Item is a coloured pencil sketch of a costume design for Dalhousie Theatre's 1981 production of The Birthday Party. The costume is for a character named Meg in Act II. The sketch shows a female figure wearing the costume.
Item is a pencil and pastel sketch of a costume design for Dalhousie Theatre's 1981 production of The Birthday Party. The costume is for a character named Goldberg. The sketch shows a male figure wearing the costume.
Item is a coloured pencil sketch of a costume design for Dalhousie Theatre's 1981 production of The Birthday Party. The costume is for a character named Meg in Acts I-III. The sketch shows a female figure wearing the costume.
Item is a photograph of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital medical and nursing staff with some family members, which suggests that picture was taken in Halifax some time before they left for France.
Item consists of a photograph of a dinner among senior officers of the 5th Infantry Division, Artillery, held in Halifax, likely in 1950. Eighteen officers are pictured. Front row is of Richard Roome and Major-General Edward Plow; back row identified include George Richardson (1), Captain E.H. MacDonald (3), D.U. Rainnie (6), W.C. Waterfield (8), and M.E. Blue (10).
Item consists of a photograph of fifteen officers from the 5th Infantry Division, Artillery, attending a reunion in Halifax, likely in 1950. Those identified include Richard Roome, Brigade Major Faulkner, George Rogers, as well as another in the front row identified as "Laing". Eleven remain unidentified.
Item consists of a photograph of a dinner in the Officers' Mess of Royal Artillery Park, Halifax, likely in 1950. Pictured include Richard Roome, Rollo Mainguy, George Foster, and seven others (names mentioned include Kinley, Simmonds, and King; four others remain unidentified).
Item consists of a photograph from a reunion of artillery officers, in Halifax, sometime in the early 1950s. Pictured include Rollo Mainguy, Richard Roome, Edward Plow, and two others (Ross and Oland).
Item consists of a photograph of members of the Faulkner, Guildford, Roome, Fetterley, and Buell families, as well as another unidentified pair, taken at a reunion dinner in Halifax, likely in 1950
Item consists of correspondence, reproduced from microfilm, sent to Richard Roome on November 24, 1941, from members of the "Roome Group" stationed in Halifax, sending "Season's Greetings" and mentioning shenanigans on the home front.
Item is a 1921 presentation drawing of the Dalhousie Arts Building, annotated with a note indicating that it was F.D.'s (Frank Darling's) favourite version of the keystone design.
Item is a pencil drawing by R.L. de C.H. Saunders showing his design for a circlet of mayflowers that carved into the head of the Dalhousie University mace. The mayflowers symbolize the province and the "flowering new civilization therein which led to the establishment of the university."
Item is a pencil drawing by R.L. de C.H. Saunders showing his design for the five-rayed coronet carved into the head of the Dalhousie University mace. The drawing includes measurements and other notes written in pencil. The coronet is included in the mace "in recognition of the University founder, the 9th Earl of Dalhousie." This part of the mace was carved into a piece of oak cut from the estate of the Earl of Dalhousie.
Item is a pencil drawing by Saunders showing his design for the sterling silver Celtic cross that decorates the head of the Dalhousie University mace. The drawing includes measurements and other notes written in pencil. The Celtic cross is set atop the cap of the coronet that forms the uppermost part of the mace's head.
Item is a pencil drawing by Saunders showing his design for the sterling silver Celtic cross that decorates the head of the Dalhousie University mace. The drawing includes measurements and notes written in pencil. The Celtic cross is set atop the cap of the coronet that forms the uppermost part of the mace head. This drawing shows the University motto "Ora et Labora" and the five points of the coronet surrounding the cross.
Item is a page with two drawings of the fish that adorns the base of the mace, an orthographic projection and bird's-eye view. The fish was a symbol employed to recognize the significance of fishing and the fisheries to Nova Scotia. The bird's-eye view has a seashell between the fish tails that was not incorporated into the mace carved by A.H. MacMillan.
Item is a pencil drawing by R.L. de C.H. Saunders showing a conical projection of maple leaves carved into the head of the Dalhousie University mace. The drawing includes measurements and other notes written in pencil.
Item is a pencil drawing by R.L. de C.H. Saunders of the shaft of the Dalhousie University mace. The shaft was carved with a simple grooved pattern that symbolizes the "roots put down by the early settlers, and the tall trees that first met their gaze."
Item is a pencil drawing that shows Saunders' design for the circular scene carved into the base of the Dalhousie University mace. The design represents the "deep gutter between sky and sea" and a sea nymph "calling across the waves toward the setting sun in representation of the impulse that led navigators to sail westward to our shores."
Item is a photographic postcard of the men's common room in the Arts Building (now the University Club), which was built in 1921 on Studley Campus as the Temporary Arts Building.
Item is a photographic postcard of the Forrest Building, which was built in 1887 as the "new" Dalhousie College, and renamed in 1919 after Dalhousie's third president, the Rev. John Forrest.
Item is a photographic postcard of the original Public Archives of Nova Scotia (now the Chase Building), built on Studley Campus in 1931 across from the University of King's College.
Item is a poster for Ionesco One-Acts: The Bald Soprano and Jacques or Obedience written by Eugène Ionesco and directed by Jure Gantar for Dalhousie Theatre.
