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Photograph of the principal's house on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

Item is a photograph of the principal's house on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. The siding is dark and there are two young children sitting on the front step. There is also a small animal, possibly a dog in front of the residence, and a windpump, or water pumping windmill to the right. There is bare grass and leaves on the shrubbery, it could be spring or summer.

Experimental Farm System Perpetual Calendar / Canada. Department of Agriculture [poster]

Item is a poster titled Experimental Farm System Perpetual Calendar / Canada. Department of Agriculture. There is a dial that can be manually turned to reveal the "twelve months in the poultry yard" advice offered month by month. The Hon. Martin Burrell, Minister of Agriculture (1911 to 1917, and from 1917 to 1919) and J.H. Grisdale, Director. Undated.

Sketch of property lying on the North side of the Intervale Road near I.R.C. Railway [Truro, Nova Scotia]

Item is a sketch of the properties lying on the North side of the Intervale Road near I.R.C. Railway crossing known as the Allan Loughead field [Truro, Nova Scotia]. Surveyed for the Hon. W.F. McCurdy, of Baddeck, Cape Breton. Truro, N.S. June 27, 1911 [by] J.K. Eaton, D.C.L. Surveyor. Scale 1":30'. Also shown are the property of Gov. Experimental Farm, Queen Street East or Intervale Road, the center of Logan's Gully, and the proposed new street. Adjacent properties are Miller, Mrs. Maud Work, Mrs. Adelaide Nowlin, and Wm.E. Logan. There is a handwritten note in pencil under the Surveyors label.

Postcards of Bible Hill and Salmon River, Truro, N.S., and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and a reproduction of the postcard

File includes 2 postcards with a view of Bible Hill and Salmon River, Truro, N.S.. Including the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, one can see the top of Cumming Hall, the water tower, and electric wind mill generator. Presumably sent from NSAC students, post-dated 1912 & 1914, included as well is a reproduction of the postcard. One card was sent from Truro, Sept 13, 1912, from [Marg?] to Miss C. Maude Pines, Waterville, Kings Co. Nova Scotia. The other was sent from Nuttby, Sept 26, 1914 from [Eff?] to Miss Ruth E. Windrow, The Willows, New Ross, Lun [sp.] N.S.

Photographs of Cumming Hall

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.

Correspondence to Melville Cumming from the Office of the Commissioner for Works and Mines Nova Scotia

Item is correspondence from the Office of the Commissioner for Works and Mines Nova Scotia (E. H. Armstrong) to Melville Cumming, dated 5 November, 1913. It references an enclosed contract (two copies) for signature by W.K. Murray - contractor, in regards to the construction of the headhouse to the greenhouse.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College Head House building architectural plans 1913

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?
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