Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1950

Date Range To

1960

Materials

PAPER, VINYL, INK

No. Pieces

3

Length

25.5

Width

30.8

Description

A. RECORD SLEEVE, 30.8 CM W X 25.5 CM L. RECORD ALBUM WITH BROWN PAPER SLEEVES INSIDE; ALBUM HAS GREEN SPINE WITH GOLD EMBOSSED TEXT “PETER PAN, J.A. BARRIE, MJV 92”; FRONT OF ALBUM HAS A GREEN STRIP DOWN THE LEFT SIDE WITH GOLD EMBOSSED TEXT “A COLUMBIA PICTURE STORY ALBUM” WITH WHITE PAPER LABEL AT TOP AND BLACK HANDWRITTEN TEXT “JENSEN”. FRONT OF ALBUM HAS PRINTED GREEN, WHITE, BLACK, AND RED IMAGE OF FOUR CHILDREN FLYING TO A STAR ABOVE A SHIP, WITH TEXT “PETER LAWRENCE AND R.L. STEVENS PRESENT, JEAN ARTHUR AND BORIS KARLOFF, IN J.M. BARRIE’S PETER PAN, RECORDING DIRECTOR HECKY KRASNO, INCIDENTAL MUSIC BY ALEC WILDER, RECORD ADAPTATION BY PETER STEELE, MUSICAL CONDUCTOR BEN STEINBERG, NON-BREAKABLE COLUMBIA RECORDS, ILLUSTRATIONS BY S FRANKEL, ‘COLUMBIA’ LP AND [SYMBOLS] TRADE MARKS REG. U.S. PAT. OFF…[INDISTINGUISHABLE, COVER WORN]…MJV-92, SPECIAL ADAPTATION FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES”. BACK OF THE ALBUM HAS A GREEN STRIP DOWN THE RIGHT SIDE; BACK HAS PRINTED BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES OF RECORDS WITH DESCRIPTIONS BELOW, AND RED TEXT “GET ABOARD THE COLUMBIA RECORD FUN TRAIN!! EACH RECORD A TICKET FOR THE YOUNGSTERS TO FUN-LAND! A COMPLETE STORY ON EVERY SIDE. COLUMBIA LONG PLAYING CHILDREN’S RECORDS!”; BACK HAS BLACK HANDWRITTEN “J” IN UPPER RIGHT CORNER. INSIDE OF ALBUM HAS TWENTY PAGES OF ILLUSTRATED “PETER PAN” STORY WITH TEXT. OUTSIDE OF ALBUM IS WORN; ALBUM SPINE AND EDGES ARE FRAYING AND HAVE LOSS FROM WEAR; COVER IS YELLOWED; OVERALL GOOD CONDITION. B. RECORD, “1, 4”, 25 CM DIAMETER. BLACK VINYL RECORD WITH RED AND WHITE LABELS IN THE CENTER ON FRONT AND BACK; RECORD HAS A PUNCHED HOLE IN THE CENTER. FRONT LABEL HAS RED IMAGE OF A DOG AND TWO CHILDREN AT THE TOP, WITH RED TEXT “COLUMBIA” AND RED AND WHITE SQUARE LABEL OVER TEXT WITH HANDWRITTEN BLACK TEXT “JENSEN”; FRONT LABEL HAS RED TEXT BELOW “1, MJV 92-1, PETER PAN, JAMES M. BARRIE, (INCIDENTAL MUSIC, ALEC WILDER) (RECORD ADAPTATION, PETER STEELE) (RECORDING DIRECTOR, HECKY KRASNO), JEAN ARTHUR, BORIS KARLOFF, AND ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST, MIRIAM WOLFE, NARRATOR, 90097-V (CO 44293)”; FRONT LABEL HAS BLACK HANDWRITTEN “J”. BELOW FRONT LABEL IS ENGRAVED TEXT “CO 44293-1B”. BACK LABEL HAS RED IMAGE OF A CHILD LOOKING AT A FIGURE FLYING AMONG STARS; BACK LABEL HAS RED TEXT, “COLUMBIA, NONBREAKABLE, TRADE MARK REGISTERED, CANADIAN PRESSING BY SPARTAN AT LONDON, CANADA, COPYRIGHTED NOT LICENSED FOR RADIO BROADCASTING, 4, MJV 92-4, PETER PAN, JAMES M. BARRIE, (INCIDENTAL MUSIC, ALEC WILDER) (RECORD ADAPTATION, PETER STEELE) (RECORDING DIRECTOR, HECKY KRASNO), JEAN ARTHUR, BORIS KARLOFF, AND ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST, MIRIAM WOLFE, NARRATOR, 90097-V (CO 44296)”. BELOW BACK LABEL IS ENGRAVED TEXT “CO 44296”. RECORD HAS MINOR SCRATCHING; LABEL IS WORN AND FADED; RECORD HAS MINOR GRIME AND DUST BUILT UP; OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION. C. RECORD, “2, 3”, 25 CM DIAMETER. BLACK VINYL RECORD WITH RED AND WHITE LABELS IN THE CENTER ON FRONT AND BACK; RECORD HAS A PUNCHED HOLE IN THE CENTER. FRONT LABEL HAS RED IMAGE OF A FROWNING FIGURE WITH A HOOK, WITH RED TEXT “COLUMBIA” AND RED AND WHITE SQUARE LABEL OVER TEXT WITH HANDWRITTEN BLACK TEXT “JENSEN”; FRONT LABEL HAS RED TEXT BELOW “3, MJV 92-3, PETER PAN, JAMES M. BARRIE, (INCIDENTAL MUSIC, ALEC WILDER) (RECORD ADAPTATION, PETER STEELE) (RECORDING DIRECTOR, HECKY KRASNO), JEAN ARTHUR, BORIS KARLOFF, AND ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST, MIRIAM WOLFE, NARRATOR, 90098-V (CO 44295)”. BELOW FRONT LABEL IS ENGRAVED TEXT “CO 44295”. BACK LABEL HAS RED IMAGE OF A CHILD WITH OUTSTRETCHED ARMS AMONG STARS; BACK LABEL HAS RED TEXT, “COLUMBIA, NONBREAKABLE, TRADE MARK REGISTERED, CANADIAN PRESSING BY SPARTAN AT LONDON, CANADA, COPYRIGHTED NOT LICENSED FOR RADIO BROADCASTING, 2, MJV 92-2, PETER PAN, JAMES M. BARRIE, (INCIDENTAL MUSIC, ALEC WILDER) (RECORD ADAPTATION, PETER STEELE) (RECORDING DIRECTOR, HECKY KRASNO), JEAN ARTHUR, BORIS KARLOFF, AND ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST, MIRIAM WOLFE, NARRATOR, 90098-V (CO 44294)”. BACK LABEL HAS BLACK HANDWRITTEN “J”. BELOW BACK LABEL IS ENGRAVED TEXT “CO 44294”. RECORD HAS MINOR SCRATCHING; LABEL IS WORN AND FADED; RECORD HAS MINOR GRIME AND DUST BUILT UP; OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Subjects

