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Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds
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Photographs of Nova Scotia Agricultural College students, staff, and faculty on campus and in classrooms

File contains photographs of students, staff, and faculty in classrooms, and barns at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are reproductions of photographs of the travelling dairy school wagon and the travelling dairy class, reprinted from the NS annual agriculture reports, around 1904-06. There is also photographs of Dave Adams giving instruction in the old Pavilion behind Cumming Hall, a Government Farm Team and their wagon in Truro's Natal Day parade, September 14, 1897, and a person in a suit and bowler hat in front of a green house.

Photograph of an official handing a silver tray to a recipient, Vern MacKay [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College]

Item is a photograph of an official handing a silver plate/tray engraved with Cumming Hall to a recipient, name tag says Vern MacKay [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College]. It may be the class with the highest attendance at each gathering of Alumni for that year as it looks similar to the tray in the photograph of a tray being awarded to the winning 1944 class in 1974, see page 215 of Dale Ells' 1999 book, Shaped through service : an illustrated history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Watchclock

Item is a "Detex Newman" watchclock with guardsman Key. Likely used at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The Detex was brought out in the 1920s.

Engineer's transit

Item is an engineer's transit used for measuring horizontal and vertical angles or directions and extending straight lines. Likely used on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Made by Keuffel & Esser CO. New York 25734?

Photograph of four people doing sewing machine maintenance

Item is a photograph of four people doing sewing machine maintenance, like a Home economics short course that was held at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. They are doing maintenance on, or cleaning, a Singer sewing machine that is laid out with other machinery parts on a newspaper on a table. The participants are dressed nicely in semi formal wear; dresses and hats.

Scales

Item is a set of scales that would have hung from the roof. They would have been used to weigh beef, or feed bags, and were used on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. They are marked "Fairbanks" up to 250 lbs, made of "heavy steel". Has two pieces, one piece is 22 3/4" L and has a short and long hook, the second piece is 54" L with markings and has two hooks, equal size.
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