标题和责任声明版块
正题名
Canadian Pacific Railway Company artifacts
总体资料名称
并列标题
其他标题信息
标题 责任声明
标题说明
描述层级
Subseries
参考代码
版本版块
版本声明
版本责任声明
资料细节等级版块
比例说明(地图的)
投影说明(地图的)
坐标说明(地图的)
比例说明(建筑的)
发行方管辖权和名称 (集邮的)
创建日期版块
日期
物理描述版块
物理描述
出版社连续出版物版块
出版社连续出版物的正题名
出版社连续出版物的并列标题
出版社连续出版物的其他标题信息
与出版社连续出版物相关的责任声明
出版社连续出版物编号
对出版社连续出版物的说明
文献著录版块
创建者名称
保管历史
范围和内容
Subseries consists of artefacts collected from Canadian Pacific trains, ships, and hotels, such as furniture and dinnerware with unique designs manufactured for use by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. This subseries also includes items produced by the C.P.R. to be sold to passengers as souvenirs. Many of the artefacts in this subseries were retrieved from the bottom of the ocean, such as a newel post from the steamship Empress of Japan, salvaged after the ship was scrapped in the Burrard Inlet, and dishware discarded by C.P.R. steamship kitchen staff too tired to finish washing up at the end of the night, salvaged by a scuba diver in the 1970s and 1980s. A highlight of this subseries is the shipbuilder's model of the steamship Empress of Asia, originally built in 1913 and purchased by Dr. Chung in 1993; the model was very damaged and was painstakingly restored by Dr. Chung over the next six years.
These artefacts are incredibly varied and include ceramic dinnerware and vessels produced for daily use on board C.P.R. ships, such as plates, teacups, soup bowls, egg cups, serving dishes, chamber pots, and wash basins; silverware marked with C.P.R. designs, such as serving dishes, trays, teapots, platters, pitchers, butter dishes, and a full range of flatware; glassware such as drinking glasses, water carafes, and vases; and furnishings, such as a ship’s chart table, firehose nozzles, signage, oil lamps, wool blankets, a trunk, and railway station clocks. Souvenirs found among this subseries are equally varied and include tableware and flatware, postcards, playing cards, luggage stickers, letter openers, cuff links, bars of soap, a passport from 1925, and a section of a steel rail from the original Canadian Pacific Railway. Also included are a small number of items from Canadian Pacific staff uniforms, such as hat badges and buttons.