SOUND COMMUNICATION T&E

Historical Association

LEISURE

EDUCATION

History

ON FEBRUARY 5, 2019, COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED BARB CAVERS REGARDING HER DONATION OF ITEMS FROM HER HOME AND TEACHING CAREER. ON THE “PETER PAN” RECORD, CAVERS RECALLED, “I KNOW THE ‘PETER PAN’ ONE I GOT WHEN I WAS IN GRADE TWO FOR CHRISTMAS, SO WE WERE LIVING ON 5TH AVENUE THEN. I WAS GOING TO ALAN WATSON SCHOOL. I GOT IT FOR CHRISTMAS AND I REMEMBER, REALLY VIVIDLY, THAT THE GIFT TAG SAID, ‘TO BARBIE, FROM DADDY.’ I THOUGHT, ‘OH, MY DAD BOUGHT ME THIS RECORD’…I WORKED OUT, A FEW YEARS LATER, THAT, NO, MY MOM HAD BOUGHT IT, AND PUT HIS NAME ON IT. BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY SPECIAL, BECAUSE HE HAD BOUGHT IT (AND HE DIDN’T USUALLY BUY PRESENTS)…MY MOM DID ALL THAT…I LOVED IT. THE MOVIE HAD COME OUT AROUND THEN, AND I LOVED THE COMBINATION OF THE BOOK AND THE RECORD. WE HAD A RADIO/RECORD PLAYER THAT WAS IN A CABINET, AND IT HAD FABRIC AT THE BOTTOM WITH KIND OF A WOOD LATTICE ON IT, AND ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE WAS THE RADIO, AND ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE WAS A PULL-OUT TURN-TABLE, AND IT HAD [A] 8…TURN-TABLE ON IT, AND I SPENT HOURS WITH MY EAR CLOSE TO THE SPEAKER, LISTENING TO MY RECORDS…I REMEMBER TAKING [THE RECORD] TO SCHOOL IN GRADE TWO SO THAT THE TEACHER COULD PLAY IT FOR MY CLASS. WHEN I WAS IN MY FIRST YEAR TEACHING I TOOK IT TO SCHOOL AND THE KIDS LISTENED TO IT…THEY LOVED IT. IT WAS A GRADE FOUR CLASS AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. WE LISTENED TO IT ENOUGH TIMES THAT THE KIDS COULD TELL THE STORY…I CERTAINLY TOOK THESE BECAUSE I’VE GOT ‘JENSEN’ ON THEM, AND KIDS COULD LISTEN. THEY’VE GOT A LISTENING CENTER. THEY WERE WELL-USED. I’M NOT SURE MY OWN KIDS LISTENED TO THEM. THEY DON’T HAVE A LOT OF RECOLLECTION, AND I DON’T KNOW WHY THAT WAS. I THINK BY THAT TIME THEY WERE INTO ‘RAFFI’, AND ‘SHARON, LOIS, AND BRAM’, AND ‘SESAME STREET’…WEREN’T SO MUCH IN THEIR PURVIEW.” “WHEN I WAS FIRST MARRIED WE LIVED IN A FAIRLY SMALL APARTMENT [IN 1968]…I HAD THE RECORDS BECAUSE I KNOW I USED THEM IN MY FIRST FEW YEARS OF TEACHING…[I] PROBABLY HAD THE BOOKS AS WELL, BECAUSE I PROBABLY TOOK THEM. I TOOK ALL OF MY OWN PERSONAL BOOKS AND RECORDS INTO THE CLASSROOM AND USED THEM. THE MUSIC BOX, I NEVER WOULD HAVE TAKEN TO SCHOOL…I MAY HAVE GOT THEM ALL WHEN I GOT MARRIED, AND MY MOTHER MIGHT HAVE SAID, ‘HERE.’” “THESE, I WOULD THINK, MY MOTHER BOUGHT. I HAVE A COLLECTION OF PROBABLY