Item is a photograph of Hon. E. N. Rhodes, the premier of Nova Scotia, speaking at the laying of the cornerstone of the public archives building. The photograph shows Rhodes holding a piece of paper, standing on a stage, and speaking to the guests.
Item is a photograph of Hon. E. N. Rhodes speaking to guests at the laying of the cornerstone of the public archives building. The photograph was taken from the side of the stage where Rhodes is standing and rows of guests can be seen.
Item is a photograph of Archbishop Worrell and Hon. E. N. Rhodes at the laying of the cornerstone of the public archives building. Worrell is standing with an arm raised while Rhodes is picking up the trowel to lay the cornerstone.
Item is a photograph of Hon. E. N. Rhodes addressing guests at the laying of the cornerstone of the public archives building. Dr. A. S. MacKenzie and Archbishop Worrell are sitting to his right.
Item is a photograph of Hon. William Phillips chatting with a guest at the laying of the cornerstone of the public archives building. He is wearing a top hat.
File includes speeches and essays on a variety of subjects, including education, literature, religion, academic biographical citations, and the Red Cross. Speeches were primarily delivered at faculty meetings and convocations. File also includes Frank Parker Day's inaugural address as President of Union College and radio talks on education given as president.
Item is a copy of issue number 14 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an announcement of the winner of the MacAskill-inspired poetry contest and remarks by James Gillis on each entry, which included poems by Robert Leslie, Stuart McCawley (the winner), Joe Wallace, Andrew Merkel, Ethel H. Butler, Michael D, Currie, M. Campbell, Effie MacD Barnes, Katherine F. MacDonald, and Mollie Beresford.
Item is a photograph of the exterior of the front of the central office of the Prince Edward Island Telephone System in Prince Edward Island, before remodeling.
Item is a drawing of the proposed location of the former archives building (now the Chase Building) on Dalhousie University's Studley campus, showing ground elevations.
Item is a landscaping plan showing the location of numbered shrubbery plantings on Dalhousie's Studley Campus in 1929 in relation to the gymnasium, arts building, science building, and library.
Item is a 1929 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the third floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a drafting room and lecture hall both open to the roof, four smaller lecture rooms, five studies and a small library/office.
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.
Item is a photograph of several men standing on a stage during an invocation at the laying of the cornerstone of the public archives building. The photograph shows G. Fred Pearson; Hon. V. Massey; Hon. W. Phillips; Hon. C. H. Cahan; Sir Cyril Fuller; A. R. Cobb; J. C. Webster; Chief Justice Harris; J. McG. Stewart; and Flag Lt. Eveleigh standing in two rows on the stage with their heads bowed.
Item is a copy of issue number six of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by W.B., Charles D.G. Roberts, Ellen Hemmeon, Ethel H. Butler and W.J. Carew, and a page of editorial notes and readers comments.
Item is a copy of issue number 11 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Seumas O'Brien, "Mike," Kenneth Leslie, Estelle Fox, Constance L. Coleman, C. MacRae, Nathaniel A. Benson, H.G. McGrath, Alexander Louis Fraser, Pauline B. Barrington, Frank Graham, Ethel Butler, and Bliss Carman; letters from Stuart McCawley and Ross Macaulay; and an announcement regarding the call for poems celebrating Angus McAskill.
