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Colchester (N.S. : County) File
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Photographs of Nova Scotia Agricultural College faculty, staff, students, buildings, events, and possibly participants of short courses

File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Depicted are groups of people on campus, in front of buildings, and various events such as the signing of the agreement between NSAC and Dalhousie University granting joint degrees, and what could possibly be the Winter Fair (College Royal) in front of the pavilion that was on campus.

Photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Depicted are groups of faculty, staff, students on campus, what could possibly be the Winter Fair (College Royal), judging, various animals and buildings on campus, classroom settings and the "Bed races" where students raced hogs to promote the industry.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College students, principals, student life, buildings and campus photographs taken between 1905 and 1993

File contains 46 photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College students, principals, student life, buildings and campus. The photographs include the NSAC hockey team, Aggies hockey team, horses, faculty, basketball team, classrooms, residence construction, farms and barns, convocation, campus buildings, NSAC principals.

Reproductions of photographs of Nova Scotia Agricultural College principals from 1905-1964

File contains five b&w reproductions of photographs of past principals of Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1905 to 1964. Included are: Melville Cumming – 1905 to 1927 ; John Main Trueman – 1927 to 1936 ; Leslie C. Harlow – 1940 to 1941 ; C. Eric Boulden – 1941 to 1946 ; Kenneth Cox – 1946 to 1964.

Photographs of the editorial staff of the Maritime Students' Agriculturalist 1912 to 1935

File contains 17 photographs of the editorial staff of the Maritime Students' Agriculturalist [Agriculturist] from 1912 to 1935. The MSA was published by Nova Scotia Agricultural College students and featured articles on the NSAC and items of interests to farmers in the Maritimes. The MSA was also known as The A.C. Mike: 1928; N.S.A.C. News 1928-29; The A.C. Gateway: 1930 to 1935; The A.C. Herald:1936 to 1939; The A.C. Noise: 1939; and then Agricola: 1940 to 1944. After 1947 Agricola became the annual student yearbook and an Alumni news was published separately.

Photographs of librarians, library staff, and the MacRae Library building on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

File contains photographs of the interior and exterior of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College library that was built in 1982, and 1983 library staff and librarians. There are also portraits of past librarians and students.
From 1913-1939 the NSAC library collection was housed on bookshelves of a small room adjacent to the office of the Professor of English.
From 1939-1968 Principal Lyman Chapman improved the library arrangements by rearranging space previously occupied by the janitor’s quarters on the top floor of the administrative building, later named Cumming Hall; they provided tables, newspapers, magazines, books, reference books and textbooks.
Between 1968-1982 the library was housed in the Cox Institute, the library was given space to the west of the stairwell on the lower level. The library added a microfiche reader during this time.
In the 1980s a new building for library services became the first priority when the degree program was approved. Official opening of the new library was graduation day May 1983, and the library was named the MacRae library in 1990.
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