Artifacts - Crib Cot

Item set

Items

Advanced search
  • Brian Logie describes being hosed down in a crib cot as punishment.
  • This is a second love letter sent to Evelyn by the father of another resident. This letter was given to his daughter to pass on to Evelyn. The man tells Evelyn about land he has rented for them. A note on the letter possibly written by an institution attendant states that the letter was found in the bottom of the daughter's cot.
  • Two pictures from museum exhibit. Text: Inclusion for All. 1. Crib cage in the Ontario Hospital School, Orillia, 1971. The residential facility for people with developmental disabilities was sued for mistreating patients. The Globe and Mail, photograph by Barrie Davis. 2. Lawyer Yvonne Peters and other activists demonstrating for disability rights in Ottawa, 1980. Two years later, disability rights were recognized in the Constitution of Canada. The Canadian Press, photograph by Fred Chartrand.
  • Page from Cindy Scott's scrapbook, produced in Recounting Huronia workshops: human forms with hamster and rabbit heads holding hands in a crib cot.
  • Page from Cindy Scott's scrapbook, produced in Recounting Huronia workshops: rabbit parts and a story about a child in a crib cot.
  • Front view of metal baby crib on casters with white bars across its top. Front door pulled down. Rust-red mattress pad. Second crib cot in background, with mint green mattress. White woman standing in the background.
  • Three cribs. Two crib cots in side view are have metal bars on casters with white bars across its top. Left crib cot has a rust-red mattress pad. Right crib cot has mint green mattress pad. Front view of third crib in foreground is smaller with white bars and cream and blue striped mattress pad. Head and base boards slope at corners.
  • White hand holding metal crib bar. Mint green and blue and cream striped mattress pads in background.
  • Close-up side view of crib cot. Five vertical running metal bars in front of a thin mint green mattress pad. The photograph was taken as if sitting inside the crib cot.
  • Navy blue and cream mattress tag with an image of a crawling smiling baby. The tag reads: "H.S.C. Crib Mattress by Simmons Limited."
  • Front view of crib with white metal bars on casters. Cream and blue striped mattress pad. Head and base boards slope at corners.
  • A white man in profile with wire glasses, in vest and orange shirt. He is standing to the right of a white metal crib with bars, on casters. Blue and cream striped mattress. Larger metal crib cots on background.
  • Mid-range shot of a white woman with close cropped hair, red glasses, and black jacket. She is holding the metal bar to a crib cot with a mint green mattress pad.
  • Close-up view of crib cot. Six horizontal running metal bars. Drop down ceiling and florescent light in background. The photograph was taken as if sitting inside the crib cot looking up.
  • Crib with white metal bars on casters. Cream and blue striped mattress pad. Head and base boards slope at corners.
  • Cream and blue striped mattress pad with white stitching and buttons, in crib with white metal bars.
  • Close-up shot of crib with white metal bars. Cream and blue striped mattress pad.
  • An audio clip of Cindy Scott describing her experiences with the crib cots while touring the HRC artifact room.