Archives Catalogue

MS-3-1, OS Folder 154
File
September 8, 1982 - October 25, 1982

File contains set designs for the Neptune Theatre production of "Juno and the Paycock," directed by Tom Kerr with designs by Art Penson. The file includes Penson's original drawings and annotated copies of the originals.

Penson, Art

Private lives

MS-3-1, OS Folder 153
File
November 18, 1981 - February 24, 1982

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Private Lives," directed by John Neville and Don Allison with set designs by Art Penson. The file includes original drawings and annotated copies of the originals.

Penson, Art

Ever loving

MS-3-1, OS Folder 152
File
December 27, 1981 - December 30, 1981

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Ever Loving," directed by Tom Kerr with set designs by Ted Roberts. File includes Roberts's original drawings and annotated copies. File also contains copies of wartime posters that were used in the production.

Roberts, Ted

Endgame

MS-3-1, OS Folder 151
File
November 11, 1981 - November 16, 1981

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set designs for the Neptune Theatre production of "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett, directed by Peter Froehlich and designed by Roy Robitschek. File includes Robitschek's original drawings and annotated copies of the originals.

Hansen-Robitschek, Roy

Guys and dolls

MS-3-1, OS Folder 150
File
1982

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Guys and Dolls," directed by B. Ainslie and John Neville with set designs by Robert Doyle. The file includes Doyle's original drawings and annotated copies.

Doyle, Robert

Absurd person singular

MS-3-1, OS Folder 149
File
November 13, 1981

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains the set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Absurd Person Singular," directed by L. Yeo with designs by Fallen. The play opened on November 13, 1981. File includes the original pencil-drawn set designs and annotated copies.

Step dance

MS-3-1, OS Folder 148
File
August 1981

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains the set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Step Dance" by Tom Gallant, directed by John Neville, with set designs by Lesley Preston.

Preston, Lesley

Diary of a scoundrel

MS-3-1, OS Folder 147
File
December 26, 1980 - March 21, 1981

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Diary of a Scoundrel," directed by John Neville with set designs by Phillip Silver.

Silver, Phillip

Medea

MS-3-1, OS Folder 146
File
February 1981

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set designs for the Neptune Theatre production of "Medea," directed by John Neville with designs by Peter Perina.

Perina, Peter

Night of the iguana

MS-3-1, OS Folder 145
File
September 20, 1980

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains the set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Night of the Iguana," directed by John Neville with drawings by Phillip Silver and S. LePage.

Silver, Phillip

Four poster

MS-3-1, OS Folder 144
File
July 1980

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "The Four Poster," directed by John Neville with designs by Arturo Penson. File also contains templates for the construction of a cupboard and bureau as part of the set.

Penson, Art

Much ado about nothing

MS-3-1, OS Folder 143
File
August 16, 1980

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains the original set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Much Ado about Nothing," directed by Denise Coffey with set designs by Robert Doyle.

Doyle, Robert

Butterflies are free

MS-3-1, OS Folder 142
File
1980

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set designs for the Neptune Theatre production of "Butterflies are Free," directed by A. McKim with designs by Robert Doyle. The file includes Doyle's original pencil drawings as well as annotated copies.

Doyle, Robert

Master builder

MS-3-1, OS Folder 141
File
December 10, 1979

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains the set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "The Master Builder," directed by Tony Randall with set designs by Phillip Silver.

Silver, Phillip

How the other half loves

MS-3-1, OS Folder 140
File
September 18, 1979

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File includes the set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "How the Other Half Loves," directed by Leslie Yeo with designs by Arthur Penson. The file includes an original drawing of the rigging plot by "T.P." and annotated copies of the set plans by Penson.

Penson, Art

Taming of the shrew

MS-3-1, OS Folder 139
File
October 5, 1979 - October 6, 1979

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains the set designs for the Neptune Theatre production of "Taming of the Shrew," directed by D. Coffey with set designs by Robert Doyle. The file includes Doyle's original drawings as well as an annotated copy of Sheet A.

Doyle, Robert

Eighteen wheels

MS-3-1, OS Folder 138
File
1979

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains the original set plans for Neptune Theatre's production of "Eighteen Wheels," directed by R. Ouzounian with designs by G. Tondino.

