Archives Catalogue

Panoramic photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus taken in 1921

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 7, Folder 10
File
1921

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a panoramic photographic print of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1921. Printed on the back : "Mrs. Mathew [sic Matthew] Frizzell". Removed a piece of a receipt taped to the back of the photograph during processing; it may have been used to indicate cropping when an enlargement was made to hang behind the circulation desk of the MacRae Library. The receipt and description card are attached to the accession form in the case file. The blown up panoramic shot still hangs in the staff work area on Level 1 of the MacRae Library as of April 2020.

Arts Building elevations

UA-9, OS Folder 4
File
1921

Part of Facilities Management

File contains 12 presentation drawings signed by Andrew R. Cobb, Architect, and dated between August and September 1921. There are six drawings of the north elevation and five of the south elevation, each featuring variations in window design, and some containing notes indicating suggestions or preferences of F.D. (Architect Frank Darling), A.S.M. (President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie) and G.F.P.

Photograph of the construction of Shirreff Hall

PC1, Box 31, Folder 24
File
[between 1921 and 1922]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photographs taken by Commercial Photo Service.

Commercial Photo Service

Photograph of Victoria General Hospital

PC1, Box 59, Folder 10
File
1922

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Forrest Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 14
File
1922

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of the Forrest Building [1922]

PC1, Box 65, Folder 75
File
1922

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Children's Hospital

PC1, Box 59, Folder 69
File
1922

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Science Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 11
File
1922

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

New Glasgow Fire Department

PC2, Box 300, Folder 71
File
1922

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

Exterior of Fire Department. Pictured are two fire engines and seven firefighters. Left engine is: La France (1917) and the right is: White American Motors (?) 1918/19

Photograph of Children's Hospital

PC1, Box 59, Folder 12
File
1922

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Shirreff Hall during construction

PC1, Box 19, Folder 5
File
[ca. 1923]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of Shirreff Hall, a women's residence at Dalhousie University, during its construction. The building is covered in wooden scaffolding

Postcard of Dalhousie University Medical Science Laboratories

PC1, Box 61, Folder 178
File
[after 1923]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of the Forrest Building [1923]

PC1, Box 65, Folder 76
File
1923

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of the Forrest Building. Photograph was originally mounted on the Dentistry Program Class of 1923 display.

Photographs of the exterior of Shirreff Hall

PC1, Box 31, Folder 22
File
[after 1923]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs of Shirreff Hall, a women's residence at Dalhousie University.

Postcard of University Health Clinic

PC1, Box 61, Folder 165
File
[after 1924]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of the Forrest Building [1924]

PC1, Box 65, Folder 77
File
1924

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of the Forrest Building. Photograph was originally mounted on the Dentistry Program Class of 1924 display.

Photograph of Forrest Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 30
File
1924

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Birchdale surveys and plans

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 20
File
1916 - 1925

Part of Facilities Management

File contains a 1916 Canadian Government Railways and Halifax Ocean Terminal Railway plan showing a proposed bridge for Coburg Road and access to Birchdale; an undated property survey showing existing buildings, including the Birchdale Hotel, Acadia Cottage, a bathing house, boat house and the north and south wharfs; two plans of proposed jetties on the Birchdale property; a floor plan by architect R.A. Johnson showing an addition to "Birchdale," which indicates a large playroom; and a floor plan for "Birchdale Annex" showing eight bedrooms. The annex addition probably dates to ca. 1920, when Birchdale Hotel was purchased by Dalhousie to house students. The file also contains a 1925 blueprint plan of a survey of the Allison Property on the west side of Oxford Street, which was purchased by Dalhousie University to use as the president's residence.

Photograph of the Forrest Building [1925]

PC1, Box 65, Folder 78
File
1925

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of the Forrest Building. Photograph was originally mounted on the Dentistry Program Class of 1925 display.

Photograph of the Forrest Building [1927]

PC1, Box 65, Folder 80
File
1925

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Medical Science Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 87
File
1926

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Forrest Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 25
File
1926

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Public Health Clinic [1927]

PC1, Box 65, Folder 79
File
1927

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Pathological Lab[oratory]

PC1, Box 59, Folder 33
File
1927

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Forrest Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 88
File
1927

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Grace Maternity Hospital

PC1, Box 59, Folder 32
File
1927

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Outpatient and Public Health Clinic

PC1, Box 59, Folder 31
File
1927

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Medical Science Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 34
File
1927

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts the Medical Science Building which has been renamed the Burbidge Building.

