Photo includes, from left to right, Clifford Daniel MacDonald (married to sister of the groom, 1920-2019), Frederick Sutherland Livingston (1930-2019), Isabelle Marjorie MacDonald (1930-2011), and Isabelle Frances Livingston (sister of the groom, married to Clifford, 1917-2010). Marriage occurred in Stellarton in November 1949, as per per their daughter, Tera (November 2023).
File contains a photograph of two Black Nova Scotian soldiers, posed standing in army uniforms with caps and crops, most likely members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) No. 2 Construction Battalion. The No. 2 was raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1916, and was the only Canadian battalion composed of Black soldiers in Canadian military history.
Composite photo composed of twenty-one individual photos, each identified on players with a photo of a trophy cup in the centre. Annotated: "Thorburn Mohawks Maritime Junior Softball Champions 1963 1964 1965"
Collection contains over 55,000 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and prints from the Waldren Studios of New Glasgow and Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The majority of these negatives are portraits, nearly all of which are identified and dated. A number of the portraits represent some of the earliest photos of Black Nova Scotians from Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough counties. Many of the remaining photos are local scenes, a few of which were taken in New Glasgow before the fire in 1874 which devastated the town. The collection contains photographs that depict show coal mining, shipbuilding and other local industries in action. Portraits of family groups, sports teams, social clubs and school groups are also well represented.
