Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Commemorative
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Classification
Commemorative
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Accession Number
010020046
Description
Commemorative plaque given by the Alberta Dental Association; engraved brass plate mounted on wooden base by four small screws in corners; orange metal attachment and silver metal attachment on back to mount plaque on wall
Commemorative plaque given by the Alberta Dental Association; engraved brass plate mounted on wooden base by four small screws in corners; orange metal attachment and silver metal attachment on back to mount plaque on wall
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa).
Engraved on front: "50 // C. MONTAGUE SNOW //as a token of // Honor and Congratulations // From // The Alberta Dental Association // on the occasion of // Fifty Years of practice // 1916-1966"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-C7-4
Dimension Notes
Length 22.7 cm x Width 17.8 cm x Depth 2.2 cm
Condition Remarks
Some scratches on metal; metal is slightly loosened from wood; wood worn at edges
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Reference Comments
J. Diane Snow
Research Facts
Dr Ralph and Mrs Olga Crawford donated their extensive Canadian dental collection to the DCF to create the museum in 1997; further donations were received while Dr Crawford was Curator Emeritus at the Dental Canada Museum until its closure in 2008; this item was donated by J. Diane Snow from Vancouver, British Columbia and was originally owned by her father Dr. Cecil Montague Snow; who was an itinerant dentist from 1929-1942 in rural Saskatchewan, after which he settled in Calgary, Alberta; he graduated from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland in 1916.