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'R' miscellaneous correspondence

'R' miscellaneous correspondence

File contains correspondence with Berudt Richter, Jacques Rougeru (of the Centre d'Architecture de la Mer et de l'Espace), Don Reed, Ruder and Finn, and Ruth Ross. Topics of discussion include Borgese's "The Drama of the Oceans," the International Ocean Institute (IOI), and a speech Borgese gave at the Henry Salvator Center (which includes a transcript, with handwritten annotations and corrections by Borgese).
'R - V' miscellaneous correspondence

'R - V' miscellaneous correspondence

File contains correspondence with Dimitri Rebekoff, John Schaffner, University of Chicago Press, Phie van Ettinger. Also includes a Rebekoff Institute notice, advertising courses at the Institute.
Photographs of the No.1 Canadian General Personnel Lines after an air raid on May 19th, 1918, Éta...

Photographs of the No.1 Canadian General Personnel Lines after an air raid on May 19th, 1918, Étaples, France

Item consists of two copies of the same photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh on May 19th, 1918, depicting the after-effects of a German air raid on the No. 1 Canadian General Personnel lines near Étaples, France (30km south of Calais). During that attack fifty eight people (including three nursing sisters) were killed and fifty wounded in the Hospital, while there were 1200 other casualties in the area.
Photograph taken on a walk along the Canal d'Aire, northern France

Photograph taken on a walk along the Canal d'Aire, northern France

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh, likely in early 1918, while on a walk on a tree-lined path along the shore of the Canal d'Aire, northern France. The path is between a bathhouse and living quarters for workers of an unidentified military hospital.
Photograph of two women standing on the side of the road along Hospital Wood, looking north towar...

Photograph of two women standing on the side of the road along Hospital Wood, looking north towards Caix, France

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1929-1941. The photograph was taken near the headquarters of the 8th Battalion of the 90th Winnipeg Rifles during the First World War. The headquarters was located near the corner o the woods at the left of the picture. The 8th Battalion had to cover the open ground to the right under heavy machine gun fire where the Germans had occupied an old trench. Thomas Head Raddall's father, Col. Raddall, Sr., personally directed the 8th Battalion's attack. He crossed the road in the photograph and was killed about a quarter-mile past in the open ground to the right.
Photograph of the military wards at an unidentified military hospital in France prior to the comp...

Photograph of the military wards at an unidentified military hospital in France prior to the completion of hut construction, First World War

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken (and hand-coloured) by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, showing the front of several ward buildings at an unidentified military hospital in France, prior to the completion of hut construction by German prisoners.
Photograph of the Matheson Grave on Maré, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia

Photograph of the Matheson Grave on Maré, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia

Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, of a group of unidentified Indigenous people sitting in front of John W. Matheson's grave at the mission house in Maré, Loyalty Islands [New Caledonia]. Matheson, of Pictou County, traveled with John Paton to the South Pacific in 1858, and passed away in 1862.
Photograph of tent hospital at Arques, France

Photograph of tent hospital at Arques, France

Item is a photograph of the tent hospital at Arques, France, ca. 1917. A canal is in the background and officer tents can be seen through the trees. The hospital was later replaced by nissen huts.
Photograph of an undefeated military baseball team, likely at the No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital

Photograph of an undefeated military baseball team, likely at the No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital

Item consists of a photograph taken in August 1917 of an undefeated military baseball team, likely stationed at the No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital, France. The team won all ten games it played. Pictured include G. Ruse, Sgt. E. Noseworthy, P. Shaw, S. McKinnon, B.H. Windsor, P.R. Tingley, Cpl. C. Schurman, Cpl. A. MacKintosh, E. Clay, G. Hier, W. Hodgins, Major T.S. Robinson, H.B. Titus, D. Strachan, Christie, and Kimber.
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