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Fan

Opened hand-held fan with floral design made with blue paper

Date: 1916
Credit: Chilliwack Museum and Archives, 1988.027.005

Paper and ivory fan hand painted with floral design. This fan was given to employer Midred Farrow (nee Wells; 1976-1964) as part of a collection of handkerchiefs and fans by a domestic worker named Fong.

The fan was later used by Margaret E. Farrow (1913-1999) in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opereta “The Mikado,” presented in the Chilliwack United Church Hall in 1936.