Showing 100 results

Archival description
Arts and culture
Print preview View:

5 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects

Ladies Morning Musical Club

  • CA MNBM ID415
  • Fonds
  • 1925-1959

Fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, scrapbooks, albums, financial records and printed ephemera. It includes papers delivered by members on a variety of musical topics. There are membership lists, a book of remembrance for past members, and a photograph album, 1926-1946. The ephemera includes scrapbooks of programs and newspaper clippings. There are constitutions and rules, 1926-1947 and programs from 1925-1958.

Ladies Morning Musical Club

Isabel St. John Bliss

  • CA UNB MG L 32
  • Fonds
  • 1836 - [1959], predominant 1882-1900

The collection consists of primary materials, such as correspondence, privately printed poems, and photographs and secondary materials gathered by Isabel St. John Bliss in preparation for her planned work on Bliss Carman. It is unknown when she acquired and began to organise her research materials.

Bliss, Isabel St. John

Julia Crawford

  • CA MNBM ID461
  • Collection
  • 1916-1957

The collection consists of correspondence and records, mainly related to Crawford's involvement with various arts clubs and societies and their exhibitions. The correspondence, primarily with the Maritime Art Association, deals particularly with exhibitions. Many letters mention the effects of the Second World War on art exhibits. There is also some correspondence relating to "Martime Art : A Canadian Art Magazine" which was launched in October 1941. The Maritime Art Association records include information on annual exhibits. There are lists of exhibitors names and addresses, titles of work and prices. There is also a typed copy of a brief presented to the Royal Commission on National Development of the Arts, Letters and Sciences (Massey Commission, 1949) along with various other reports, and minutes of annual meetings.

The Saint John Art Club material includes copies of the regulations for picture loans with lists of borrowers on the reverse side. There are reports on art club activities, Julia's notes regarding establishing an art gallery, and information on the Toronto Art Gallery exhibit including works by Saint John artists Jack Humphrey and Dorothy Currie. There are membership lists with addresses and minutes of monthly meetings. Some business and financial papers are also included. There are class lists for both junior and senior art classes, given by the Saint John Art Club from 1916 to1920, with names of instructors and students and two rolls of Art Club officers for 1919 and 1920. There is also material related to the Federation of Canadian Artists and other art groups. Material related to the 1941 British Children's Art Exhibit includes aspeech by Mayor Wasson on CHSJ radio appealling for the public support of a sale of artwork by British children in aid of air raid victims.

Tilley, Julia (Crawford)

Jack W. Humphrey

  • CA MNBM ID2031
  • Fonds
  • 1956

This fonds consists of a typescript of a lecture by Jack Humphrey given at Mount Allison University Art Workshop in 1956. The lecture deals with the elements of painting, composition and design. It discusses Fauvism, Cubism and Impressionism as well as technique and colour theory for painting in both oil and watercolour, and basic materials used in art. The original lecture was apparently illustrated, but the illustrations are no longer present.

Humphrey, Jack Weldon

George Taylor

  • CA FRM MS84
  • Fonds
  • 1838 - 1956

The PANB holds the George Taylor fonds of photographs (P5).

Taylor, George Thomas

Royal Family Coronation Events

  • CA CCA MC 975
  • Collection
  • 1937, 1953

Programs and promotional material for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and King George in 1937, as well as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Included are a program for a coronation ball at the Algonquin Hotel in St. Andrews, a promotional coronation Union Jack from Red River Cereal which shows how the Union Jack was formed, a program for a coronation service in St. Stephen, and a souvenir program for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II which contains royal portraits, information on the history of coronation events, the story of Elizabeth II, a map of her procession during the coronation, a genealogy of the Royal Family, and details on the coronation ceremony.

Ethel Peake

  • CA MtA 8
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1953

Fonds consists of records generated by Peake's activities as both performer and teacher. Files contain correspondence concerning Royal Choral Society; promotional literature, press notices, programs related to Peake's performances; student records; notes; published music; Mount Allison Ladies' College banners.

Peake, Ethel Marguerite

Horton Academy

  • CA CCA MC 902
  • Collection
  • 1953

This collection contains a yearbook from 1953 for Horton Academy, a co-ed residential high school located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. This school was founded in 1828 by members of Nova Scotia’s Baptist community, and became a high school in 1926 following the closure of the Acadia Ladies Seminary. The high school was ultimately closed in 1959 as it was deemed too costly to maintain.

Horton Academy

John Louis Carleton

  • CA CC MCC1
  • Fonds
  • 1880-1886, 1915-1928, 1952

This fonds mainly consists of materials related to John Louis Carleton's activities as an amateur playwright. The fonds includes correspondence between J. L. Carleton and Cornhill Publishing Co., newspaper clippings, show programs, and manuscripts of the following plays: "The Medieval Hun," "Lores Defender," "The Dungarvans," "Oh How Delightful," "The Crimson Wing," "The O'Mahoney," "The Middogue," "The Lord of Cashel," "The Purple Testament," "Ready, Aye Ready," and an untitled play.

Carleton, John Louis

Results 51 to 60 of 100