File consists of students drawings, from the Halifax Grammar School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, of Victor the boa constrictor, as represented in the poem Victor by Budge Wilson.
File is a reproduction of a sketch from The Nova Scotia Museum Centennial Collection. Inscription: The Medical Warehouse, built about 1850, was situated at the corner of Granville and George Streets. The site is now occupied by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. After a photograph courtesy of The Nova Scotia Museum.
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 Science Building, now the Chemistry Building, the first building constructed on Studley Campus, started in 1912 and completed in 1915.
File includes an article about Mildred MacDonald's time at Dalhousie University, newspaper clippings of a poem by E. Anne Ryan and of an advertisement of the opening of the Park Lane building in Halifax, three art pieces regarding Canada's landscape, invitations, a Dalhousie University programme of a symposium on undergraduate education, and other materials.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's items of interest collected throughout his life, including biographical materials, art pieces, newspaper clippings, periodicals, books, and other materials.
Fonds comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal, academic, and professional activities as a jurist, judge, and professor. Records include those related to Macdonald's involvement with Osgoode Hall, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, Peking University, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Records types include correspondence; meeting minutes and agendas; research materials; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clippings; manuscripts; and off-prints.
Fonds consists of materials collected by Ronald Justin Inness about ships and shipping companies, including pamphlets, manuscripts, clippings, and correspondence. Fonds also contains manuscripts written by Ronald Justin Inness about the Innes' genealogy.
Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design and construction of the Public Health Clinic, variously called the Public Health Centre and the Dalhousie Medical Clinic. The building was designed by Halifax architect Andrew Randall Cobb, built between 1922 and 1924. and renamed the Clinical Research Centre ca. 1967.
Item is a print of the drawings of the fireplace and gable at Province House and the ship's bell at Government House. See MS-2-82, Box 43, Folder 33 and 34.
File comprises unrealized aerial perspective and site plan drawings for a future medical school at Dalhousie. There are also two plans of Studley campus showing the potential site for the new King's College buildings.
Item is a glass plate of a drawing of Rev. Thomas McCulloch, D.D. The drawing by Arthur Lismer itself is based on a painting of McCulloch by Daniel Munro. The drawing was commissioned and used for history books on Dalhousie University, like One hundred years of Dalhousie 1818-1918 (1920), and Daniel Cobb Harvey's, An introduction to the history of Dalhousie (1938).
Item consists of an engraving of the interior of the Nova Scotia College of Art on Coburg Road, drawn in 1934 by J. Macintyre, and collected by D.C. Mackay.
Item consists of notes and assembly diagrams for exhibits at the Black Wimmin: When And Where We Enter exhibition at Eye Level Gallery, September 1989.
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 Macdonald Memorial Library, now known as the Macdonald Building.
Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920. Caption says "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. 23: 5"
Fonds consists of Joan and Henry Orenstein's materials regarding their professional activities, including photographs, negatives, sketches, programs, flyers, posters, postcards, slides, correspondence and other materials. Fonds includes several photographs of Joan Orenstein acting, Henry Orenstein's art pieces and sketches, and Joan and Henry Orenstein's family photographic negatives.
Collection comprises newspaper articles, programmes, tickets and schedules from sporting events in Truro, Bridgewater, Wolfville and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, during the 1940s and 1950s.
File contains sketches produced by Henry Orenstein in the course of his creative process in the concept development of the Sudbury Industrial Landscape, a 1950s commission by the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers of Sudbury for a mural on the local union hall.
File contains sketches of various persons and scenes, including Joan rehearsing "La Sagouine," "Purcell's Cove Social Club, 1960s," "Extinct Species, Fisherman 1960s," "Do you know Anyone who Wants A Man?" "Musicians," "Instruments," "Masks," and three sketches of unidentified persons. File also contains a copy of the sketch "Juno & the Paycock" and a photograph of the "Masks" exhibition attached to the sketch.
Series consists of Henry Orenstein's materials regarding his professional activities, including photographs, negatives, sketches, programs, flyers, posters, postcards, slides, correspondence and other materials. Fonds contains several of Henry Orenstein's art pieces and sketches, including related to the "Sudbury Industrial Landscape" project. In the 1950s, Henry Orenstein was commissioned by the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers of Sudbury to paint a mural for the local union hall, which was the centre of a broad-ranging cultural role of Mine Mill Local 598 in the Sudbury area. At that time, Mine Mill was in the midst of a series of raids by the United Steelworkers.
File contains set and lighting designs for Neptune Theatre's 1992 production of "Goodnight Desdemona," directed by Mary Vingoe and designed by Stephen Osler (set) and Leslie Wilkinson (lights).
Item consists of a facsimile of a pencil sketch by D.C. Mackay from the early 1940s of an officer dressing down an insubordinate sailor. The perspective appears to be from the corner of George Street and Brunswick Street in Halifax. An accompanying caption reads: "Like he said -- / 'Never salute an officer / with a cig in your mouth"
Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920. Caption says "If “Salts” have lost its savour where with shall it be salted?"
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.
File contains 15 drawings of the ceremonial mace designed in 1949 by Chasteney Holbourne Saunders, former head of the Department of Anatomy. The mace was carved in oak, decorated with silver and enamel, and measured 1.4 metres in length. First used in the 1950 convocation, the mace was retired in 1919 when the university introduced the "New Dawn Staff of Place and Belonging" as its ceremonial object.
There is one full-scale drawing in ink and three reduced reproductions mounted on board. The remainder are rough sketches and detail drawings in pencil of the emblems and figures that Saunders employed to represent maritime traditions and the historical significance of Dalhousie’s service to the Atlantic provinces.
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.
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