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Miscellaneous biographical materials

Miscellaneous biographical materials

File contains clippings, typescripts, and copies of items relating to Thomas Head Raddall's life, including speaking engagements and literary activities. Materials are dated 1929 and 1945-1992.
Portrait of the battalion commanders and adjutants of the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th battallions, inc...

Portrait of the battalion commanders and adjutants of the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th battallions, including T.H. Raddall, Sr., all in uniform

Item is a photograph of the 2nd Brigade and Canadian 1st Division. Brigadier Lipsett can be seen in the centre, with Major Prower, the commander of the 8th battalion, to his right. Captain T.H. Raddall, Sr. is standing at the right of the photograph, and is the adjutant of the 8th battalion.
Photograph of the Elmwood Hotel in Liverpool, Nova Scotia printed on a postcard

Photograph of the Elmwood Hotel in Liverpool, Nova Scotia printed on a postcard

Item is a photograph of the Elmwood Hotel, which was originally a mansion built by Joshua Newton, who was the son-in-law of Simeon Perkins. The Perkins house is on the left, though it is not visible. In about 1942, the hotel was purchased by the Canadian Navy, and was used during WWII as a living quarters and offices for naval personnel whose ships were undergoing refit at the Thompson Machinery Co. Ltd. plant. After the war ended in 1949, the hotel was torn down, and the site became the lawn in front of the artillery training quarters.
Photograph of Archibald ("Grey Owl") Belaney holding a drum with James Espaniel and Gordon Longev...

Photograph of Archibald ("Grey Owl") Belaney holding a drum with James Espaniel and Gordon Longevin, all wearing Indigenous costume

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the Province of Ontario Department of Lands & Forests on the reverse side. Grey Owl stands in the middle of the photograph, with James Espaniel on his left, and Gordon Longevin on his right. The date indicates this was near the beginning of Grey Owl's "Indian masquerade".
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 Harold W. Higginson and coloured sketch of a tombstone

Photograph of Harold W. Higginson and coloured sketch of a tombstone

Item is a photograph of Higginson outside his home in Pleasantville, New York. Higginson was the chief electrical officer on the cable-ship Mackay-Bennet based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1911-1921 and was part of the cable-ship's recovery of over 300 bodies from the Titanic disaster in April 1912. Thomas Head Raddall served as a wireless operator on the same ship from 1920-1921.
Photograph of a mantel in the Simeon Perkins house before its restoration, with a framed photogra...

Photograph of a mantel in the Simeon Perkins house before its restoration, with a framed photograph and flags on the mantelpiece, a mirror and a framed piece of art on the wall, and a teapot on a pedestal beside the fireplace

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, [between 1940 and 1959], MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 26, Item 3, MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 41, Item 1, and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 16 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph has a stamp marking it copyright to the Nova Scotia Bureau of Information on the reverse side.
Photograph of a man watching the salmon run from the side of a deck

Photograph of a man watching the salmon run from the side of a deck

Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 37, Items 1-2 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The man in the photograph may be Raddall. There is a message from David Archibald to Raddall reminiscing their trip together to Serpentine River in Newfoundland on the reverse side.
Photograph of the 90th Rifles of Winnipeg, 8th Battalion on a parade at Stonehenge, Salisbury Pla...

Photograph of the 90th Rifles of Winnipeg, 8th Battalion on a parade at Stonehenge, Salisbury Plains, England printed on a postcard

Item, a photograph, is related to material in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. There is a note to Ellen Raddall from her husband, T.H. Raddall, Sr., on the reverse side. Raddall, Sr. marked his position in the parade on the front with an x: he is the fifth from the left in the foremost line, wearing a long, dark overcoat that nearly reaches his ankles.
Photographic negatives of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform with other military officials, trees in to...

Photographic negatives of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform with other military officials, trees in town, an artist's rendering of a portrait of Thomas Head Raddall, Raddall in uniform as a wireless operator on the cable-ship Mackay-Bennett, tuna fishing with S. Kip Farrington, and being interviewed on the radio, and a candid portrait of Edith Raddall in Bermuda

Items, negatives, are related to materials found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums, 1917-1927, and 1929-1941, and MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 1, Item 4 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs.
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