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Addresses & speeches by Melville Cumming

Series contains speeches and addresses written and delivered by Dr. Melville Cumming at events between 1918-1957. Many of these occurred at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College to graduating students and commemorating NSAC's anniversary.

Fred Sears papers and correspondence

Series includes papers and correspondence to and from Fred Sears written between 1905-1907 while professor of horticulture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Fred Sears photographs

Series contains over 200 glass negative and lantern slides photographs depict apples and orchard practice. There are also copy negatives and contact prints that were made at a later unknown date. Most of the . Notes on some of the sleeves of the negatives suggest that they date from the period 1898-1907. Fred C. Sears taught at the Horticultural School in Wolfville which operated from 1894-1904 and then took up a position as Professor of Horticulture at NSAC from 1905-1907. In 1907 he accepted a position as Professor of Pomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. It was there in 1914 that he wrote a textbook entitled Productive Orcharding. The book is illustrated with photographs akin to those in this collection. One photo is the same as one in the collection, but from a different angle. It seems likely that many photographs illustrating the book were taken in Nova Scotia, probably Wolfville. Sears dedicated his book to Robert W. Starr, a close friend and former president of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association. Also contains: - 120 b&w 5" x 7" prints made from the glass slides, - "'An Apple a Day' : a collection of photographs" exhibit catalogue produced for a 1998 display. - A copy of the [MacRae Library] "Library Trust Fund Update", vol.9:no.1. July 1998.

Frederick Waldemar Walsh photographs

Series contains Dr. Frederick Waldemar (Waldo) Walsh photographs from different events such as conferences, retirement gatherings, and schools taken and collected between 1910-1963. Other photographs were taken and collected by Waldo Walsh of Nova Scotia Boy's and Girls Clubs in the early 1920s when Walsh was a professor of Animal Husbandry [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] and sheep and swine promoter. Places include Mabou, Pictou county, Annapolis (Lawrencetown) and Yarmouth; Lottie Austin and some Beaton's and Rankins may be in the Mabou pictures .

Garden guide radio transcripts

Series contains contains Garden Guide Radio transcripts from 1980-1998. Garden Guide Radio created / hosted by the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. It is unclear where it aired on, possibly CBC Radio. Files are arranged chronologically.

Gordon Kinsman's berry research records

Series contains papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reproductions of articles, photographs, and signs created and collected by Gordon Kinsman during his research of berries, specifically strawberries, the strawberry industry, berry box making, and blueberries in Nova Scotia between 1891 and 1993.

Historical records relating to the Nova Scotia Agriculture College between 1904 and 2010

Series contains records relating to the history of the Nova Scotia Agriculture College and its relationship with agriculture in Nova Scotia and across the world. This includes early drafts for a university motto and crest, past principal's signatures, and contributions to the provincial government between 1904-2010. Subseries' includes History of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and agriculture in Nova Scotia. Record types found are textual files, reports, drawings, correspondence, books, and photographs.

Livestock reference resources

Series consists of reference material relating to Maritime livestock shows, sales, and auctions, as well as livestock in Canada and in India. Subseries include materials covering beef cattle, dairy cattle and dairy practice, horses, sheep and goat, and swine published between 1880-2007.

Maps, surveys, and sketches of farms in Nova Scotia

Series contains sketches of a farm at Valley Station [Nova Scotia], a woodlot in Truro, N.S., Truro Market and properties in Truro of T.G. McMullen and others, and some coal and iron areas in Kemptown, surveyed by J.K. Eaton, D.C.L.S. Series is arranged chronologically from 1899 to 1911.
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