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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).

Facsimile of a pencil sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of an officer angered by a sailor

Item consists of a facsimile of a pencil sketch by D.C. Mackay from the early 1940s of an officer dressing down an insubordinate sailor. The perspective appears to be from the corner of George Street and Brunswick Street in Halifax. An accompanying caption reads: "Like he said -- / 'Never salute an officer / with a cig in your mouth"

Caricature of Yuill

Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920.

Caricature of Simpson

Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920. Caption says “Come right in boys, I’m serving tea.”

Our castle dreamer

Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920.

Epsom Salt

Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920. Caption says "If “Salts” have lost its savour where with shall it be salted?"

Drawings of the 1949 Dalhousie University mace

  • 2017-003, OS Folder 1
  • File
  • 1949

File contains 15 drawings of the ceremonial mace designed in 1949 by Chasteney Holbourne Saunders, former head of the Department of Anatomy. The mace was carved in oak, decorated with silver and enamel, and measured 1.4 metres in length. First used in the 1950 convocation, the mace was retired in 1919 when the university introduced the "New Dawn Staff of Place and Belonging" as its ceremonial object.

There is one full-scale drawing in ink and three reduced reproductions mounted on board. The remainder are rough sketches and detail drawings in pencil of the emblems and figures that Saunders employed to represent maritime traditions and the historical significance of Dalhousie’s service to the Atlantic provinces.

Henry Orenstein's sketches

File contains sketches of various persons and scenes, including Joan rehearsing "La Sagouine," "Purcell's Cove Social Club, 1960s," "Extinct Species, Fisherman 1960s," "Do you know Anyone who Wants A Man?" "Musicians," "Instruments," "Masks," and three sketches of unidentified persons. File also contains a copy of the sketch "Juno & the Paycock" and a photograph of the "Masks" exhibition attached to the sketch.

Public Health Clinic

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design and construction of the Public Health Clinic, variously called the Public Health Centre and the Dalhousie Medical Clinic. The building was designed by Halifax architect Andrew Randall Cobb, built between 1922 and 1924. and renamed the Clinical Research Centre ca. 1967.

"Bear-cat" Harrison

Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920.

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Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920.

Caricature of Clouston

Item is a caricature created by Alexander Sutherland Murray. The caricature depicts a student that attended Pine Hill Divinity Hall ca. 1920.

Dalhousie Arts Building

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.

Campus site plans

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design and layout of the Studley and Carleton Campuses. Records include topographical maps and layouts.

Dalhousie University's Medical Science Building

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.

Budge Wilson fonds

  • MS-2-650
  • Fonds
  • 1948-2018
Fonds consists of manuscripts and proofs of Budge Wilson's books and short stories; correspondence with publishers, students, and teachers; publicity material; photocopies and clippings of reviews, profiles, and notices regarding awards and appearances; diaries; recorded radio interviews; and an assortment of other documents created and collected by the author throughout her writing career. The fonds also contains materials relating to the adaptation of Wilson's novel "Before Green Gables" into a Japanese animated television series.
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