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Photographs
Series · [ca. 1880s-1890s]
Part of Charles Henry Webber fonds
Series forms part of the Charles Henry Webber fonds and consists of one photograph showing the Mitchell homestead in Oyster Pond with various people standing outside in front of the house. Accession number: 2004.009
Libbie Etta Sutherland Fond
Fonds · 1865 - 1920
Fonds consists of one photo album (gift presented Christmas 1895) containing portraits many of which are identified; several loose photographic images including family farm and related images; newspaper clippings and 15 local postcards featuring scenes around Copper Lake, Lochaber, Loch Katrine, Goshen, Antigonish Town and County. 2017.044.001
Fonds · 1910 - 1935
Fonds consists of 99 photographs in an album. Most feature images showing construction of the railway in New Brunswick. 2016.023.001
Samuel Newton Weare fonds
Fonds · 1900-1939
Samuel Newton Weare (1867–1939) was born in Lowell MA, the son of Albert and Julia (Newton) Weare. In the first decades of the 20th century, he operated a drugstore and photography studio in Bridgetown. The fonds consist of 145 photographs, depicting people, events, buildings, vessels and animals in and around Bridgetown and Annapolis Royal.
Lydia Webber fonds
Fonds · [ca.1880]- 1940
Fonds consists of postcards, photographs, correspondence and other material created and accumulated by Lydia Webber. Accession numbers 2008.009, 2009.040
Photographs
Series · ca. 1860-1940
Part of Robert M. Ritcey fonds
Series forms part of the Robert M. Ritcey fonds and consists of copies of photographs of Ritcey family members, including: Edith Ritcey, Captain Simon Ritcey, Charles Doctoral Ritcey, Mary (Newman) Ritcey, John A. Ritcey, James H. Ritcey, Susan (Gaetz) Ritcey, Bessie (Ritcey) Dillaway, Herbert Simon Ritcey, and Clarence E. Ritcey. Also included are notes and information written by Robert Ritcey and Winifred Ross regarding the people who appear in the photographs. Thirteen of the photographs are copied on photo paper, the rest are photocopies on regular paper. Accession number 2012.001
Photographs
Series · ca. 1855-1940
Part of Ronald Slade family fonds
Series forms part of the Ronald Slade family fonds and consists of one black and white photograph of an unidentified child on a blanket outside and one photograph of a couple identified as “Dolly and Jack.”. Also included are fifteen tintypes of unidentified people, presumably members of the Slade family. Accession number 2013.027
Fonds · 1909-ca. 1940
The fonds consists of 28 photographs taken by Georgia Harriet Cunningham after she opened a professional photography business in Bridgetown in 1909. The images of people, buildings and scenery depict life in and around Bridgetown. 88.109, 93.601
Series · c.1911-1942
Part of Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds
Series forms part of the Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds and consists of records related to Alexander ‘Sandy’ and Cora (Harpell) Myers, who was the sister of Grace’s mother. Cora was born on January 26, 1896 in West Jeddore and became a teacher in the early 1900s. She and her husband Sandy (1893-1957) owned the Salmon River House where Grace lived for several years following her retirement. A note found among the records indicates that they were used by Grace to help create the publications produced by the Marine Highway Historical Society. The series includes a photograph of Cora Harpell’s class at Ostrea Lake School in 1915 with the names of the students; a scrapbook containing clippings of songs; stories; and the prize winners of a matrimonial letter contest featuring Cora’s entry, No Fake Gentleman. Also included are various clippings regarding her school in Ostrea Lake; her graduating class from the Provincial Normal College in 1914; as well as handwritten poems and stories. Series also includes the lyrics to the Normal College school song, an application for a teacher’s license in 1912 that was rejected because she was too young, and a teacher’s license issued in 1914, as well as an earlier letter from a friend in1911. Cora died in Musquodoboit Harbour on February 24, 1995 at the age of 99. Series also contains receipts including postal and remitters’ receipts, invoices, ration forms and coupons, product labels, local business letterhead and advertisements, coupons, tax assessments, a tax notice, and enumeration records. Also included is correspondence to Sandy Myers from people coming to Salmon River House, a Christmas card from Arnold Logan, a Guide’s License, and an order form for a vest. Accession number: 2010.032
Series · [ca. 1900-1944]
Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of one business card for Pringle & London, suppliers of decorative leaded glass including ecclesiastical stained glass and memorial windows as well as importers of antique, cathedral and opal glass. They were located in Toronto and may have been employed by Judge Frederick Montye ‘Monty’ Morson (1853-1944) to supply a new window for the Clam Harbour United Church. Judge Morson stayed at the Stoddard Hotel in Clam Harbour every summer for thirty years and donated a memorial window to the church. Series also includes one black and white photograph of Judge Morson c. 1936. Accession number: 2013.010