Collection contains seventy-seven glass plate lantern slides created by Byron Ulric Hatfield in Nova Scotia during the early twentieth century. Hatfield took photographs of coastal landscapes, churches and other buildings, and people working and in social settings. He also photographed published illustrations of Acadian life, including several illustrations of scenes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie." Hatfield developed his own photographs and created "magic lantern" slides to use in an illustrated lecture titled "The Land of Evangeline: The Land of Romance, Legend, and Picturesque Beauty." He gave lectures in various locations throughout the eastern United States.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of an illustration of the Friends Almshouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Original source of the illustration is unknown. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
Item is a hand coloured glass plate transparency of Barrington Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
Item is a glass plate transparency of cannons near an entrance to Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
Item is a hand coloured glass plate lantern slide of Halifax, Nova Scotia seen from Citadel Hill. The photograph shows Citadel Hill cannons in the foreground and the Halifax Town Clock in the middleground. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the harbour at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. The slide shows the harbour at low tide. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.