Archives Catalogue

Macdonald Library revised entrance window details

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 14
Item
June 23, 1914

Item is an unnumbered sheet containing construction drawings of exterior and interior half elevations of the entrance windows of the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University. The "detail has precedence over sheets nos. 12 & 13 of original drawings."

MacDonald Library bookcase details

UA-9, OS Folder 28
File
1915 ; 1958

Part of Facilities Management

File contains full-scale and 3/4-scale shelving detail drawings; details for a chimney-top rain shield; and a leaded letters template for the O.E. Smith Wing addition built in 1956.

Photograph of the Macdonald library reading room

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
February 1916

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the reading room in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie University.

Gauvin & Gentzel

Photograph of an unidentified exterior shot after the Halifax Explosion

PC1, Box 31, Folder 12, Item 3
Item
[ca. December 1917]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains an unidentified exterior shot after the Halifax Explosion.

Photograph of MacDonald Memorial Library after Halifax Explosion

PC1, Box 31, Folder 12, Item 2
Item
[ca. December 1917]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the interior of the MacDonald Library at Dalhousie University after the Halifax Explosion in 1917.

Photographs of buildings after the Halifax Explosion

PC1, Box 31, Folder 12
File
1917

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains two photographic prints and seven photographic negatives that show show damage to buildings at Dalhousie University from the Halifax Explosion.

Additions & alterations to library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 15
Item
May 1, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a sheet containing construction details for alterations to a counter and balcony

Additions and alterations to a library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 9
File
May 1, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

File contains the heating plan for the Macdonald Library stack room and second floor, drawn by architect Andrew R. Cobb and Chris Harrington, heating engineer.

Additions and alterations to library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 22
File
May 1, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

File contains a blueprint set of six sheets of drawings of additions and alterations to the Macdonald Library, which was for the stack room constructed in 1920.

Macdonald Memorial Library construction blueprints

UA-9, OS Folder 6
File
1921

Part of Facilities Management

File contains detailed construction drawings for the Macdonald Memorial Library, primarily for the deck framing.

Photographs of the University Club interior

PC1, Box 2, Folder 19
File
[between 1922 and 1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs taken in the University Club at Dalhousie University, previously known as the Arts Building and the Law Building. The photographs show the library in the Law Building and the men's common room in the Arts Building.

Photograph of the stacks in the Macdonald library

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 4
Item
August 1923

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the stacks in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie University. The photograph shows an aisle of book shelves.

MacLaughlin Studio

Photograph of the Macdonald library reading room

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Items 2-3
Item
September 1923

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item consists of two copies of a photograph of the reading room in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie University.

Gauvin & Gentzel

Photograph of the Macdonald library reading room

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 5
Item
1927

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the reading room in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie University. The photograph was received from Dr. MacMechan on June 20, 1927.

Press release submitted to the Halifax Chronicle and Daily Star about a donation to the Library

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 5
Item
14 October 1931

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a short piece prepared by Carleton Stanley, submitted to the Halifax Chronicle and Daily Star in October 1931, about a gift of books from Francis McLennan to the Library at Dalhousie University. Includes correspondence.

Carleton Stanley's comments regarding a gift from the Carnegie Corporation to the Dalhousie Library

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 33
Item
20 October 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a short commentary written by Carleton Stanley in response to a $9,000 donation from the Carnegie Corporation to the Dalhousie Library in October 1932, "solely for the purchase of books and current periodicals for general undergraduate reading in liberal arts".

Carleton Stanley's submission to the Dalhousie Gazette about a Carnegie Corporation donation

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 37
Item
29 November 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of an annotated typescript of Carleton Stanley's submission to the Dalhousie Gazette, dated November 29, 1932, praising students for their increased and sustained use of library facilities in response to forthcoming funding from the Carnegie Corporation. Also includes discussions around the use of the new gymnasium.

