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Photographs
Series · ca. 1860-1940
Part of Robert M. Ritcey fonds
Series forms part of the Robert M. Ritcey fonds and consists of copies of photographs of Ritcey family members, including: Edith Ritcey, Captain Simon Ritcey, Charles Doctoral Ritcey, Mary (Newman) Ritcey, John A. Ritcey, James H. Ritcey, Susan (Gaetz) Ritcey, Bessie (Ritcey) Dillaway, Herbert Simon Ritcey, and Clarence E. Ritcey. Also included are notes and information written by Robert Ritcey and Winifred Ross regarding the people who appear in the photographs. Thirteen of the photographs are copied on photo paper, the rest are photocopies on regular paper. Accession number 2012.001
Photographs
Series · 1890-1969
Part of Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Series forms part of the Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds and consists of family photographs and negatives. Included are many photographs of the Ship Harbour area and its residents, particularly Annabel’s home there, both interior and exterior views, the landscape, gardens, her parents, herself, her husband Eddie, and the family’s animals. There are also many photographs of the places where Annabel lived in Halifax including both interior and exterior views, photographs from trips to Ontario and the United States and different locations in Nova Scotia including Peggy’s Cove, Berwick, Kingsport, and Toney River, Pictou Co. where Annabel’s mother was from. Also included are photographs of Eddie Ells and his first wife taken before and after their marriage as well as photographs with their family members in Kingsport where Eddie was from and in Prince Edward Island where his first wife Lillian Genge came from. There are also photographs of Annabel’s friends and colleagues including Peggy Richard Standring and the women who Annabel worked with at the Income Tax Office in Halifax as well as staff members of the Provincial Archives. Also included are a number of unidentified photographs of various people and locations, photographs of a flying club, tombstones, pet cemeteries, railway photographs, automobiles, activities, buildings, ships and other relatives and acquaintances of Annabel and Eddie Ells. Accession number: 2013.066
Photographs
Series · ca. 1890-1995, predominant 1930-1961
Part of Helene Read fonds
Series forms part of the Helene Read fonds and consists of one color photograph of a sandcastle (possibly taken at Clam Harbour Beach) and twenty-three black and white photographs of relatives and friends of Helene Read, as well as possible photographs of herself. Accession number 2013.019
Photographs
Series · ca. 1855-1940
Part of Ronald Slade family fonds
Series forms part of the Ronald Slade family fonds and consists of one black and white photograph of an unidentified child on a blanket outside and one photograph of a couple identified as “Dolly and Jack.”. Also included are fifteen tintypes of unidentified people, presumably members of the Slade family. Accession number 2013.027
Photographs
Series · [ca. 1890]-[ca. 1970]
Part of Anna Barbara Webber family fonds
Series forms part of Anna Barbara Webber family fonds and consists of Webber family photographs. Most of the photographs are of people, approximately ninety photographs of which are identified Webber family members and friends, including Frances (Webber) Robson, Douglas Robson, Gladys (Palmer) Robson, Blois Webber, Allen Webber, Anna Barbara Webber, and others. Several photographs of Blois Webber show him in military uniform, sometimes with other soldiers or with military vehicles, and are related to his service during the Second World War. Series also includes three military group photographs, one including Blois Webber, and the other two possibly including Blois or Allen Webber. Also included is one portrait photograph of Nelson Webber and E.J. “Ned” Webber in military uniform, possibly related to their service during the First World War. There are also photographs of the Webber family home in Upper Lakeville. Series also includes class photographs of the Lower Lakeville School in 1926, 1928, and 1930. In addition, series includes photographs of men at a lumber camp and a photograph of a group of people possibly standing in front of St. James' Anglican Church in Upper Lakeville. All of the photographs are in black and white, except for three colour photographs which are unidentified. Also includes six negatives. Accession numbers: 2010.009, 2010.010
Photographs
Series · [ca. 1900]-[ca.1975]
Part of Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds
Series forms part of the Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds and consists of photographs, including a panoramic black-and-white photograph of Miesner’s Island, Lower East Chezzetcook in ca. 1925- 1926, a black-and-white photograph of oxen teams hauling wood over Porter’s Lake, a colour photograph of a barn, a black-and-white photograph of Rev. Samuel Davies who was rector of the Parish of Seaforth from 1890 to 1925, and two black-and-white portrait photographs of unidentified men.
Photographs
Series · 1961
Part of Ervin E. Webber family fonds
Series forms part of the Ervin E. Webber fonds and consists of one black and white photograph of a yoke of oxen pulling a cart, likely owned by Ervin E. Webber. Accession number: 2013.007
Photographs
Series · ca.1930-1965
Part of Burris Russell fonds
Series forms part of the Burris Russell fonds and consists of two small black and white photographs of the clam factory in Clam Harbour. Accession number: 2013.017
Photographs
Subseries · [ca. 1910]-[ca. 1972]
Part of Helen Jennex fonds
Sub-series forms part of history and heritage activities series of the Helen Jennex fonds and consists of black-and-white photographs of Eastern Shore locations and people which were collected by Helen Jennex. Included are views of Navy Pool, a lobster hatchery and a skating pond in Jeddore, a lumber mill in Oyster Pond, Salmon River, the Clam Bay schoolhouse, a church, and a sailboat called the Viola G. Hartlin. A photograph of two women identifies them as Mrs. Ervin Myers and Mrs. Byron Mitchell, while other photographs of people, including a wedding photograph, are unidentified. Sub-series also includes some school photographs, including Clam Bay School photographs and a photograph of a newspaper team at Robert Jamison Memorial Consolidated High School. Also included is an unusually composed photograph of Oyster Pond schoolchildren posed on the shoreline, which may have been taken sometime around 1910 by itinerant school photographer Frank Adams, possibly while working under the company name O. B. Stubbs. Some of the photographs are printed onto a card backing, and in some cases are in postcard format. Some photographs are also mounted on cardboard. Also included in the sub-series are two colour photographs and a black-and-white photograph of houses, mounted on a piece of paper. The black-and-white photograph has a family in front, with one member identified as Ella Hill. Accession number 2009.039
Photographs
Series · c. 1920- 1980
Part of Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds
Series forms part of the Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds and consists of photographs and copies of photographs of people, buildings, and scenes along the Eastern Shore. Included are photographs of Salmon River Bridge in the 1930s and 1960s, Byron Myers’ store and post office and Nat Dooks’ store at Head of Jeddore, fish stores owned by Mr. Jim and Captain Will Harpell (grandfather of Grace), the ship Hans Leonhardt which was on her maiden voyage from Germany to Jeddore in September of 1938 and in port during the Czecho-Slovakian crisis, HMCS Sackville in 1944, Jeddore Harbour in winter, several photographs of unidentified people, the United Church at Head of Jeddore, St. George’s Church in Ostrea Lake, the Baptist Church in Oyster Pond, and Reverend Robert Jamieson. Also included are copies of a photograph of Harpell’s Cove showing the home of Jeremiah and Emma Harpell c. 1920, a general view of West Jeddore, and several postcards featuring scenes of Ostrea Lake and Jeddore as well as two negatives including one of Ostrea Lake School, and a clipped picture of the T.S.S. Liverpool Rover. Accession number: 2010.032