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Nova Scotia Agricultural College Head House building architectural plans 1913

UA-43, AV8, Drawer 1, Folder 16
Item
Oct. 1, 1913

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is Set No.4 of the building / architectural plans for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Head House (greenhouse) building architectural plans, October 1, 1913. Job No. B.19 by Andrew R. Cobb - Arch - Halifax. 5 sheets. Handwritten in ink in the upper left corner on sheet no. 1: "Please refer to the awarded contract dated November 5th, 1913 [sp] W.K. Murray?

Photograph of Collins horticulture building

UA-43, PB Box 25, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
[1913]-[1969?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Photographs of Cumming Hall

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 3, Items 5-9
Item
[1913?]-[1949?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Items are copies of photographs and negatives of Cumming Hall. There is bare grass, leaves are still on the trees, three windows are open on the upper floor. There are bushes and shrubbery obstructing, or covering, the lower windows on the front the building. The addition to the back that now houses Alumni Theater can be seen. In one print the number "BL-365" is written in white ink in the lower right hand corner.

Photograph of Collins Horticultural building with partial view of frame yard, before the addition in 1953

UA-43, PB Box 25, Folder 16, Item 1
Item
[1913]-[1953]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a photograph of Collins Horticultural building with greenhouse and a barn in the background. There is grass on the ground, and leaves are still on the trees.

Photograph of the Collins Horticultural building plaque

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 4, Item 3
Item
[1913]-[1946]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Photograph of the 1913 senior class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 6, Folder 3
Item
1913

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Nova Scotia Poultry Association fonds

MS-14-11
Fonds
1913-1938

Fonds consists of the constitution, by-laws, and the minutes of the annual meetings for the Nova Scotia Poultry Association from 1913-1938.

Nova Scotia Poultry Association

Photographs of librarians, library staff, and the MacRae Library building on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

MS-14-46, PB Box 9, Folder 29
File
1913-2009

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains photographs of the interior and exterior of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College library that was built in 1982, and 1983 library staff and librarians. There are also portraits of past librarians and students.
From 1913-1939 the NSAC library collection was housed on bookshelves of a small room adjacent to the office of the Professor of English.
From 1939-1968 Principal Lyman Chapman improved the library arrangements by rearranging space previously occupied by the janitor’s quarters on the top floor of the administrative building, later named Cumming Hall; they provided tables, newspapers, magazines, books, reference books and textbooks.
Between 1968-1982 the library was housed in the Cox Institute, the library was given space to the west of the stairwell on the lower level. The library added a microfiche reader during this time.
In the 1980s a new building for library services became the first priority when the degree program was approved. Official opening of the new library was graduation day May 1983, and the library was named the MacRae library in 1990.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College superintendent of grounds and gardens annual reports

UA-43, Box 4, Folders 2-7
File
1913-1919

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Files contain the first, third, sixth, and seventh (1913-1919) annual reports submitted by Peter F. J. Shaw, the superintendent of ground and gardens and horticulturist for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Photographs of Collins Horticulture building

UA-43, PB Box 25, Folder 5, Items 20-22
Item
[1913]-[2007?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Photograph of Collins Horticultural building with greenhouse

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 33, Item 1
Item
[1913]-[1946]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a photograph of Collins Horticultural building with greenhouse and the Science building in the background. There is grass on the ground, and leaves are still on the trees. There's wagons and other harden equipment visible.

Athletics - photograph of 1913 Nova Scotia Agricultural College hockey team

UA-43, PB Box 34, Folder 7
Item
1913

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College, also known as NSAC or Aggies, 1913 hockey team.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College departmental annual reports

Subseries
1913-1996

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Subseries contains annual reports of Nova Scotia Agricultural College departments, including engineering, grounds/gardens divisions, and Department of Plant Science between 1913-1996.

Correspondence to Melville Cumming from Murray (contractor)

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
1913

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is correspondence to Melville Cumming from Murray (contractor) regarding their offer to build the headhouse, dated November 4, 1913. Attached is a document prepared by M. Cumming entitled "Changes in Specifications for Headhouse to Greenhouse for Agricultural College".

Contract for the construction of the Head House to the greenhouse on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, OVR Box 1, Folder 10
Item
November 5, 1913

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is the contract for the construction of the headhouse to greenhouse at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College between W.K. Murray (contractor) and Department of Public Works including modifications to specifications. The contract is dated November 5, 1913. Signed by "? Cobb" Architect; "E. H. Armstrong" Commissioner for Public Works and Mines; and "W.K. Murray" contractor.

Glenn Stephen Ells exams

MS-14-47, Box 134, Folder 5
File
December 1913 - March 1915

File contains 25 exam papers likely taken by Glen Stephen Ells between the junior and senior year (1913-1915) for subjects associated with agriculture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The exam papers are mostly typed and cover a range of topics from entomology, dairy, animal husbandry, commercial law, mathematics, and English literature. The exams are annotated and scribbled over and appear to mainly belong to one student Glen Stephen Ells. One exam paper in particular shows strategy planning for a hockey game on the reverse of which Ells was a team-member.

Ells, Glenn Stephens

Nova Scotia Agricultural College horticultural and landscape architecture records

Subseries
1913–1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Subseries contains records relating to horticulture and landscape architecture of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Records include the working plan of plots, list of perennials, and tables of dates of sowing, plowing and working in vegetables plots for seasons between 1913-1916.

Photograph of the grounds in front of Cumming Hall, Collins Horticulture and Humanities house in the background

UA-43, PB Box 25, Folder 5, Item 12
Item
[1913]-[1960?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Photographs of the Collins Horticultural building

UA-43, PB Box 25, Folder 16
File
[1913]-[1999?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

File contains photographs of the Collins Horticultural building on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus.

