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.
Last year, many Nova Scotians sent us their families’ stories of the Halifax Explosion via Twitter. While the descriptions were short, they painted vivid stories of survival and resilience in the wake of a terrible disaster.
Based on this response, we are engaging in a online project to try and collect these stories via Twitter using the hash-tag #hfxex1917. You can send one tweet or send several. Details like time and location are helpful. Images are also welcome.
More information on this project can be found on our website!
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.
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
“Gay Senoritas to dance tonight.” Halifax, April, 1931.
Here we have the ballet of the minstrel show to be presented at the Capitol Theatre tonight by the Commercial Club of Halifax under the direction of Miss Frances Foster. According to the press agent, these ‘girls’ will be a riot. They are garbed as senoritas, an old Spanish custom with Commercial Club minstrels. Left to right, they are: Ald. W.E. Donovan, F.G. Balcom, C.E. Dowden, H.M. Laurence, Murray Ryan, W.R. Moore, J.E. Hudson, R.O. Cutler, E.A. Young, W.E. Godding, H. Montgomery.
Photographer: J. C. M. Hayward
Ladies fashion for sale on Grafton Street, Halifax, ca. 1818.
From the Acadian Recorder.
