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Portrait of Thomas Head Raddall aged 35

Portrait of Thomas Head Raddall aged 35

Item is a photograph that was used on the jacket of his first published set of short stories, "The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek". The book was published by Blackwood. A duplicate copy can be found in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 1.
Photograph of Arthur White dressed in period uniform as an officer for the Nova Scotia militia in...

Photograph of Arthur White dressed in period uniform as an officer for the Nova Scotia militia in 1865

Item is a photograph of Arthur White in period costume, which is described as a bright scarlet tunic; dark blue trousers with a red stripe on the outside seam; a white belt; and a sword in a black leather scabbard. Raddall's characters "Charlie Carson" and "James Rand" wore uniforms similar to this demonstration.
Diary, April 22, 1936-May 11, 1940

Diary, April 22, 1936-May 11, 1940

Item is one volume of a diary of Thomas H. Raddall dating from April 22, 1936 to May 11, 1940 with accounts of war news and day-to-day happenings and life events.
"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

Item is a collection of transcribed sea chanties, as sung aboard vessels out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the 1870's, 1880's, and 1890's, and recalled in whole or part by William H. Smith, of Liverpool, N.S. (born 1867). The words were taken down and prepared in typescript by his son T. Brenton Smith, in the year 1940. Includes the following chanties: "The Loss of the Emma-Jane," "Lay Out, Tack Sheets and Haul," "Bound to Rio," "Blow the Man Down," "Old Hoss," "Screwing in Song," "Way Down in Tennessee," "The City of Baltimore," "Around the World and Home Again," "Old Mother Head's," "Sauer Kraut," "Arriving back at Liverpool," "The Mary," "Brigantine Scrocco," "The Big Five Gallon Jar," "Shiloh Brown," "Shanadore [Shenandoah]," "What You Going to do with a Drunken Sailor," "Goodbye, Fare Ye Well," "Say Old Man," "Harbour Grace," "Liverpool Packet," "Fire in the Foretop," "Sailor's Burial at Sea," "On the Banks of the Sacremento," "Rolling Home to Merry England," "Then Turn out You Jolly Tars," "Whiskey for my Johnnie," "The Banks of Newfoundland," "Hangman Johnnie," "On the Plains of Mexico," "We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots," "Isle of Fugi," "Old England's Gained the Day," and "Walking in de Middle of de Road." Includes annotations about the chanties, some of which are handwritten and by Thomas H. Raddall.
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