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Object Description

Object Name

Cylinder Record

Object ID

2013.014.009

Title

Celluloid cylinder, "Voci di Primavera - Valse".

Date

[between 1912 and 1929].

Description

Cylinder record; two parts: 1 celluloid phonograph cylinder (a) and a cylindrical cardboard box/sleeve (b); the record itself is blue in colour; text on the top edge of the cylinder reads: "3282 / Voci di Primavera - Valse. / Vecsey & His Hungarian Orch." and "Thomas A. Edison PATD. 4"; the cylinder is inside of a cylindrical cardboard sleeve (b); there is a small chunk of cardboard missing along the upper edge; the label on the cardboard sleeve is beige, orange and blue; the label reads: "Edison / Blue Amberol / Record", "Trade Mark / Thomas A. Edison / A Product of / The Edison Laboratories" and "3509 -125M-418"; the label also contains patent and price information and a portrait image of Edison; belonged to the family of Ewart Walker.

People/Subject

Walker, Ewart

George Ewart Underwood Walker was born in Scotland in 1911 to parents Mr. and Mrs. George Walker. His family moved to the USA and then Canada around 1925, settling on Glover Road in Milner. He attended Milner Elementary and Langley High School before enrolling in Vancouver Normal School. He was teaching at Milner Elementary when he met his future wife Betty Bowden at the Miss Langley Flower Queen dance (where she was crowned Queen) in 1939; they were engaged in October 1940 and married in Calgary on November 5, 1940. They had two children. He trained at the Vancouver Wireless School and served for five years. In 1944, he returned to Langley and started working as an accountant with the Otter District Farmers' Institute; he retired on December 9, 1972. He was also the superintendent of the Sunday School at St. Alban's Anglican Church at Otter, a Sunday School teacher, and a warden of the church. He passed away at Langley Memorial Hospital on April 3, 1973, and was buried in the Langley Lawn Cemetery.

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