Tondino, Guido

Dracula

MS-3-1, OS Folder 127
File
October 5, 1998

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

File contains set and light designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Dracula," directed by Linda Moore and designed by Brian Perchaluk. The set designs are drawn to the scale of 1/2" = 1'. For this production, Scott Miller was the technical director and Alan Brodie did the lighting design.

Brodie, Alan

Busman's Honeymoon / by Dorothy L. Sayers and M. St. Clare

MS-3-1, Box 55, Folder 7
File

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

Lunch with Tenesee Williams [Annotated Prompt Script]

MS-3-1, Box 282, Folder 4
File
1981

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

Item is the prompt script of "Lunch with Tennessee Willaims" for Neptune Theatre's 1980/81 season of Lunchtime #10

Annotated Production Script

MS-3-1, Box 211, Folder 3
File
1997

Part of Neptune Theatre fonds

Item is the Annotated Production Script of "The Glace Bay Miners' Museum" a Play by Wendy Lill. #266

Record of Halifax Explosion

MS-2-Ref, Box 2, Folder 21
File
[after 1917]

Part of Reference Files

File contains a photocopy of a poem by Clare Hall. Previously listed as MS-2-242.

Guide to the preservation of archival materials

MS-2-Ref, Box 14, Folder 11
File
1977

Part of Reference Files

File contains a booklet on the preservation and handling of archival materials. The booklet was published in 1977 by the Minister of Supply and Services Canada.

Photocopied notebook and diary of Lois E. Bigelow

MS-2-Ref, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1876-1878

Part of Reference Files

File contains photocopies of Lois E. Bigelow's notebook and diary. The notebook includes lecture notes from her studies at Horton Academy.

Two letters from D.G. Davis to Archibald MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 7, Folder 35
File
1924 - 1925

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Folder contains two letters from D.G. Davis, who was supervisor of schools on Truro.

Correspondence between George P. Baker and A. MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 4, Folder 43
File
1904

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Four letters from David Soloan to Archibald MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 5
File
1911 - 1929

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

File contains four letters written between 1911-1929 by David Soloan, principal of the Provincial Normal School (later the Nova Scotia Teachers College): three in response to an appeal made by MacMechan for Soloan to contribute an article about Dalhousie to be used in a fundraising campaign, and the fourth to congratulate MacMechan on his 40 years of teaching.

Correspondence related to the lending and valuation of the Labrador duck specimen held in the collection of the McCulloch Museum, Dalhousie University : [correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 29, Folder 6
File
2006

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains correspondence related to the valuation and lending of the very rare Labrador duck specimen held at the McCulloch Museum, Dalhousie University, Halifax. Includes Freedman's unofficial valuation, as well as facsimiles of earlier correspondence between the National Museum of Natural Sciences and the Dalhousie University Department of Biology,

Letter from John F. MacDonald and William Cameron to Joseph Howe

MS-2-779, SF Box 82, folder 24
File
November 24, 1849

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

Item is a letter from John F. MacDonald and William Cameron to Joseph Howe requesting an appointment a commissioner of streets for the town of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

Letter written by William Dyott from Fort Edward, near Windsor, N. America, dated 27 July 1789

MS-2-779, SF Box 82, Folder 26
File
1789

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

See url (http://archive.org/stream/dyottsdiary1781100dyot/dyottsdiary1781100dyot_djvu.txt)

Bill of Lading to F.D. Corbett & Co. of Halifax from Kidd & McCroskey, Liverpool, dated 10th October 1871

MS-2-779, SF Box 82, Folder 25
File
1871

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

Deed dated 12 July 1750 between William Shirla Taylor of Halifax and Sennacherib Martin, Innkeeper of Halifax, regarding land

MS-2-779, SF Box 80, Folder 14
File
1750

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

Robertson, George

Legal document between Sir John Wentworth and Matthew Richardson

MS-2-779, SF Box 80, Folder 13
File
1800

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

Item is a legal document between Sir John Wentworth and Matthew Richardson. The document involves land originally secured by William Dawes Quarrell for Maroons that the British sent to Nova Scotia from Trelawny Town, Jamaica in 1790s.

Wentworth, John

Letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia

MS-2-779, SF Box 80, Folder 12
File
August 10, 1849

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

File contains a letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia, written on 10 August 1849. The letter discusses a petition from Peter Furrier, Master of the Brig Superb, to have his vessel released from quarantine.

Howe, Joseph