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Park Street School

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/descriptions14316
Part Of
Brandon and Area Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
[after 1905]
Part Of
Brandon and Area Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Series Number
2
Item Number
BAPC 2.42
GMD
graphic
Date Range
[after 1905]
Physical Description
5.5" x 3.5" (color)
Material Details
Postcard
History / Biographical
Located south of Stanley Park along the 1400 block of Lorne Avenue, Park School was constructed in 1904. Designed by W.A. Elliot and built by the Brandon Construction Company the structure measured 71 x 107 feet and cost approximately $38,000. The school featured a principal’s office, reception room, staff rooms, an assembly hall for eight hundred, and ten class rooms. The interior walls were lined with mahogany while the floors were made of western pine. The interior of the basement was constructed from Tyndall stone, while Crookston brick trimmed with Bedford stone made up the exterior. The building was razed in September 1978. Hobbes Manor was built on the location.
Scope and Content
Item is a postcard showing Park School in Brandon, MB.
Name Access
Park School
Subject Access
schools
Education
Storage Location
BAPC photograph drawer
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Wheat City Business College

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/descriptions13653
Part Of
Brandon and Area Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1920
Accession Number
3-2015
Part Of
Brandon and Area Photograph Collection
Creator
Photographer: Clark J. Smith
Description Level
Item
Series Number
4
Item Number
BAPC 4.36
Accession Number
3-2015
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1920
Physical Description
12.5" x 9.5" (b/w)
Physical Condition
Some warping.
Scope and Content
Composite portrait of the Wheat City Business College class, 1920. F.A. Wood, Principal, Instructors: Mr. D.S. Forsyth; Miss. J. H. Snider; Miss. M.D. Cowan; Miss. I.E. McKewer.
Notes
Part of the Chapman Museum collection.
Name Access
Wheat City Business College
C.C. Stewart
C. Young
N. Tompkins
M. Mansfield
L. Bray
M. Atchison
E. Braybrook
M. Forsythe
W. Dunbar
E. Plaice
R.B. Dunsire
E. Sararas
W. Barr
E. Doughty
A.W. Meadows
L.S. Ling
H. Hallatt
E. Robinson
A. Dalglish
B. Cane
H. Scott
J. Machen
C.A. Stewart
A. Rogerson
W.A. Dodd
E. McMunn
N. McDonald
J. Dubbin
M. Bennett
F.W. Woodley
H. Wren
A. Chesley
A. boyd
E.A. Howell
G. Murgatroyd
E. Wallace
J. Paterson
E.E. Sararas
V. Sharp
J.S. Wood
R. Cristall
M. McAuley
J. Day
J. Scott
K.W. Beck
J. Aberdeen
M. McConnell
M. Winteringhaus
H.A. O'Neil
D.S. Forsyth
J. H. Snider
F.A. Wood
M.D. Cowan
I.E. McKewer
W. Harrison
M. Coates
H.E. Hotham
G. Gooden
R.E. Grames
K. Calladon
F.P. Burton
H. Foote
D. Wilson
N. Morris
T.A. Quigley
S. Gerry
E. Speers
E. Beatty
R. Murkle
D.H. Hunn
H. Griffith
L. Gulthorpe
E. Pugh
S. Chester
A.B. Dobbyn
L. Vaccari
Z. Bosman
P.C. Gilsthorpe
N. Goodwin
C.S. Hanford
R. Harris
C. Freedman
E. Graham
B. Campbell
R.W. Cowie
G. Roddick
E. Stone
N. Barager
P. Maxfield
M. Denise
A.B. Olive
L.G. Minions
I. Lawrence
R.H. Deans
L. Crawford
H. Hossack
R. Schwartz
B. Pottinger
M. Mains
T.C. Cunningham
M. Mattron
J.P. Connolly
D. Dixon
C. Smith
M. Buchanan
R. Hoey
E. Potter
E. Minions
D.G. Cooke
C. Timmons
A.E. Williams
E. Johns
S.C. McLeod
L. Kennedy
W.T. Lee
M. Roddick
E. Connell
B. Philip
E.E. Simmons
F. Anderson
L. Turner
B.K. Stratford
E. Hawkins
L. Simpson
A. Beatty
H.C. Edanthy
Subject Access
Education
class portraits
secondary education
Storage Location
BAPC oversize storage drawer 2
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Yaeger's Furs Dionne quintuplets window display

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/descriptions14317
Part Of
Brandon and Area Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1934
Part Of
Brandon and Area Photograph Collection
Creator
Brandon Sun Publishing Co.
Description Level
Item
Series Number
2
Item Number
BAPC 2.43
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1934
Physical Description
10.25" x 8" (b/w)
History / Biographical
Gustave Bellegro “Gus” Yaeger was born on July 10, 1878 at Genoa, Italy. The son of Swiss parents, he immigrated to the United States, working in West Virginia then North Dakota before arriving in Brandon, MB in 1910. He worked at various jobs before opening Yaeger's Furs, a fur-coat factory and retail store at 602 Rosser Avenue, in 1919. Yaeger married Sarah Ellen Williams (1883-1966) of Big Rock, Idaho in 1907. They had two children: Karl Williams Yaeger (1908-1975) and Barbara Yaeger (m. H.H. Ricketts). Gus Yaeger died on March 25, 1942 in Brandon, MB. His son carried on the business after his death before selling it to one of the managers in 1969. The Dionne quintuplets, born May 28, 1934, were the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. They were born just outside Callandar, ON.
Scope and Content
Item is a photograph of the Yaeger's Furs Dionne quintuplets Christmas window display. The display features five dolls dressed in fur coats and bonnets, a framed photo of Gus Yaeger, a Christmas tree and a cardboard Santa.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Manitoba Historical Society website (http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/yaeger_gb.shtml)
Name Access
Yaeger's Furs
Gus Yaeger
Dionne quintuplets
Subject Access
downtown
window displays
commercial buildings
businesses
quintuplets
quints
Storage Location
BAPC photograph drawer
Images
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