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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)

Elizabeth Ann Ashfield Woodburn scrapbook

  • CA MNBM ID74
  • Collection
  • 1881-1905

This fonds consists of a scrapbook of greeting cards and art schools pamphlets created by Elizabeth Ann Ashfield Woodburn.

Ashfield, Elizabeth Ann (Woodburn)

Elsie Pomeroy fonds

  • CA MtA 0003
  • Fonds
  • 1833-1968

Fonds consists mainly of records created and accumulated by Pomeroy as biographer and friend of author and poet Charles G.D. Roberts. Records document Roberts’ work, including his interests in the Tantramar area of New Brunswick, where he spent the majority of his childhood, and his relationship with Pomeroy. They also shed light on Pomeroy’s activities as collector and interpreter of Canadian literature mainly between 1920-1950. Records related to Bliss Carman, Arthur Stringer, Marshall Saunders, Mary Electa Adams, Isabella Crawford, Dorothy Leisner Roberts, Annie Charlotte Dalton, G.B. Lancaster are also included. Files contain correspondence; published and unpublished poetry and prose by various authors; scrapbooks; photographs; postcards; and clippings.

Pomeroy, Elsie May

Helen Creighton collection

  • CA MtA 0009
  • Collection
  • 1943-1971

Collection contains copies of notes on the traditional, folk, and Gaelic songs, from the Maritimes, contained on the discs made by Helen Creighton for the Archives of Folklore Division, Library of Congress, Washington, 1943-44, and 10 audio reels, on which the songs are recorded.

Also includes thank you letter from George Proctor, Professor and Head of Music Department, 1971, to Helen Creighton, for a letter and the transcriptions of the songs collected.

Creighton, Helen

Suzanne Silvercruys fonds

  • CA MtA 0012
  • Fonds
  • 1784-1973 [predominantly 1910-1973]

Fonds consists of personal, biographical and family documents, citations, certificates, invitations, programmes, correspondence, war and political activities, radio and publishing ventures, speeches and addresses, sculpture projects as well as photographs, negatives, positives and reproductions. These are accompanied by scrapbooks containing clippings concerning a tour by the U.S. for Belgium Relief Committee, exhibitions of her works, speaking engagements and an audio tape cassette "The Communist Conspiracy", 1966. The contents of the fonds document the varied interests and achievements of this woman noted for her support of Belgian war efforts during the First and Second World Wars. This was followed by a career as spokesperson for Republican and conservative values in the United States through seeking public office, lectures tours and assisting with the creation of new political parties. Her main focus was on the creation of artworks and teaching and sharing her talents via lecture tours. Many noted individuals were sculpted and immortalized at the hands of Suzanne Silvercruys.

Stevenson, Suzanne (née Silvercruys)

Sackville Art Association fonds

  • CA MtA 0019
  • Fonds
  • 1945-1985

Fonds documents the Sackville Art Association's work to support and promote art in the local community through exhibitions, lectures and public education activities. Series consist of minutes of meetings, 1945-1979; correspondence files, 1959-1984; newsletters, 1968-1985; exhibition lists and catalogues, 1919-1984; some Moncton Art Society newsletters, 1978-1981.

Sackville Art Association

Corey Smith fonds

  • CA MtA 0021
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1984

Fonds consists of personal papers and also includes records belonging to Ethel Peake, some given to Smith or possibly borrowed or received following her death and used in his research for biographical note "Ethel Marguerite Peake, 1885-1954" (accession 8426). Peake files contain correspondence 1908-1943; biographical brochure [between 1923 and 1936]; clippings; Mount Allison Department of Music student records, 1936-1944 (students of Peake); photographs, including several of Peake; Allison G. Patterson file, 1951 and 1981.

Smith, Corey

Lavinia M. Stewart fonds

  • CA MtA 0153
  • Fonds
  • 1872-1891

Fonds consists of two volumes of autograph albums; one of which is referred to as a Philopoena Album. The contents of the fonds are predominantly populated with signatures and salutations from fellow Allisonians and members of her wider family. The contents of the albums frequently indicate whether the person had died or in the case of women who they married.

Stewart, Lavinia Margaret, 1857-1907

Margaret Duncan Borden fonds

  • CA MtA 0167
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1935

Fonds consists of a newspaper clippings about First Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a list of writing titles and a numbered series of correspondence and stories that were created by Margaret Duncan Borden. When between 70 and 75 years of age, Borden wrote a series of forty short stories, reminiscences and letters. She typed a number of carbon copies and sent them from her home in Oklahoma to her grandchildren, including those in Little Shemogue, New Brunswick. Some of the recollections refer to Little Shemogue and Borden’s childhood experiences there, including information about prominent Covenanter families in the community; others relate incidents later in her life, as wife and mother, raising a family with her clergyman husband. Some of the stories indicate date and place of origin, some do not.

Borden, Margaret Jane (Duncan)

Sackville Citizens Band

  • CA MtA 084
  • Fonds
  • 1904

Fonds consists the original copy of a Register of Sponsors of the Sackville Citizens Band, 1904

Sackville Citizens Band

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