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Charcoal and pencil drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of two sailors navigating and signalling while in convoy formation

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 120
Item
[194-]

Item consists of a completed pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing two sailors wearing wet weather gear performing navigational and signalling duties while in convoy formation on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Five charcoal and pencil study sketches by Donald Cameron Mackay

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 121
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of five small pencil and charcoal sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s. The first three sketches show equipment on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship in convoy formation; the middle sketch shows a focus of legs in motion; the sketch on the right-hand side shows a Canadian sailor walking.

Charcoal and study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of a naval diving barge

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 112
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing the outline of an unidentified naval diving barge.

Charcoal study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of a naval officer holding binoculars

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 114
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a charcoal study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing a naval officer in cold weather gear looking through binoculars.

Charcoal and pencil study sketches by Donald Cameron Mackay of hands holding ropes

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 115
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of three small charcoal study sketches by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing hands holding rope.

Pencil drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of a detailed container pier crane

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 117
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a detailed pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from 1944, showing a container pier crane (#3), likely in Halifax Harbour.

Pencil study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of a large naval ship in port

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 119
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, of the outline of a large unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Pencil study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of a naval officer performing navigation duties

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 122
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, of circular composition placement lines and outlines of a naval officer performing navigational observations on an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Eight small charcoal sketches by Donald Cameron Mackay of naval deck maintenance duties

Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of eight small charcoal drawings by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing sailors engaging in deck and equipment maintenance duties on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Four charcoal study sketches by Donald Cameron Mackay of naval ships in port

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 124
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of four small charcoal study sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing naval ships in port. The larger of the four sketches also includes a host of sailors standing on a dock in front of three ships.

Charcoal drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of a sailor performing maintenance work on deck equipment

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 128
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing a Canadian sailor performing maintenance work on deck equipment.

Charcoal and pencil drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of two Canadian sailors in cold-weather gear performing navigation and signal duties in convoy formation

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 130
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a small pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing two Canadian sailors operating navigation and signalling equipment while in convoy formation, on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Charcoal and pencil drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of sailors operating a deck gun in convoy formation

MS-2-280, box 81, Folder 13, Item 127
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a completed charcoal and pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing three sailors wearing cold weather gear, operating a deck gun in heavy seas in convoy formation on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Charcoal and pencil drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of Canadian sailors loading munitions

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 126
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely in the early-1940s, showing Canadian sailors loading munitions.

Pencil study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay showing sailor standing on deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 131
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a small pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing sailors standing on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Pencil sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of ship silhouettes

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 125
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a series of pencil silhouette sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely in the early 1940s. Sketch includes HMCS Saskatoon, USS Kaweah [misidentified as Keweah], and Fort Amherst, as well as four other unidentified ships, in convoy formation.

Charcoal and pencil sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of a port-side view of an unidentified Canadian naval ship in convoy formation

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 129
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil and charcoal sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely in the early-1940s, of the port side perspective of an unidentified Canadian naval ship in convoy formation, with six smaller ships in the distance.

Pencil and ink study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of a "Victory" signal flags on a Canadian naval ship

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 132
Item
[1945]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil and ink study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from 1945, showing signal flags on an unidentified Canadian naval ship, spelling out "VICTORY".

Pencil drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of sailors disembarking in port

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 135
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing a dock scene Canadian sailors disembarking their ship while in port.

Pencil study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay showing equipment on the deck of a Canadian naval ship

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 134
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing equipment on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Pencil study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of sailors pulling up signal flags

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 133
Item
[1945]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from 1945, showing two sailors pulling up signal flags on an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Pencil study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of an elevated perspective town scene

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 136
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing the beginnings of a wartime harbour town scene from a hillside perspective.

Oland family fonds

MS-2-135
Fonds
1870 - 2018

Fonds consists of various personal records, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, negatives, an artifact, and legal and financial records. Some business records from Oland and Son Limited and its affiliated companies are also included.

Oland Family

1613 Christian Ministers Demand an All-Out Anti-Fascist Peace : [poster]

MS-2-232, OS Box 22, Folder 13, Item 4
Item
February 13, 1945

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item consists of a broadside produced by The Protestant (edited by Kenneth Leslie), as it appeared in the February 13, 1945 edition of the New York Post, containing a declaration from Leslie and the editorship directed to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, urging resistance against what Leslie deems the anti-Semitic influence of a "overtly political" Papacy.

Newspaper clippings

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 79
File
2 September 1942 to 28 December 1944

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File includes newspaper clippings regarding McDonald's appointment as Acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Labor, chairman of the Nova Scotia Wartime Labor Relations Board, and chairman of the Nova Scotia Regional War Labor Board.