Photograph of Pathological Laboratory

PC1, Box 59, Folder 81
File
1928

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Medical Science Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 82
File
1928

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

J. W. Cumming Manufacturing Co. Ltd. - Buildings

PC2, Box 295, Folder 7
File
1928

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

J. W. Cumming Manufacturing Co. factory which is covered in corrugated metal. A car is parked beside it

Photographs of buildings and groups of students and faculty at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus in the 1920s

UA-43, PB Box 26, Folder 5
File
[1920]-[1929]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Studley campus site and landscape plans

UA-9, OS Folder 19
File
[ca. 1919-1929]

Part of Facilities Management

File contains potential site plans for Dalhousie University's Studley campus as well as landscape plans indicating actual plantings. There is also one drawing of a unrealized medical school site plan.

Andrew Cobb's drawings for a new Arts Building

UA-9, OS Folder 30
File
[ca. 1929]

Part of Facilities Management

File contains ground and second floor plans created by Andrew Cobb for a building (never constructed) for Dalhousie College to be located opposite the Macdonald Library. File also contains basement, ground, second and third floor plans for a new arts building, along with an elevation and site plan showing the building located across from the Archives.

Photographs of the Public Archives Building cornerstone laying ceremony

PC1, Box 19, Folder 14
File
August 29, 1929

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs taken at the laying of the cornerstone of the public archives building on August 29, 1929. The photographs show Hon. E. N. Rhodes; Arthur S. MacKenzie; Rear Admiral Sir Cyril Fuller; Hon J. C. Tory; Archbishop Worrell; J. McG. Stewart; Flag Lt. Eveleigh; and Lt. Col. Almon participating in the ceremony in front of a crowd of guests.

Photograph of the Medical Sciences Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 6
File
1929

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Outpatient and Public Health Clinic

PC1, BOX 59, Folder 8
File
1929

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of the Pathology Laboratory

PC1, Box 59, Folder 9
File
1929

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Pathological Institute

PC1, Box 59, Folder 36
File
1930

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Outpatient and Public Health Clinic

PC1, Box 59, Folder 38
File
1930

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Fundraising letter from Harriet Taber Richardson and circular regarding the reconstruction of the Habitation of Port Royal

MS-2-462, SF Box 43, Folder 28
File
1930

File contains a letter and circular sent from Harriet Taber Richardson, Secretary of the Associates of Port Royal, to the Essex Institute in 1930. The letter requests the Institute's support of the reconstruction of the Habitation.

Richardson, Harriet Taber, fl. 1930-

Photograph of Grace Maternity Hospital

PC1, Box 59, Folder 40
File
1930

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Forrest Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 29
File
1930

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Medical Science Building

PC1, Box 59, Folder 39
File
1930

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photographs of Dalhousie's gymnasium fire

PC1, Box 2, Folder 12
File
May 7, 1931

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains two photographs taken when the temporary gymnasium at Dalhousie Unviersity burned down on May 7, 1931.

Fraser, Allen

Gymnasium for Dalhousie University

UA-9, OS Folder 9
File
August 1931

Part of Facilities Management

File contains construction blueprints for the Studley Campus gymnasium, which was designed by architect Andrew Cobb and built by MacDonald Construction in 1932. Drawings include floor plans; elevations; footing plans; cross sections; and details for windows, cornices and other elements. The plans, which are labelled with job number U-311, are signed off by [W. Thompson?], Secretary of the Board of Governors.

Photograph of Studley Gymnasium

PC1, Box 38, Folder 53
File
[after 1932]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the Studley Gymnasium at Dalhousie University. The photograph was taken from behind a goal post.

Aerial photograph of Studley Campus

MS-2-43, PB Box 23, Folder 9
File
[after 1932]

Part of Arthur Stanley Mackenzie fonds

Item is an aerial photograph of Dalhousie University's Studley Campus, including Shirreff Hall, King's College, the Provincial Archives (Chase Building), Science Building (Chemistry Building), Arts Building (University Club), and Macdonald Library (Macdonald Building).

Saunders, D. W.

Blueprints for new Arts Building

UA-9, OS Folder 33
File
1929 - 1932

Part of Facilities Management

File contains drawings created by Andrew Cobb for an arts building commissioned by the Board of Governors as part of their building plans during the late 1920s/early 1930s, which also included a gymnasium, power plant, men's dormitory, and extensions to the Science Building and Shirreff Hall. The planned site for the building, which was cancelled due to financial restraints, was adjacent to the temporary arts building, which had been built in 1921 to house the law school. Drawings include a preliminary sketch of the front (north) elevation; west, east, south and north elevations; skeleton section; and detailed floor plans.

Presentation drawings for a proposed arts building at Dalhousie University

UA-9, OS Folder 1
File
1929 - 1932

Part of Facilities Management

File contains presentation drawings created by Andrew Cobb for an arts building commissioned by the Board of Governors as part of their building plans during the late 1920s/early 1930s, which also included a gymnasium, power plant, men's dormitory, and extensions to the Science Building and Shirreff Hall. The planned site for the building, which was cancelled due to financial restraints, was adjacent to the temporary arts building, which had been built in 1921 to house the law school. The drawings are all marked "282," which presumably was Cobb's job number for the project.

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