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Thomas Head Raddall fonds Queens (N.S. : County) With digital objects
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Photographic negatives of a Bob Chancery cartoon, Thomas Head Raddall in radio interviews, a commemorative scroll dedicated to T.H. Raddall, Sr., the surrender of the German submarine U-889, Thomas Head Raddall receiving the T.H. Raddall prize plaque, and standing with the Cadet Corps and headmaster of King's Collegiate School, and the Highland dancers of Liverpool, Nova Scotia

Items, negatives, are related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album [between 1940 and 1959], and to MS-2-202, Oversized 8, Folder 13 and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 12, Item 3 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. Items are duplicate to MS-2-202, Oversized Box 8 Folder 13 and materials found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums 1941-1953 and 1944-1961.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall being presented with the commemorative T.H. Raddall Prize plaque

Item, a photograph, is taken at Mersey Lodge. Raddall is pictured with T.H. Raddall Prize judges: Robert F. Weary, left, President and General Manager of the Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited; Margaret Hennigar, second from the left, publisher for Lighthouse Publishing Limited; Dr. James Perkin, right, President and Vice-Chancellor at Acadia University and Chairman of the Judging Committee. Missing from the photograph are judges Honourable John G. Leefe, M.L.A., Queens County, and Minister of Fisheries; and Louis R. Comeau, President, Nova Scotia Power Corporation.

"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

File contains a transcription of ballads. Includes: "The Frozen Girl," "On the Banks of Newfoundland," "The Worn-Out Sailor," "The Rose of Britons Isle," "The Banks of Brandywine," "The Pride of Glenco," "Sweet Jinny on the Moor," [Untitled], "The Blind Sailor," "The Ship Lady Sherbrooke," "The Cabin Boy," "The Braes of Balquhidder," "The Ramblin' Irishman," "The Desolate Widow," "The Bounty Jumper," "Our Fifer Boy," "The Ghostly Sailors," "The Cumberland," and "Bold Jack Donahue." Includes handwritten annotations by Raddall

Photograph of fine quartz sand on Molega Beach, Nova Scotia

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The quartz sand on the beach results from ore crushed at Molega. The beach was once a busy steamboat landing, but was later used as a bathing beach.

Photograph of the remains of a substantial home built at the Molega gold mines in the 1880's

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The home was built during the gold rush days. A couple of stone steps from the house are visible in the foreground, while the well and an apple tree from the yard are visible in the background.

Photograph of quartz sand at Molega Beach, Nova Scotia

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The quartz sand results from ore crushed at Molega. The beach was once a busy steamboat landing, but was later used as a bathing beach.

Photograph of the remains of an ore-crusher at Molega

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The stamp mill at Molega that was last used in the 1930's. A mound of tailings is visible in the background.

Photograph of a mound of tailings at the Molega gold mines

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken by Hugh Byrne. A few years after the photograph was taken, most of the tailings at the Molega mines were trucked away to help form part of a new motor road into Kejimkujik Park.

Portrait of Reverend Duff

Item, a photograph, is a photocopy of the portrait hanging in a church in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. Reverend Duff was the father of Sir Lyman Duff, Canada's eighth Chief Justice.
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