Fonds largely pertain to the design career of Grant Marshall, including teaching positions at the University of Manitoba (as well as many teaching slides) and private interior design business. Also features records pertaining to ballet costume design, fashion, and Marshall’s fashion boutique, The Third Step; Marshall’s artwork and exhibitions; primary, secondary, and post-secondary education; and personal records such as family photos and correspondence.
This collection consists of memorabilia kept by Edith Laycock. A large part of the collection consists of programs from plays that Laycock performed in or directed during the 1950's and 1960's. There are also numerous newspaper clippings about Laycock's plays including reviews, pictures, and advertisements. This collection also includes a folder of programs from the Brandon Little Theatre productions in the 1950's, as well as clippings about the Little Theatre. There are also numerous articles about miscellaneous drama and art events throughout Brandon, Manitoba, and Canada. The collection also includes Laycock's daybook from 1962, and travel notes from Laycock's 1952 trip to Great Britain and Europe. The latter contains a passenger list for the Empress of Scotland, August 5, 1952. The collection further includes Canadian Pacific Railway passes dating from 1947-1963 and a copy of the Canadian Pacific Pension Plan. Fonds also contains material from the various organizations that Laycock was involved with including the Brandon Council of Women and Beta Sigma Phi. Fonds includes 12 photos that appear to be family photos from Laycock's childhood. Finally, the fonds contains various copies of plays that Laycock performed in or directed.
The collection contains programs and scripts of plays presented by Brandon Little Theatre; a 1934 program of the Dominion Drama Festival, Manitoba Region; and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and publications pertaining to Brandon Little Theatre, Brandon Art Club, and Helen McGregor.
The Schneider/Snyder Family sous-fonds consists mainly of handwritten and typed correspondence between Fritz and Thilde Schneider from 1925 to 1942. The subject matter of the early letters focuses on everyday happenings while the pair were living and studying in different areas of Germany. Later correspondence took place while Thilde was residing on the Society Farm in Little Britain, Manitoba and Fritz was in Germany on business. Finally, letters from 1939-1942 discuss Fritz's internment at the Kananaskis Internment Camp in Alberta and the hearings for his eventual release. Also included in the sous-fonds are various other documents: correspondence from Thilde's father to herself and her family, and from Fritz Schneider to businesses and government organizations as part of his work on the Society Farm; photos of and brochures for farm equipment; and original school records and diplomas for Thilde from 1915 to 1920 and for Fritz Schneider from 1919.
Ce fonds documente l'administration et les activités de la maison d'édition Les Éditions du Blé depuis sa fondation en 1974. Le fonds contient des documents administratifs, des exemplaires ou manuscrits de livres édités par les Éditions du Blé, une série de 80 illustrations, des procès verbaux, de la correspondance, des documents financiers, de la documentation du Conseil des Arts du Manitoba et du Conseil des Arts du Canada, des catalogues, ainsi que des rapports de ventes. Ce fonds contient en outre une série de linogravures de Suzanne Gauthier qui ont servies à illustrer le livre "Louison Sansregret" publié en 1975.
The fonds is separated into 10 series: biographical material, correspondence, minutes and other documents from literary organizations, design work, newspaper clippings, the Bird’s Hill Park Series exhibition, sketches, artwork by Denis Nokony, and Turnstone Press publications for which Eva Fritsch did design work, photographs and negatives. The fonds also includes a photograph collection featuring 234 photographs, 499 negatives, 125 sketches, and 2 oversize materials.
The Doreen Macdonald fonds includes the following series: questionnaires [1971-1991]; newspaper articles (1966-1977); excepts from RWB publications (1983-1986); biographies and photographs (1968-1988).