"City clergy: Rev'd Mr Preston"
Date: [ca. 1850]
Artist: Dr. J.B. Gilpin
Credit: History Collection, Nova Scotia Museum
Reference Nova Scotia Museum P149.29
"An act to prevent the clandestine landing of liberated slaves..."
Date: 16 April 1834
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Statutes of Nova Scotia 1834 c. 68 (J104 / H6 1834)
"Bedford Basin near Halifax (Nova Scotia)"
Date: 1835
Artist: Robert Petley
Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Reference National Archives of Canada C-115424
Memorial of William McLaughlin of Preston
Date: 14 February 1836
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 52 number 45 (microfilm 9798)
"Return of schools in the County of Digby for the year ended the 30th Nov. 1838"
Date: 1838
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 14 volume 12 number 73 (1838) (microfilm 21875)
Untitled portrait of a black youth (Nova Scotia)
Date: [between 1840 and 1846]
Artist: Mary McKie
Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Reference National Archives of Canada accession number 1990-207-94; C-009564 Lady Falkland album
Untitled portrait of a black man (Nova Scotia)
Date: [ca. 1845]
Artist: attributed to Lady Falkland
Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Reference National Archives of Canada accession number 1990-207-88; C-104919 Lady Falkland album
Map detail showing Preston
Date: [1865]
Publisher: A.F. Church & Co.
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Topographical Township Map of Halifax County, Nova Scotia
A Documentary Study of The Establishment of Negroes in Nova Scotia between The War of 1812 and the Winning of Responsible Government
Date: Publication No. 8, Halifax, N.S., The Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1948
Author: Prepared by C.B. Fergusson, Assistant Archivist under the direction of D.C. Harvey, Archivist
Looking up George Street, Halifax, on market day
Date: [ca. 1879]
Photographer: Notman Studio
Reference: Notman Studio Nova Scotia Archives accession number 1983-310/44222
Group with ox cart, Preston, N.S.
Date: [ca. 1886]
Photographer: attributed to Frances Jones Bannerman
Reference: Frances Jones Bannerman Nova Scotia Archives accession number 1996-156/12
"Eddie Beals"
Date: [ca. 1890]
Photographer: George H. Craig
Credit: Dartmouth Heritage Museum
Reference George H. Craig Dartmouth Heritage Museum image number A8098; accession number 94.55.16
"Saul Bauld, water carrier"
Date: [ca. 1890]
Photographer: George H. Craig
Credit: Dartmouth Heritage Museum
Reference George H. Craig Dartmouth Heritage Museum image number 8089; accession number 94.55.7
Selling baskets on market day, Halifax
Date: [ca. 1890]
Photographer: George H. Craig
Credit: Dartmouth Heritage Museum
Reference George H. Craig Dartmouth Heritage Museum image number A8289; accession number 94.55.207
Outdoor baptism, 1st Lake (Lake Banook), Dartmouth
Date: [1892]
Photographer: George H. Craig
Credit: Black Cultural Centre
Reference Black Cultural Centre
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