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Photograph of Harold W. Higginson and coloured sketch of a tombstone

Item is a photograph of Higginson outside his home in Pleasantville, New York. Higginson was the chief electrical officer on the cable-ship Mackay-Bennet based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1911-1921 and was part of the cable-ship's recovery of over 300 bodies from the Titanic disaster in April 1912. Thomas Head Raddall served as a wireless operator on the same ship from 1920-1921.

Photograph of Judge F.G. Forbes' residence on Park Street in Liverpool, Nova Scotia

Item is a photograph of the residence "Craigievar". It was built in 1897, and was the first house to be built on Park Street, in Liverpool. It was destroyed by fire in April 1921. It stood on the site of of present lots 21 and 25, and the grounds included the site of the Liverpool Tennis Club's courts. "Craigievar" was the residence of Judge F.G. Forbes, who was a lawyer native to Liverpool and practiced in Halifax. He was a sitting federal member for Queens-Lunenberg in 1896. Judge Forbes retired to provide W. S. Fielding with a seat, which resulted in his judgeship.

Photograph of Mrs. Murray Chipman, Mrs. Napier Moore, Murray Chipman, and an unidentified gentleman on a veranda near the waterfront in Chester, Nova Scotia

Item is related to MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 51 of the Thomas Head Raddall Correspondence series, in the Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and Maclean's Magazine file. The man on the far right is speculated by Napier Moore to be Thomas Head Raddall, but there is a chance that he had identified the wrong photograph of visitors to the Chester residence, "Driftwood".

Photograph of quartz sand at Molega Beach, Nova Scotia

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The quartz sand results from ore crushed at Molega. The beach was once a busy steamboat landing, but was later used as a bathing beach.

Photograph of St. John's, Newfoundland viewed from the Signal Hill approach

Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 5, and duplicate to materials in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph looks down on Furness Wharf and the S/S Nova Scotia in the foreground. The roof of the Roman Catholic Basilica of St. John the Baptist is visible in the background horizon.
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