Some damage to matting, especially on the back. There is also significant water damage to the image. There are two brads in the matting (one on the left edge, one on the right edge). The brads are connected to a red ribbon likely used to hang the photograph.
Custodial History
Kay Sullivan gave the photograph to Fred McGuinness in August 2007.
Scope and Content
Photograph was taken from the riverbank and shows the suspension foot-bridge in Souris, MB. A number of buildings, both commerial and possibly residential, can be seen on the far side of the river.
The Old Brandon Gun Club was located on 6th Street south of the Canadian National tracks. In a note to Fred McGuinness, Bill Love shares a story about how children trapped pigeons for the glun from stables and church belfries. The birds were later used for pigeon pie.
Custodial History
Photograph given to Fred McGuinness by Bill Love/Lowe?
Scope and Content
Photograph shows large group of men posing with their shotguns in front of a hunting blind or shed. The moustached man kneeling at the end of the second row, right-hand side, wearing a bowler hat has been identified as the grandfather of Bill Love (possibly William D. Love).
Photograph shows a baby being pushed in a stroller. A Livery Feed and Stable can be seen in the background.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: taken Aug 14-21 at Virden, Man. 6 1/2 mo old. weight (still gaining). Mrs. Bridgett giving him an early morning stroll thinking he would go to sleep?
Photograph shows the McGuinness family in laying in the grass. Baby Fred McGuinness lays before his mother, Isabella Louisa McGuinness, and his three older sisters Mary, Dorreene, and Ruth.
Photograph shows a young Fred McGuinness standing on the running board of an automobile. He is wearing a sailor costume with a hat that reads H.M.S. Natal?
Photograph shows a young Fred McGuinness wearing a three-piece suit and gadsby cap as he stands in front of the lilac bushes in front of his family home.
Photograph shows a number of snapshots of the McGuinness family. Members include: Fred's grandmother Mary Darroch; Fred's parents Isabella Louisa and William Frederick McGuinness; Fred's sisters Mary, Ruth, Dorreene, Orma, and Carol, and the McGuinness home at 337 - 17th Street.
On 23 September 1940, McGuinness was seriously injured in a naval accident when his ship ran aground; McGuinness’ leg was broken when the ship’s tow cable snapped and he spent the next 11 months convalescing at Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. While in hospital McGuinness contracted scarlet fever and diphtheria and developed osteomyelitis as a complication of his femur facture. McGuinness returned to Winnipeg to continue his convalescence at Deer Lodge Hospital and was ultimately discharged from the navy in 1941.
Scope and Content
Photograph shows Fred McGuinness in traction in a hospital bed, possibly at Camp Hill Hospital.