Archives Catalogue

Additions & alterations to library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 15
Item
May 1, 1920

Item is a sheet containing construction details for alterations to a counter and balcony

Additions and alterations to a library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 9
File
May 1, 1920

File contains the heating plan for the Macdonald Library stack room and second floor, drawn by architect Andrew R. Cobb and Chris Harrington, heating engineer.

Additions and alterations to library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 22
File
May 1, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

File contains a blueprint set of six sheets of drawings of additions and alterations to the Macdonald Library, which was for the stack room constructed in 1920.

Alterations and additions to library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, OS Folder 31
File
1950 ; 1955

Part of Facilities Management

File contains a blueprint set of eight sheets of drawings of alterations and additions to the Macdonald Library and nine drawings from 1955, both by architect Leslie Fairn.

Arthur MacKenzie's plans for the Macdonald Memorial Library

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 4
File

Part of Facilities Management

File contains drawings by President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, headed with a note that reads: "My first drafts of Library with narrow front allowing of Extension to footprint size." His drawings show the library as being a long, south-facing building with three floors and plans to extend wings on either side.

Draft floor plan for the Macdonald Library

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 9
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

Item is an unsigned sketch (likely by President Arthur MacKenzie) for the Macdonald Library that indicates two lecture rooms, a faculty room, offices for the president, bursar and secretary, and coat and toilet facilities for faculty.

Draft floor plans for the Macdonald Library

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 8
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

Item is an unsigned sketch, likely drawn by President Arthur MacKenzie, of first and second floor plans for the Macdonald Library, indicating stack rooms and undefined extensions to the rear of the building as well as the front.

East elevation : Dalhousie Library stack rm. (B2)

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 5
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

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.

East elevation : Dalhousie Library stack (B)

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 10
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

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.

East elevation : stack room, Dalhousie University (A1)

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 2
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

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.

Elevation drawings of the Library and Science buildings

UA-9, OS Folder 7
File
[1913?]

Part of Facilities Management

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.

Elevation, library building

UA-9, OS Folder 2, Item 3
Item
Febuary 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is an elevation of the Macdonald Memorial Library drawn by Andrew Cobb.

First floor, library building

UA-9, OS Folder 2, Item 1
Item
Febuary 1913

Part of Facilities Management

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.

Floor plan : stack room, Dalhousie University (A)

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 11
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a floor plan of the Macdonald Library's stack room. Labelled "A," it is signed by Darling.

Floor plan : stack, Dalhousie Library (B)

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 4
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a floor plan of the Macdonald Library's stack room. Labelled "B," it is signed by Cobb.

Ground floor, library building

UA-9, OS Folder 2, Item 2
Item
Febuary 1913

Part of Facilities Management

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.

Library building for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 7
Item
March 15, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a second floor plan of the Macdonald Library as suggested (and perhaps drawn) by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, who was president of Dalhousie from 1911-1931.

Library building for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 6
Item
March 15, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

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.

Library for Dalhousie : 1/4 inch scale details of hall and vestibule

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 10
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 11 of 16 construction drawings for the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University. The drawings are of 1/4" scale hall and vestibule details and include elevations, a floor plan and a 3/4" scale detail of brick wainscoting. The sheet contains the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Library for Dalhousie : longitudinal section looking south

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 9
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 10 of 16 construction drawings for the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the MacDonald Building) at Dalhousie University. The drawing is a longitudinal section looking south and has the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Library for Dalhousie : plan and section of main entrance

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 12
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 15 of 16 construction drawings of the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University and includes a plan and section of the main entrance. The sheet contains the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Library for Dalhousie University : detail of reading room windows

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 13
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 16 of 16 construction drawings of the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University and includes 3/4" scale details of windows, both sections and elevations. The sheet contains the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Library for Dalhousie University : east elevation

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 5
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 5 of 16 construction drawings of the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University. The drawing is of the east elevation and 3/4" scale details of roof vents and copper hopper heads, and has the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Library for Dalhousie University : longitudinal section looking north

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 8
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 9 of 16 construction drawings for the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the MacDonald Building) at Dalhousie University. The drawing is a longitudinal section looking north with a 1/2" scale detail of a concrete beam and has the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Library for Dalhousie University : north elevation

