Photograph sent to Fred McGuinness from Leila McDiarmid Leck of Mission, BC, on 08 Feb 1983 in response to his Park School column (see F.A. Rosser, āSunbeams ā Park School reminiscences from a far away friends, Brandon Sun 25 Jan 1983)
Scope and Content
Photograph shows a group of young girls posing for a picture on the steps of residence. The girls had assembled fro Leila McDiarmid's 9th birthday.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Back Row - Mina Collins, Muriel Good, Lorna Lawrence, Evelyn Warren, Shirley Lane. Front - Doreen Donnelly, Leila McDiarmid, Jen Nicol, Phyllis Murdock, Florence Roberts. March 1930. (My 9th Birthday - Grade 3 with Helen Bennett.) Photograph is stamped: Crawford's Drug Store Brandon.
Photograph was given to Fred McGuinness by Linda Bilkoski of Lac du Bonnet, MB.
Scope and Content
Photograph shows a studio portrait of moustached wearing a three-piece suit, seated with six girls. The girls are wearing dresses, ribbons in their hair, and several have broaches pinned at their necks.
Photograph shows a group of five young boys standing shoulder-to-shoulder as they pose for the picture. Don McPherson has been identified as the boy in the middle. The boys appear to be standing in a residential backyard on a summer's day. The children are wearing shorts and some are wearing straw hats.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: 300 block 14th St., ? Clement, ? Hill, Don McPherson, ?- , ?-, 1922