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Dalhousie University Archives Series
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Personal archives of Graham Creighton

Series consists of correspondence, financial papers, and personal papers of Graham Creighton. Records in the series were created and/or accumulated by Graham Creighton and pertain primarily to his family life or business enterprises prior to becoming a school superintendent.

Creighton, Graham, 1860-1939

Connecting Company Original Records

Series contains records from the following telephone companies: Telephone Company of Prince Edward Island, the Valley Telephone Company, Yarmouth Amalgamated Telephone Company, Barrington Township Telephone Company, and Westport and Digby Telephone Company. Records include annual statements, directories, ledgers, and minute books.

Academic publications and manuscripts

Series contains literary manuscripts, academic offprints, and periodical publications written by John Daniel Logan as part of his work on poetry, philosophy, literary criticism, and literary history.

Research materials

Series contains clippings on music, Canadian literature, J.J. Stewart, and Allen M. Reid, as well as a scrapbook compiled by Reid on church organ music and organs. Series also contains research notes and materials for essays and lectures.

Operations

Series contains construction estimates, job specifications, work orders, foreman reports, job registers, estimates, routine orders, toll pole line specifications, transmission investigation reports, plant budget schedules, plant budget recommendations, budget estimates, working schedules, reports of connecting line additions and removals and directory supervisor order, and correspondence with exchange agents.

Artwork

Series includes unsigned artwork that likely belongs to Olive or Clauda Smith. Included are pencil drawings of landscapes, houses, and people, as well as monotone water paint drawings of people and landscapes. Some include a note on where the subject of the artwork is located.

Archibald MacMechan's teaching records

Series contains records created or collected by Archibald MacMechan during the course of his 40-year employment at Dalhousie University, as well as at Harvard summer school and the Royal Naval College. Records include research notes, examination papers, student marks, and lecture manuscripts.

Bigelow Familys' photographs

This series contains primarily photographs of Bigelow family members and vessels, as well as photographic reproductions of paintings of ships.

Projects and working groups

Series consists of records produced from the research and committee work of the staff of IPA/Henson College. Within the series are research notes and drafts for papers, finished papers, minutes from various meetings related to projects, correspondence directly related to projects and committees, grant applications, speeches, financial statements, agendas, and materials such as questionnaires and interview questions used to gather information for policy research. The content and nature of various projects and working groups undertaken by IPA/Henson College indicate the organisation’s interest in a few key areas, particularly public health, marginalised social groups, education, trade, and industrial relations. Most studies were carried out in the Maritime region, especially in Nova Scotia, and many in the Halifax region. Some of the projects include interviews with individuals and a great deal of personal information. Many of these records were provided code names by the researchers, and most such records are closed to the public.

William D. MacKay's correspondence

Series contains correspondence kept by D.C Mackay's father, William D. Mackay. It is largely comprised of letters and postcards written from D.C. MacKay to his parents during the years he spent studying in England and working in Toronto.

Customer records

This series contains records of Dominion Chair Company's customers. These customers were not limited to the Bass River region or even Nova Scotia - regular clients include ones based in the Maritime Provinces, New England, Great Britain, and the Caribbean. Although there is no comprehensive customer list available, this series provides a glimpse into its various business partnerships. It includes: lists of customers from 1900 and 1931; a list of customers who were audited by the company; lists of orders placed by companies during the period 1892-1944 (note there is not one available for every year in this period).

Administration

Series contains administrative created by Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company. Series includes Public Utility Board orders, correspondence with connecting companies, resolutions, petitions, notices, reports, statistics, development studies, surveys, and purchase records.

Education papers

Series contains notebooks, diplomas, and other materials created through the education of various members of the Smith family. It is sometimes unclear if the school notes in this series belong to Olive or Clauda. The notebooks from 1908 and 1909 certainly belong to Olive and date from the time she was enrolled at Dalhousie University. A number of loose school notes without date or subject also appear here. A convocation programme from Dalhousie (1911) included in this series lists Olive Winifred Smith as graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Charles Creed Business Papers

The papers here are in the form of letters, minutes and notes (undated) pertaining to business with the Maritime Board of Trade. There is also a subscription book of unknown purpose.

Thomas Head Raddall's scrapbooks

Two of the scrapbooks--those relating to his publications--were compiled in the offices of McClelland and Stewart; three others were compiled by Raddall himself; and the sixth was presented to Raddall after the opening of a public library branch in Halifax named in his honour. The scrapbooks include clippings, correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs.

Sales Invoice Copy book

These are Sales Invoice Copy Books for the Dominion Chair Company that are representative of both the range of sales as well as the invoices practices that they employed. These invoices reflect sales to many different countries, including the Caribbean, Ireland and South Africa while clearly showing the majority of their sales in the different areas of the Maritimes.

