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Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Description Level
Series
GMD
textual records
Date Range
c. 1910 - 2010
Accession Number
1-2015
Other Title Info
Title based on the contents of the series
Part Of
Fred McGuinness collection
Description Level
Series
Series Number
McG 1
Accession Number
1-2015
GMD
textual records
Date Range
c. 1910 - 2010
Physical Description
Approximately 1.1 m of textual records
History / Biographical
See collection level description for history/biography for information on Fred McGuinness. For history/biography information on McGuinness family members, see subseries McG 1.1 Family papers and letters.
Custodial History
Accession 1-2015 contains records created and collected over the course of McGuinness’ career as a newspaper journalist and freelance writer. The Estate of Fred McGuinness donated the materials to the SJ McKee Archives circa 2011. The Archives accessioned the records in 2015.
Scope and Content
The series contains records created and collected by Fred McGuinness during his years in the Canadian navy, college, and as a journalist, editor, and freelance writer. The series has been divided into four subseries, including: (1) Family papers and letters, (2) Correspondence, (3) Business papers, and (4) Certificates and scrapbook. Records in subseries McG 1.1, Family papers and letters, were created and collected by members of the McGuinness family. These records include materials from paternal and maternal sides of the McGuinness’ family (see subseries for specific details about individual McGuinness family members.) The second subseries, McG 1.2 Correspondence subseries, contains readers’ and business correspondence collected by Fred McGuinness during his time as and editor and journalist. Many of McGuinness’ readers reminisce about Brandon’s local history in their letters to him. The third subseries, McG 1.3 Business correspondence, includes financial statements from Fred McGuinness Limited (1991-1997, 2008-2009). The fourth subseries, McG 1.4 Certificate and scrapbook, includes certificates for McGuinness’ professional career and volunteer work. The scrapbook contains photographs and records from McGuinness’ years with the Royal Canadian Navy and his time at St. Paul’s College, as well as loose clipping from McGuinness’ time at The Medicine Hat News.
Notes
Additional correspondence pertaining to his newspaper, freelance, and broadcast career can be found in the respective series and subseries
Accruals
Closed
Finding Aid
File level inventories for each subseries are available. See individual subseries’ descriptions
Storage Location
2015 accessions
Related Material
McGuinness retained correspondence from readers’ responding to his Sunbeams, Diary, and Neighborly News columns (see McG 2 Newspaper career). Additional local history references can be found in the McGuinness research (McG 4.1 Local history research) and monograph (MG 5) series
Arrangement
Arrangement was artificially created by the Archives. Series has been re-arranged according to publication period McG 1 Personal papers McG 1.1 McGuinness family papers and letters McG 1.2 Fred McGuinness correspondence McG 1.3 Fred McGuinness Ltd. business documents McG 1.4 Fred McGuinness certificates and scrapbook
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Joseph H. Hughes collection - photographs

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Part Of
Joseph H. Hughes collection
Description Level
Series
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1886-1960
Accession Number
3-1997
Part Of
Joseph H. Hughes collection
Description Level
Series
Series Number
3-1997.1
Accession Number
3-1997
GMD
graphic
Date Range
1886-1960
Physical Description
84 photographs
Scope and Content
Accession 3-1997 (84 photographs, various diplomas; 1886-1960) contains a variety of photographs of buildings and streetscapes of the 100 block of Tenth Street and various Hughes properties in the city. In addition, there are photographs of the "Founders of Hughes and Co," a parade on Tenth Street in 1924, the Wheat City Business College Hockey Team 1912, three photographs of the Port of Churchill in 1931, three photographs of threshing crews on Hughes and Company property, a Great War military contingent from Brandon including JRC Evans, and four family photographs.
Notes
Initial processing Jessica Taylor (winter 2007).
Storage Location
RG 5 photograph storage drawer and oversize
Storage Range
RG 5 photograph storage drawer and oversize
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