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O'Brien Family fonds
Fonds
The fonds consists predominantly of correspondence and vessel papers. The fonds also contains records that document the family's business activity, particularly that of Joseph O’Brien. MS-4-242
Maurice Evans fonds
Fonds
Fonds contains correspondence, contract files, notes, plans, and photographs of various ships Maurice Evans' company worked on. MS-4-234, Boxes 1-4
Lunenburg Marine Railway fonds
Fonds · 1922 - 1945
Fonds contains a list of vessels that used the Lunenburg Marine Railway in 1922-1945. MS-4-58
Jonathan Steele fonds
Fonds
Fonds consists of correspondence, financial papers, bills and crew information, some of which relates to a ship called "Habitant." MS-2-70
John McLean & Sons fonds
Fonds · 1858-1965
Fonds consists of legal documents, correspondence, notes, blueprints, and photographs that primarily document the shipbuilding activities of the John McLean & Sons shipyard in Mahone Bay. The photographs feature annotations (on the front or back of mounts) that identify vessels, members of the McLean family, some shipyard workers, and other subjects, including some early views of Mahone Bay. Among the vessels depicted are the schooners Crofton U. McLeod, H.H. MacIntosh, and John W. Miller. There is also a photograph of the CPR steamer Mount Temple aground on West Ironbound Island in 1907. The blueprints and related textual records document vessels built by both John MacLean and Sons and the Mahone Bay Shipbuilding Company. The legal documents pertain to real-estate issues. An accrual processed in 2020 comprises a group of 29 photographs (mostly tintypes) and a group of 70 glass negatives. The tintypes and related photographs date from the c. 1861-1890 period and consist mostly of portraits of John McLean’s wife and children. The glass negatives date from c.1891 -1895 and consist of street views of houses, portraits of people (including two portraits of John McLean), and one military photo. These glass negatives have been attributed to John McLean who was best known as a local shipbuilder but self-identified as a photographer in the 1871 census and on his daughter’s marriage record in 1879. It is possible that McLean was also responsible for the tintypes. MBMS-5
John H. Zwicker fonds
Fonds · 1866-1909
Fonds consists of legal documents (mostly pertaining to the barquentine Abeona), ledgers, day books, cash books, time books, and journals relating to John H. Zwicker’s shipbuilding activities. MBMS-9
G. D. Campbell and Sons fonds
Fonds
The fonds consists of records routine operational transactions through daybooks, cashbooks, ledgers, letter books, mill books, invoice books, time books, cash and book sales, receipts, financial records, invoices and statements. Also represented in the fonds are Campbell Lumber Company correspondence, general papers and correspondence, store quotations, legal documents, lumber schedules, wills and estate papers, the personal Papers of Glidden Campbell, and materials relating to the Weymouth Marine Insurance Co. MS-4-1
Effie Matchett fonds
Fonds · [1900]-1903, 1967
Fonds consists of photographs, correspondence, and notes relating to Matchett’s research on three Lunenburg County vessels: the brigantine Leo (built in 1882), the schooner Commander (built in 1903), and the brigantine Maggie Belle (built in 1903). In addition to three original photographs, there are two copy prints. MBMS-15
Burgoyne family fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1890]-1969
Fonds consists of correspondence, a legal agreement, school records, notebooks, certificates, and clippings relating primarily to the shipbuilding activities of Frederick Stannage Burgoyne during the 1923-1927 period and to his daughter Enola Burgoyne Macleod’s education during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The photographs largely document members of the Burgoyne family, friends of Enola Burgoyne MacLeod and De Wolf Burgoyne, and some Burgoyne-related shipbuilding activities. MBMS-3
Bigelow family fonds
Fonds
Fonds contains the personal and professional records of four generations of the Bigelow family of Nova Scotia. It includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, diaries and memoirs, and photographs that document primarily the family's shipbuilding activities as well as the genealogical interests of John Robert Bigelow. MS-4-92