Photograph is mounted on matting, water stained, and ripped in centre.
Scope and Content
Item contains portraits of some of the members of the Class of 1920 as well as a photograph of the Brandon College Building and Clark Hall (taken looking west from approximately 16th Street and Lorne Avenue).
Top Row (L to R): Stella Bolton; Ethel Annie Bolton; Corday Mackay; Adelia Sanford; Jean Ferguson Cameron; and Elizabeth Creig.
Bottom Row (L to R): Orval Earl Calverley; Robert Wellington McBain; David McNaught; Charles Ganong Whidden; Clarence Albert Morgan; David H. Beaubier; Victor Emmanuel Nordlund; Fred E. Howard; and Leonard C. Nelson.
Item contains images of the graduating members of the Class of 1924.
Top Row (L to R): ?; Lilian Evelyn Edmison; Vera Madeline Fielding; Prof. T.M. Dadson (Honorary President); Edythe Isabel Ball; Marjorie Bell McKenzie;and Russel Mayhew Baldwin
Bottom Row (L to R): Leslie Gordon Dorrett; John Morice Maxwell; David Robertson Doig; Clarence E. Cole; Alexander M. Derby; Alexander John Kennedy; Herbert A. Robertson; Floyd Raymond Van Schaick; and Ernest John Church
Item consists of ten portraits of the graduates of the class of 1918. L to R: Reita Wood Bambridge; Duncan Scott McIntyre; Bessie Euphemia Turnbull; Marjorie Alleen Sherrin; Susan Gwendolynn Whidden; D'Arcy George Cook; Ruby Elspeth Margaret McDonald; Jean Marion Avery; Walter White; and Lucy Eleanor Beaubier.
Postcard has two thumb tack holes in its corners, bottom left corner is creased, face of one student is blotted out.
History / Biographical
Central School was situated on Lorne Avenue between 5th Street and 6th Street.
Custodial History
Donated to Fred McGuinness by Allena Strath (nee Coombs).
Scope and Content
Postcard depicts an outdoor class photograph of the 1906-1907 Central School Grade 5? class. The class is posing outside of the school. The girls are wearing dresses and boots. Most of the boys are wearing suits and ties.
Notes
Back of postcard reads: Allena Coombs, 1906-1907. All the students' names are listed. The class teacher is identified as Miss [Nettie?] Harrison.
Donated by John G. Townsend of Seal Rock, Oregon (husband of the late I. McVicar) in December 1963.
Scope and Content
Item consists of portraits of members of Brandon College's Intermediate Piano class, 1911, with a photograph of W.L. Wright (Instructor) in the middle. Students include: L. Smith; I. McVicar; E.M. Moore; F.E. Whitman; and Lina Smith.
Item consists of portraits of the women of Brandon College Class of 1946.
Top Row (L to R): Elizabeth Northcott (Lady Stick), Doreen Clyde, and Christine Coltart.
Bottom Row (L to R): Doreene Fleming, Elaine Campbell, and Elsie Hamilton.
The Brandon Collegiate was built in 1907 and officially opened in 1908. Architect W.A. Elliott designed the building, which was faced with brick from Wisconsin (order 65,000 bricks). Located at 527 Louise Avenue, it ceased to be Brandon Collegiate Institute (BCI) in the summer of 1974. It was renamed New Era School on the recommendation of Marion Pye, who was a teacher at BCI in its last years. The name "New Era" was also the name of the BCI yearbook.
Custodial History
Sent to Fred McGuinness from Martin Kavanagh of Brandon.
Scope and Content
Photograph is an outdoor class picture of Brandon Collegiate Institute students standing on the front steps of the school.
Notes
History/bio information obtained from Lawrence Stuckey descriptions and the Manitoba Historical Society website. The negative for this photograph can be found in McG 1.2 File 19.
Given to Fred McGuinness by Stewart Tait (1912-1988) of Brandon.
Scope and Content
Photograph is an outdoor class picture of young students standing on the front steps of what appears to be Park School.
Notes
Mr. Tait provided Fred McGuinness with a photocopy of the photograph (see McG 1.2, file 19) on which he identified a number of students in his class, including: first/front row - Miss Fleming (fourth from right); second row - Stan Fraser (first from left), Stewart Tait (second on left), Mrs. Ron Relf (nee Stock?) (fourth on left); third row - Ed Bolton (fourth from left), G. Cranston (fifth from left), Ed McGill (offset, above G. Cranston), Mary McGregor, daughter of C.C. McGregor (third from right)
Photograph shows a student class photo from a public school in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: left to right, 1) Melinda Giese, Brenda Smith, Joyce Knight, Judith Davidson, Gary Parker, Douglas Gerber, Brian Crandell, Gallagher McGuinness, Kenny Brix, Daniel Meier; 2) Anthony Newman, Donald Sackman, Dennis Beifus, Ken Johnson, Rocky Scherer, Leslie May, Shirley Perry, Judy Wnzel, Judy Martin, Brenda McCormick, Maxine Martins, Miss Bennis; 3) Barry Kurtz, Brian Bertram, Sandra Croissant, Neil Cormier, Teresa Peters, Rick Leask, James Parr, Linda Daniels, Margret Burch, Gordon Ponto
There is a fold down the middle of the photograph.
Scope and Content
Item consists of portraits of members of the Brandon College Matriculation Class of 1911 and their motto “Via Discipuli Difficilis Est”.
Top Row (L to R): J.D. Brown; C.G. Stone; G. Dexter; and H. Wilson.
Second Row (L to R): M.E. McGregor; J.H. Allen; O. DeMille; and V.Long.
Third Row (L to R): A. Pinder; W.A. Branton; D.L. Durkin, B.A.; Dr. R. H. Mode, M.A.; Alice Masse, B.A.; Dr. H.C. McNeill; Professor G.H. Ruttan; A. Cooper; and H. Higgins.
Fourth Row (L to R): E.G. Cambridge; W.H. Smith; V.L. Dunning; and I. Wright.
Fifth Row (L to R): W. Oliver; R.A. Phillips; E.M. Irwin; R. Wood (Vice Pres.); K.L. Longsworth (Sec.Treas.); R.J. Lang (President); B. Wright; W.Y. Roddick; and J.L. Williams.
Bottom Row (L to R): A.H. Erlandson; G.E. Moffatt; O. Larson; W.G. Maycock; O. Nordine; and I.M. Hodges.
John B. Cole, who operated Cole's Photographic Studio, first at 656 15th Street and then at 831 Rosser Avenue, was a photographer in Brandon from c. 1911 to c. 1914.
Scope and Content
Item consists of eleven oval shaped portraits of the members of Brandon College's graduating class of 1913. L to R: Lillian Wilhelmina Speers; Robert Harvey; James Robinson, Muriel Vivien McCamis; Tom Hare Harris; Leslie Alberta Ward; J.R.C. Evans; Evelyn J. Simpson; W.E. Wilkin; Archibald Gordon; and Constance Gunn.
Robert Harvey's portrait has come loose of the backing. Matting is torn at base.
History / Biographical
John B. Cole, who operated Cole's Photographic Studio, first at 656 15th Street and then at 831 Rosser Avenue, was a photographer in Brandon from c. 1911 to c. 1914.
Scope and Content
Item consists of eleven oval shaped portraits of the members of Brandon College's graduating class of 1913. L to R: Lillian Wilhelmina Speers; Robert Harvey; James Robinson, Muriel Vivien McCamis; Tom Hare Harris; Leslie Alberta Ward; J.R.C. Evans; Evelyn J. Simpson; W.E. Wilkin; Archibald Gordon; and Constance Gunn.