Lighthouse

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All material is in English.
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2011 December 8
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File
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2011 December 8
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2011 December 8
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W: 6.1 cm

L: 5.4 cm

H: 15.2 cm

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conservation priority: needs no work

curatorial priority: needed in future for exhibit or loan

potential threat to collection: traces of battery acid that could not be removed

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- original file number: 021

- examiner: M. McMillan

- purchased at the 'Silver Sheep' in Orillia, ON

- 3 AG3 batteries were removed from housing and discarded; 2 batteries had leaked releasing the alkaline (manganese dioxide) contents into the housing; when opened, alkaline acid had effloresced in the housing at one end and remained in a liquid state on inside of housing cover

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2011-072-009
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Algoma University Archive
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Keith Miller Collection of the S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald
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009
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