Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning Resources
Photographs
Archives are a great place to develop and use your skills of investigation. Archives work to preserve materials in their original context. 'Authentic', 'one-of-a-kind', and 'original' are all words used to describe archival materials. This makes them reliable and valid sources of information, or evidence of the past.
The photographs in this section feature African Nova Scotian communities, people and events.
We invite you to explore these photographs and have provided some 'questions to consider' that may help in your teaching and learning journey.
Looking up George Street, Halifax, on market day
Date: ca. 1879
Reference: Notman Studio Nova Scotia Archives 1983-310 number 44222
Group with ox cart, Preston, N.S.
Date: ca. 1886
Reference: Frances Jones Bannerman Nova Scotia Archives 1996-156 number 12
William Hall, VC (1829-1904)
Date: ca. 1895
Reference: C. Bruce Fergusson Nova Scotia Archives 1980-030
James R. Johnston (1876-1915)
Date: ca. 1898
Reference: Notman Studio Nova Scotia Archives 1983-310 number 2573
Halifax children
Date: ca. 1898
Reference: J.A. Irvine Nova Scotia Archives photo album 37 number 122
Couple posing in their cooks' aprons at the YMCA Maritime Boys Camp, Cow Bay, near Silver Sands Beach
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: J.A. Irvine Nova Scotia Archives photo album 37 number 54
Group of men posing in front of a barn at Guysborough
Date: 1895
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 number 33
Nanny with the children in her care, Guysborough
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 number 216
Man lighting his pipe, Guysborough
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 number 43
John Bowden, Guysborough
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 number 82
''Joe Izzard playing the fiddle (copy for J. Bowden)''
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 number 881
Eliza Brody in her home at Sunnyville, Guysborough County
Date: ca. 1905
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 number 26
''School at Five Mile Plains where Miss DeWolf taught around 1912''
Date: ca. 1912
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Lenore DeWolf Rathbun, First Freed Slaves at Five Mile Plains and Vicinity (typescript, 1950), ill. number 4 (Library GN R18)
''James Croxen and some members of his family''
Date: ca. 1912
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Lenore DeWolf Rathbun, First Freed Slaves at Five Mile Plains and Vicinity (typescript, 1950), ill. number 4 (Library GN R18)