File contains a basic site map of Dalhousie University drawn in ink on paper, wth overlay drawings on acetate showing building development from 1951 - 1977.
Item is a 1921 presentation drawing of the Dalhousie Arts Building, annotated with a note indicating that it was F.D.'s (Frank Darling's) favourite version of the keystone design.
Item is a blueprint plan for a proposed heat trench on Forrest Campus (now Carleton Campus), Dalhousie University. The drawing is signed by HRT (Harold Theakston), University Engineer.
Item is a sheet with two drawings of the second floor of a building designed to serve as office and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually a university museum. One plan shows the space partitioned into a lecture hall, faculty room and offices to serve current needs; in the second it is laid out as a law library. There is also a small inset aerial perspective of the new (temporary) Arts Building in relation to the Science Building and Macdonald Library.
Item is a drawing of the ground floor of a building designed to serve as office and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually a university museum. The plan includes notes regarding future additions and usages.
Item is a site plan of Studley campus grounds, indicating the placement of roads and buildings. The drawing was produced by Mawson and Dunington-Grubb, Landscape Architects of Toronto. Written on the reverse: "Darling's layout of grounds."
Item is a ground floor plan of the Macdonald Library indicating men and women's reading rooms; cataloguing and accession rooms; librarians' offices; future reading rooms additions and the lower floor of the future stacks room. There are also inset sketches of reading room layouts with desks and capacity calculations.
Item is a first floor plan of the Macdonald Library indicating lecture rooms and sizes and showing the upper part of the future stacks room. There are also two inset sketches of lecture room layouts, one to seat 45 and the other to seat 110; a list of subjects with corresponding professors' initials; and a note indicating the present use of second and third floors by Arts classes. The reverse side has red pencil or charcoal lines marking the walls and is marked "L46" in the lower right corner.
Item is a site plan showing the location of trees, shrubs, and other plants planted on Dalhousie University's Studley Campus in 1919 and 1920. The drawing shows the location of the plants in relation to the Science Building (now the Chemistry Building), the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building), and various pathways. All of the plants are labeled.
Item is a pencil sketch of a plan for Dalhousie University's Studley campus. The drawing was produced by President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie; written on the back is: "One of early attempts by ASM to design the campus. When slightly modified it became final design."
Item is a landscape planting plan showing the location and varieties of trees and shrubs planted on Dalhousie's Studley Campus in 1919. The drawing shows the landscaping in relation to the Science Building and the Macdonald Memorial Library.
Item is a blueprint of a site plan drawn by T.H. Mawson & Sons (London, Lancaster and Toronto), showing a potential layout of future campus buildings and grounds. On the reverse President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie has written: "Mawson's modification of my plan / ASM."
Item is a site plan labelled "Scheme E" for the layout of roads and buildings on Studley Campus. The drawing was produced by Darling & Pearson Architects of Toronto.
Item is a site plan labelled "Scheme D" for the layout of roads and buildings on Studley Campus. The drawing was produced by Darling & Pearson Architects of Toronto.
Item is a site plan labelled "Scheme B" for the layout of roads and buildings on Studley Campus. Written on the reverse: "Darling's layout of grounds."
Item is a site plan for Studley campus produced by Mackenzie & Howe, Landscape Architects and Artists. On the reverse is written: "Trial suggestion of ASM for laying-out of grounds and approved with slight changes (shown in red) by Darling and Mawson, and adopted." A.S.M. is Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, Dalhousie University president.
Item is a landscaping plan showing the location of numbered shrubbery plantings on Dalhousie's Studley Campus in 1929 in relation to the gymnasium, arts building, science building, and library.
Item is a site plan for the University of King's College, indicating sewer and gas lines, an oval driveway and a diagonal avenue originating from the corner of Oxford Street and Coburg Road. The plan is signed by H.R. Theakston, Dalhousie's university engineer.
Item is site plan for King's College, including an administration building, library and garage. The plan, which was drawn by Dalhousie's university engineer, H.R. Theakston, shows the proposed college site as facing out towards what is now Coburg Street, and includes a new avenue.
Item is a 1930 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the third floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a large arts room and lecture hall both open to the roof, four small lecture rooms and five studies.
Item is a 1929 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the third floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a drafting room and lecture hall both open to the roof, four smaller lecture rooms, five studies and a small library/office.
Item is a 1932 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the second floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes seven lecture rooms, a dean's office and five studies.
Item is a 1932 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the second floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a general office, business office, offices for the registrar, president and secretary, a vault, three lecture rooms, and five studies.
Item is a 1932 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the first floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a women's cloakroom, four lecture rooms, a faculty room and small study.
Item is a 1930 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the first floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a women's cloakroom, five lecture rooms, a faculty room and two studies.
Item is a 1929 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the first floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a women's restroom, general offices, offices for the president, registrar and secretary, and three lecture rooms.
Item is a 1929 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the third floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes drafting and lecture rooms open to the roof, offices and a library, four other lecture rooms, six studies and a storeroom.
Item is a 1929 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the second floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes five lecture rooms, seven studies and a faculty room.
Item is a 1929 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the ground floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes a women's cloakroom, three lecture rooms, a general office, offices for the registrar, secretary and president, and a business office, including a mimeograph room.
Item is a 1932 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the fourth floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes the upper part of a third-floor lecture hall, two laboratories and six studies.
Item is a 1930 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the fourth floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes the upper part of the third-floor lecture and arts rooms, two laboratories, six studies and an undesignated room. A note on the plans indicates that the corridor to the studies was waiting for the steel trusses design.
Item is a 1932 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the third floor plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built. This version includes an arts room open to the roof, five lecture rooms, five studies and a professors' office.
Item is sheet no. 10 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The longitudinal section was drawn by A.M.K, traced by A.M.K. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).
Item is sheet no. 9 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The cross section was drawn by A.M.K, traced by A.M.K. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).