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OBJECT TYPE: uniform
DATE: 2003
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2003.0235.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Wildland Firefighter Alberta Land & Forest Service
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 2
AKA: shoulder flash
Patents: N/A
General Description: fabric & embroidery thread

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 7.9 cm
Width: 7.6 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Forestry
Category: Fire fighting
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Alberta
Period: Unknown
Canada: Uniform identification badges used by Canadian forestry and forest fire fighting personnel, specifically of Alberta. Wildland firefighting crews include personnel deploying from helicopters and those operating on the ground (Ref. 2).
Function: Identifying patches worn on the uniforms of provincial fire fighting personnel, affixed to a shirt or jacket.
Technical: An example of a machine embroidered fabric badge. For centuries embroidery hand been done by hand, but during the industrial revolution mechanization of the process began. Embroidery machines were designed by 1860, combining in a single machine handloom technology with the existing sewing machine technology, the lock-stitch. The automation was refined in the in the 1970s - early 1980s with automatic, electronically controlled custom embroidered machines developed in Japan. Instead of the instructions being coded on a continuous reel of paper or Mylar(r) tape containing x-y coordinate information in Binary, Fortran or other numeric code to control pantograph movement, the information is now digitized on computer disks. These machines also do the work flat instead of vertically which allows automatic colour changes (Ref. 1).
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: embroidered black lettering reading "WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER/ ALBERTA/ LAND & FOREST/ SERVICE"
Missing: complete
Finish: grey, black, green, re, orange & yellow
Decoration: embroidered black helicopter over fire/ black edging

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Unknown Manufacturer, Badge, before 2003, Artifact no. 2003.0235, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2003.0235.001/

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