Item is a photograph of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opening reception at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in 1972. The exhibit was one of the first in the new Art Gallery, in the Dalhousie Arts Centre. Photograph shows (from left to right) Maureen Forrester, Canadian operatic contralto; Dr. Henry Hicks, Dalhousie University President; and Professor Ernest Smith, Dalhousie Art Gallery director.
Item is a photograph of the Josef Svoboda exhibit opening reception at the Dalhousie Art Gallery on October 4, 1974. Photograph shows (from left to right) Henry Hicks; Dalhousie University President; Josef Svoboda, artist; Professor L.H. Lawrence; and Professor Peter Perina, Theatre Department Chairman.
Item is a photograph of Canadian operatic contralto Maureen Forrester, Dr. Henry Hicks, and unidentified children, at the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opening at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in 1972.
Item is a photograph of the High Commissioner of Barbados' visit to Dalhousie in 1978. Photograph shows (from left to right) Mrs. Hicks; Dr. Henry Hicks; Mr. Stanley L. Taylor, High Commissioner of Barbados; and Mrs. Stanley L. Taylor. Photograph was published in University News September/October 1978.
Item consists of correspondence between Dalhousie President Henry Hicks and several other stakeholders between 1964 and 1968, regarding the potential loaning of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada. Includes correspondence between President Hicks and L.B. Macpherson, Eric Mercer, A.W.F. Banfield, Waldemar Fries, Sylvia Fullerton, John E. McInerny, R.A. Cluney, T.A. Russell, J. Lynton Martin, Elisabeth A. Christian, D.H. McNeill, K.E. von Maltzhan, and W. Earl Godfrey.
Item consists of a facsimile draft of an agreement -- dated March 25, 1968 -- between the Dalhousie Board of Governors and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada (via the Department of the Secretary of State, which oversees the National Museum of Canada) regarding the loaning and preservation of Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada.
Item consists of a signed agreement -- dated April 16, 1968 -- between the Dalhousie Board of Governors and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada (via the Department of the Secretary of State, which oversees the National Museum of Canada) regarding the loaning and preservation of Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada.