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ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - FINDING AIDS
| Janet (Miller) Ayre Murray (COLL-158) |
This collection material related to the
Murray's involvement in the first World War
and the Royal Newfoundland Regiment,
specirfically Janet Ayre Murray's service
with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of
the British Red Cross from 1917 to 1918.
This is a collection of correspondence. For
more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Owen Steele (COLL-179) |
This diary contains the experiences and
attitudes of a Newfoundland soldier in World
War I. It consists of diary entries and
excerpts from letters that he wrote home to
his family. For more information, see the finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Mary Southcott (COLL-190) |
This collection consists of handwritten
essays and notes, and photographs by Mary
Southcott, founder of the St. John's General
Hospital School of Nursing. The essays and
notes are about the pioneering days of
nursing. For more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Johnson Family (COLL-201) |
The Johnson Family Papers consists of
correspondence written by George Johnson and
his three daughters, Sybil, Estelle, and
Dorothy. The letters by Sybil Johnson cover
two distinct periods. The first were written
during the years 1902 to 1910 when she was a
student in England and in Germany. The
second group of letters were written while
she was working as a VAD (Voluntary Aid
Detachment) during the first world war, 1916
to 1918. For more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Henry Mews (COLL-267) | These papers relate to H. G. R. Mews's
service in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment
during World War I, and include letters
written home to his mother and other family
members, one letter he received, photographs
of Mews in uniform, and postcards collected
mainly in Scotland, France and Germany. For
more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| William Benson (COLL-324) |
This fonds represents a very small portion
of the short life of William J. Benson. It
consists of letters home to his sister,
Irene Benson, from several of the locations
where he was stationed during the last year
of World War I. For more more information,
see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| William Knight (COLL-476) |
This fonds consists of letters written to
William Blacker Knight by members of his
family during June and July of 1916, when he
was a member of the Newfoundland Regiment at
the Battle of the Somme. These letters were
returned to the family, undelivered, as
Knight had been killed at Beaumont Hamel on
July 1. For more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
|
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
(COLL-314)
|
This collection consists of copies of
photographs taken of the Royal Newfoundland
Regiment from 1917 to1918, while the
Regiment served in France during World War
One. For more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Maud Tucker/Frank 'Mayo' Lind Correspondence (MF-352) |
Frank "Mayo" Lind is one of the most
recognizable names of all the
Newfoundlanders who participated in World
War I. This small fonds includes three
letters written to Maud Tucker of St.
Phillip's, Newfoundland, a friend of Lind's.
For more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Hugh Tudor (MF-366) |
This fonds consists of a copy of the memoirs
of Major General Sir Hugh Tudor, officer
commanding the 9th Scottish Division of the
British Army during World War I. For more
information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Eldon Froud(e) (MF-367) |
This fonds consists of two photographs and a
scroll relating to Private Eldon Froude, a
Newfoundland soldier who was killed in World
War I. For more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Tom Cahill (COLL-122) |
The Thomas Cahill papers were among the
first collections acquired by the Performing
Arts Archives Project when it was started in
1982. They were - generated over a period of
thirty years and consist mainly of
typescripts of Cahill's original works for
stage, radio and television. For more
information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Newfoundland Travelling Theatre Company (COLL-129) |
These papers were generated during the 1970s
(1971-1976) when a new generation of
Newfoundland actors and playwrights were
experimenting with novel ideas for theatre
production in the province. The Newfoundland
Travelling Theatre Company (NTTC) was the
first company to tour in the smaller
provincial communities. The NTTC produced
scripted plays usually by one, but sometimes
two, Newfoundland playwrights, such as
Dudley Cox, Michael Cook and Tom Cahill. For
more information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Dudley Cox (COLL-439) |
The collection consists of material relating
to Dudley Cox's career in theatre in
Newfoundland 1960s-mid-1970s. The material
consists of programs, scripts, media
coverage,correspondence, photographs and
notes relating to Newfoundland Travelling
Theatre Company, St. John's Players and
other theatre related activities Dudley Cox
was involved in 1967-1976. For more
information, see the
finding aid on the Archives website. |
| Dudley Cox (MF-056) | One photograph of Prime Minister Sir William Lloyd of Newfoundland examining a Whippet tank in France during World War I and two of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during training at Pleasantville, St. John's. For more information, see the finding aid on the Archives website. |