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Photograph of unidentified soldiers raising flag

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 26
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers raising a flag. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 28
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers. Soldiers on horseback appear to be pulling rope while other soldiers look on. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of Maude Bridge

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 34
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of Maude Bridge named after British army officer Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a section of the Ishtar Gate

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 36
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a section of the Ishtar Gate at its original site in Babylon. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of three pelicans on a building

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Item 43
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of three pelicans on a building. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a group of people

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 46
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a group of people in a rowboat

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 47
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people in a rowboat. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people in a field

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 52
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people in a field. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people in a field

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 54
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people in a field. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people with horses

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 55
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people with horses. The horses appear to be pulling farming equipment. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of camels crossing a bridge

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 61
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of camels crossing a bridge. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of the Turkish Ottoman Memorial

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 78
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Turkish Ottoman Memorial erected following the Siege of Kut. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine fonds

UA-12
Fonds
1863-1992, bulk 1950s-1970s

The fonds consists of records that document the administrative and operational activities of the Faculty of Medicine. These include general correspondence, minutes (faculty and departmental), financial records, reports, statistics, administrative relationships, program information, course materials, examination records, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, photographs as well as provide evidence of relationships with outside organizations.

Principally, the material is composed of records from the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Medicine. To facilitate access to the collection the materials have been organized into 17 different series.

Dalhousie University. Faculty of Medicine

Business correspondence to William McMillan, Lockeport, regarding confirmation to ship goods, and receipt of shipments

MS-4-177, Box 29, Folder 3
File
1914

Part of Lockeport Historical Collection

File contains business correspondence addressed to (and a few written by) William McMillan, Lockeport, between June 1914 and October 1914, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in his general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas. File contains both typed and handwritten correspondence. File also contains the beginnings of some merchants' concerns regarding shortages stemming from the outbreak of the Great War.

File contains correspondence regarding wartime concerns from the following receivers and brokers: W.R. Brock Company (Montreal; regarding French-made #80 DMC in cordenette white), Boston Varnish Company (regarding war-time price uncertainty), Brandram-Henderson (Halifax, regarding "import[ing certain goods] from countries where it is now impossible to obtain further supplies"), Chronicle Publishing Co. (Halifax, regarding the sale of "a history of the great conflict now raging in Europe" for two months at this stage), Greenshields Limited (Montreal, regarding a "good season for dress goods" despite the "war-time dullness of many lines" and the fact that "French goods are cut off entirely [and that some] raw materials such as dyestuffs come from Germany and Austria exclusively"), Holzapfels Limited (Newcastle-on-Tyne, reassuring clients that their company is "absolutely and entirely British"), J.L. Lovitt (Yarmouth, regarding the "feverish state of the wheat market" and reduced supplies), J.E. Morse & Co. (Halifax, about wartime demands having "completely exhausted [the supplies of] the popular selling teas"), Nova Scotia Belgian Relief Fund (Halifax; from Arthur Barnstead), Patterson Candy Company (Toronto, reassuring that they "have been strongly opposed to making any advance in price unless positively forced to it", and slamming those "who would delight in getting more for his product on account of the abnormal condition"), Oxford Manufacturing Company (Oxford, NS, "we are facing a famine in dyestuffs"), Quaker Oats Company (Peterborough, re: "extreme scarcity of cash oats [...compelling] us to put further advances into effect), W.H. Schwartz & Sons (Halifax, about the withdrawal of a printed list of supplies based on "the very uncertain conditions surrounding the spice business brought about by the war"), R.B. Seeton (Halifax, "we do not know from one day to another what the price will be"), E.K. Spinney (Yarmouth, regarding "the [appalling] effect of this horrible war on commercial conditions throughout the world"), Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow (Halifax, assuring customers that "all prices will be based on ruling market price ONLY"), W.H. Thorne (Saint John, regarding the purchase of "patriotic selections" of records), Willett Martin (New York, anticipating that "stove coal will be very scarce during the Fall and Winter months"), Warwick Bros & Rutter (Toronto, about installing "patriotic windows").

