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Portrait of the battalion commanders and adjutants of the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th battallions, including T.H. Raddall, Sr., all in uniform

Item is a photograph of the 2nd Brigade and Canadian 1st Division. Brigadier Lipsett can be seen in the centre, with Major Prower, the commander of the 8th battalion, to his right. Captain T.H. Raddall, Sr. is standing at the right of the photograph, and is the adjutant of the 8th battalion.

Photograph of Archibald ("Grey Owl") Belaney holding a drum with James Espaniel and Gordon Longevin, all wearing Indigenous costume

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the Province of Ontario Department of Lands & Forests on the reverse side. Grey Owl stands in the middle of the photograph, with James Espaniel on his left, and Gordon Longevin on his right. The date indicates this was near the beginning of Grey Owl's "Indian masquerade".

Photograph of the trawler Fabia trying to get the schooner Esperanto to the surface off Sable Island

Item is a copy of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. The trawler Fabia was from Boston, and was equipped with diving and salvage gear. In the summer of 1921, the Fabia was financed by the Boston Post to raise the schooner Esperanto in order to defend the latter's title to the Herald Cup. The efforts to put the schooner back into service ultimately failed.

Thomas Head Raddall photograph album 2

Item is an album with 206 photographs taken between 1929 and 1941 by Raddall and others. Subjects include Raddall and friends and family; Raddall and Edith's vacation to Bermuda; Raddall and friends boating, and taking camping, hunting and fishing trips across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; historical artifacts including a -pound canon; images from a 1933 performance of "Three Live Ghosts" put on in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and in which Raddall acted; and Edith Raddall with her children, Tommy and Frances.

Thomas Head Raddall photograph album 3

Item is an album containing 327 photographs taken between 1941 and 1953 by Raddall and others. Subjects include Raddall and engagements regarding his work, including presenting the address at a club meeting, and meeting with CBC personnel in Toronto, Ontario; Raddall, and his family and friends; the rescue and medical care of surviving crew members from the S/S Empire Seal and S/S Empire Sun, both of which were attacked near Liverpool, Nova Scotia by German U-boats during W.W.II; Raddall's time as an orderly officer at Camp Aldershot in 1942; hunting and fishing trips and vacations with friends and family across the province of Nova Scotia; the last of the navy at Liverpool near the close of W.W.II; urban scenes from Liverpool in winter and the destruction of the Broad River bridge; scenes and local histories from Tancook Island, Seal Island, Cape Breton, and Glode Island; and important figures including Helen Creighton working on Devil's Island, and Raddall meeting photographer Youssef Karsh and McClean's writer Ian Sclanders in Lunenburg. «

Thomas Head Raddall photograph album 4

Item is a photograph album containing 48 photographs taken between 1944 and 1961 by Raddall and others. Subjects include Raddall participating in CBC radio press media in Halifax; Raddall filming an interview with CBC; Raddall meeting with significant figures in Toronto including Mayor Robert Hood Saunders, Jim Scott with CBC, and author Nicholas Monsarrat; Raddall receiving a silver tray from the West Nova Scotia Regiment at Camp Aldershot; Raddall exploring Moose Harbour after a forest fire, Tanners Pass at Lunenburg, and the W.C. MacKay & Sons shipyard at Shelburne, Nova Scotia; Raddall fishing at Lake Falls, Mersey River; portraits of Raddall and press images of Raddall with his wife Edith; Tom Raddall, Jr. participating in a dissection lab at Dalhousie University; and Tom Raddall, Jr. with his daughter Deborah.

Photograph of a flintlock pistol held by Thomas Head Raddall over the logbook of the Spanish ship El Hercules

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the National Film Board on the reverse side. The El Hercules was captured in the Caribbean by a Liverpool privateer around 1799. The flintlock pistol was found behind the wainscot in the house of Dr. Farish. Farish arrived in Liverpool around 1840, the same time when many of the privateermen from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 were still living. Dr. Farish's house was later occupied by Dr. John Wickwire between the 1930's to the 1970's. A duplicate copy of the photograph can be found in MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 10.
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