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Metadata
Object ID # |
1994.032.001 |
Object Name |
Trunk, Document |
Title |
George Snider's Document Trunk (pre-1878) |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Date |
pre-1878 |
Year Range from |
1867 |
Year Range to |
1885 |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Canada |
Description |
Member of Parliament's leather-bound document trunk, 19th-c, pre-1878 (as its owner ceased being a M.P. that year). It is a wood and leather trunk with metal banding, and leather strap handles on two sides. It was designed to be lockable, but the key is no longer extant. The leather has linear X-shaped designs in margin lines. |
Provenance |
Belonged to George Snider, [b.1813-d.1885], a Member of Parliament, who resided in Owen Sound, Grey County. He used it to store and carry his papers in, so it may have travelled back and forth to Ottawa. He served three terms as a Reformer Member of Parliament for North Grey (1867-1878). Last owned by Murray Glenmore Wilkinson of Owen Sound who inherited the trunk from his father, F. C. Wilkinson (Charles Frederick Wilkinson). Murray's mother's mother (Emily Elizabeth Snider Moore), was a niece of George and Jane Snider. |
Collection |
Personal Gear |
Material |
Leather/Wood/Metal |
Dimensions |
H-13 W-14.5 L-27 inches |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Snider, George Wilkinson, Murray Wilkinson, F. C. |
Subjects |
Politicians Members of Parliament |
Function |
Small document trunk (used for storing and carrying papers) |