File contains 12 student tickets (and other documents) received by Arthur Charles Hawkins confirming his enrolment and attendance during the 1882-1883 session at the Halifax Medical College, Dalhousie College and University, and the Provincial and City Hospital. The tickets are for: Materia Medica (taught by John F. Black); Physiology (taught by John Somers); Practical Anatomy (taught by D.A. Campbell and A.W.H. Lindsay); Practical Chemistry (taught by W.H. Waddell); Chemistry (taught by George Lawson); Clinical Medicine (taught by Alexander P. Reid and Archibald Lawson); Practical Pharmacy (taught by C.E. Puttner and D. DeW. Harrington); Anatomy (taught by George Sinclair); and matriculation and library tickets.
File contains invitations to convocation ceremonies for Dalhousie University on October 27, 1885; April 28, 1886; April 27, 1887; October 18, 1887; April 26, 1888; April 23, 1891; September 21, 1892; April 23, 1895; April 26, 1898; and May 13, 1919. The file contains some duplicates.
File contains correspondence between William Edward Maclellan and Manitoba Printing Co. Limited, Nova Scotia provincial secretary, and Covert, Pearson & Macnutt barristers, solicitors and notaries.
File contains correspondence and contracts related to the loaning of Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada.
Files contains Frank McMahon's registration tickets for the Halifax Medical College (Dalhousie College and University Medical Faculty) and his attendance/examination cards for Anatomy, Materia Medica, Practical Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, Botany, and Chemistry. The cards are printed on coloured heavy card and are held in a small black leather-bound folder. Cards are variously signed by John Forrest, A.W.H. Lindsay, D.A. Campbell, Arthur Morrow, John Somers, George L. Sinclair, and others. The back of one card contains a note from A.W.H. Lindsay about dissections.
Item is a group portrait of the Dalhousie University senior class of 1887. The photograph shows the students sitting or standing in three rows and wearing academic dress. Eliza Ritchie is second from left in second row.
File contains photographs of the exterior of the Forrest Building at Dalhousie University. The photographs were taken at various different times during the building's history. Two of the photographs come from nitrate negatives that were scanned and destroyed.
File contains the program and texts from the songs of "The Flower Queen" or "The Coronation of the Rose: A Cantata in Two Acts" by George F. Root, which was presented at Orpheus Hall on September 13 and 14, 1887. The performances featured Miss. B. Lownds, Mr. King Pooley, Mr. C.J. Ross, Mr. J.R. Forbes, Miss. Taylor, Miss. E. Pickford, Miss. H. Gossip, Miss. E. Wier, Miss. B. Salter, Miss. M. Partridge, Miss. Forbes, Miss. G. Taylor, Miss. Ward, Miss. G. Smithers, and Miss. A. Nichols.
File consists of two handwritten letters by Charles Tupper. One letter is an 1887 letter of introduction to Sir Andrew Clark regarding Mr. Freeborn, a Canadian medical student in London. The second letter was written in 1911 to Mrs. J. Ross Smith in Amherst, Nova Scotia thanking her for an earlier correspondence regarding election results.
File includes an release of mortgage to James E. Roy from 1887; a bond from Hector McInnes from 1897; and a release of mortgage to Hector McInnes from 1898.
Item is a composite photograph of the faculty of Dalhousie University, possibly from 1889. The photograph consists of portraits of James Liechti, L.H.D. (Professor of Modern Languages, 1865-1906); Rev. William Lyall, LL.D. (Professor of Logic and Psychology 1863-90); Charles Macdonald, M.A. (Professor of Mathematics, 1863-1901); James Seth, M.A. (Professor of Philosophy, 1886-92); Rev. John Forrest, D.D. (Third President, 1885-1911); Archibald MacMechan, B.A., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C. (Professor of English, 1889-1932); John Johnson, M.A., LL.D. (Professor of Classics, 1863-94); W. J. Alexander, Ph.D. (Professor of English, 1884-1889); J. Gordon MacGregor, D.Sc., F.R.S. (Professor of Physics, 1879-1901); and George Lawson, Ph.D. (Professor of Chemistry, 1863-95) arranged in three rows on a plain background. The photograph was a gift from Dr. F. J. A. McKitrick on February 2, 1951. The item is a later copy of the original photograph.
File contains a photographic collage of the Dalhousie College Arts Faculty and Class of 1891. The collage consists of portraits of faculty members and students arranged in several rows, with the faculty portraits in the centre. The rectangular, circular, or oval portraits are mounted on a painted background. The faculty portraits include John Forrest, J. Liechti, John Johnson, William Lyall, Archibald MacMechan, James De Mille, Charles Macdonald, George Lawson, and others.
File contains a composite photograph of the Dalhousie University law faculty and class of 1891-1892. The photograph consists of portraits of the faculty and students arranged on a background that resembles lace.
Front row (on the floor): A.S. Barnstead; W.J. Pickering; A.D. Archibald Sitting: W.E. Thompson; E.S. Harding; R. H. Graham; G.S. Gordon (Captain); R. McIlreith First Row Standing: G.S. Shaw; D.McRae; D.K. Grant; D. Finlayson; G.H. Maxwell Last Row: J.W. Logan; D.G. MacKay; F.C. Harvey; L. McLean; H.V. Bigelow
File contains a photographic collage of the Dalhousie College class of 1895. The collage consists of portraits of the class and a photograph of the Forrest Building, mounted on a matboard and surrounded by painted leaves and branches. The portraits are unlabeled.