Item is a walking wheel handmade from rock maple around 1875-1880, probably in Northern Colchester County. It was acquired from an old farm house in East Earltown, Nova Scotia.
Item is a travelling fruit salesman's catalog used for showing the varieties offered by a nursery. Contents : Sussex Nursery, Kings County, New Brunswick. Lithographer : J. W. Thompson and Co, Rochester New York. ca.1876-1891. Nurserymen's coloured plates were produced by J. W. Thompson and Co. of Rochester, New York. J. W. Thompson and Co. operated by John Wrigley Thompson (b. 1826 England ; d. 1900 New York) between 1876 and 1891. For more information: http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2397 University of Rochester Library Bulletin: Volume XXXV • 1982 Nineteenth-Century Rochester Fruit and Flower Plates* --KARL SANFORD KABELAC
Item is a reproduction of a photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture which burned down in 1898. This became the site of the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, Harlow Institute is now on site. There is an octagonal swine barn that was built by students 1891 and was removed before 1913.
Item is a photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture which burned down in 1898. This became the site of the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, Harlow Institute is now on site. There is an octagonal swine barn that was built by students 1891 and was removed before 1913.
This file contains a reference letter from Dr. Melville Cumming's past employer, F.l. Fuller, who was then Superintendent of Farm & Provincial Agricultural Farms.
Item is a sketch of a woodlot Truro, Nova Scotia, surveyed for Indian Department, Ottawa, December 26th, 1903, by J.K. Eaton, D.C.L. Surveyor. It also shows the lands of Thomas B. Smith, R.H. Smith, and Henry Waller. The scale is 1":400 chains.
Item is a sketch of a survey of some coal and iron areas in Kemptown, Colchester County, Nova Scotia. It was surveyed for A.H. Learnment, et al., October 4th, 1905 by J.K. Eaton D.C.L.S. Scale 1":40.00 chains. Also shown are adjacent properties of J.H. McKay, Maple Leaf Prospecting Co., and J. McNaughton.
Item is a double sided sketch of surveys. One side of the page has on the right, in ink, a sketch of Truro Market Property, surveyed for John A. McKenzie & Sons, June 3, 1905. Scale 1: 20 chains. The McKenzie house and Market are on Havelock street and Prince Street. Also shown are edging adjacent properties Allan Loughead and G.O. Fulton on Inglis Street. There is a blank space in the middle of the page and on the left is depicted Beaver Dam Brook passing through the properties of James Hennigar, Henry Miller, McLearn, Patterson, McCulloch, and nearby Dodds, Underwood, Robert Barr and Scott, and Russel Brook. There are pencil annotations as well. The other side shows sketched in ink the property of T.G. McMullen, Prince Street East, Truro, Nova Scotia. The ink notation says "known as the Craig Hat Factory. September 11, 1906. By J.K. Eaton, D.C.L.S. Scale 1":30'". Shows Prince Street crossing Munroe Street, along Brook to W. Archibald's line, the properties of Estate Samuel Rettie, Alvin Fulmore's lot. In pencil: "Sketch of same surveys made at Debert Station, for Charles [McElmon?] January 12, 1906, this sketch made May 30th, 1906.
Series contains classroom textbooks owned by Milford Pierce during his attendance of short courses at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College between 1906-1909.
Series includes papers and correspondence to and from Fred Sears written between 1905-1907 while professor of horticulture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
