Item is a photograph of the Nova Scotia Technical College building, now known as the Ralph M. Medjuck Building of Architecture and Planning or the H Building at Dalhousie University.
Item is a photograph of the inner courtyard of the Killam Memorial Library, taken from an upper storey. There are people walking through the courtyard and there is snow on the ground.
Item is a print of the drawings of the fireplace and gable at Province House and the ship's bell at Government House. See MS-2-82, Box 43, Folder 33 and 34.
Item is the Summer 2002 newsletter of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, which includes a construction announcement; faculty profiles of Frank Palermo and Richard Kroeker; and alumni profiles of Beaton Sheppard (BArch 68) and Jill Bambury (BArch 82).
File contains 2 pages of blackline prints of working designs for a display unit and book cases for the planned Kipling Room in the Killam Library. The drawings include elevations and section details, are stamped "preliminary," numbered S-8 and S-8, and dated 31 March 1969. The Kipling Room ended up remaining in the O.E. Smith wing of the Macdonald Library; it is possible that these furniture plans were used instead for the Morse Room, which was located behind the MacMechan Auditorium.
Item is a presentation board with three architectural drawings mounted vertically using red tape. The drawings are undated and marked as 4B REV, and represent the north, south and east elevations of the proposed Killam Library building.
File comprises a set of plans for the second, third, fourth and fifth floors of the Killam Library, mounted on presentation board with acetate overlays indicating space usages by reference to an unknown key-plan that includes numbers 1-11.
Item is a hand coloured glass plate transparency of Barrington Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
File contains an electrostatic print set (Set A, No. 12) reproduced on polyester of Andrew R. Cobb's details of furnishings for the Science Building, dated July 28, 1914. There is also one page containing drawings of exterior details.
File contains four copies of Andrew R. Cobb's drawings for an extension to the Science Building, which was commissioned by the Board of Governors as part of their building plans during the late 1920s/early 1930s, which also included an Arts Building, gymnasium, power plant, men's dormitory, and extension to Shirreff Hall. The drawings includes basement, ground and second floor plans, and north and west elevations. One copy is in pencil on tissue, two copies are blueprint and one is an electrostatic print set reproduced on polyester.
File comprises blueprints of Set A, No. 12, Andrew R. Cobb's architectural drawings for the Science Building, dated March 31, 1913. Drawings include floor plans, exterior and interior elevations and sections; and exterior and interior details. Also included is a sheet of 3/4" scale details of furnishings.
File contains three original floor plans (first, ground and basement) for a science block for Dalhousie University, by A.R. Cobb, architect, and F. Darling, consulting architect. "Proposals from Darling for a Science Building" is written at the top of the first floor plan. File also contains three sets of blueprints, marked A, B and C, which offer different layouts for the ground and first floors.
Item is a sheet with two drawings of a second floor plan designed to serve as office and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually a university museum. One plan shows the space partitioned into a lecture hall, faculty room and offices to serve current needs; in the second it is laid out as a law library. There is also a small inset aerial perspective of the new (temporary) Arts Building in relation to the Science Building and Macdonald Library.
Item is sheet no. 3 of 16 construction drawings for the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University. It is a second floor plan with the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald
Item is an unsigned sketch (likely by President Arthur MacKenzie) for the Macdonald Library that indicates two lecture rooms, a faculty room, offices for the president, bursar and secretary, and coat and toilet facilities for faculty.
Item is a first floor plan of the Macdonald Library indicating lecture rooms and sizes and showing the upper part of the future stacks room. There are also two inset sketches of lecture room layouts, one to seat 45 and the other to seat 110; a list of subjects with corresponding professors' initials; and a note indicating the present use of second and third floors by Arts classes. The reverse side has red pencil or charcoal lines marking the walls and is marked "L46" in the lower right corner.
File contains full-scale and 3/4-scale shelving detail drawings; details for a chimney-top rain shield; and a leaded letters template for the O.E. Smith Wing addition built in 1956.
File contains a blueprint set of eight sheets of drawings of alterations and additions to the Macdonald Library and nine drawings from 1955, both by architect Leslie Fairn.
File contains an incomplete set of ink on waxed-linen construction drawings for Dalhousie University's arts building, which was designed by Andrew Cobb and Frank Darling and built in 1921 on Studley Campus. Sheet no. 5 is missing, but is extant in a set of blueprints located in Box 1, Folder 7. Sheet no. 4 is a version in pencil on tissue. Most of the drawings were made by A.M.K., traced by P.K.A., and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew Cobb).
Item is sheet no. 1 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The basement plan was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).
Item is sheet no. 4 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The attic plan of wall partitions and rail was drawn, traced and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb) in pencil on tissue paper.
Item is sheet no. 6 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The south elevation was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).
Item is sheet no. 7 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The west elevation was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).
File contains a set of construction and heating blueprints for the Arts Building for Dalhousie University (now the University Club), which was designed by Halifax architect Andrew R. Cobb with consulting architect Frank Darling of Toronto and engineer Charles Harrington. The file also contains an electrostatic print set reproduced on polyester, which is missing sheet no. 4.
Item is a drawing of the ground floor of a building designed to serve as office and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually a university museum. The plan includes notes regarding future additions and usages.
File contains potential site plans for Dalhousie University's Studley campus as well as landscape plans indicating actual plantings. There is also one drawing of a unrealized medical school site plan.
Item is a landscaping plan showing the location of numbered shrubbery plantings on Dalhousie's Studley Campus in 1929 in relation to the gymnasium, arts building, science building, and library.
Item is a pencil sketch of a plan for Dalhousie University's Studley campus. The drawing was produced by President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie; written on the back is: "One of early attempts by ASM to design the campus. When slightly modified it became final design."
Item is a site plan for Studley campus produced by Mackenzie & Howe, Landscape Architects and Artists. On the reverse is written: "Trial suggestion of ASM for laying-out of grounds and approved with slight changes (shown in red) by Darling and Mawson, and adopted." A.S.M. is Arthur Stanley MacKenzie, Dalhousie University president.
Item is a site plan labelled "Scheme E" for the layout of roads and buildings on Studley Campus. The drawing was produced by Darling & Pearson Architects of Toronto.
Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design and construction of the Public Health Clinic, variously called the Public Health Centre and the Dalhousie Medical Clinic. The building was designed by Halifax architect Andrew Randall Cobb, built between 1922 and 1924. and renamed the Clinical Research Centre ca. 1967.
