Portfolio

Hey guys,

I'm currently working on the portfolio and it should be complete by tomorrow. Couple of things need to be added as we are always doing more work everyday. I believe the due date is the day of the Exhibtion launch.

Cheers
George

Janice Update

Hi Team!

It looks like we are facing the business end of the project. So here is where we are up to:

Text finalised and ready to go on foam core
Image sourced and incorporated in text panel
Object labels finalised and ready for printing
Props/fabric/Velcro purchased and ready for installation.

It looks like all systems are go for install tomorrow morning. Let's hope the cabinet has been removed from our corner. (I might send Elise an email to check).

See you tomorrow!

Janice

Fredrick in the Barbershop

Hi All,

Sorry it's been so long since my last post. I have been behind the scenes doing work on invites, design etc.

Thank you to Janice who sourced the photo of Fredrick in the barbershop. I had a play with manipulating the photo on photoshop and trying to make it less grainy... Here is what I came up with...
I might play around with our text panel designs to see how we can incoporate the image.

The Barberpole construction is slowly coming along - a lot of experimentation to see what works and what doesn't work.

Jana

Hi All,

 Everything looks great- I have been reading the posts about the interview with John, Janice's condition reports and the progess of the pole. It looks like you have done a lot of work so thanks :) Most of the website is in Arabic at the moment so I am hoping this works!

Thanks again,

Penny

Condition Reports

Hi Team,

I've finished the conservation reports and attached them a pages. I hope they are ok :)

Bye for now

Janice

Janice Update

Hey Guys,

Here is the proposed text  for the info/item panels. It is VERY rough so please feel free to hack it to pieces. J I’ll try to do the rest of the condition reports by the end of today.

Once we have done that we are well on our way to finishing the project...

To do list:

Velvet for display case- George and I measured this yesterday its 61cm x-92cm

Photograph- Elise spoke with Gillian yesterday about it and it looks like the photo has been misplaced. Gillian is going to contact John Hardwick about re-scanning the original for us. I’m thinking I might just go knocking on John’s door if the photo doesn’t turn up by Friday.

Speech- We need to write the speech (5 min max) for our exhibition intro. Am I still delivering this? (If I am I’m more comfortable writing a few points and winging it as opposed to working from a speech)

Collate all our documents into a hard copy for Carmella (Brief, condition reports, text panels, correspondence, design elements etc)

Woo the end is in sight people!

Janice

P.S. Oh, and we need to get the cabinet moved out of our corner. J

Interview with John Hardwick

Hi guys,

Here are the responses of our questions to John Hardwick. If we have anything further we would like to know I have a contact number for him. I will e-mail this to you.

His full name is Frederick Joseph Hardwick. Born on January 19th 1909 at Sutton Forrest NSW.
He lived in Queanbeyan from 1937 until 1962 where he left to live in Bombala NSW and take up a job as a station officer for the ambulance service. He moved to Canberra in 1967.

The barber shop itself was located at the rear of a Newsagency and is part of it. The Newsagency is owned by Richard Dunn and Frederick worked for him and was the only staff member for the barber shop. John believes there was one other hair dressers open at the time. The barber shop was not only just for male customers though it was not advertised as such. There was a room screened off from the shop if female customers wanted their hair cut.

During the war period Frederick contributed to the community by being a Air Raid Warden. He would walk the streets of Queanbeyan at night and ensure all lighting were switched off in the homes.
Frederick became interested in first aid etc and in 1957 left the barber shop and worked for the Queanbeyan Ambulance Service.

Tobacco was sold in the Barber shop and he is not sure if clients solely bought Tobacco but being inside a Newsagency I'm guessing they did.

John does not have any other photographs of the barber shop. There are also no specific stories on the items.

The barber shop did in fact have the barber pole at the front.

He also mentioned that the 'e' was removed from their surname couple of generations ago. So correct spelling is Hardwick.

John has no objections to anything we use for the Exhibition and is looking forward to meeting us and learning of what we are doing in regards to the War Memorial, QBN museum and CIT.

He is also looking forward to seeing the exhibition launch and will be accompanied by his wife and daughter.

Thanks
George

Janice update

Hi everyone,

I’ve finished the measurements, assessment and photographs of the items. All I need to do now is write them up. I’ve also taken photos of the item ‘groups’ we are intending to use.  Here are the items grouped together according to theme. It is rather a lot of items so maybe we could cull it? Thoughts?

ßBarber tools

 ßShaving

 ß Manicure and boot shine

ß Tobacconist

Cheers,

Janice

AWM-QBN Correspondence

Sorry I didn't post this earlier but I forgot. :) I've replied to this email and arranged a time to go in and have a closer look at the items and the photograph.

I've also asked about budget (black felt and barber pole) and am yet to received response. If I don't here by tomorrow I'll ask when I go in.

Cheers,

Janice

From: Elise 
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2010 1:03 PM
To: Janice Farrer
Subject: Barber shop

Hi Janice - We have found the box full of Barber's shop tools - had been moved to a different room - sorry you weren't able to see them yesterday. Gillian will locate the photo you need - hopefully on the weekend and will send you a scanned copy of it next week (hopefully).
Thanks for your understanding - I am only here 2 days a week and Gillian volunteers all her time- so we don't always get things done as quickly as we would like.
Is there anything else you need from us in preparation for the exhibit?

Thanks

Elise
Queanbeyan Museum

Letter Sent to John Hardwicke

Hey guys,

I have posted the letter to John Hardwicke. So lets hope we get a reply soon.
Should be an interesting interview.

Cheers
George