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Archival formats collection
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The Archival Formats Collection is a collection of deaccessioned archival materials that have been retained for teaching and training purposes. It contains samples of various formats found in archives, including glass plate negatives, slides, textual records, magnetic tapes and disks, and other formats. UA-999
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Collection consists of over 500 photographs of ships. Collection also contains French-language clippings: Liste des newspages dans le Monde d'Apres Le Journal Courrier De Londres et Gazette de la Grand Bretagne 1804-1807; Registre des Navires Canadienne et Etrangers Coules Derrand La Guerre 1939-1945; Registre notes des Croisieres des U Boot Allemandes Guerre 1939-1945. MS-2-304, Box 8-10
Collection · [ca. 1919]
Collection includes 41 original pen and ink drawings by Arthur Lismer commissioned ca. 1919 by Dalhousie's Centenary Committee to illustrate its history of the university's first century, One Hundred Years of Dalhousie, 1818–1918, which was published in 1920. The collection includes the original and some unfinished and/or unpublished versions of all but one of the 26 illustrations used in the book, which features historic and contemporary Dalhousie figures and buildings. There are several portraits of President Arthur Stanley Mackenzie, which were rejected in favour of publishing a photographic image, as well as a rough sketch of Lismer's daughter, Marjorie. Also included in the collection are 22 reproductions, which are probably printer's proofs, given the poor quality of the paper. Twelve of the Lismer images were also reproduced in the booklet titled simply Dalhousie University, which was produced by the Dalhousie Million Committee as part of the promotional literature supporting the university's 1920 Million Dollar Campaign and published shortly after the Centenary Committee's book. There is little documentary evidence beyond these two publications regarding the precise date or other details of the Lismer commission; one of the drawings is marked "1 March 1920," and another "27 March 1920," on date-received stamps from the engraving department of Rous & Mann, the Toronto company that printed both publications. The existing archival correspondence between the university and the printer (UA-3, Box 621, Folder 6) is from the Million Committee file, and refers only peripherally to the Centenary Committee's book project. A letter dated 24 March 1920 from Rous & Mann advises that the cuts, or illustrations, proposed for use in the campaign booklet were "at present locked up for the printing of the other Book in course of preparation," while later correspondence indicates that the printing and delivery of the campaign booklet gained precedence over the commemorative history, and the first run of these booklets was shipped on 17 April. The history was printed shortly after that, although by 26 May it had already been reprinted, owing to the misspelling of George Stewart Campbell, whose middle name appears in the first printing as "Stuart." The existence of the misprinted copies is due to their purchase at a steep discount by the Million Committee, who wrote: "... if the price were attractive a way might be found to use them." No correspondence or documents have been found in the Dalhousie University Archives regarding Lismer's actual commission: within the Million Committee's correspondence file exists a single telegram from President Mackenzie to Arthur Lismer, dated 3 April 1920, which expresses a need to rush the printing along with the instruction: "leave layout to your judgement," the sole reference to Lismer's role in either project. 0000-091
Collection · 1917
Comprised of textual material including DHH government documents (ca. 2004); documents discovered within the museum files which comprised of reports, memos and letters, articles, journal entries, speeches and presentations; personal letters; research email inquiries; Curtiss Flying Boat plans and Curtis Flying Boat Handbook; photographs. In 2023, textual materials were discovered within the vertical files of the Museum pertaining to Baker Point, the RCNAS, and the Naval Air Station. They included 8 x 14 government-generated─some original copies─reports, research papers, and correspondence. A selection of documents was created between 1950-late 1960s, by The Air Historians E.C. Russell and J.D.F. Kealy, Directorate of History, Ottawa, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Powered Flight in Canada, 1958-1967. Russell and Kealy also conducted oral histories with personnel of the RCNAS and Baker Point Naval Air Station, and notes from these interviews are included in the collection. The collection also includes original newspaper clippings and chapters from research material on Baker Point, 1918. Also carried over from the vertical file are varied types of correspondence between family of the late Admiral Byrd and 12 Wing Shearwater Public Affairs officers, which pertain to invitations and scheduled appearances at events commemorating their father’s time at Baker Point. Two pieces of correspondence from the University of Ohio State Archives related to Admiral Byrd were also discovered in the vertical files, which led to further documents being provided from the Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Papers (Ohio State University Archives, SPEC.PA.56.0001) including copies of government memos and correspondence, as well as personal correspondence between Lieut. Byrd and his wife, Marie Ames Byrd─written during his command post at Baker Point NAS, in 1918. Other correspondence includes letters regarding Lieut.-Cmdr. Byrd’s exemplary work, written by his commanding officers. Other textual materials were created by Historians of the Shearwater Aviation Museum, including Col. John Orr (Ret’d), Col. Ernest Cable (Ret’d), Col. John Boileau (Ret’d), and the late professor and Historian, Peter Lawson. The documents include research notes and inquiries via emails, published and unpublished articles, and public presentations on Baker Point Naval Air Station.Additional textual materials include NAS administrative papers created by air station personnel such as weekly summaries, reports, and logbook entries. These documents highlight the challenges of managing supplies and deliveries during wartime, maintaining the Flying Boats, and performing aerial patrols despite dangerous weather, and an outbreak of Spanish Influenza. There are also drawn plans of the Curtiss HS-2L and HS-4L Flying Boats, maps, charts, and land surveys of the base and surrounding areas for the purpose of land expropriation.
