First accession contains items from six plywood boards used in the Grindstone Museum set up by Herbert C. Read in the “Carriage House” of the Marshlands Inn, which includes various materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company and grindstone production, including primarily photographs, as well as graphic drawings, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.
Second accession, contains materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company, grindstone production, and the Read family. Content includes primarily photographs, as well as postcards, articles, and a guest book from the Marshlands Inn which was formerly the Read home, and that contained a museum devoted to displaying the history of the grindstone industry in Sackville.
Fonds contains photographs and textual records pertaining to the descendants of Isaac Wry, which were handed down to and kept by his great granddaughter, Pauline Mary (Alward) Spatz. Most of the content refers to Pauline, her parents John Bunyan and Mabel Lena (Wry) Alward, and her grandparents John Willard and Jennie Grace (Snowdon) Wry, as well as other close relatives. The records listed here were part of a donation that also included a number artifacts.
Fonds is divided into four sousfonds which are further divided into relevant series. All content has been arranged chronologically.
Sub-fond 1: John Willard Wry and Jennie Grace (Snowdon) Wry Sub-fond 2: Mathilda Wry and Mary Elsie Wry Sub-fond 3: John Bunyan Alward and Mabel Lena (Alward) Wry Sub-fond 4: Pauline Mary (Alward) Spatz
Collection contains 15 photographs pertaining to the Sackville Paper Box Company, owned by Azor W. Davis, and 8 photographs pertaining to the 5 ¢ to $1.00 Store owned by Roy F. Durling in Sackville, New Brunswick.
Item is a magazine containing an advertisement for Fawceet coal and wood heaters, 2 letterheads for the Fawcett Foundry and photographs of the executive directors and officers. Title: "Time and Tide in the Atlantic Provinces"
Item is a wooden and glass framed sign used to advertise the Temperance House which was a non-alcoholic boarding house located at 44 Main St. in Sackville, N.B.
Fonds relates to Job Anderson and his blacksmith shop. Fonds contains one volume of early accounting records. This ledger appears to have been used by at least two different people, conducting two different types of business in and around Sackville, New Brunswick. The ledger dates to 1893 and is possibly the account book of Blacksmith Job Anderson because he wrote that the account had been paid in full on 7 January 1904. The second set of entries in the ledger began in 1908 and does not specify blacksmithing. The unidentified record keeper has entered, in daybook style, all expenditures and receipts for work he completed, items he purchased, and payments he received. The entries indicate a farm operation and continue until 1933. There are other accounting records, including some expenses and ledger entries from 1896 near the end of the ledger. (OS Shelf 2)
Collection contains six photographs pertaining to the Dixon family including commercial buildings, school portraits, and one photograph of an unidentified group.