"Concrete Sewer Blocks made at the Halifax Poor Asylum, Halifax, N.S., 1899, over 1000 barrels of Citadel Brand of cement used, manufactured by St. Lawrence Portland Cement Coy., Montreal, Quebec"
Date: 1899
Photographer: J. M. Margeson
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives 1992-411
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"Body of RMS Titanic victim aboard rescue vessel [CS Minia] being made ready for make-shift coffin", April or May 1912
Date: May 1912
Photographer: attributed to William J. Parker
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Drawer - Transportation & Communication - Ships & Shipping - Titanic, no. 2
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"Hearses lined up on Halifax wharf (near the present Jetty 4 of HMCS Dockyard) to carry RMS Titanic victims to funeral parlours
Date: 6 May 1912
Photographer: attributed to William J. Parker or William Mosher
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Drawer - Transportation & Communication - Ships & Shipping - Titanic, no. 3
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William Carbines, Body No. 18, 1912
Reference: Coroners' Reports Nova Scotia Archives RG 41 vol. 75 no. 18
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Business Card, Mr. Nicola Nasrallah, sometimes known as Nicola Nasser, ca. 1912
Reference: Coroners' Reports Nova Scotia Archives RG 41 vol. 75 no. 43
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Business Card, J.F.P. Clarke, ca. 1912
Reference: Coroners' Reports Nova Scotia Archives RG 41 vol. 76 no. 202
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Business Card, Leopold Weisz, ca. 1912
Reference: Coroners' Reports Nova Scotia Archives RG 41 vol. 76A no. 293
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Collapsed buildings of Nova Scotia Car Works on Clifton Street near St. Albans Street, Halifax, with Bloomfield School in background at right, 11 February 1918
Date: 11 February 1918
Photographer: Gauvin & Gentzel
Reference: Charles Vaughan (copied through the courtesy of Mrs. Shirley Vaughan) Nova Scotia Archives
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Women walking from Africville towards Halifax, on Campbell Road near Hanover Street, 1917 or 1918
Date: 1917 or 1918
Photographer: James & Son
Reference: SC 244 (James); negative number: 2451 (courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives) Nova Scotia Archives
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"Rehousing for Halifax Relief Commission, Halifax, Ross & Macdonald, Architects, Montreal, No. 76", 30 July 1919
Date: 30 July 1919
Photographer: Gauvin & Gentzel
Reference: Charles Vaughan (copied through the courtesy of Mrs. Shirley Vaughan) Nova Scotia Archives
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J. Allister Bowman, district plant superintendent, Maritime Tel & Tel, using earphones for word from entombed men in Moose River Mine Disaster, N.S., April 1936
Date: April 1936
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Drawer - Places - Moose River - Mine Disaster, 1936
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The Queen Hotel Fire, Hollis Street, Halifax, 2 March 1939
Date: 2 March 1939
Photographer: attributed to Roy Tidman, Halifax Daily Star staff cameraman
Reference: John F. Rogers Nova Scotia Archives 1995-370 no. 6
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"Explosion of Munitions at Magazine near Dartmouth, Halifax, N.S., July 18, 1945"
Date: 18 July 1945
Photographer: J.C.M. Hayward
Reference: Yarmouth County Historical Society Nova Scotia Archives 1981-517 no. 1
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Crowd viewing broken glass outside Henry Birks & Sons Limited, Barrington St., Halifax, after the Bedford Magazine Explosion, 18 July, 1945
Date: 18 July 194]
Photographer: J.C.M. Hayward
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Drawer - Places - Halifax - Explosion, 1945 - Damage - Barrington St.
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"Fancy-dress Ball given by Gen. Sir Patrick L. MacDougall, K.C.M.G., Commmander of H.M. Forces, at 'Maplewood', Northwest Arm, Halifax, N.S., sometime between 1878 & 1883, composite photo by W. Notman, Hfx."
Date: between 1878 and 1883
Photographer: Notman Studio
Reference: Notman Studio Nova Scotia Archives OS no. 45760
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