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Porpoise oil / by Alexander H. Leighton, MD : [manuscript]

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 1
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[after 1937]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed manuscript by Alexander Leighton describing his 1936 summer project filming a recreation of a traditional Digby County Mi'kmaq porpoise hunt and the subsequent rendering of the blubber into oil. The manuscript was commissioned by the magazine Movie Makers.

"Selected for Exhibit" at the First International Photographic Exhibition

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 4
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1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a medallion awarded to Alexander Leighton for his film Porpoise Oil's selection for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition held at Grand Central Palace in New York, April 18-24, 1938.

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