Collection · 1918-2017, predominant 2014-2017
Collection consists of Cahill's research files on the Halifax Relief Commission that were used for his book "Rebuilding Halifax: A History of the Halifax Relief Commission." Files include copies of correspondence, reports, and news articles. CR75
Collection · 1964, 1974-2006
Collection consists of posters and pinback buttons accrued by peace activist Betty Peterson. Materials mainly pertain to protests, speaking events, organizations, and film screenings for social justice causes including nuclear disarmament, environmental conservation, Indigenous activism, women’s rights, and anti-war movements. Collection includes the shirt Betty Peterson wore to a nuclear disarmament rally in New York City in 1982 with buttons attached to it, as well as a cloth banner with the words "Voice of Women Canada" sewn on it, also with buttons attached. Some materials pertain to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and collection also contains various posters of paintings and art calendars. Collection is organized into two series: posters and buttons. PR-031
Blaikie Family Collection
Collection · 1839 - 1961
The collection contains textual records and photographs that demonstrate the activities of several members of the Blaikie Family of Great Village, NS, for almost a century from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Items were arranged into series by the archivist based on record type or content, including: letters; insurance policies for various properties in Great Village; payment agreements; Estate of Melinda (Gould) Blaikie; bills; land deeds; John Wier contracts; World War I correspondence, mostly between Joseph McKay Blaikie and Blanche Johnson; ledgers; documents related to the shipbuilding and shipping industries, focusing on “The Peerless”, “Chieftain”, and “The President”. The fonds also contains assorted items related to community organizations and happenings in Great Village, NS, including: day books for Ezra Layton’s store; Iron Age Division of the Sons of Temperance; dyke books; play bills; Corinthians Lodge; war rations books; Women’s Institute of Great Village; and a scrapbook. The photograph collection contains a large number of portraits, with most people identified as members of the Blaikie Family. There are also a large number of photographs of William Edward Spencer and Truene Ruth (Geddes) Spencer, at home and on holiday in California. 2006.48.1 - 148; 2007.36.1 - 56
Blair Morrow's Iron Bridges
Collection · 1975-1998
Collection consists mainly of photographic prints of iron and steel bridges on secondary highways and roads throughout rural Nova Scotia collected by or photographed by Blair Morrow. Also includes images of bridge plaques, damaged bridges, road construction workers, and asphalt-making machinery from companies such as Dillman Enterprises, Dexter Construction, K.C. MacPhee Construction, Cumberland Paving, Ocean Paving, Nova Construction and Warren Maritimes, among others. Photos are arranged in 3 albums: Album 1 “Bridges by County” is the largest and contains photographs of iron bridges arranged by county; Album 2 “Paving Companies’ Album” contains photographs of paving equipment, machinery and paved highways; Album 3 “Co-workers” contains photographs of co-workers Ross Crowdis, Buddy Dauphney, Hymie Fitzgerald, Joe Gallant, Don Jardine, Tom LeBlanc, Henry Martell, Rollie Mullin, and Johnnie White as well as some machinery. 2018-032
Collection · ca.1895
Collection consists of 5 photographs of buildings in the town of Pictou, Nova Scotia. 2 are of the ruins of Pictou Academy after a fire; 1 is of a fire at “Hotel Wallace” on Front Street; 1 is of a gentlemen’s club, and 1 is of an unknown building that may be the “round house”. Photographer is unknown. 2017-036