Group photograph of women in attendance at the annual meeting of the Brandon Council of Women at Brandon University. Kathleen Thordarson, Effie McPhail and Kaye Rowe are seated in the center of the front row
Photograph of Council of Women members at the Brandon Council of Women's Annual Meeting March 1956; Left to right: Mrs. J.A. Creighton (?), Mrs. B. Thordarson, Effie McPhail, ?, Mrs. E.G. Beal
Brandon Council of Women members in attendance at the Council of Women Annual Meeting. Pictured left to right: Kaye Rowe, Mrs. George F. Collins, Mrs. Williard Hughes, and Mona Weir
Photograph of four members of the Provincial Council of Women at the Manitoba Provincial Council of Women's semi-annual meeting May 1956. Pictured left to right: Mrs. W.O. Struthers (Past -Provincial President), Mrs. W.A. Gamey (?),Mrs. Winnifred Garry (?), Mrs. Rex Eaton
The collection consists of photographs of the Presbyterian Church at Strathclair, Manitoba, wood cutting at Grandview, Manitoba, a woman washing clothes with a wringer washing machine and cribbing a well
Photograph of workers placing a well casing into a ground well. One man handling the equipment. Three bystanders in hats. Back of photo is stamped "Assiniboine Historical Society."
The fonds contains textual documents pertaining to the Brandon Council of Women from 1950 to 1978. The content is comprised largely of correspondence between members, meeting minutes, and financial records. There is also information about the goals and policies of the organization. Various newspaper clippings pertain to the Brandon Council of Women. There are 25 photographs of council members at events, along with 25 photograph negatives. The fonds also has correspondence records, meeting minutes, reports, and yearbooks from the National and Provincial Councils of Women with which the Brandon Council of Women was affiliated.
Photograph of a wooden building identified as the Presbyterian Church on a hill overlooking Little Saskatchewan River by Strathclair, Manitoba. Man with horse and buggy beside building in open field. Handwritten annotation on back of photo reads, "Presbyterian Church built in / 1877 or 1878/ "Church at the Bend" / Rev. David Ross in buggy." Back of photo stamped "Assiniboine Historical Society."
Photograph of the Brandon General Hospital Nursing Staff of 1923. Identified are Sarah Persis Darrach (nee Johnson), Superintendent of Nurses, 1920 (front) and Miss Christina Mcleod, Superintendent of Nurses, 1923 (second from left).