Carleton Stanley's article submitted to the Halifax Herald and Chronicle about Dalhousie's recent benefactors

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 38
Item
30 November 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript of an article written by Carleton Stanley on November 30, 1932 about the benefactors to Dalhousie University; particularly, Dougald Macgillivray, who had recently donated a bust of George Ramsay, Ninth Earl of Dalhousie (created by Massey Rhind), for the lobby of the Macdonald Memorial Library Building. Item was submitted to the Halifax Herald and the Halifax Chronicle.

E.B. Rogers's article about the William Inglis Morse Collection

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 44
Item
23 January 1933

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of Carleton Stanley's typescript copy of an article written by E.B. Rogers (at the behest of C.L. Bennet) submitted to the Halifax Chronicle, discussing a substantial donation of a "valuable collection of books" by William Inglis Morse, which would make up the basis of the William Inglis Morse Collection at the Dalhousie Library. Article is dated January 23, 1933.

Eirene M. Walker's article about the William Inglis Morse Collection

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 45
Item
23 January 1933

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of Carleton Stanley's typescript copy of an article by Eirene M. Walker (written at the behest of C.L. Bennet) about a donation of "an interesting and valuable collection of books and maps" by William Inglis Morse, making up the basis of the "William Inglis Morse Collection". Article was submitted to the Halifax Herald, dated January 23, 1933.

Press release about a notable gift to Dalhousie Library

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 56
Item
20 September 1933

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript copy of a press release prepared by Carleton Stanley and submitted to all Halifax newspapers, about a notable gift of books inscribed by Queen Victoria by Mr. George Matthew Adams.

Postcard of the Macdonald library reading room

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1934]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a postcard featuring a photograph of the reading room in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie University. The photograph was taken by Gauvin & Gentzel in 1934. The postcard was produced by Valentine-Black Co. Ltd. of Toronto.

Photograph of the Macdonald library reading room

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Items 6-7
Item
September 1934

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains two copies of a photograph of the reading room in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie University. One copy of the photograph was printed from a nitrate negative.

Gauvin & Gentzel

Photograph of the Morse room in the Macdonald library

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 11
Item
1937

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the Morse Room in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie Univeristy. The photograph shows several chairs arranged around a table and framed art on the walls.

Gauvin & Gentzel

Photograph of the dalhousie medical and dental library

PC1, Box 19, Folder 10, Item 10
Item
January 1937

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the medical dental library in the Forrest Building at Dalhousie University. The photograph shows three men working at tables in the library. The name "Harold Weir" is written on the back of the photograph.

Photograph of the Morse room in the Macdonald library

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 9 & 12
Item
1937

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains two copies of a photograph of the Morse Room in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie Univeristy. The photograph shows several chairs arranged around a table. One copy of the photograph was printed from a nitrate negative.

Gauvin & Gentzel

Photograph of the Morse room in the Macdonald library

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 10
Item
1937

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the Morse Room in the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie Univeristy. The photograph shows several chairs arranged around a table.

Gauvin & Gentzel

Photograph of people working in the law library in the Forrest Building

PC1, Box 19, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
1948

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the interior of the law library in the Forrest Building at Dalhousie University. There are several people sitting at tables in the library and reading or writing.

Bollinger

Alterations and additions to library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, OS Folder 31
File
1950 ; 1955

Part of Facilities Management

File contains a blueprint set of eight sheets of drawings of alterations and additions to the Macdonald Library and nine drawings from 1955, both by architect Leslie Fairn.

Photograph of people working in the law library in the Forrest Building

PC1, Box 19, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
1951

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the interior of the law library in the Forrest Building at Dalhousie University. There are several people sitting at tables and reading or writing. The photograph is enclosed in a plastic sleeve.

National Film Board of Canada.

Opening of Halifax Memorial Library, November 12, 1951 : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 57, Item 3
Item
12 November 1951

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a annotated draft manuscript of the address given by Vincent MacDonald.

Opening of Halifax Memorial Library, November 12, 1951 : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 57, Item 2
Item
12 November 1951

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a typed manuscript copy of the final version of the address.

Opening of Halifax Memorial Library, November 12, 1951 : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 57, Item 1
Item
12 November 1951

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an annotated typed manuscript.

