Fonds comprises Alan Andrew's personal and professional correspondence; reports; newsletters; journals; conference notes; committee minutes and budgets; theatre scripts and production records including costume sketches and photographs.
Fonds consists of manuscripts and proofs of Budge Wilson's books and short stories; correspondence with publishers, students, and teachers; publicity material; photocopies and clippings of reviews, profiles, and notices regarding awards and appearances; diaries; recorded radio interviews; and an assortment of other documents created and collected by the author throughout her writing career. The fonds also contains materials relating to the adaptation of Wilson's novel "Before Green Gables" into a Japanese animated television series.
Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design and layout of the Studley and Carleton Campuses. Records include topographical maps, layouts
Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920. Caption says “Come right in boys, I’m serving tea.”
File contains three sets of drawings for the Central Services parkade produced by Chebucto Engineering Limited Consulting Engineers, Brandys McBride Richardson Engineering, and Rendan Fabricators.
Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay dated December 15, 1943, showing a Canadian sailor performing sentry duty on Jetty #4 on the Halifax waterfront.
Item consists of a charcoal and pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay in the early 1940s depicting a downtown Halifax street scene. Possibly looking from near Province House, corner of Prince and Granville Streets.
Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to an arts building at Dalhousie, which the administration called the Law (Temporarily Arts) Building. It was occupied by arts faculty until 1952, when it did briefly house the law school; in 1967 it became the Faculty Club, which is now known as the University Club. The third building on Studley Campus, it was a part of the original campus plan drawn up by Toronto architect Frank Darling in collaboration with Halifax-based architect Andrew R. Cobb and Dalhousie's governors. The subseries also includes drawings for a later building planned as an Arts Building, which was never constructed.
File contains 1 copy of the sketch of the University mace drawn by Professor R. L. de C. H. Saunders, 1 copy of a newspaper article regarding the mace and the dedication from the convocation program in 1950.
Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to the Medical Science Building (renamed the Burbidge Building in 1970), designed by Halifax architect Andrew Randall Cobb and built between 1922-and 1924. Cobb's plans allowed for a third floor addition, which was built in 1978.
Files includes two original artwork illustrations for MacMechan's Chap books, which were a series of 16 short publications, including travel guides, fiction and poetry.
File contains nine drawings of the Dalhousie University mace created by R.L. de C.H. Saunders, a Dalhousie University Professor of Anatomy who designed the mace in 1949. The drawings illustrate details of various parts of the mace. The mace was carved by former Deputy Mayor of Halifax A.H. Macmillan. It is used during convocation ceremonies and stored in University Hall.
File contains two drafts of Budge Wilson's book "Duff's Monkey Business" and related correspondence with the publisher, Formac Publishing Company Limited, which include early proposed drawings by the illustrator Kim LaFave.