Photograph of Collins Horticultural building with the old science building behind it

UA-43, PB Box 25, Folder 16, Item 3
Item
[1913]-[1946]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Photographs of the Collins Horticultural building

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 4
File
[1913]-[1999?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

File contains photographs of the Collins Horticultural building on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus.

Collins Horticultural and Science buildings photograph

UA-43, ANC Box 1, Folder 3
Item
[1913]-[1947]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a photograph of the Collin's Horticulture building at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College with the old science building in the background. The science building burned down in 1947.

Photographic reproductions of Cumming Hall, Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1913-1967

UA-43, PB Box 9, Folder 22
File
1913-1967

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

File contains reproduced photographs of Cumming Hall of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College between 1913-1967.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus farm records

Series
1913-1985

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Series contains records relating to the livestock and cultivation of grounds and crops at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College between 1918 and 1985. Record types include herd summaries and histories, vegetable plot plans, and catalogues of plants.

Correspondence re. construction of the Head House to the greenhouse on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1913

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains correspondence and a document regarding the construction of the headhouse to greenhouse at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in November 1913.

Photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College administration building [Cumming Hall]

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
[1913?]-[1949?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a photograph of Cumming Hall. There is bare grass, leaves are still on the trees, and there are bushes and shrubbery obstructing, or covering, the lower windows on the front the building. The photograph shows the addition to the building in 1913 the now holds Alumni Theater and the Dairy building.

Photographs of Main building [Cumming Hall] and a general view of the grounds and buildings of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 3, Item 10
Item
[1913?]-[1957]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Items is a page with two photographs of Cumming Hall and general view of the grounds and buildings of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There is the addition to the back of Cumming Hall and Collins Horticulture which were renovated and built in 1913. Longley house can be seen in the background, which was removed in 1957. The page may have been removed from the Annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture.

Photographs of Collins Horticultural buildings at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 33
File
[1913]-1989

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

File contains photographs of the Collins Horticultural buildings on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus, built in 1913.

Photograph of Collins Horticultural building with truck parked outside

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 33, Item 2
Item
[1913]-June 1989

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a photograph of Collins Horticultural building with truck parked outside. There is grass on the ground, and leaves are still on the trees.

Photograph of Collins Horticultural building with the old science building behind it

UA-43, PB Box 25, Folder 16, Item 4
Item
[1913]-[1946]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Photograph of a tree on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College with Collins Horticultural building and the old science building behind it

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 4, Item 2
Item
[1913]-[1946]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Photograph of the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture science building

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 2, Item 4
Item
[1914?]-[1946?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Athletics - photograph of 1914 Nova Scotia Agricultural College hockey team

UA-43, PB Box 37, Folder 5
Item
1914

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College, also known as NSAC or Aggies, 1914 hockey team.

Photograph of main classroom in the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture Science Building, circa 1914

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 2, Item 1
Item
[1914]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Photograph of the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture science building

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 2, Item 5
Item
[1914?]-[1946?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Two 1915 Nova Scotia Agricultural College junior year English literature tests

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 30
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1915 tables of dates of sowing, plowing and working plans of vegetable plots for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 20
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains tables of dates of sowing, plowing, and working plans of vegetables plots for the 1915 season on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Created by James Allan, Superintendent of Horticulture.

1915 exhibition vegetable plot plan at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 17
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1916 list of perennials grown at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 19
File
1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photocopied 1916 newspaper article re. Nova Scotia government agricultural policy

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 20
File
1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a photocopy of a 9 June 1916 news item from The Pictou Advocate written by Robert H. MacKay, R. Henry Graham, and Robert M. MacGregor, "The Farmers Candidates," entitled "The Policy of the Government in Respect to AGRICULTURE is Centralized at the Provincial College and Farm at Truro."

Kenneth Cox fonds

MS-14-16
Fonds
1917-1949

Fonds consists of one invoice and a book containing two pages of notes about agriculture written by Kenneth Cox. Also included is a text on live stock judging from 1917.

Cox, Kenneth

Photograph of stallion Captain Aubrey and groomer A. Dwyer

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 16
Item
[1917]-[1929]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a black and white photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College's prized stallion, Captain Aubrey, pictured with A. Dwyer driving a cart attached. From Dale Ells' Shaped through Service : an illustrated history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, page 95: Captain Aubrey was a bay horse that stood 15.3 hands in height, weighed around 1200 pounds. Captain Aubrey foaled in 1904 and had an impressive racing career until 1912, then began his career as a stud horse. He was purchased under the advice of Dr. Cumming for NSAC in 1917 and used for stud. Pure Bred Stallion Enrollment no. 14 Captain Aubrey 107 1/4 Son of Peter the Great 2:07 1 / 4.

Photographs of animals at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Series
[1917] - 1961

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Series consists of photographs of animals owned by the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College correspondence

Subseries
1917-1987

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Subseries contains interdepartmental and external correspondence of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College created between 1917-1987.

Photographs of students in classrooms and at the College Show at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 35, Folder 20
File
1917-[1989?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

File contains 7 photographs of students in classrooms and at the College Show at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1917 to about 1989. The event allowed students to showcase their exhibition skills of showmanship and judging.

Athletics - photograph of 1918 Nova Scotia Agricultural College hockey team

UA-43, PB Box 37, Folder 6
Item
1918

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Item is a photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College, also known as NSAC or Aggies, 1918 hockey team.

Agricola [speech]

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 2
Item
[1918?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Item is a speech by Melville Cumming about John Young and the Agricola Letters.

Melville Cumming articles

MS-14-1, OVR Box 1, Folder 11
File
1919-1926

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming on the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and an article prepared for MacDonald College Magazine.

Cumming article for MacDonald College Magazine