John Gorham fonds

• Fonds
• 1748 - 1750

Fonds consists of a single volume used as a waste or note book in which Gorham recorded, for the most part, financial transactions. In places the book displays some evidence that entries were later copied to ledger books recording the accounts of ...

Alexander H. Leighton fonds

• Fonds
• [ca. 1880]-1974, predominant 1950-1953

Fonds consists of photographs (negatives, contact prints, selected enlargements, and slides) created and accumulated in the course of the Stirling County Study directed by Leighton. The fonds consists primarily of prints and negatives taken by chi...

Bridge tokens

• File
• [1955 - 198?]

Part of Reference Collection

File consists of 8 metal tokens from the Halifax Dartmouth Bridge Commission for auto and station wagon.

Promotional matchbook covers

• File
• [1954?]-[1995?]

Part of Reference Collection

File consists of 4 promotional matchbooks for the campaign of Leonard Kitz as mayor, for the campaign of Dr. C.L. Grosse as candidate for Halifax South, and 2 for the City of Dartmouth.

Rules and Regulations of the Volunteer Engine Company of Halifax, Nova Scotia

• Item
• 1863

Part of Reference Collection

Item consists of a published booklet of the Volunteer Engine Company's rules and regulations. List of Officers on back page. The Volunteer Engine Company was the private fire-fighting company that succeeded the Union Engine Company.

A decade of reading pleasure 1951-1961: 75 books in the adult circulating collection of the Halifax Memorial Library published during the library's first decade

• Item
• [1961?]

Part of Reference Collection

Natal Day programs

• File
• 1977-1979, 1983, 1985, 2002-2009, 2012

Part of Reference Collection

The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children

• Item
• 1955

Part of Reference Collection

Item consists of a promotional pamphlet for the Nova Scotia Home for Coloured Children, giving short descriptions of the Home's history, admittance procedures, costs, and a farm that provided profits to the Home. The pamphlet also includes brief m...

Introducing the Halifax Infirmary to our patients, their families and friends

• Item
• [1949?]

Part of Reference Collection

Item consists of an information booklet provided to new patients to explain hospital services, customs, regulations, and staff. Includes a brief history of the Halifax Infirmary.

Historic Halifax: A pocket guide book

• Item
• 1949

Part of Reference Collection

Item consists of a tourist's guide book for Halifax published in celebration of the city's bicentennial. It is part historical essay and tour of the sights related to that history, with illustrations and photographs.