Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Accession # |
A2024.80 |
Title |
Beatty Brothers and Fergus Musical Group float and parade photographs, ca.1928-1933. |
Date |
ca.1928-1933 |
Description |
Beatty Brothers and Fergus Musical Group float and parade photographs, ca. 1928-1933. - ph 62704: The Old Spinning Wheel in the Parlor, Fergus Musical Group, Fergus Town Hall, ca. 1928. Members of Fergus Musical Group with spinning wheels lined up for photograph inside. - ph 62705: Fergus Musical Group, Fergus Town Hall ca. 1928. Members of Fergus Musical Group in costume, inside. Some members are in blackface. - ph 62706: Beatty Centennial Float, 1933. Parade float with thatched roof cottage and women and children with the harp riding the float. Float sign reads Begorra we're not all Scotch! Hence the pretty girls... Hurrah for the Irish. - ph 62707: Beatty Centennial Float, 1933. Group of people on Beatty Electrical Appliances parade float driven by Bill Golightly on a tractor. Float signs read: The war on dirt, Beatty Electrical Appliances easier to operate, do faster and better work, last longer, and a century of progress. Right to left: Myrtle Mason, Parkhome, Dorothy Rogers, Adelaide Hill. - ph 62708: Beatty Brothers Ltd. 5th Trainload, 1931. Group of people in front of train carrying the load of products. Sign to the right displays advertisement for Beatty washing machine with raise and lower basket. -ph 62709: Special Beatty train with group of employees at the Fergus train station, 1929. Copyprint of photograph. Writing on print states Beatty Bros. shipped trinload of washers and pumpts to the West from Fergus, 1929. L to R: A.C. Deacon, M.J. Beatty, Martha Beatty, D. Potter, W. G. Beatty, D. Kerr, W. Golightly. [STACKS] |
Item Name |
Photograph |
Person \ Organization |
Beatty Brothers Beatty, M. J. Beatty, Martha Beatty, W. G. Deacon, A. C. Fergus Musical Group Fergus Town Hall Golightly, Bill Golightly, W. Hill, Adelaide Kerr, D. Mason, Myrtle Parkhome Potter, D. Rogers, Dorothy Smythe, Harmer |
Place |
Fergus |
Subject |
History-local Music |
Photo, Map # |
ph 62704 ph 62705 ph 62706 ph 62707 ph 62708 |
Year Range from |
1923 |
Year Range to |
1933 |
Accession # |
A2024.80 |
Containers |
STACKS |