Item is a first floor plan of the Macdonald Library as suggested (and perhaps drawn) by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, who was president of Dalhousie from 1911-1931.
Item is a ground floor plan of the Macdonald Library indicating men and women's reading rooms; cataloguing and accession rooms; librarians' offices; future reading rooms additions and the lower floor of the future stacks room. There are also inset sketches of reading room layouts with desks and capacity calculations.
Item is a 1930 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the first floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a women's cloakroom, five lecture rooms, a faculty room and two studies.
Item is a 1929 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the ground floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a women's cloakroom, three lecture rooms, a general office, offices for the registrar, secretary and president, and a business office, including a mimeograph room.
Item is a 1932 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the first floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a women's cloakroom, four lecture rooms, a faculty room and small study.
Item is a 1929 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the first floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a women's restroom, general offices, offices for the president, registrar and secretary, and three lecture rooms.
File contains detailed drawings for furniture and fittings for the Medical Science Building, including cabinet tables for the bio-chemistry residents' room.
File contains seven sheets of FSD (full-scale detail) drawings of masonry for details such as cornices, pilaster boxes and string courses, window sills, and mouldings for the Medical Science Laboratory at Dalhousie University. There are also vestibule details, including the fanlight over the main entrance door. Drawings include elevations, plans and sections.
Item is a 1930 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the fourth floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes the upper part of the third-floor lecture and arts rooms, two laboratories, six studies and an undesignated room. A note on the plans indicates that the corridor to the studies was waiting for the steel trusses design.
Item is a 1932 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the fourth floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes the upper part of a third-floor lecture hall, two laboratories and six studies.
Item is a first floor plan of the Macdonald Library indicating lecture rooms and sizes and showing the upper part of the future stacks room. There are also two inset sketches of lecture room layouts, one to seat 45 and the other to seat 110; a list of subjects with corresponding professors' initials; and a note indicating the present use of second and third floors by Arts classes. The reverse side has red pencil or charcoal lines marking the walls and is marked "L46" in the lower right corner.
File contains Andrew Cobb's rough sketches drawn on pages from a foolscap notebook for the Medical Science Building, including rudimentary elevations and floorplans; a note regarding the necessity of provision for women's lockers and lavatories and the possibility of a medical library; and an overhead drawing of a teaching theatre. File also includes five sheets of 1/16" scale drawings that include basement, first and second floor plans, and longitudinal and cross sections. The pages are all marked: "Please return to A.S.M. (Arthur Stanley Mackenzie)," and the first floor plan also has a note reading: "On S.S. 'Virginian' / July 1st/21."
File contains three versions of elevations of the Macdonald Library building shown adjacent to the Science Building, which was completed one year prior to the library.
Item is a pencil drawing of the east elevation of the Macdonald Library's stack room. Labelled "A1," it is one of four extant drawings showing different window configurations for the east facing wall and was probably drawn by Frank Darling, the consulting architect. The plan is also labelled L.13 in the bottom right corner.
Item is a pencil drawing of the east elevation of the Macdonald Library's stack room. Labelled "B," it is one of four extant drawings showing different window configurations for the east facing wall and was probably drawn by Frank Darling, the consulting architect.
Item is a pencil drawing of the east elevation of the Macdonald Library's stack room. Labelled "B2," it is one of four extant drawings showing different window configurations for the east facing wall and is signed by (Frank) Darling, the consulting architect.
File contains a set of ten construction blueprints for a three-story house with six bedrooms and a maid's room, designed by Willam R. Cobb. The house was built in 1926 for William MacInnes (of W.R. MacInnes & Co, General Insurance Agents and Investment Bankers) at 18 Oxford Street, Halifax. In 1975 Dalhousie University purchased the house (then 135 Oxford Street) to convert to student housing. By 1984 the house had been replaced with a condominium complex called Oxford Court. The drawings are labelled sheets 1-10, and include plans, elevations, sections and roof details.
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.
File contains architectural drawings by Andrew Cobb for a proposed medical school building: two sets of basement, first and second floor plans; and single drawings of the front, end and rear elevations; cross and longitudinal sections; and a proposed layout for a physiology dark theatre.
File contains blueprint drawings of construction details, including window details; beam reinforcement; trusses; full-scale exterior masonry details; and the lettering for the cornerstone.
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 a set of construction drawings by architect Andrew R. Cobb for the Medical Science Laboratory, known as the Medical Science Building, which originally housed the departments of physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and hygiene. Eventually it became home to School of Pharmacy and was renamed the Burbidge Building. The drawings are labelled Job No. K. 147, Sheet Nos. 1-20, and were drawn and traced by P.K.A. and C.W. Drawing types include a foundation plan, elevations, sections, gas, air, electrical and wiring plans. Framing and footing plans were created in partnership with Pickings & Roland, Engineers. There is also an electrostatic print set reproduced on polyester. Included in the file is an original excavation plan dated August 25, 1921 and a front elevation labelled Dalhousie Medical School.
File contains an incomplete set of ink on waxed-linen construction drawings for Dalhousie University's arts building, which was designed by Andrew Cobb and Frank Darling and built in 1921 on Studley Campus. Sheet no. 5 is missing, but is extant in a set of blueprints located in Box 1, Folder 7. Sheet no. 4 is a version in pencil on tissue. Most of the drawings were made by A.M.K., traced by P.K.A., and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew Cobb).
File contains blueprints of plans for both the Medical School and the Public Health Clinic, including: furnishings detail plans; heating layout floor plans; early sketches; and construction drawings.