Eulogy for Georges P. Vanier written by Hugh Kemp

MS-2-615, Box 130, Folder 19
File
1967

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Photographs of Zellers after V.E. Riot

PG-2-48, PB Box 4, Folder 44
Collection
1945

Collection consists of three negatives and four photographs of the Zellers store after the V.E. Day Riots in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photographs are copies of originals owned by Marie Harlten.

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's written account of his overseas experiences in World War Two

MS-2-762, SF Box 39, Folder 6
File
1943 - 1945

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

File also contains the story of an unnamed soldier.

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Training social scientists for post-war conditions / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 2
File
[1942?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a manuscript for a paper on post-war social sciences.

World War II: Japanese relocation, bombing surveys, and the Foreign Morale Analysis Division

Series
1942 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains documents related to the Japanese-American resettlement study and the Japanese bombing surveys. Also contains correspondence, reports, and memoranda related to the Foreign Morale Analysis Division and psychological warfare.

Poston Internment Camp pencil drawings

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 5
File
1942

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of 12 pencil drawings of scenes from the Poston Japanese Internment Camp.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing interviews

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 10
File
1943 - 1946

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of interview transcriptions. Subjects are Japanese civilians recounting their experience of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Photos of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 4
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of Hiroshima after the 1945 bombing.

Report no. 22 : A Japanese metropolitan daily : Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 14
Item
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a restricted report outlining the implications of how news is presented to the public in a popular Japanese newspaper, a key means of disseminating domestic propaganda.

Monthly report on the Colorado River War Relocation Center for evacuated Japanese / by A.H. Leighton, Lt. (MC) USNR

Item
April 14, 1943

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a copt of a restricted report that Dorothea sent to his mother, Gertrude, at Alexander's request.

Gene Sogioka's paintings of the Poston Japanese Internment Camp

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 1
File
[1942 - 1945?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains reproductions of Gene Sogioka's paintings of life in the Poston Japanese Internment Camp during the Second World War. Also includes a list of titles for the paintings.

Photos from the Strategic Bombing Survey

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 3
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of Japan after the1945 bombings.

Newspaper clippings on Japanese relocation

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 7
File
[1943?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of newspaper clippings highlighting the experiences of Japanese-Americans forced to relocate during the Second World War.

US Strategic Bombing Survey interviews

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 9
File
1945 - 1946

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research team logs, interview transcriptions, conversation notes, interrogation reports, and project reports from the USSBS interviews with Japanese citizens.

Painting by Roy Takahashi

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 2
File
[1942 - 1945?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a watercolour painting of 6 people at the Poston Japanese Internment Camp by Roy S. Takahashi.

Photographs of Japan

MS-13-86, Box 129, Folders 4 and 5
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of Japan taken in 1945.

Manuscript drafts and notes for In the Silence Before Sleep, by Christopher Heide with the writings of Mary Heide

MS-2-838, Box 9, Folder 6
File
[1997?]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Directory, notes, handwritten and typed manuscript drafts of Home at Last

MS-2-838, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1996 - 1997

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Patton's speech to the Third Army before invasion : [transcript]

MS-2-326, Box 1, Folder 23
File
[ca. 1940s]

Part of Andrew Merkel fonds

File contains two copies of a transcript of General Paton's speech to the Third Army on the eve of the Allied Invasion of France. The source is not provided—Paton's speeches were extemporaneous and there were several versions based on reports at the time.

Robert Charles (Charlie) Murray Interview Collection

MS-10-13
Fonds
1978 - 1980

Collection contains 20 interviews conducted by John Bell and John Hennigar-Shuh with Charles Murray concerning his life with the labour unions, internment camps in Canada and the Labour Progressive Party in Nova Scotia.

Correspondence between Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 48, Folder 2
File
1943 - 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.

Minute books of the Dalhousie Co-vettes

UA-60, SF Box 112 , Folder 1
File
1946 - 1963

File contains five notebooks containing meeting minutes and financial records of the Dalhousie Co-vettes. A sixth is labeled "Refreshment Book" and doubled as an address book, containing members' contact information as well a spreadsheet indicating the names of those who provided sweets, sandwiches, squares, cookies etc. each month in 1957 and 1958.

Dalhousie Co-vettes

Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 1, 1979

MS-10-13, Box 1, Item 7
Item
1979

Part of Robert Charles (Charlie) Murray Interview Collection

Item consists of a sound recording of Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 1, 1979. He talks about his time at the internment camp in Petawawa, Ontario and World War II. This is side A of the original audio cassette.

Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 1, 1979

MS-10-13, Box 1, Item 8
Item
1979

Part of Robert Charles (Charlie) Murray Interview Collection

Item consists of a sound recording of Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 1, 1979. He talks about being arrested, his time at the internment camp in Petawawa, Ontario, organizing unions and World War II. This is side B of the original audio cassette.

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