Photograph of the library in the Law Building

PC1, Box 2, Folder 19, Item 2
Item
[between 1952 and 1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the library in the Law Building, which is now known as the University Club. The photograph was taken from a vantage point overlooking the entire library from above. There are students working at tables in the library. The photograph was taken by Wright.

Photograph of the library in the Law Building

PC1, Box 2, Folder 19, Item 1
Item
[between 1952 and 1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the library in the Law Building, which is now known as the University Club. The photograph shows students working at tables in the library.

Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited

Photograph of a man looking at a book in the Kipling room at the Macdonald library

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 23
Item
[after 1956]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of an unidentified man looking at a book in the Kipling Room, located in the O. E. Smith wing of the Macdonald Library.

Wetmore

Photograph of people looking at a display case in the Kipling room at the Macdonald library

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 24
Item
[after 1956]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of four unidentified people looking at a display case in the Kipling Room, located in the O. E. Smith wing of the Macdonald Library.

Wetmore

Photograph of students working in the Macdonald library reading room

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 21
Item
[196-?]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of several unidentified students working at tables in the reading room of the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie University.

Photograph of students working in the Macdonald library reading room

PC1, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 22
Item
[196-?]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of several unidentified students working at tables in the reading room of the Macdonald Library at Dalhousie University.

Photograph of Medical-Dental Library reference collection in attic of 5963 College Street location

PC1, Box 65, Folder 10
File
between 1965 and 1967

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of the Medical-Dental Library reference collection when it was housed at 5963 College Street. This was a temporary location for the library during the construction of the Tupper Building and the W.K. Kellogg Health Science Library.

Photograph of the serials collection in the Medical-Dental Library

PC1, Box 62, Folder 75
File
[1965-1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of the journal stacks in the basement of the Medical-Dental Library

PC1,Box 62, Folder 76
File
[1965-1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of 5963 College Street which housed the Medical-Dental Library between 1965-1967

PC1, Box 63, Folder 60
File
[between 1965 and 1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of a white and green house which housed the Medical-Dental Library during the construction of the Tupper Building and the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library.

Photograph of Medical-Dental Library Cataloging Office in the 5963 College Street building

PC1, Box 63, Folder 62
File
[between 1965 and 1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of the Cataloging Office of the Medical-Dental Library in the 5963 College Street building during the construction of the Tupper Building and the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library.

Photograph of Marnie Lee, Medical-Dental Library staff in the 5963 College Street building

PC1, Box 63, Folder 63
File
[between 1965 and 1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of Marnie Lee in the book processing office on the second floor of the 5963 College Street building which housed the Medical-Dental Library during the construction of the Tupper Building and the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library.

Photograph of library staff and patron in Medical-Dental Library - 5963 College Street

PC1, Box 63, Folder 68
File
[between 1965 and 1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of Anita Watson and Monty Day with patron from the landing of the second floor of the Medical-Dental Library. The library was housed in 5963 College Street during the construction of the Tupper Building between 1965-1967.

Photograph of the public services office in the Medical-Dental Library - 5963 College Street

PC1, Box 63, Folder 72
File
[between 1965 and 1967]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of public services office on the main floor of the Medical-Dental Library which was housed in 5963 College Street during the construction of the Tupper Building between 1965-1967.

Photographs of staff, equipment, and Special Collections displays in the Killam Library

PC1, Box 6, Folder 1
File
1965-1980

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs of staff of the Killam Library at Dalhousie University; exhibits and displays of material from Special Collections; equipment used at the library; and other subjects related to the Killam Library and Special Collections. The photographs show Bonnie Boyd; Olga Martell; Pat Hamilton; Grace Tratt; Paddy Burt; Philipp Schmidt-Schlegel; Friedrich W. Gaede; Gayle Garlock; Donald Betts; Mrs. Cook; Jim Campbell; Ann Oxley; Mr. and Mrs. Will R. Bird; Janet Hathaway; Ritch Jamieson; John P. Wilkinson; Mary Lynn Pottie; Charles Armour; Thomas Lackey; and other unidentified people.