Button collection, uniform
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- OBJECT TYPE
- airline/uniform
- DATE
- 1938–1953
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2003.0349.001
- MANUFACTURER
- SCULLY, WILLIAM LTD.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- silver metal buttons/ paper/ cardboard backing
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 16.5 cm
- Width
- 11.5 cm
- Height
- 2.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Clothing
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- SCULLY
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- City
- Montreal
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Never used
- Canada
-
Trans Canada Airlines (TCA) was formed by the Canadian National Railways. They launched their first flight on September 1, 1937, between Vancouver and Seattle. Throughout the next 25 years, TCA became Canada's national airline, and on January 1, 1965, TCA changed their name to Air Canada. - Function
-
Full set of silver TCA buttons for flight attendant's uniforms dating from October 1938 to June 1953. The buttons are for front of jacket. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Black stylized print on reads: "William Scully/ Limited/ Button & Military Ornament Manufacturer/ GOLD LACEMAN AND EMBROIDERER/ 1202 UNIVERSITY STREET/ MONTREAL"/
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Silver buttons wrapped in paper/ Black stylized print on top of paper
- Decoration
- Embossed TCA logo
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SCULLY, WILLIAM LTD., Button collection, uniform, between 1938–1953, Artifact no. 2003.0349, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/2003.0349.001/
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