headed bolts used in the construction. Horizontal rods reinforce the front and back ends of the inner wagon bed. The bent metal grip is painted black. The wagon is steerable. |
Provenance |
Made c. 1939-1940, by George Rice (b.1892-d.1964), a blacksmith in the village of Massie, in Holland Township, Grey County. Belonged to/used by J. W. (Jim) Henry, who later became a son-in-law of George and Jessie Rice. When Jim acquired the item, he was a pupil at the S.S. No. 12 Holland school, and was a resident of the Walter's Falls area of Holland Township. He last owned the item in Pickering, Ontario. |
Collection |
Transportation, Human Powered |
Material |
Wood/Metal/Rubber/Paint |
Dimensions |
H-56 cm |
Found |
Pickering, Ontario |
People |
Rice, George Henry, J. W. (Jim) |
Subjects |
Boys Children playing outdoors Blacksmithing Blacksmiths Woodworking Transportation World War II |
Search Terms |
Massie Holland Township Walter's Falls |
Function |
A child's wagon, made by a Grey County blacksmith, George Rice, who incorporated factory-made wheels with his iron and wood wagon. This wagon belonged to a boy who lived in a rural area of Grey County. When the Second World War started in 1939, it soon became harder to acquire factory-made toys and other manufactured goods. Children were often participants in scrap drives or the collection of milkweed fibre to help make life vests for the war effort. It is not known yet what the boy used his wagon for. |