Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning Resources

Photographs


Operating the circular saw at the Anderson sawmill near Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


Group of women (and one man) dressed for choir practice at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Upper Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


Mrs. Johnson and two young boys, Upper Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


One of the youngest residents of Upper Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


House, Upper Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


Community Hall, Upper Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


Emmanuel Baptist Church, Upper Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


Recently built one-room school, Upper Hammonds Plains

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


Group of children at Upper Hammonds Plains, dressed for play

Date: 1949

Reference: C.R. Brookbank Nova Scotia Archives Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 38 (Library HT431 B871 A259)


''Winter on Lower Water Street, Halifax''

Date: 1952

Reference: Robert Norwood Nova Scotia Archives 1987-480 number 253


Scene on Creighton Street, Halifax

Date: 1953

Reference: E.A. Bollinger Nova Scotia Archives 1975-305 number 53139-10


Three young women of Annapolis County

Date: ca. 1955

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives 1989-433 series E number 1



Two Africville children, with Seaview African United Baptist Church and houses behind it in the distance

Date: ca. 1965

Reference: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives 1989-468 volume 16


Halifax city dump with Seaview African United Baptist Church and Africville houses in the background

Date: ca. 1965

Reference: Bob Brooks Nova Scotia Archives 1989-468 volume 16


               

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