File contains photographs of Provincial farm buildings, or School of Agriculture buildings, and early Nova Scotia Agricultural College buildings, including the original science building which stood from 1898-1932.
File contains photographs of School of Agriculture buildings, and early Nova Scotia Agricultural College buildings, including the original science buildings, one which stood from 1898-1932 and the other from 1914-1946.
File contains photographs of Provincial farm buildings and early Nova Scotia Agricultural College buildings, including the original science buildings from 1898-1932.
File contains photographs of buildings and structures on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus including silos, barns, water towers, the stock judging pavilion, and the poultry supply house building.
File contains photographs of buildings and structures on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus including the dairy building, and Haley Institute as well as the bookstore and athletic centre.
File contains 17 photographs of Nova Scotia Agricultural College, also known as NSAC or Aggies, athletes, teams, and athletic coaches from the 21st century.
File contains 38 Nova Scotia Agricultural College trophies and plaques that were awarded during College Royal, also known as the Winter Fair from approximately 1905 to 2012.
File contains photographs depicting Nova Scotia Agricultural College buildings. Shown also are individuals posing before dedication plaques naming buildings on campus.
File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Depicted are groups of people on campus, in front of buildings, and various events such as the signing of the agreement between NSAC and Dalhousie University granting joint degrees, and what could possibly be the Winter Fair (College Royal) in front of the pavilion that was on campus.
File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Depicted are groups of faculty, staff, students on campus, what could possibly be the Winter Fair (College Royal), judging, various animals and buildings on campus, classroom settings and the "Bed races" where students raced hogs to promote the industry.
File contains photographs of buildings and structures on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus including residences Trueman, Chapman, and Fraser House, the MacRae Library, crops and structures near the Horticultural Building.
File contains 46 photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College students, principals, student life, buildings and campus. The photographs include the NSAC hockey team, Aggies hockey team, horses, faculty, basketball team, classrooms, residence construction, farms and barns, convocation, campus buildings, NSAC principals.
File contains five b&w reproductions of photographs of past principals of Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1905 to 1964. Included are: Melville Cumming – 1905 to 1927 ; John Main Trueman – 1927 to 1936 ; Leslie C. Harlow – 1940 to 1941 ; C. Eric Boulden – 1941 to 1946 ; Kenneth Cox – 1946 to 1964.
File contains photographs of buildings and structures on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus including silos, barns, water towers, and the poultry yard and poultry supply house building.
File contains photographs of buildings and structures on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus including Haley, the Dairy building, a BBQ on campus [195-?], extension engineering, residences, and the athletic centre [Langille].
File contains a photograph and a reproduction of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's principal's house circa 1910. It was built in 1908 and was removed in 1978 as the site was selected for the new dining hall, later named Jenkins Hall.
File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming, one from May 1911 published in MacDonald College Magazine, "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S.", and one from 1927 for "The Herald" entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College".
File contains a report titled "Community development" by William Saxby Blair. Blair was the first supervisor of the Experimental Farm in Kentville, Nova Scotia from its creation in 1912 until his retirement in 1938.
File contains the contract for the extension construction on Cumming Hall, the administration and classroom building on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus to be completed on or by November 24, 1912. The contract describes the work to be done, and the materials to be used in the additions and alterations to Agricultural College from the drawings and superintendence of Andrew R. Cobb, Architect, Halifax, N.S. “Set no. 5”.
File is reproductions of the architectural plans for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Horticultural building, August 2nd, 1912. Set A8. Scale 1/8":1'-0". Andrew R. Cobb - Arch - Halifax. 2 sheets. Handwritten in white ink in the lower right corner on sheet no. 1 is illegible. The horticultural building was later named Collins Horticulture Building.
File contains 17 photographs of the editorial staff of the Maritime Students' Agriculturalist [Agriculturist] from 1912 to 1935. The MSA was published by Nova Scotia Agricultural College students and featured articles on the NSAC and items of interests to farmers in the Maritimes. The MSA was also known as The A.C. Mike: 1928; N.S.A.C. News 1928-29; The A.C. Gateway: 1930 to 1935; The A.C. Herald:1936 to 1939; The A.C. Noise: 1939; and then Agricola: 1940 to 1944. After 1947 Agricola became the annual student yearbook and an Alumni news was published separately.
File contains photographs of the interior and exterior of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College library that was built in 1982, and 1983 library staff and librarians. There are also portraits of past librarians and students. From 1913-1939 the NSAC library collection was housed on bookshelves of a small room adjacent to the office of the Professor of English. From 1939-1968 Principal Lyman Chapman improved the library arrangements by rearranging space previously occupied by the janitor’s quarters on the top floor of the administrative building, later named Cumming Hall; they provided tables, newspapers, magazines, books, reference books and textbooks. Between 1968-1982 the library was housed in the Cox Institute, the library was given space to the west of the stairwell on the lower level. The library added a microfiche reader during this time. In the 1980s a new building for library services became the first priority when the degree program was approved. Official opening of the new library was graduation day May 1983, and the library was named the MacRae library in 1990.
Files contain the first, third, sixth, and seventh (1913-1919) annual reports submitted by Peter F. J. Shaw, the superintendent of ground and gardens and horticulturist for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
File contains 25 exam papers likely taken by Glen Stephen Ells between the junior and senior year (1913-1915) for subjects associated with agriculture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The exam papers are mostly typed and cover a range of topics from entomology, dairy, animal husbandry, commercial law, mathematics, and English literature. The exams are annotated and scribbled over and appear to mainly belong to one student Glen Stephen Ells. One exam paper in particular shows strategy planning for a hockey game on the reverse of which Ells was a team-member.
File contains correspondence and a document regarding the construction of the headhouse to greenhouse at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in November 1913.