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MG 1 vol 2124 number 167d
NOVA SCOTIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS INC.
Galleries, George and Argyle Sts.,
HALIFAX, N. S.
At the time of the Explosion an exhibition of Lithographs loaned by the National Gallery, Ottawa, & a collection of small paintings by members of the Ontario Society Artists was on the walls of the Art Museum. - These were valuable pictures & made one of the most attractive exhibitions seen in Halifax. - The exhibitions had been opened only a few days. -
The explosion shattered frames, & glasses, & the dividing wall collapsed [between the two galleries.] - Pictures were flung in all directions - & escaped destruction in a remarkable way. - a few surface scratches on the lithographs & one or two small paintings pierced by flying glass. - The Art School, - in the same building, suffered a like experience. - The building is very old, but suffered little except the loss of [window?] glass - It was used as a repository for coffins for weeks following the disaster & the side walks around the building were [lived?] to a considerable height with coffin cases. - being next door to Snow's the undertaker.
[T. Al??]
Recd. Dec. 27. 1917
A.M.