Collection contains records created or collected by Edith Zillig related to sheep, the sheep breeding industry, and wool between 1811-2005. Records types include published and unpublished papers, correspondence, reports, pamphlets, booklets, monographs, magazines, newsletters, photographs, filmstrips, recipes, and artifacts.
Collection contains materials created and collected by the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists. Series include biographies and photographs of notable Nova Scotia agrologists, many of whom were associated with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College or the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture.
Collection consists of records with information about individual co-operatives and credit unions in Atlantic Canada, as well as documents from larger region-wide co-operative organizations. There is also a large section of general co-op literature about co-operation as a social movement, in Canada and around the world. There are published books, serials, brochures, reports, photographs and slides, maps, audio and visual material, and artifacts. The age of the materials ranges from the early 1900s up to 2002, the majority spans from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Fonds consists of reports and studies on Nova Scotia farming and marketing between 1924-1990. Series are comprised of papers, reports, correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, and signs created and collected by Gordon Kinsman during his Nova Scotia berry research. Materials focus on blueberries, strawberries, the strawberry industry, berry box making, berry shipping, general agriculture, the history of agriculture, dairy, creameries, direct marketing of blueberries and apples, exhibitions in Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, and Canada between 1924-1993.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Harry Brown related to sheep in Nova Scotia and Canada. There are two series', one in the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited, and the second includes records related to the exhibition and breeding of sheep, and Nova Scotia Sheep Breeders Association records. Records are meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, and memorandums.
File contains a photograph album of photographs taken at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College taken and collected by the donor Ed Munroe, [NSAC] class of 1941. There are 34 b&w photographs of student life on the NSAC campus, there are also and invitations to the 1940 and 1941 NSAC graduation dances.
File contains 7 photographs of C.A. Douglas' retirement. They are all stamped "Photo by Pridham Studio, Truro, N.S.". Charles Douglas was Deputy Minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing. Douglas also served as Assistant Agricultural Representative in Pictou, Agricultural Representative in Hants County, Assistant Director and, later, Director of Extension, and as Director of Livestock. Was inducted into the Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1979. https://www.dal.ca/diff/aahf/inductees/charles-douglas.html
Fonds contains photographs of Melville Cumming, as well as addresses, research articles/manuscripts, and letters related to agriculture in Nova Scotia written by Melville Cumming. Other material consists of records that were created while Dr. Cumming served as the first principal at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1905-27. He was also an instructor animal husbandry, agronomy, bacteriology and public speaking, and also served as the Secretary of Agriculture for the province from 1907-25. Includes records from 1900-1970 comprised of photographs, certificates, articles, and speeches from the passing of Dr. Cumming.
File contains correspondence regarding Alexander Leighton's book "The Governing of Men." Also contains several periodicals containing reviews of the book, such as Baptist Adult Union Quarterly, Saturday Review of Literature, The Prison World, and the Rudge Memorandum. Also contains 2 photos : b&w; 8 x 10in and smaller.
File consists of loose fieldnote pages removed from their original binding. Also includes newspaper clippings and 7 photos : b&w; 3 1/4 x 41/4 in and smaller.
File contains research, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, conference schedules, and contact lists relating to a study on chemical herbicide and pesticide use in Vietnam. Also contains 4 colour postcards and 3 photos : b&w; 5 x 7 in.
File contains discussion outlines, lecture schedules, to-do lists, reading lists, bibliographies, agendas, memoranda and correspondence regarding the "seminar on wheels" lecture series. Also includes 10 photos : colour; 4 x 6 in and smaller.
File contains correspondence with or about Thomas A. C. Rennie. Also contains an obituary cut from a newspaper, telephone correspondence transcriptions, a progress report for the Yorkville Community Mental Health Research Project, and 1 photo : b&w; 3 x 3 3/4 in.
File contains correspondence with or about Yashiharu Scott "Scotty" Matsumoto. Also includes 10 photos : b&w; 2 x 2 in. Also includes the article "Patient rapport in Hiroshima" from the American Journal of Nursing.
File contains correspondence with or about Kenneth Galbraith. Also includes photocopies of newspaper clippings and a photocopied obituary. Also includes invitations and programs for events at the Abbie J. Lane Memorial Hospital. Includes 1 photo of Kenneth Galbraith : b&w; 7 3/4 x 10in.
File contains correspondence with or about Robert and Monique Gessain. Also contains lecturer registration forms, a manuscript for "Report on the sciences of man: can psychiatry travel?," a booklet titled "Nicolas et Antoine en Nouvelle Ecosse," and 6 photos : 4 b&w and 2 colour; 5 x 7 1/2 in and smaller.
File contains correspondence with or about John Collier, Jr. Also includes a commencement invitation and photography illustration proposals. Also includes 2 photos : b&w, 8 1/2 x 11 in. and smaller.
File contains photographs of people, buildings, and scenery in Brittany in 1963. Alexander Leighton was possibly there for a sabbatical. A psychiatric study similar to the Stirling County Study had apparently been completed in the region.