Photograph is looking north northeast and shows Darrach Hall with the Main Dining Room and the Citizens' Science Building in the background during winter. A number of cars are parked along the street and on the campus grounds.
See fonds level description of the Alf Fowler collection for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Photo shows the main driveway on the Exhibition grounds (now the Keystone Grounds). A number of men, women and children , as well as some of the Fair tents are visible.
Storage Range
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript collection - photograph storage drawer
Item consists of twenty five contact prints. Images include photographs of campus taken from the roof of McMaster Hall as well as photographs of residence rooms, bathrooms and common rooms in McMaster Hall.
Brandon's City Hall and Opera House opened on New Year's Day 1892 with the Annual Fireman's Ball. The exterior of the building was designed by Brandon architect W.R. Marshall. At the south end was the Opera House, an auditorium formed by an internally exposed framework of delicate iron pillars and trusses. Demonlished in 1971, the limestone rubble of the foundations were turned into a sunken garden located in Princess Park.
Custodial History
See fonds level description of the Alf Fowler collection for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Photo was taken from the northwest corner of 9th Street and Princess Avenue and shows the west side of City Hall.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Assiniboine Historical Society's Brandon: An Architectural Walking Tour pamphlet (1982).
Location Copy
A 5" x 7" (b/w) reproduction of the photograph is located with the original.
Storage Range
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript collection - photograph storage drawer
Item consists of nine contact prints. Images were taken at the opening of McMaster Hall, the towers residence. 1. Lyle Dick (at microphone) 2. ? 3. Mayor William (Bill) Wilton (at microphone) 4. Walter Dinsdale (at microphone) 5. Walter Dinsdale 6. Lloyd Dulmage (at microphone) 7. Prof R. Murray Simmons (at microphone) 8. Prof. Murray Simmons.
Photograph is looking southwest and shows the east entrance to the Main Dining Room, the link from the Dining Room to Flora Cowan Hall and Flora Cowan Hall.