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 7
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 7 of 16 construction drawings of the MacDonald Memorial Library (now the MacDonald Building) at Dalhousie University. The drawing is of the north elevation and has the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Library for Dalhousie University : south elevation

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 4
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 4 of 16 construction drawings for the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University. The drawing is of the south elevation and has the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Library for Dalhousie University : west elevation

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 6
Item
December 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 6 of 16 construction drawings of the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University, as well as 3/4" scale details of the Reading Room mantels and fireplaces. The drawing has the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

MacDonald Library bookcase details

UA-9, OS Folder 28
File
1915 ; 1958

Part of Facilities Management

File contains full-scale and 3/4-scale shelving detail drawings; details for a chimney-top rain shield; and a leaded letters template for the O.E. Smith Wing addition built in 1956.

Macdonald Library revised entrance window details

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 14
Item
June 23, 1914

Part of Facilities Management

Item is an unnumbered sheet containing construction drawings of exterior and interior half elevations of the entrance windows of the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University. The "detail has precedence over sheets nos. 12 & 13 of original drawings."

Macdonald Memorial Library

Subseries

Part of Facilities Management

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.

Macdonald Memorial Library building drawings

UA-9, OS Folder 2
File
February 1913

Part of Facilities Management

File contains three drawings of the Macdonald Memorial Library, including an elevation and ground and first floor plans.

Macdonald Memorial Library construction and heating and ventilation blueprints

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 3
File
Dec 20, 1913

Part of Facilities Management

File contains two complete sets of construction blueprints for the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University, which was designed by Halifax architect Andrew R. Cobb with consulting architect Frank Darling of Toronto. One set was reproduced from the set of 16 original sheets signed by G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald, all but three of which (nos. 8, 12 and 14) are located in UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1. The other blueprints are marked "set no. 4" and were reproduced before/without the approval signatures. There is also an incomplete set of diazo prints (purple ink on cream paper), as well as a complete set of heating and ventilating blueprints produced by MacMullen, Riley & Durley, Consulting Engineers, and signed by G.S. Campbell and A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald.

Macdonald Memorial Library construction drawings

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 21
File
1913 - 1920, predominant 1913

Part of Facilities Management

File contains an electrostatic print set reproduced on polyester of Sheet Nos. 1-16 of Andrew Cobb's construction drawings for the Macdonald Library, as well as a sheet of window details dated June 23, 1914 and one sheet of drawings of additions and alterations dated May 1, 1920.

Macdonald Memorial Library construction drawings

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1913 - 1920, predominant 1913

Part of Facilities Management

File contains construction drawings for the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University, which was designed by Halifax architect Andrew R. Cobb with consulting architect Frank Darling of Toronto. The bulk of the drawings are part of an original set of 16 sheets dated Dec. 20, 1913 that contain the approval signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald. Sheets 8, 12 and 14 are missing, but are extant as blueprints in Box 1, Folder 2. File also contains a 1914 drawing showing revised window details and a sheet no. 6 from a 1920 alteration to the library. Drawing types include floor plans, elevations, sections and details.

Macdonald Memorial Library stack room floor plans and elevations

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1913

Part of Facilities Management

File contains a floor plan and exterior elevations for the MacDonald Library stacks, which show three different window styles for the east facing wall. There are also some early floor plans for the library indicating room appointments and elevations of bookshelves. Drawings are by both Andrew Cobb and Frank Darling.

North elevation (A2)

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 3
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a pencil drawing of the north elevation of the Macdonald Library's stack room. Labelled "A2," it is one of four extant drawings of exterior elevations showing window configurations and is signed in the bottom right corner by (Frank) Darling, the consulting architect.

Pencil sketch of bookshelves, radiator and window in the Macdonald Library

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 13
Item
[191-]

Part of Facilities Management

Item is an unsigned drawing showing a typical elevation and section of the bookshelves in the Macdonald Memorial Library.

Photographic reproduction of an Andrew Cobb drawing of the Library Building at Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
1913

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a photograph of an original wash drawing of the McDonald Library made by Andrew Cobb in December 1913. The mount board on which it was taped had an exhibit note from the Dalhousie Art Gallery stating that the whereabouts of the original is unknown.

Photographic reproduction of Andrew Cobb's drawing of the Dalhousie Library Reading Room