File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features July 1992's International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association conference (previously the International Gay and Lesbian Association or ILGA) in Paris. It features an interview with Dona (names have been changed) who attended the conference, July 12-18, with the Canadian Federation of Students and SUNS. She graduated the year previously from NSCAD, and went as an observer with Robin Metcalfe from Halifax. She was one of five Canadians at the conference. The episode was recorded on July 26, 1992, and was broadcasted on August 26, 1992, and on August 31, 1992.
Item is a first-edition publication of Chopin's first Impromptu, published by Maurice Schlesinger in Paris, a subsidiary company to A.M. Schlesinger of Berlin. The composition was dedicated to Caroline de Lobau.
Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the International Law Association. Subseries contains reports, correspondence, and other materials.
File is an audio reel containing an interview with Robert Allen, the Executive Director of Nova Scotia Person's With AIDS Coalition (NSPWAC). Allen spoke with CKDU's Dan Hart about the AIDS conference in Paris and latest developments on AIDS testing in Nova Scotia. The interview aired November 19, 1990 on Title Waves, a CKDU radio program, and was rebroadcast November 28, 1990 on The Evening Affair, CKDU's evening public affairs program.
File is an audio reel containing an interview with Susan George, an economist at the University of Paris and author of "How the Other Half Dress" and "A Fate Worse than Debt." George spoke with CKDU's Kris Pekarek while at Dalhousie University to speak at a conference on the Rural Community in Crisis. The interview aired in November of 1987 and was rebroadcast March 10, 1988; March 23, 1988; and September 7, 1988 on Title Waves.
File contains receipts and confirmation of dispersion of funds statements relating to the Dalhousie No. 7 Canadian Stationary Hospital, First World War.
File includes correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the following individuals: D.C. Krause (UNESCO), A.G. Koroma (Permanent Mission of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the UN), A.N. Kholodilin (UNESCO), the International Institute for Integrative Technology (IIT), and V. Kopal (Academy of Science, Prague).
File includes correspondence to/from: [Kirthisinga], Dale Krause (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO), Martin Kaplan (World Health Organization, or WHO), Heimo Kellner, Birabhongse Karemrri, Johan Kaufman (The Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations), Susan Kaeser (World College West), and Franz Koenig (Archbishop of Vienna), which discusses the Holy See's position on the Law of the Sea.
File contains correspondence with Armelli de Kerros, P. Korrinsp (?), Lee Kimball, Susan Kaeser, Don and Marion Kelley, Robert L. Kanter, and Lars-Ake Kvarning. Topics of discussion include "The Drama of the Oceans," and an upcoming book on self-management by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
Item is a vocal score with the melody and lyrics for "La Paimpolaise" by the French singer-songwriter Théodore Botrel (1868-1925). The score and lyrics were handwritten by L. Coyteux Preouèl(?) in Ottawa on April 29, 1908.
Item is a handwritten letter from Heitor and Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon written on July 26, 1947. The letter details Villa-Lobos itinerary on a European tour and comments on Ballon's performances of Villa-Lobos' compositions. Item is accompanied by the stamped air mail envelope in which Ballon received the letter. One French postage stamp is affixed to the envelope.
File contains an autographed letter from Jacques Offenbach as Director of the Theatre des Bouffes Parisiens, addressed to "Monsieur le Baron" (likely Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussman).
Item is a letter from Sgt. A. Fraser Tupper to his nephew, Ralph Kane. The letter was sent from La Havre, France, on December 13, 1916, while Tupper was serving overseas.
File contains letters to Ellen Ballon from William Somerset Maugham concerning gifts, performances, visits, friends, and books. Some of the letters are also addressed to Sally "Tammie" Ryan and Ralph Gustafson.
Item is a copy of the first edition of Igor Stravinsky's piano arrangement of his ballet, "The Firebird." The ballet was written for the Ballets Russes in Paris, under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev. The piano arrangement was published shortly after the premiere performance on June 25, 1910 at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra.
Item is a copy of the first separate edition of Marche funèbre from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor. The separated third movement was played as Chopin's body was conveyed to the mausoleum on October 30, 1849, and was subsequently released as a separate publication, using the original plates (891) by Troupenas. The file includes a folder and brief description of the work from Scribner.
The collection contains a variety of theatre and music programs from across Canada, with a special emphasis on events held in and around Halifax, Nova Scotia. There are also programs from England, United States, France and Russia. Programs date from 1937 to 1986 with a gap between 1941 and 1950.
Item is a catalogue for an exhibition of paintings by Nicolas Poussin, selected from the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was circulated and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in October and November 1975.
Catalogue contains an essay by Jane Costello, photographs of Poussin's paintings, a bibliography, and a fold-out full-colour photograph of Poussin's Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus (1628).
File includes correspondence with Alexandera Post, T.V.R. Pillay (Food and Agricultre Organization of the United Nations), Princeton University Press, O.S. Plue, Prentice-Hall of Canada Ltd, Les Presse de la Cité, Elaine Partnow, Praeger Publishers Inc., M. Piovene, and PHP Institute Inc. Also includes "The Implications of Change in Mining Finance and Participation" by Alexandra Post, excerpts from "Ocean mining" by Alexandra Post, a proposal on deepsea mining by Alexandra Post and a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, "Progress of Aquaculture" by T.V.R. Pillay.
Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken (and hand-coloured) by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, showing areas near an unidentified military hospital in France. Photograph includes a stand of birch trees bordering the hospital's back road, as well as a hot house.
Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, showing a chateau and a small church in an unidentified French village. The photograph has been embellished with some faint watercolour work.
Item consists of a photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918 of a "General Duty Squad", likely housed at the No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital, who had just finished erecting tents. Includes A.S. Gearey, P. MacCallum, R.R. MacLaughlin, H. Barrett, M.S. MacKinnon, G.H. Power, P. Holbrow, G. Shaw, Sibley, R. Neill, S.S. Murray, R. Milliet, and two others.
Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken (and hand-coloured) by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, showing a group of German prisoners resting on a stack of wooden slats, after having constructed huts at an unidentified military hospital in France.
Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, showing thirteen unidentified medical and military officers likely stationed or housed at the No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital. One of the seated medical officers holds a plaque stating "When we get our civy cloths on, oh, how happy shall we be".
Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh, likely in 1918, of an unidentified group of seventeen workers in the Dalhousie unit of the No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital.
Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken by (as well as hand-coloured by) A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, showing two buildings (including one which housed a fleeing King Leopold I) and a large tree (purportedly planted by the Duke of Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo) along a footpath on the banks of the Canal d'Aire, northern France.
Item consists of a photograph taken in August 1917 of an undefeated military baseball team, likely stationed at the No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital, France. The team won all ten games it played. Pictured include G. Ruse, Sgt. E. Noseworthy, P. Shaw, S. McKinnon, B.H. Windsor, P.R. Tingley, Cpl. C. Schurman, Cpl. A. MacKintosh, E. Clay, G. Hier, W. Hodgins, Major T.S. Robinson, H.B. Titus, D. Strachan, Christie, and Kimber.
Item is a photograph of two women standing in front of the Chateau d'Arques in Pas de Calais, France. Left to right: Josie Cameron and [illegible] MacKinnon.
Item is a photograph of three soldiers standing in front of the Chateau d'Arques in Pas de Calais, France. Left to right: Dan MacLeod, Major Frank Woodbury, and Col. John Stewart.
