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Music scores

Series contains manuscripts and printed music given to or acquired by John Daniel Logan for his personal collection or in his capacity as a music writer with newspapers in Halifax and Toronto. Most of the music is for solo piano and voice.

Music and theatre programs

Series contains programs from concerts and theatre productions that John Daniel Logan attended. Most of the programs are from Halifax groups, but others include operatic and orchestral performances in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, New York, and Boston. Series also includes pamphlets about various performers.

Merchandise invoices

These books contain lists of purchases and are arranged in chronological order within. Two of the books are general purchase invoices while the third is designated as specifically 'furniture purchase invoices.'

Research materials

Series contains clippings on music, Canadian literature, J.J. Stewart, and Allen M. Reid, as well as a scrapbook compiled by Reid on church organ music and organs. Series also contains research notes and materials for essays and lectures.

Archibald MacMechan's teaching records

Series contains records created or collected by Archibald MacMechan during the course of his 40-year employment at Dalhousie University, as well as at Harvard summer school and the Royal Naval College. Records include research notes, examination papers, student marks, and lecture manuscripts.

Sales and operations

Scope and Content This series contains records relating to the sales and operations of the business. Some of these records include lumber surveying and supplies, scale records, market and credit reports, freight rates and circulars. A plan of a building is located in the oversize materials.

Autographs and photographs of musicians and actors

Series contains autographs, autograph letters, and autographed photographs. The letters were purchased by John Daniel Logan and were predominantly written by composers, including Giuseppe Verdi and Jacques Offenbach. Many of the autographs are signed on concert programs, presumably from concerts that Logan attended. The photographs are of musicians and actors, including several of the English actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and were sent to or obtained by Logan for his personal collection and in his capacity as a music critic and journalist.

Mining Papers

These files consist of maps, reports, correspondence, geological surveys and other information relating to mining. The primary focus is on the Styles Mining Company, of which John Rutherford was a shareholder.

Archibald MacMechan's scrapbooks

Series comprises scrapbooks created and maintained by Archibald MacMechan containing magazine and newspaper clippings of his own and others' work, including book reviews and copies of his weekly column, "The Dean's Window," published in Montreal's The Standard. The scrapbooks are organized chronologically and titled A-Z, after which they are named by date. The first (A) contains its own index; the rest are indexed in the record found in Box

Archibald MacMechan's diaries

Series contains Archibald MacMechan's private journals as well as one journal kept by his mother, Mary Jean MacMechan. There are also a number of memos and an address book.

Addresses

The series consists of A. Stanley Mackenzie’s notes, drafts, and newspaper clippings for the addresses he gave throughout his professional career. His audiences were diverse, and included Dalhousie Medical School students, Canadian Club of Truro, Nova Scotia Hospital Nursing School students, etc.

Books

This series consists of books collected by William Inglis Morse. Books include A Journal of the proceedings on board the sloop Dart, privateer of St. John, New Brunswick, Annals of Liverpool and Queen's county, 1760-1867 and Nova Scotia authors and their work; a bibliography of the province by Robert James Long.

Business and personal archives of William McMillan

Sousfonds contains documents relating to the mercantile and shipping activities of William McMillan. McMillan was active in the business between 1893 and the early 1930s. The material includes financial records from other merchants he purchased or sold to; correspondence regarding the shipping of those goods; papers regarding the vessels he owned or contracted to sail the goods to different parts of the world, especially to the West Indies; and correspondence from individuals who ran the ships. Also included are telegram notices, personal correspondence and other material.

McMillan, William

Personal archives of Carrie Coalfleet

This series contains primarily personal correspondence, some unidentified photographs and a few financial and legal documents. It also contains a photocopied transcript of the diary of Alice Coalfleet, who was Hiram Coalfleet's niece, while aboard the Barque Plymouth, from 1886-1892.

Coalfleet, Carrie (Bigelow), 1849-1931

Security Investments Limited

Series consists of two copies of a draft prospectus incorporating the company. Files in the series were mixed in the business papers of Oland and Son Limited and no other records from the company are known to exist.

Security Investments Limited.

H. McInnes's correspondence

Series includes correspondence to and from H. McInnes between 1896 -1935 regarding personal and business matters, as well as correspondence collected by H. McInnes.

Correspondence of Arthur Stanley Mackenzie

This series consists of A. Stanley Mackenzie’s general correspondence. Correspondents range from Mackenzie’s colleagues, friends and universities to Dalhousie internal departments and publishers and other organizations. Correspondence covers a wide variety of topics including employment concerns, papers publishing, school applications, etc.

Architectural plans

This series contains construction diagrams, illustrations, and a blueprint used by Dominion Chair Company employees, as well as maps, diagrams, and blueprints of the factory itself. The construction blueprint and diagrams are for chairs and other wooden items (an example of which is a crate). The illustrations are of chairs and other furniture, which appear to be clipped from catalogues. The material relating to the factory depicts the buildings and property of the company, and its location within the community of Bass River.

House Construction Papers

This series contains papers relating to the construction of Ward's house on Beaufort Avenue in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Ward, Richard, (fl.1888-1977)

William D. MacKay's correspondence

Series contains correspondence kept by D.C Mackay's father, William D. Mackay. It is largely comprised of letters and postcards written from D.C. MacKay to his parents during the years he spent studying in England and working in Toronto.

Personal archives of Graham Creighton

Series consists of correspondence, financial papers, and personal papers of Graham Creighton. Records in the series were created and/or accumulated by Graham Creighton and pertain primarily to his family life or business enterprises prior to becoming a school superintendent.

Creighton, Graham, 1860-1939

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