Frank Robb was Assistant Secretary Treasurer for School District of Brandon No. 129 and Curator of the B.J. Hales Natural History Museum exhibition for Brandon's 75th Anniversary (1957). Robb left Brandon ca. 1969 and relocated to Minaki, Ontario.
Custodial History
Frank Robb sent the slides to Fred McGuiness ca. 1986. McGuiness gave them to Eileen McFadden at the McKee Archives in April 1986.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of 155 slides taken by Frank Robb, an inventory for the slides prepared by Robb and a letter from Robb to Fred McGuiness regarding the slides and memories of Brandon ca. 1950s.
James Forsythe and a drama student in Introduction to Theatre II chat in front of a poster advertising a production (Agatha Christie) of the Brandon University Drama Society. The photograph was taken in the Elephant Room, formerly the Studio Theatre of the Drama building.
File consists of: photocopied score to Beethoven String Quartet no. 10, opus 74 in E-flat major.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1863. Plate B.670
Reprinted: Milan, IT: G. Ricordi & C., nd.
hardcover parts (violin 1, violin 2, cello) for Beethoven String Quartets op. 127, 130-133 & 135.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1863. Plate B.8868
Reprinted: New York, NY: CF Peters Corporation, nd.
original score of Beethoven: Two Romances, op. 40 and 50 for violin and piano.
Publisher info: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1862-1890. Plate 2720.
Reprinted: New York, NY: International Music Company, 1974.
Arranger: Zino Francescatti
File also consists of: original score of Kenneth Leighton trio for violin, cello and piano.
Publisher info: London, UK: Novello & Co. Ltd., 1968. Plate 19680a
Some bowings, articulations, other markings added to all scores and parts.
File also consists of: poster for International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
Storage Range
MG 3 Brandon University Teaching and Administration
1.20 Francis Chaplin
Radiocarbon date reports have been scanned in multi-page PDF files.
History / Biographical
Crepeele locale Radiocarbon Dates. C14 report by Beta Analytic Inc. for Crepeele site XU 48 and Graham site XU 54.
From 2003 to 2008 field work took place at the Crepeele locale with 75 - 1m x1m units excavated.
To help establish the cultural sequence at the locale Radiocarbon dates were obtained from the three sites in the Crepeele locale.
Radiocarbon dating
The technique of radiocarbon dating was developed by Willard Libby and his colleagues at the University of Chicago in 1949.
Radiocarbon dating is used to estimate the age of organic remains from archaeological sites. Organic matter has a radioactive form of carbon (C14) that begins to decay upon death. C14 decays at a steady, known rate of a half life of 5,730 years. The technique is useful for material up to 50,000 years. Fluctuations of C14 in the atmosphere can affect results so dates are calibrated against dendrochronology. Radiocarbon dates are calibrated to calendar years.
Dates are reported in radiocarbon years or Before Present. Before Present refers to dates before 1950. The introduction of massive amounts of C14, due to atomic bomb and surface testing of atomic weapons, has widely increased the standard deviation on all dates after A.D. 1700 causing these dates to be unreliable.
Accelerated mass spectrometry can more accurately measure C14 with smaller samples and can date materials to 80,000 years.
Scope and Content
Sub sub series contains radiocarbon dates from: Crepeele, Sarah and Graham sites.
Photograph shows a group of individuals posing with Queen Elizabeth II. Fred McGuinness is standing behind the Queen.
Notes
Behind the photograph is a letter dated 15 November 1984 to Fred McGuinness, Brandon, Manitoba, from Michael B. Decter, Clerk of the Executive Council, Cabinet Secretary, re: Her Majesty's Visit to Manitoba
[Display Building II, the last surviving building of those constructed for the Dominion Fair held in Brandon in 1913, has been named one of the 10 most endangered historic buildings in the country by the Heritage Canada Foundation. P.E. 09/07/09.]
Custodial History
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Dominion Exhibition Display Building II
Notes
View from the northwest
[Mr. Stuckey put two negatives in same envelope. We have separated them and numbered them M11(1) and M11(2).]
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