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Photograph of a news clipping of a Landscape photograph

item is a copy photo of a newspaper clipping from the "Standard", Montreal, Canada March 18, 1916, showing a rural landscape with the letter "X" marked in a field. The text reads in part: "An Historic Spot in Eastern Canada. - The "X" in the Standard's engraving marks the site of the barn in which the first meeting of the Pictou Presbytery in Pictou, N. S., was held. In this house Rev. George Monro Grant (1877-1902) Principal of Queens University spent many... "

Photograph of a drawing of Reverend Thomas McCulloch

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).

Photograph of John Lewis Madden

Item is a portrait photograph of John Lewis Madden (1874-1928) wearing an overcoat with fur collar and lining and holding a bowler hat, standing with one hand on a pillar, facing to the side; 3/4 pose. Madden was married twice, once to Loretta Christena Campbell.

Photograph of J.K. McDonald

Item is photographic portrait of James McDonald (1876-1952), the son of Duncan (1841-1929) and Elizabeth Davidson McDonald (1840-1923). He was from Coalburn, Pictou County, was married to Mary McDonald (1879-1967), and had a son, Duncan Davidson McDonald (1908-1985).

Photograph of Jet McColl

Item is a portrait photograph of Jet McColl seated; bust. Envelope annotated: "This lady is wearing a beautiful floral pattern dress. She also has a very interesting hair pin. It is in the shape of a sword."
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