View across the harbour of the town of Pictou, taken from Pictou Landing where a sailing ship is partially visible at a wharf. Print copy is included. Safety negative and print copy also filed as: PC-2-335-6. Larger print copy is available: PC-2-334-14
File contains hand-drawn and printed maps of coal fields and designated areas, including Pictou coal fields; the Mining Association area; Cape Breton Company's areas; Albion Mines; Stellar Mine; Fraser Oil-Coal Mines; Intercolonial Coal Mining Company property; East River Mining Company area; Acadian Coal Company areas; and the Halifax Company Ltd.
View across the harbour of the town of Pictou, taken from Pictou Landing where a sailing ship is partially visible at a wharf. Print copy is included. Negative is available: PC-2-315-7. Safety negative and smaller print copy also available: PC-2-335-6.
View across the harbour of the town of Pictou, taken from Pictou Landing where a sailing ship is partially visible at a wharf. Print copy is included. Dry plate negative and print also filed as: PC-2-315-7. Large print copy is available: PC-2-334-14
File contains a photographic collage of the faculty, graduates, and students of Dalhousie University in the 1869-1870 academic year. The item consists of portraits of Walter M. Thorburn; A. W. H. Lindsay; John Wallace; Hugh McD. Scott; James Liechti; James DeMill (De Mille); John Johnson; Charles MacDonald; William Lyall; James Ross; and George Lawson arranged around a photograph of the Dalhousie College building and a group picture of the college's students.
File contains an autographed postcard photograph of Arthur Rubinstein with some handwritten music on the back, signed during his American tour in New York on May 18, 1873.
Steam Ship "East Riding" with Carmichael Shipyards in background, with wooden houses and a church on the hill behind. Negative is available: PC-2-301-22
File contains the valedictory address delivered by Alexander Howard MacKay at convocation on April 30, 1873. The address was published in the Dalhousie Gazette, Vol. 5, No. 10 on May 3, 1873.
View of a mine site after an explosion. Damaged mine buildings and a pile of coal are in the background. Tree stumps and logs litter the area in front. A safety negative is also included. Wet plate negative and safety negative also filed as: PC-2-300-115
File contains a Public Schools of Nova Scotia head master certificate, report cards, a letter sent to Margaret Jane, a poem titled "The Mother," newspaper clippings regarding Margaret Jane's death, and a photograph of Margaret Jane in which she appears to be between 20-30 years old.
View of a mine site after an explosion. Damaged mine buildings and a pile of coal are in the background. Tree stumps and logs litter the area in front. A safety negative is also included. Small print copy and safety negative filed as: PC-2-335-7
File contains a photographic collage of the Halifax Medical College faculty and class of 1874. The collage consists of photographs of the faculty and class arranged around a photograph of the Halifax Medical College. The people in the photographs are unidentified.
View of New Glasgow after the fire of April 19, 1874. One complete block has been destroyed down to the foundations, along with portions of two others. Negative also available: PC-2-317-16
View of New Glasgow from the surrounding countryside, prior to the fire of April 19, 1874. A church visible at one edge. Negative is also available: PC-2-317-15
View of New Glasgow after the fire of April 19, 1874. One complete block has been destroyed down to the foundations, along with portions of two others. Several firemen and a few other men are surveying the destruction. A factory chimney stands at one edge. One a fence three advertisements are visible, two of which read: "Use Brown's Bronchial …", "Use household panacea …"
View of New Glasgow from the surrounding countryside, prior to the fire of April 19, 1874. A church visible at one edge. Print copy is also available: PC-2-334-13
View of New Glasgow after the fire of April 19, 1874. One complete block has been destroyed down to the foundations, along with portions of two others. Print copy also available: PC-2-334-5
A group of men, women and children, wearing hats and caps, standing in the foreground in front of the area destroyed in New Glasgow by the fire of April 19, 1874. A fire-carriage is in the centre of the group
A group of men and boys, wearing hats and caps, standing in the foreground in front of the area destroyed in New Glasgow by the fire of April 19, 1874. Two horse-drawn carriages are visible at the edge of the group. Print copy also available: PC-2-334-6
Wooden buildings with two kilns belonging to Trenton Glass Works. Homes are visible across a field in the background. Negative is available: PC-2-318-70
Three-masted sailing ship "Steinvora", built at the Carmichael yard, registered in Pictou, docked in a community with scattered buildings ashore, and a small paddle boat beside it. Negative is available: PC-2-317-28
Three-masted sailing ship "Steinvora", built at the Carmichael yard, registered in Pictou, docked in a community with scattered buildings ashore, and a small paddle boat beside it. Print copy is available: PC-2-334-18
Three-masted sailing ship "Steinvora", built at the Carmichael yard, registered in Pictou, docked in a community with scattered buildings ashore, and a small paddle boat beside it. Negative is available: PC-2-317-27
Three-masted sailing ship "Steinvora", built at the Carmichael yard, registered in Pictou, docked in a community with scattered buildings ashore, and a small paddle boat beside it. Print copy is available: PC-2-334-19
Item is a photograph of the faculty of Dalhousie University in 1876. The photograph consists of portraits of Prof. De Mille; Prof. Lyall; Prof. Johnson; Prof. Ross; Prof. Macdonald; Prof Liechti; and Prof. Lawson arranged on a background of branches.
File contains two indentures evidencing the sale of lands in Pictou County. The first indenture (dated 1875) records a land sale from Robert Moran to John Ives Meagher. The second indenture (dated 1876) records a sale from Alexander and Sarah A. McKenzie to John Ives Meagher.
File contains G.W. McQueen's notebooks for Professor George Lawson's junior psychology class (1876-1877) and Reverend Professor William Lyall's chemistry class (1877).
File contains two inaugural addresses delivered by James DeMille at convocation ceremonies of Dalhousie College. The first inaugural address was delivered on November 4, 1873 and printed in Dalhousie Gazette, Vol. 6, No. 1 (November 15, 1873). The second inaugural address was delivered at convocation in 1878 and printed in Dalhousie Gazette, New series Vol. 4, No. 1 and No. 2 (November 23, 1878 and December 7, 1878).
File contains ten student registration and matriculation tickets received by Arthur Charles Hawkins confirming his enrolment and attendance during the 1881-1882 session at the Halifax Medical College, Dalhousie College and University, and the Provincial and City Hospital. The tickets are for the following courses: Physiology (taught by John Somers); Clinical Surgery (taught by Edward Farrell and John F. Black); Practical Anatomy (taught by D.A. Campbell and A.W.H. Lindsay; with notes on dissection of extremities); Chemistry (taught by George Lawson); Anatomy (taught by George Sinclair); Materia Medica (taught by John F. Black); and Botany (taught by Benjamin G. Page).