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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.

Photograph of Cumming Hall

Item is a photograph of Cumming Hall. There is bare grass, leaves are still on the trees, and there are bushes and shrubbery partially obstructing, or covering, the lower windows on the front the building.

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

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

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.

Reproduction of a photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture

Item is a reproduction of a photograph of the original building on the property of the Provincial Farm/School of Agriculture which burned down in 1898. This became the site of the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, Harlow Institute is now on site. There is an octagonal swine barn that was built by students 1891 and was removed before 1913.

Scrapbook of photographs of architectural features of buildings on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

File contains pages of a scrapbook of photographs of interior and exterior architectural features of several historic buildings on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. The buildings highlighted are DeWolfe House, Collins Horticulture & Biology Building, Barrett House, and the grounds supervisor building.
The photographs look to have been taken between 1980 and no later than 1995 as Humanities House is referred to as the grounds supervisor building. Humanities moved from Cumming Hall's attic to this house around 1995.

Photograph of the Honourable I.W. Akerkey, Minister of Agriculture and Marketing for Nova Scotia, turning the sod to start construction of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College residence Chapman House

Item is a photograph of the Honourable I.W. Akerkey, Minister of Agriculture and Marketing for Nova Scotia, in a bulldozer turning the sod to start construction of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College residence Chapman House. The crowd in the background is wearing convocation robes as the event took place following graduation. Further details to the story can be found in Dale Ells' account on page 136 in his book.

Photograph of an official handing a silver tray to a recipient [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College]

Item is a photograph of an official handing a silver plate/tray engraved with Cumming Hall to a recipient [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College]. It may be the oldest alumni with the highest attendance at each gathering of Alumni for that year as it looks similar to the tray in the photograph of a tray being awarded to the winning 1944 class in 1974, see page 215 of Dale Ells' 1999 book, Shaped through service : an illustrated history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Photograph of an official handing a silver tray to a recipient, Vern MacKay [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College]

Item is a photograph of an official handing a silver plate/tray engraved with Cumming Hall to a recipient, name tag says Vern MacKay [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College]. It may be the class with the highest attendance at each gathering of Alumni for that year as it looks similar to the tray in the photograph of a tray being awarded to the winning 1944 class in 1974, see page 215 of Dale Ells' 1999 book, Shaped through service : an illustrated history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Photograph of four people in suits standing outdoors in front of a [Nova Scotia Agricultural College] brick building holding dedication plaques

Item is a photograph of four men, three are holding plaques dedicated to buildings on campus. Cumming Hall, named in honour of Melville Cumming (first principal of NSAC), Trueman House in honour of John M. Trueman (professor of animal husbandry and principal at NSAC), and Harlow Institute, in honour of L.C. Harlow (professor of chemistry and soils and principal at NSAC).

Photograph of a person holding the lead line of a horse on what may be the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus with Longley house in the background

Item is a photograph of a person holding the lead line of a horse. It may have been taken on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus with Longley house in the background. Longley house was the original farm house that stood on campus when the property was purchased for the School of Agriculture Farm in 1889. It was removed from campus in 1957. It was at one point the home of Fred Fuller, the first manager of the Provincial farm, and later was occupied by professor Smith, head of the School of Agriculture.

Photographs of Nova Scotia Agricultural College staff and faculty and Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture Ministers at building naming events

File contains photographs of staff and faculty, and probably principals, of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, as well as Ministers of the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing. They are posing in front of stones laid at the naming ceremonies of buildings on campus. There are also people in front of building plans, receiving silver places with Cumming Hall engraved on them, and sitting in excavators breaking ground on campus.
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