File contains other standard business correspondence from: Acadia Gas Engine Co. (Bridgewater), Edward M. Alden (Boston), Edward Allen (Yarmouth), G.E. Barbour (Saint John), Sidney R. Baxter (Boston), A.M. Bell & Co. (Halifax), Geo. C. Boudreau (Meteghan Station, NS), Brookfield Bros. (Halifax), Burrell-Johnson Iron Company (Yarmouth), Canadian Cereal and Flour Mills (Galt, ON), Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. (Halifax), Canadian Drug Co. (Saint John), Canadian Oil Companies (Toronto), Canadian Poster Company (Montreal, regarding a Stanfields promotion), Clayton & Sons (Halifax), Cochran, Burns & Farnsworth (Boston), McCormick & Stronach (Clementsport, NS), Davis & Fraser (Halifax), Davis & Lawrence (Montreal), Eagle Oil & Supply Co. (Boston), Eastern Shirts Limited (Truro), Emerson & Fisher (Saint John), Enterprise Foundry (Sackville, NB), Frank Fales (Saint John), Flintkote Manufacturing Company (Boston), Arthur Fordham (Halifax), John Forsyth Company (Berlin, ON), Gourock Ropework Export Co. (Montreal, via Glasgow), Gunns Limited (West Toronto), G.J. Hamilton & Sons (Halifax), Ida Harlow (Sable River West), Hawboldt & Evans (Chester), Hilford Fur Farm (Port Hilford, NS), N. Hingley & Sons (Dudley, UK), Ideal Bedding (Toronto), T. McAvity & Sons (Saint John), A. & W. MacKinlay (Halifax), Manchester Robertson Allison (Saint John), Maple Leaf Milling Co. (Saint John), Maritime Cap Limited (Moncton), Meeker & Company (New York), G.P. Mitchell & Sons (Halifax), J.L. Morton (Lower Argyle), J. & M. Murphy (Halifax), Neville Canneries (Port Mouton, NS), M.A. Nickerson (Clark's Harbour), Northern-Electric (Halifax), Parrish, Phillips & Co. (New York), Payzant & King (Halifax), Redmond Company Limited (Montreal), W.G. Robertson (Halifax), Salada Ceylon Tea (Montreal), W.E. Sanford (Hamilton, ON), Scovil Bros. (Saint John), I.B. Shaffner (Halifax), Shives Lumber Company (Campbellton, NB), Southern Salvage Company (Liverpool), H.D. Starratt (Paradise, NS), John Tobin & Co. (Halifax), Trojan Waist Co. (Philadelphia), Viscol Company (Boston), Waldron Drouin Co. (Montreal), Welsford L. Watt (Halifax), Wolverton Milling Co. (Saint John), Thomas Wood & Company (Boston), among others.

Text of an address given by Henry D. Hicks, QC, MLA, to the Bridgetown branch of the Canadian legion

MS-2-511, Box 18, Folder 36
Item
1959

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a Remembrance Day address.

Weldon Guy Morash fonds

MS-2-804
Fonds
1917 - 1978 ; predominantly 1918 - 1919

Fonds contains 46 letters and postcards written by Weldon Morash while serving overseas in World War One and sent to his brother and sister in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There are also photographs.

Morash, Weldon Guy

A wartime A. B. C.

MS-2-804, SF Box 90, Folder 11
Item
[19--]

Part of Weldon Guy Morash fonds

Item is a handwritten poem by G.V.M. and sent from G. Ballantine, Oak Bay, British Columbia.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s memorabilia

Subseries
1877 - 2004

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's items of interest collected throughout his life, including biographical materials, art pieces, newspaper clippings, periodicals, books, and other materials.

Canada in flanders / Max Aitken : [book]

MS-2-615, Box 131, Folder 2
File
1915 - 1915

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Eulogy for Georges P. Vanier written by Hugh Kemp

MS-2-615, Box 130, Folder 19
File
1967

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Thomas Cantley's report on the attitude of the British people toward the war

MS-2-755, Box 2, Folder 20
Item
1916

Part of Thomas Cantley fonds

Edward Kirkpatrick Maclellan's records

Subseries
1906 - 1968

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Subseries consists of Edward Kirkpatrick Maclellan's correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, periodicals, and other textual records.

Photograph of Sister Lorinda MacAulay and Sister Elizabeth Ann Cooke standing in front of a damaged chateau and flour mill

PG-2-94, PB Box 29 Folder 49
Item
1918

Part of A. M. MacKintosh Fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh, likely in early 1918, showing Sister MacAulay and Sister Cooke standing in front of an unidentified damaged French chateau and flour mill. The photo has had portions faintly painted in watercolour.

Photograph of war damage to Dadizele Basilica, southern Belgium

PG-2-94, PB Box 29, Folder 51
Item
1918

Part of A. M. MacKintosh Fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, of the heavily-damaged Dadizele Basilica, southern Belgium (about 10 kilometres east of Ypres).

Photograph of unidentified hospital wards in France during the First World War

PG-2-94, PB Box 29, Folder 55, Item 1
Item
1918

Part of A. M. MacKintosh Fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken (and hand-coloured) by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918 of two unidentified hospital ward buildings in France.

Photograph of several buildings at an unidentified military hospital in France, First World War

PG-2-94, PB Box 29, Folder 55, Item 3
Item
1918

Part of A. M. MacKintosh Fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken (and hand-coloured) by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, showing several buildings at an unidentified military hospital in France. Buildings include the exterior of an operating theatre, a Red Cross hut, a hospital ward building, and an admitting hut.

Photograph of a group of German prisoners constructing huts at an unidentified military hospital in France, First World War

PG-2-94, PB Box 29, Folder 55, Item 4
Item
1918

Part of A. M. MacKintosh Fonds

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.

