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James Benjamin Westhaver fonds
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Fonds includes items dealing with the invention of and patenting of a hydraulic gold extractor first registered in 1887. Also involves setting up a company to use the machine and begin gold mining. The material covers a period of 1883 to 1905, and involves many individuals in the business and legal community of Halifax and the South Shore. It also includes the original patent with the specification and diagrams, other diagrams, a 31 page hand written report by Westhaver on his trip to Dawson City, Yukon in 1902 to test his separator. A very interesting collection of letters, documents, legal correspondence, governmental material, etc., etc., dealing with the starting of a company to use the gold separate and Westhaver's various difficulties with financing and control. MS-2-587, SF Box 4, Folders 1-14, 16; SF Box 45, Folders 25-32
Augustus Lantz fonds
Fonds
Cargo book of the schooner Beth, March 22, 1881 - September 4, 1885 MS-4-238
Edith C. Hamm fonds
Fonds · [ca.1928]-1945
Fonds consists of photographs documenting the early life of Edith C. Hamm, as well as the lives of other members of the Hamm family and family friends, primarily in the Mahone Bay area. MBMS-6
Mahone Bay Agricultural Society fonds
Fonds · 1894-1961
Fonds consists of certificates, correspondence, financial records, membership records, livestock records, and minutes documenting the activities of the society and its efforts to promote agriculture in the Mahone Bay area of Lunenburg County. MBMS-8
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
Mahone Machine Company, Limited fonds
Fonds · 1911-1915
Fonds consists of correspondence, registers, ledgers, cash books, and a minute book relating to the operations of the Mahone Machine Company. MBMS-11
Mader family fonds
Fonds · 1880-1969
Fonds consists of correspondence, ledgers, day and cash books, receipts, correspondence, time books, legal records, ship records, and other documents mostly pertaining to the Mader family’s business activities. The fonds is arranged in five series: Mader Store Records, Ship Records, Overseers of the Poor (District 3) Records, Charles Uniacke Mader Records, and Frank Uniacke Mader Records. MBMS-10
Mader Mining Company, Limited fonds
Fonds · 1901-1910
Fonds consists of a share ledger and a share book pertaining to the financing of the operations of the Mader Mining Company. MBMS-12
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
George Albert Slaunwhite fonds
Fonds · 1875-1920
Fonds consists of correspondence, a diary, invoices, receipts, statements, certificates, indentures, and photographs mainly documenting aspects of Slaunwhite’s long sea-faring career. The diary records a trip from Bridgewater to Puerto Rico and Boston on the brigantine Maggie in 1877. The records also include a few documents relating to Slaunwhite’s family, including his wife, parents, and his brother-in-law Edwin Bailly of Lunenburg. MBMS-4