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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
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
Collection · 1931-1945
Collection consists of forty monochrome aerial photographs of the Eastern Shore taken between 1931 and 1945. Also includes seven corresponding flight maps. Photographs illustrate the landscapes and coastlines of various locations along the Eastern Shore as they were in 1931-1945. Areas covered by the aerial photographs within this collection include Owl's Head, Little Harbour, Clam Harbour, Burnt Point, Clam Bay, Lake Charlotte, Ship Harbour, Upper Lakeville, Oyster Pond, and the Jeddores. Accession number 2013.039
Ervin Charles Webber fonds
Fonds · 1941, 1946
Fonds contains two income tax filings for 1941 and 1946, and a photograph of Ervin with other aviators at Shearwater in the 1940s. Accession number: 2004.009
Fonds · 1940 - 1950
Fonds highlights Margaret MacNeil's daughters Jean, Helen and Margeurite and their highland dancing careers It features a series of newspaper clippings and photographs. Some school and work photos from Jean’s career are also included in the scrapbook. 2013.018.001
Harold Thorne Stultz fonds
Fonds · 1935-1952
The fonds consist of 262 photographs and a large number of negatives. Harold Thorne Stultz was a scientist with the Dominion Entomology Laboratory in Annapolis Royal from 1935 until 1952, when it was moved to a new location in Kentville, NS. During his time in town in the 1930s and 1940s he created an extensive collection of portrait photographs of area residents. Stultz retired in 1968. 2005.1246
Robert A. Logan fonds
Fonds · 1919, 1934-1959, [1962]
Fonds consists of records related or possibly related to Robert A. Logan’s activities as a gold prospector in the area around Lake Charlotte, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. During the 1930s, Logan was Vice-President and manager of Prospectors Associated Activities Limited (sometimes abbreviated to PRASAC), a prospecting and mining company based in Lake Charlotte (then known as Ship Harbour Lake). Although he ceased his involvement with PRASAC in the 1940s, Logan may have continued prospecting in the area. The records are primarily related to the purchase of mining and ore-processing equipment and include correspondence, brochures, catalogues, instructions, invoices, receipts, and notes. Accompanying one letter from a manufacturer is a photo of an offered piece of equipment (a concentrating table). Also included are a handwritten table of supplies needed to feed eight men on a 10-week expedition, a typed summary of gold mining operations for the years 1935-1936 and the first quarter of 1937, drafts and instructions for a letterhead design for PRASAC, and a copy of a hand-drawn map sketching shipping routes between PRASAC’s headquarters and major cities in Atlantic Canada, Eastern Canada, and the Northeastern United States. Although most mining-related records are from the 1930s, some date to the 1940s, and one product brochure dates to 1919. Fonds also includes records related to Logan’s life and other activities in the Lake Charlotte area, including correspondence, instructions and brochures related to equipment which Logan bought for his home or personal use. Some instructions are prepared by Logan himself, including a set of handwritten notes and diagrams which details his repairs and installation of a well pump, as well as giving instructions for its use. In addition, fonds includes copies of a plan showing the lands of Lawrence Webber, Upper Lakeville, to be leased by the estate of J. Edward Webber, Lake Charlotte, dated August 8, 1967. Fonds also includes a photograph of Robert A. Logan and his wife Daisy (Barrett) Logan taken in May of 1962. Accession number 2010.006.