Photograph taken on a walk along the Canal d'Aire, northern France

PG-2-94, PB Box 29, Folder 57, Item 1
Item
1918

Part of A. M. MacKintosh Fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh, likely in early 1918, while on a walk on a tree-lined path along the shore of the Canal d'Aire, northern France. The path is between a bathhouse and living quarters for workers of an unidentified military hospital.

Photograph of several ships in convoy formation, North Atlantic, First World War

PG-2-94, PB Box 29, Folder 58, Item 1
Item
[1917 or 1918]

Part of A. M. MacKintosh Fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph, likely taken by A.M. MacKintosh, in 1917 or 1918, showing several ships in convoy formation, likely in the North Atlantic en route to Europe.

Photograph of several ships in convoy formation, North Atlantic, First World War

PG-2-94, PB Box 29, Folder 58, Item 2
Item
[1917 or 1918]

Part of A. M. MacKintosh Fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph, likely taken by A.M. MacKintosh, in 1917 or 1918, showing several ships in convoy formation, likely in the North Atlantic en route to Europe.

Report on the war claim for the reparation for the loss of the fishing trawler "S.T. Triumph"

MS-4-122, SF Box 84, Folder 5
File
1928

Part of National Fish Company Limited

Folder contains correspondence from the lawyers and the report "Decision 1459" regarding the loss of the fishing trawler "S.T. Triumph" when it was captured by enemy submarine 60 miles south west of Cape Canso, Nova Scotia, August 20, 1918.

G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

MS-2-839
Fonds
1914 - 1919

Photographs of the World War I Amherst Internment Camp and a photograph from the Merchant Navy Protest

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 21

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 11, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 28

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War standing with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 29

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War standing with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War from the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia with musical instruments

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War at the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia dressed as cooks

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 13, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 164

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of a group of Prisoners of War standing around a building.

World War One American war effort posters

MS-2-840
Collection
[ca. 1918]

Collection comprises eight posters encouraging Americans to support the war effort, including giving blood, purchasing victory bonds and preventing food wastage.

Be ready — "keep him smiling!" : [poster]

MS-2-840, OS Folder 1, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of World War One American war effort posters

Item is a poster promoting a United War Work Campaign week.

Honor button — Liberty Loan : [poster]

MS-2-840, OS Folder 1, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of World War One American war effort posters

Item is a poster promoting Victory Liberty Loans, designed by Heywood, Strasser and Voigt Litho Co, NY

America calls — join to-day : [poster]

MS-2-840, OS Folder 1, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of World War One American war effort posters

Item is a poster promoting military enlistment, with No. 26 printed on the bottom left corner and the designer's name, Dorothy Whitcomb, on the bottom right.

Photograph of a cabinet display of artifacts from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 44, Item 4
Item
[1970?]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is likely to have been in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment Museum & Archives. T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s military medals are on display on the top shelf of the cabinet on the left hand side.

Photograph of George V at the grave of a soldier on the front lines of the Great War printed on a postcard

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to materials in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. The photograph comes a collection of official photographs produced by the Daily Mail during the Great War. The Prince of Wales stands to the left of King George. Generals William Norris Congreve and Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson are standing in the foreground on the right. General Congreve is identified with an x over his head, though the the identification may be erroneous.

Scrapbook page with photographs of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in military uniform and standing with other officers in his rifle division

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 8
Item
[191-]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item may have been a page in one of Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums. The photographs are an assortment from T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s military career. The top photograph appears to be related to MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 16, Item 2 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs, and was likely taken at the Reach Field shooting range in Hythe, Kent, England. The photograph on the bottom left is a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 2 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs, and was taken at Valcartier Camp, Quebec.

Portrait of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform printed on a postcard

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 21, Item 7
Item
1916

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 4 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. Raddall, Sr. had just recovered from being wounded when the photograph was taken.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall, Sr. at W.E. Firmstone residence

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 9
Item
1917

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. The photograph was taken while Raddall, Sr. was on leave at the Little House, Cooden Drive, Bexhill.

Photograph of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform while on leave in England standing with a gentleman in plainclothes

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 19, Item 6
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927, MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 19, Item 5, and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 9, and is a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 21, Item 17 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was likely taken at the W.E. Firmstone residence.

Portrait of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform printed on a postcard

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 3
Item
December 1914

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. A message on the reverse side is addressed from Raddall, Sr. to his brother, written at Salisbury Plain.

Christmas card from Lt. Col. John Stewart

MS-13-11, SF Box 57, Folder 14, Item 3
Item
1916

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

Item is a Christmas and New Year greeting card from Lt. Col. John Stewart. The card was printed by the Dalhousie No. 7 Stationary Hospital while it was stationed in France. The card is printed in gold and black ink and features the Dalhousie crest.

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