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Peter Mann fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1872-1998, predominant 1957-1986.

Reference:

R11088-0-5-E

Type of material:

Art, Photographs, Objects (including medals and pins), Stamps and stamp products, Textual material, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

211134

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Peter Mann fonds
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Fonds includes:

26 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1872-1998, predominant 1957-1986.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

22 cm of textual records.
17 postal covers and other philatelic records.
4 drawings press clipping cartoons.
2 photographs.
4 medals.
2 plaques.
4 audio reels.

Language of material:

English

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The fonds consists of records related to Peter Mann and Frank W. Campbell's philatelic activities.

Personal documents of Peter Mann's activities include correspondence with Quarterman Publications, Inc. and Frank W. Campbell. Also included is the Guelph Stamp Club Newletter from 1957 to 1959, records on Guelph postal history, Grand River Valley Philatelic Association, papers on philately of which "Petroleum in Philately" published in Imperial Oil Review, vol. 34, no. 2 around 1951 and the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada by-laws. Some files contain postal stationery items, postal covers, postcards, postage stamps and labels.

The fonds documents the participation of Peter Mann to some philatelic exhibitions: Hintonpex from 1977 to 1979, Rocpex Taipei'78 and Philaserdica'79. These files includes one postcard, panes of labels and photographs.

The fonds contains sound recording interviews (4 audio reels) recorded from 1971 to 1975 at philatelic meetings and philatelic exhibitions such as Kitchener-Waterloo Philatelic Society, Grand River Valley Philatelic association, Guelphpex'72, Guelphpex'73, Stampex in Toronto in 1973 and Royal Oak in Guelph in 1973 and Michigan in 1974. Among introducing speakers and guest speakers: Peter Mann, Fred Jarrett, Pete Wiedemann, J.W. Holmes, S.W. Shelton and Frank W. Campbell. The latter comments in 1975 the typewritten copy of the Quartermann edition of the Canadian Postal History book.

The fonds contains several medals and plaques awarded to Peter Mann as editor of The Canadian Philatelist and for his contribution to philately. These awards were received at Capex'78, Rocpex Taipei'78, Philaserdica'79 and Espamer'81.

Finally, the fonds documents philatelic activities of Frank W. Campbell. It includes articles and notes written by Campbell, correspondence (including 6 postal covers from 1872 to 1973), the 1958 and 1875 versions of his Canadian Postal history.

Provenance:

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Mann, Peter

Additional name(s):

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Campbell, Frank W., 1885-1983

Biography/Administrative history:

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Mann, Peter : Peter McGeary Mann was born in London (Ontario). He served in the Canadian Army at the end of the Second World War. When he returned to Canada, he studied in zoology at the University of Western Ontario from which he completed graduate degrees. He lives in Guelph (Ontario).

He was first interested in philately in 1936 for a short period of time. He came back to the hobby again nealy 25 years after. He has been involved in many philatelic activities and organizations. He joined the Guelph Stamp Club in 1957 where he held many executive positions. He was the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada chapter representative and the Grand River Philatelic Association delegate. He became director, secretary-tresurer and president of the latter association. In 1969, he became the first editor of its newsletter The Grand News. Since 1964 he was the editor of the Guelph Stamp Club newsletter.

He was also a member of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada and served as a director for several years. He retired in 1987. He is now a life member. With his experience in editing, publishing and distributing he became editor of The Canadian Philatelist until 1982. Under the leadership of Peter Mann, the magazine won several international prizes in philatelic literature.

In 1986, he acted as Canadian Commissioner for the international philatelic exhibition in Stockolm. He does collect stamps but he prefers attractive ones mainly from British Commonwealth countries. He likes to build model airplanes (he is the archivist for the National Association for Model Airplanes) and to collect classical and jazz music CDs.

Finding aid:

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Multiple media (Electronic) A paper version is also available in the Reference Services. CPA-238 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001045.pdf

Sound recording (Electronic) Please consult the Film, videos and Sound on-line database for more information about sound recordings. (90: Open)

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Physical description note:

Philatelic records include: 4 postal stationery items, 1 strip (4 postage stamps), 2 panes of label and 16 labels. One frame contains 3 exhibition souvenirs. Among the 17 postal covers, there are 4 postcards.

Philatelic issue data:

Canada and other jurisdictions: various denominations.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2002-01099-4
2003-0044 VSA
2004-00351-0
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11088] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11088] 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11088] 3--4

[Consultation 90 Open]

Philatelic records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11088]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 File number 3--4; 12; 17

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11088] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

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