Item is a post card featuring a photograph of the Nova Scotia Archives building at Dalhousie University. The post card was published by Valentine-Black Co. Ltd. of Toronto.
Item consists of a photograph of Dalhousie University's Studley Campus, host to Nova Scotia Summer School in 1945, and a photograph of an explosion of munitions at a magazine near Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on July 18 or July 19, 1945. The two photographs have been printed together on one sheet of photo paper.
Item is a photograph of the interior of the law library in the Forrest Building at Dalhousie University. There are several people sitting at tables in the library and reading or writing.
Item is a hand coloured glass plate transparency of Barrington Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
File contains architectural drawings for the National Research Council Laboratory and for the Institute for Marine Biosciences on Oxford Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The 1949 drawings, produced by Leslie Fairn and C. Gustave Brault, include plot plans; footings; floor plans; interior room and finish schedules; sections and details; and plumbing, heating and electrical plans. The 1964 and 1979 drawings are for additions and extensions, and were produced by Duffus, Romans, Kundzins and Rounsefell Ltd. The file also includes a set of drawings printed at reduced scale for a submission by Lydon Lynch issued September 2002 for a National Research Council New Industry Partnership Facility Institute for Marine Biosciences.
Item is a photograph of the Elmwood Hotel, which was originally a mansion built by Joshua Newton, who was the son-in-law of Simeon Perkins. The Perkins house is on the left, though it is not visible. In about 1942, the hotel was purchased by the Canadian Navy, and was used during WWII as a living quarters and offices for naval personnel whose ships were undergoing refit at the Thompson Machinery Co. Ltd. plant. After the war ended in 1949, the hotel was torn down, and the site became the lawn in front of the artillery training quarters.
Item is a photograph of the cornerstone of the Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building at Dalhousie University. The photograph shows the cornerstone sitting on an unfinished stone wall, with a small crane holding it.
File contains photographs taken during the construction and cornerstone laying of the Arts & Administration Building, now known as the Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building, at Dalhousie University.
File contains one photograph of the Dalhousie Memorial Arena under construction in the summer of 1950. Photograph taken by Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited.