TEN OR TWELVE RECORDS…[I LIKED THE RECORDS] BECAUSE OF THE MUSIC—THE SONGS—I LOVE TO SING. I WAS ALWAYS SINGING. IF WE TRAVELED IN THE CAR, I’D BE SINGING, AND WOULD SING EVERY SONG I KNEW. I STARTED IN A JUNIOR CHOIR WITH ANNE CAMPBELL WHEN I WAS IN GRADE FOUR…I WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THESE RECORDS, ALL OF THEM…BECAUSE I KNOW I LISTENED TO THEM WHEN WE LIVED ON SOUTH PARKSIDE, AND I WOULD BE IN GRADE FIVE AND SIX, SO I WAS STILL LISTENING TO THEM JUST BECAUSE I LIKED THEM.” “I’D SING ALONG WITH THEM, OR PROBABLY PLAY ALL PARTS IN THE STORY RECORDS. I REALLY LIKED THE ONES LIKE ‘ROBIN HOOD’, AND ‘PETER PAN’. BOTH HAVE THE STORY PRINTED OUT, AND I REALLY LIKED THAT, EVEN WHEN I WAS A GOOD READER. I READ A LOT…I WOULD ALWAYS TAKE OUT SIX BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY, SO I READ EVERY DAY…I WOULD PLAY…WITH THE PRECURSOR TO LEGO—THEY WERE RUBBER MINI-BRICKS, OR PUZZLES…I WOULD DO IT IN THE LIVING ROOM, IN FRONT OF THE RECORD PLAYER.” “I WAS VERY LUCKY IN SO MANY WAYS AS A CHILD. WE WERE REALLY PRIVILEGED CHILDREN. I HAD THINGS THAT MANY OF MY FRIENDS NEVER HAD…I READ…BUT DIDN’T HAVE A LARGE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF BOOKS…THE BOOKS THAT WE HAD WERE SPECIAL. THE FACT THAT WE HAD RECORDS…WAS VERY SPECIAL, VERY UNIQUE. I DON’T KNOW IF ANY OF MY FRIENDS HAD THEM.” CAVERS ELABORATED ON HER USE OF RECORDS IN HER CLASSROOM AS A TEACHER, NOTING, “WHEN I STARTED TEACHING, THERE WAS NO CURRICULUM. THERE WERE TEXT BOOKS…YOU HAD A READER, YOU HAD A SPELLER, YOU HAD A MATH TEXT. YOU CERTAINLY DIDN’T HAVE A SOCIAL STUDIES TEXT BOOK. I FOUND READING OUT OF A READER REALLY BORING, AND I WASN’T AT MY BEST WHEN I WAS DOING THAT, SO I ALWAYS TRIED TO BRING IN MORE THINGS THAT I WAS INTERESTED IN, AND I WOULD BE A BETTER TEACHER BECAUSE I WOULD BE MORE ENGAGED AND MORE ANIMATED. THE KIDS LIKED WHENEVER YOU BROUGHT SOMETHING FROM YOUR HOME…” “NOBODY REALLY CARED WHAT YOU DID IN YOUR CLASSROOM, REALLY. IT’S JUST HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS SO UNSTRUCTURED AT THAT TIME. IT WAS PROBABLY A COMBINATION OF READING AND LISTENING…AND SPEAKING, AND MUSIC ROLLED INTO ONE. I’M SURE I JUST DID IT BECAUSE IT WAS FUN.” FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES AND THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION, PLEASE SEE THE PERMANENT FILE P20190005001-GA.

Catalogue Number

P20190005021

Acquisition Date

2019-02

Collection

Museum

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