The coolest kid in Nova Scotia, ca. 1942.
Best pals: H.M. Wylde’s group, studio portrait with cat and dog, Halifax, Nova Scotia, ca. 1905.
19th Century politics could be downright vicious with considerable slander. This political broadsheet asked the Lunenburg County electorate to vote for Charles Edwin Kaulbach, the Conservative candidate in the federal election to be held on 17 September 1878. Kaulbach called his opponent, Charles Edward Church,- the sitting Liberal-“two-faced, shuffling and treacherous.”
The Halifax newspaper (Daily Acadian Recorder 11 September 1878) was equally vicious, commenting that Kaulbach rule had done little good for the people of Lunenburg: “like Protection, it has made the family rich; but like Protection, it has also made the people poor, kept their noses to the grindstone and themselves hopelessly in debt.”
ca. 1878
1,200 Reward
“Whereas, a Mail Bag was stolen from Hatton Garden Post Office and 5 o’clock on the evening of Wednesday, November 16th, 1881, Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department will advise the grant of Her Majesty’s most gracious pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual perpetrator of the theft, who shall give such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the remaining delinquents.”
ca. 1881
For this year’s Nocturne festival we’re digitizing and reproducing old “WANTED” and “REWARD” posters that were sent to the Halifax Chief of Police, ca. 1860s-1900. He had quite the collection! Forgers, Murderers, Absconders, and Thieves abound. This is going to be an interesting project! Be sure to stop by the archives that night so you can see these posters up close.
We’ll likely share the digitized versions on our Flickr.
Critical Past! A 19th century bike club, patrolling the mean streets of Guysborough, NS, ca. 1898. Requirements for joining:
a) A jaunty hat.
b) A fixie.
c) A free spirit.
A sailor’s best accessory—his monkey pal.
Ordinary seaman J.R. Charles was a crew member of the sloop HMS Alert, which was on station 1898-1902.
This girls’ summer camp photo is giving me a bit of a Children of the Corn type feeling… spooky!
Untitled Photo
Photographer: Arthur Bloomfield Dawson
Format: Nitrate Negative
Reference no.: Arthur Bloomfield Dawson Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1994-280 no. 45
