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Archival description
Inglis-Quinlan family fonds
Fonds · 1863-1988
Fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, academic records, photographs, collection records, and diaries pertaining to the lives of members of the Inglis-Quinlan family. The fonds comprises six series: Photographs, Inglis-Quinlan Store Records, Charles and Cassandra Inglis Records, Grace Quinlan Records, Percy Inglis Records, and Clara Quinlan Records. The accrual processed in 2020 consists of photographs accumulated by Clara Quinlan and the following textual documents: two volumes of Cara Quinlan’s diaries as well as her correspondence with Tom Forrestall, Will R. Bird, and others; notes on a controversial Inglis family adoption and other genealogical information; miscellaneous records relating to the Percy Inglis China Collection, including two guest books, draft articles, miscellaneous correspondence, and other documents; and notes and memoranda concerning Mahone Bay. MBMS-1
Fonds · 1884-1988
Fonds consists of letters to Harris’s parents, a Vade Mecum notebook, a copy of The Wells Our Fathers Digged, and original and copy photographs relating primarily to the Harris family, but also including views of St. James Church and Mahone Bay, as well as photographic copies of Robert Harris artwork. MBMS-13
Collection · 1880 - 1970
The collection consists primarily of photographs documenting the history of the town of Mahone Bay and the immediate surrounding areas in Lunenburg County. The collection, which includes original photographs, copy prints, and postcards (real photos and halftones), depicts many different facets of the lives of the people of the Mahone Bay community: bands; buildings and street views; celebrations and events; cemeteries; churches; the First World War; the Masonic Lodge; people; photo albums; school photos; the Second World War; shipbuilding; street views; and town views. There are also a number of stereoviews (original photographs and printed halftones) that portray a wide variety of non-local subjects, including the operations of the T. Eaton Company, various Canadian views, the San Francisco Earthquake, the Russo-Japanese War, the Holy Land, and various scenes of rural life and domestic comedy, including the impact of the “New Woman.” MBMS-14
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
Fonds · [1895], 2006
Fonds consists of two original photographs and two photocopies of related photographs. One original photograph is a portrait of George Alfred Westhaver. The second is an interior scene of workers making oars in Westhaver’s Oar and Block Works. The photocopies are of two c. 1895 images: a portrait of George Alfred Westhaver’s son William and another interior scene of workers making blocks in the Oar and Block Works. Among the workers in the latter image are Westhaver’s sons William and Robert. MBMS-16
Fonds · 1891-1908
Fonds consists of a church confirmation certificate (1901) and four original photographs. One depicts Minnie Leone Joudrey’s school class in 1891. The other three photographs depict the interior decorations for Joudrey’s marriage at St. James Church in Mahone Bay in 1908. MBMS-17
Fonds · 1907
Fonds consists of an original photograph portraying a train wreck at the Mahone Bay train station in February 1907. MBMS-18
Fonds · [1909-12], [1940]
Fonds consists of an early image of the Eisenhaur’s Carriage Factory building and examples of the firm’s carriages. There is also a c. 1940 photograph of Philip Eisenhauer standing in front of the former factory building. MBMS-19
Cienciva family fonds
Fonds · 1891-[1930]
Fonds consists of copy prints of images of Mahone Bay area picnics, the Cienciva home, various town views, the Maritime Manufacturing plant in Mader’s Cove, and Trinity United Church. MBMS-20
Muriel (Mason) deLong fonds
Fonds · 1894-1911, [1918]
Fonds consists of original photographs of a Mahone Bay area picnics, two school classes, and an anonymous group of women. Muriel (Mason) DeLong is identified in the first three photographs and is likely among the women in the c. 1918 photograph. MBMS-21