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Archival description
Collection · 1905-1914, predominant 1906-1912
Collection consists of postcards accumulated by Anna Barbara Webber. Postcards date from 1905 to 1914, but predominantly from 1906 to 1912. Most postcards are addressed either to Anna Barbara or to her (then) future husband William Wilson Webber, although there are also some to other family members. Most of the postcards refer to events and activities on the Eastern Shore and in Dartmouth, where Anna Barbara lived during this time period. Postcards are each assigned an individual number from 1 to 696, and are arranged into five categories pertaining to their styles or types: postcards representing specific communities, landscape postcards, photograph postcards, greeting cards, and romance cards. Within each category, cards are arranged in order of their number. Accession number 2008.013.
Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1900-1969]
The fonds consists of records accumulated by Annabel (Siteman) Ells during the course of her research on the area of Ship Harbour and the families who lived there as well as personal records created and accumulated throughout her lifetime. The fonds includes a wide variety of records such as land related documents, wills, Loyalist petitions, census information, court papers, church registers and vital statistics including marriage, birth, and death records; school papers, genealogies, clippings and notes taken from various newspapers and periodicals, photographs and negatives, correspondence, postcards, and diaries. The records within the fonds shed light on the history of Ship Harbour and its families, the work of Annabel Ells, her personal life from a young girl growing up on the Eastern Shore to travelling as a young woman and attending school, entering into various careers, living as an independent woman in the early 20th century, her marriage later in life and her lifelong interest in her Ship Harbour home. http://www.heritagevillage.ca/LCASresources/Annabel_%28Siteman%29_Ells_fonds_Inventory.pdf Accession number 2013.066
Fonds · 1834, 1873-[ca. 1975], [1995?]
Fonds consists of records of the family of F. Mitchell and the related Hosking family of Nova Scotia and includes financial records, records related to the Murray Harbour Black and Silver Fox Ranching Company, photographs, diary excerpts, correspondence, certificates, records related to tourism, wartime and military memorabilia, religious records, records related to the Freemasons, and music. Accession numbers 2003.011, 2006.001, 2010.011, 2010.012 and 2010.013.
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
Troops Embarking at Halifax
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Item is a photographic postcard of a number of troops embarking at Halifax during the First World War. Soldiers in full uniform are visible on the upper and lower decks of the boat while onlookers, mostly in daywear, are visible on the dock. A handwritten note in the middle of the photo reads: "Troops Embarking At Halifax N.S.." 77-1538-1672
The Armories, Halifax
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Item is a photographic postcard showing the Halifax Armories during the First World War. It was sent by a soldier to Gerald Liscombe from Halifax on November 21, 1914. 77-1540-1674
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Item is a postcard of coal miners mining on the 'Flats' between Main and Brown Streets in Sydney Mines. 77-323-457
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Item is a postcard of coal miners mining on the 'Flats' between Main and Brown Streets in Sydney Mines. 77-324-458
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Item is a postcard of coal miners mining on the 'Flats' between Main and Brown Streets in Sydney Mines. 77-326-460