100-Year-Old Drake Family Cradle, 1967
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives164269
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- R4 S6 Sh5 B1 F49
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Creator
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R4 S6 Sh5 B1 F49
- GMD
- graphic material
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1967
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- One black and white photograph used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published December 18, 1967, with caption:
- "100-year-old cradle - Six-weeks-old Marianne Denise Drake, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Drake of RR 8, St. Thomas, rocks and sleeps in a handmade wooden cradle made by her great-great-grandfather Joel Overbough about 100 years ago. The use of the cradle, which has been in storage for 50 years, is a centennial gesture. Rocking the baby are, from left, her grandmother, Mrs. Keith Drake, of RR 8, St. Thomas (Mapleton), and her mother, Mrs. Charles Drake." (49)
- Article, St. Thomas Times-Journal, published April 25, 1970,"Marianne Drake Slumbers in 100-Year-Old Cradle". (R4_S6_Sh5_B1_F49)
- Name Access
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Drake (family)
- Subject Access
- Newspapers
Documents
Images
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