Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference collection
- UA-43-REF
- Collection
- 1830-2012
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference collection
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Home Reading Course development collection - Division of Adult Education, Prince Edward Island
Susan Horne's home economists in agriculture collection
Horne, Susan
Photographs of Middle Musquodoboit buildings
McFetridge, Donald Roderick
Murphy, Lynn
Carl A. Ritcey photograph collection (PG-2-43)
Photographs of ships from Clifford Handy
Canadian agriculture collection
Dalhousie University. University of the Air
Canadian Farm Problems - radio broadcast guide notes collection
Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection
Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection
Zillig, Edith
Murchy, Don
Longley, Charles Frederick, 1870-1945
Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital collection
Canada. Canadian Army Medical Corps. Canadian Stationary Hospital, no. 7
Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture reference collection
Dalhousie University. Faculty of Agriculture
Agricultural archives reference collection
Deale, Irving Thomas
World War One American war effort posters
Jim Neary agriculture collection
Armand Therrien Photograph Collection
Therrien, Armand
Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists biography collection
Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists
Nova Scotia artificial insemination industry collection
Charlotte Geddie Harrington Collection
Harrington, Charlotte Geddie
Ruth (Goodman) Pink's Dalhousie student scrapbooks
Pink, Ruth Marilyn (Goodman)
Pullen, H.F. (Hugh Francis), 1905-1983
Douglas Lochhead poetry collection
Lochhead, Douglas
Farm Equipment Museum time capsule
Farm Equipment Museum
Anne Bishop's Icelandic sheep in Nova Scotia collection
Photographs of Zellers after V.E. Riot
Arthur Lismer's Dalhousie sketches
Collection includes 41 original pen and ink drawings by Arthur Lismer commissioned ca. 1919 by Dalhousie's Centenary Committee to illustrate its history of the university's first century: One Hundred Years of Dalhousie, 1818–1918, which was published in 1920. The collection includes the original and some unfinished and/or unpublished versions of all but one of the 26 illustrations used in the book, which features historic and contemporary Dalhousie figures and buildings. There are several portraits of President Arthur Stanley Mackenzie, which were rejected in favour of publishing a photographic image, as well as a rough sketch of Lismer's daughter, Marjorie. Also included in the collection are 22 reproductions, which are probably printer's proofs, given the poor quality of the paper.
Twelve of the Lismer images were also reproduced in the booklet titled simply Dalhousie University, which was produced by the Dalhousie Million Committee as part of the promotional literature supporting the university's 1920 Million Dollar Campaign and published shortly after the Centenary Committee's book.
There is little documentary evidence beyond these two publications regarding the precise date or other details of the Lismer commission; one of the drawings is marked "1 March 1920," and another "27 March 1920," on date-received stamps from the engraving department of Rous & Mann, the Toronto company that printed both publications. The existing archival correspondence between the university and the printer (UA-3, Box 621, Folder 6) is from the Million Committee file, and refers only peripherally to the Centenary Committee's book project. A letter dated 24 March 1920 from Rous & Mann advises that the cuts, or illustrations, proposed for use in the campaign booklet were "at present locked up for the printing of the other Book in course of preparation," while later correspondence indicates that the printing and delivery of the campaign booklet gained precedence over the commemorative history, and the first run of these booklets was shipped on 17 April. The history was printed shortly after that, although by 26 May it had already been reprinted, owing to the misspelling of George Stewart Campbell, whose middle name appears in the first printing as "Stuart." The existence of the misprinted copies is due to their purchase at a steep discount by the Million Committee, who wrote: "... if the price were attractive a way might be found to use them."
No correspondence or documents have been found in the Dalhousie University Archives regarding Lismer's actual commission: within the Million Committee's correspondence file exists a single telegram from President Mackenzie to Arthur Lismer, dated 3 April 1920, which expresses a need to rush the printing along with the instruction: "leave layout to your judgement," the sole reference to Lismer's role in either project.
Lismer, Arthur
Robert Arthur (Bob) Stead collection
Stead, Robert Arthur
Lesbian Oral Histories collection
Dougald MacGillivray's photographic portrait collection
MacGillivray, Dougald, 1862-1937
Tractor and farm equipment manual collection
Agricultural correspondence collection
Dalhousie University Reference Collection
Wamboldt-Waterfield Photographic Collection
Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited
Nova Scotia Agricultural College international agriculture collection
Collection of records related to sheep and wool
Atlantic Canada co-operatives collection
Maritime science fiction and fantasy societies collection
Professor David Morice Leigh Farr theatre program collection
Stephen Archibald's student protest photographs
Collection comprises 34 mounted photographs of political demonstrations and protest marches organized by Dalhousie students between 1967 and 1970. The photographs were taken by students for the Dalhousie Gazette and/or Pharos yearbook and were compiled and printed by Stephen Archibald for a show in the Student Union Building in Spring 1971. The scope and content notes for the images are drawn from the background information provided by Stephen Archibald, who writes: "The pictures were taken by young men in their late teens and early 20s who had no formal training, but who were drawn to photography because it provided a visual, aesthetic outlet that was missing from their academic university life. We also had no particular political beliefs or insight. The editors at the Gazette were left-leaning during this period so it is not surprising that we were assigned to photograph demonstrations that were organized, in large part or totally, by Dal radicals."
The photographs were printed and mounted by Stephen Archibald on F5 high-contrast paper to exaggerate their graphic nature, and printed full frame, which gives them a black border. As he explains in his notes, this was part of the contemporary aesthetic, ensuring that the viewer was aware that the images were composed in the frame, with nothing edited or cropped out. Most of the photographs are mounted, and the dimensions provided in the physical descriptions do not include the mount board.
Archibald, Stephen
Waldren Studios Photograph Collection
Waldren Photographic Studios
Shirley Elliott Research Collection