Printed material

This series contains printed material created by, or pertaining to, the Dominion Chair Company. The material, when not produced by the company itself, was created by local media organizations. It includes: a calendar, two catalogues, two pamphlets, and several price lists published by the company between 1894 and 1931 (note there is not one available for every year in this period). The series also contains two local newspaper articles celebrating the company's history; a script for an episode of the radio show "Wheel of Industry," which featured the Dominion Chair Company; and a printing plate used in the production of one of their catalogues.

Memorabilia of Norman Creighton

Series contains assorted items including news clippings (particularly making mention of family members), items previously belonging to or created by family members. It also contains Norman Creighton's information on the Creighton family history, including research material and notes, a family tree chart, and booklet.

Dalhousie related material

This series is material related to Dr. Murray's Dalhousie committee work it contains interviews related to the history of the Medical School with former faculty, correspondence, proposals for programme and courses and power point presentations.

Diaries

This series contains Diaries from T. Wilsom Creelman, Annie Mackay Creelman, their son William Mackay Creelman and their daughter in-law Nancy Littlejohns Creelman.

Correspondence of Adams and Knickle Limited

Correspondence series consists of Adams & Knickle's general business correspondence and business correspondence concerning its fishing, shipping and vessel operations. The information contained in this series relates to fishing and shipping transactions; relations with both local and foreign agents; shipping events and voyages throughout the Atlantic Ocean; maintenance and refitting of vessels; insurance policies; and legal vessel matters. The Vessel Operations series also contain captain's correspondence and shipping agents' correspondence concerning specific transactions with vessels and events relating to Adams & Knickle vessels.

Financial records of Adams and Knickle Limited

Financial series consists of accounting records, fishing trip financial statements and company financial statements including Clement Fisheries. Types of documents include ledgers, cash books, daybooks, financial statements, stock certificates and accounting papers. The information contained in this series relate to the financial history of Adams & Knickle between 1897 and 1962 and includes transactions with Atlantic seaboard merchants and shipping agents, vessels, insurance companies, port officials, crews, captains, fishermen, vessel accounts, official duties and taxes on materials shipped, revenue, shares and dividends, and other related financial

Manuscripts and reference material

This series consists of manuscripts, broadcast scripts, commentary and poetry written by Allen. It also includes some reference material that was used to write various broadcasts.

Frank Parker Day photographs

Series contains photographs that span the greater portion of Day's life. Materials include photographs depicting his time in university, his time served during World War One, and his time as President of Union College. Series also contains many photographs of the Day family and their friends.

Counter books

These books are the day-to-day records of activities within the Dominion Chair Company. They include a list of financial transactions arranged chronologically showing a range of financial activity. There are several different kinds including a general book, a 'workmans book', a 'counter book', a 'men's book' (which was probably related to the workman's book) and a 'delivery book.' All are organized the same way but probably with a specific function in mind.

Marine Protests of Sailing Ships

Series contains protests of sailing ships—schooners and barquentines (ships which have no main engine and operate only under sail). In the case of those files that include a typed protest, they appear to be copies of the handwritten originals.

Genealogical studies

Series contains material collected by Logan during his work on genealogy . Records include research notes, manuscripts, and correspondence.

Vessel operations records of Adams and Knickle Limited

Vessel Operations series consists of vessels papers, vessel certificates and sailing journals. Types of documents include captain's correspondence and accounts, agents' accounts, correspondence, port documentation, trip financial summaries, agreements and charters with shipping agents, notices of protest, crew lists, affidavits, insurance records, vessel accounts and logs. Information includes relations between the vessel and Adams & Knickle; business transactions at various ports in the Caribbean, Brazil and Portugal; the salt-cure fish trade; shipping and fishing industry; relations with foreign markets and various shipping agents; and

Marine Protests of Steam Ships

All marine protests in this series pertain to steam ships (ships which operate under a steam engine and not under sail), including barges. Some typed protests are the only copy for which there are no corresponding handwritten originals.

Personal Materials of Frank Parker Day

This series includes files from his time at Mount Allison and Oxford universities, family -related materials and memorabilia, legal and financial documents (which include publishing contracts and insurance forms), as well as documents related to Swarthmore and Union Colleges. Other assorted documents include the address given at his funeral, clippings of book reviews, and scrapbooks (on microfilm) from 1905-1907.

Sales and shipping operations

Sales and Shipping Operations series consists of fish catches, fish sales, stock journals and employment and time records. Types of documents include journals, notebooks, a salt fish barrel label, patterns for making sails and workmen compensation forms regarding employer pay roll totals for each year. The information contained in this series includes the size and species of fish catches; the market values of salted, dried, green and fresh fish that Adams & Knickle processed, packed and sold; the types of equipment and supplies provided by Adams & Knickle; and the cost and amount of effort required to get fish to market.
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