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M. W. Purdy Collection
Collection · ? - 1930
Drawings include home and floor plans, elevations, furniture and technical drawings of shapes and perspective. 89.4.1 to 89.4.34
Collection · 1934
A collection of 5 maps which include: Approaches to St. John's Harbour (1921), The North Atlantic (1919), East Coast of North America (1880), Bay of Fundy, Southern Part (1934), and St. Martins, New Brunswick and NS (1934).These maps all belonged to Captain Jonathan Borden Marsh, who was from Economy, Colchester County. 2016.14.1 to 2016.14.5
George Mosher Collection
Collection · 1885 - 1916
A collection of 33 original hand drawn inventions, technical and architectural plans for a variety of applications and clients. 2019.1.1 to 2019.1.33
Collection · ca. 1980s - 1990s
Collection consists of audio-visual materials relating to the history, culture, and natural landscape of the St. Mary's River region, as well as the activities of Sherbrooke Village Restoration. Most audio-visual materials in the collection were recorded as part of the research and programming activities of Sherbrooke Village Restoration and its staff members in the 1980s and 1990s, including oral history interviews, public presentations at Sherbrooke Village as part of staff training or other programming activities, and broadcast, educational, and/or promotional media relating to the Sherbrooke area or Sherbrooke Village Restoration.
Edith MacInnis collection
Collection · 1913-1973
Collection consists of materials accumulated by Edith MacInnis including Dr. MacDonald's Almanac, published by J. MacDonald, M.D., Binghamton, N.Y. (1913); T. Eaton Co. Maritimes Limited wallpaper sample book (ca. 1950s); EMAC Times, vol. 1, Grade 9-A school paper from St. Mary's Rural High (1973); The Canso Breeze, vol. 49, no. 29 (October 4, 1968); one minute book for the Melrose School Club (ca. 1952-1953); and one topographical map of Liscomb (1975). 2016.002
Collection · ca. 1860s - ca.1990s
Collection consists of letters, genealogy research, obituaries, newspaper clippings, poetry, a scrapbook, and numerous photographs created, compiled, or accumulated by Margaret Ellsworth relating to the Fraser family of Waternish, Guysborough County and their descendants living throughout Canada and the United States. Also included are materials relating to the MacIntosh family of Sherbrooke and the Giffin family of Isaac's Harbour, Guysborough County. Photographs range in date from the mid-19th century to the late 1980s, and include studio portraits, candid family and community snapshots, as well as landscape images of the St. Mary's River valley and Isaac's Harbour areas. 2016.001
Views of Halifax photographs
Collection · 1870-1890
The collection consists of one photograph album which was compiled by Thomas Mower Martin, an English-born Canadian painter. Most of the photographs depict scenes in Halifax and Cape Breton, including the Public Gardens, the Citadel, Melville Island, and Point Pleasant Park. Each photograph has a caption indicating the location of the scene. Many of the photographs are inscribed with the name of the photographer on the front, including William Notman, Umlah, and J.M. Margeson. Some photographs taken by William Notman also have a number assigned by the photographer. At the end of the album, there are six contrived studio portraits of unidentified African Nova Scotian men and women. Using props and costumes they are not authentic representations of the past but examples of anti-Black racism. There is no information about the photographer of these portraits.
Collection · 1950-1978
Consists of 13 black & white + 12 colour film reels (all 16mm) ranging in length from 15 minutes to 1 hour playing time. Material includes video from American football games played by the Shearwater Flyers and other military teams as well as university and high school teams in the 1950's; several professionally produced films related to sports; and sporting events featuring disabled athletes. There are also local amateur films featuring various sports. Sports represented include archery, sailing, gymnastics and girls ringette, among others. Competitions captured on film include the Pan-American Wheelchair Games, the 1972 and 1976 Olympics for the Physically Disabled, the International Stoke-Mandeville Games which were the forerunner to the Paralympic Games, the 4th Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, and the 1967 Paraplegic Games held in Winnipeg, MB.
Leslie Fairn collection
Collection · [19--], [1902]
Collection consists of architectural drawings for the biological building at Acadia University, and a residence for F.W. Wickwire Esq., Kentville, N.S., as well as photographs of Assembly Hall and College Hall, some taken by Amos Lawson Hardy. 2010.016-FAR, 2012.024-FAR