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The collection consists of approximately 9,480 photographs [b&w and colour prints, b&w and colour negs., colour trans. and colour slides] created, collected and used by the University of King's College.

The collection consists of architectural records of five major architects or architectural firms who were commissioned by the University of King's College to design buildings for the University when it was located in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and after its move to its present location in Halifax.

The collection includes proposals, elevations, foundation and floor plans, finish details, and systems such as electrical and steam heating for College buildings. Principal projects represented are the original Main Building in Windsor, designed by Bishop Charles Inglis in c.1794; a 1920 proposal by Andrew Cobb to rebuild the Main Building in Windsor after it was destroyed by fire; Cobb's plans for the buildings of the Halifax campus, including the Main Building, President's Residence, Chapel, and men's dormitory; three buildings designed by J. Philip Dumaresq in the 1960s: Alexandra Hall, Muir Gymnasium, and Prince Hall, the dining room; the new Library, designed by Roy Willwerth of Duffus Romans Kundzins Rounsefell Ltd. in 1987-1990;.and the New Academic Building and the Link, Willwerth designs of the late 1990s.

Besides drawings for buildings that have been constructed, the collection includes drawings for proposed buildings and campus designs that were never realized.

The collection includes cartographic drawings - mostly small published informational maps of the campus showing building locations - and some textual records relating to construction of the buildings, such as contracts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and published articles relating to the University architects and buildings.

There are gaps in the collection, as there have never been regular deposits of architectural records in the Archives.

Collection consists of Sylvia Hamilton’s books on documentary filmmaking and feminist theory. Collection also includes several DVDs used for educational purposes at the King’s Journalism School and folders on student projects for the documentary class.

Fonds consists of correspondence written by 93 Anglican bishops from dioceses across Canada. Most of the letters were written during the bishops' episcopates, although a few date from before the bishop's consecration. Most of the letters are manuscript, but 95 are typewritten originals. Several of the letters were written to Owsley Robert Rowley, relating to his requests for data and photographs of the bishops for Rowley's book, The Anglican Episcopate of Canada and Newfoundland. The letters range in date from those written by Charles Inglis, the first Bishop of Nova Scotia, in the late 18th century, to letters written in the late 1930s by Archibald Lang Fleming, first Bishop of the Arctic. Subjects discussed in the letters include the mundane, such as arrangements for visits or acknowledging receipt of a book, to those of major significance, such as the development of the Church in the West. The bishops wrote of missionary work, clerical appointments; establishment of new parishes, and political and business figures. Topics include colonial politics; missionary work in the North in harrowing conditions that required travel to remote areas by snowshoe, canoe, motor boat and airplane; debate concerning surplice usage while preaching; Bishop Medley's opinion on church architecture; residential schools; missionary work; financial difficulties; mining; railroads; Lambeth Conferences; Synods; Governor Schultz [John Christian], who was involved in the Louis Riel rebellion; Lord Mount Stephen and Lord Strathcona, prominent figures in Canadian railway history; canon law; elections of bishops; and the University of King's College. The bishops' letters were written in locations spanning Canada, including St. John's, Newfoundland; Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia; Carcross and Dawson City in the Yukon; Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg. In addition to the 777 letters in the collection, there is a poem written by Aubrey George Spencer; a writing sample and autograph from Bishop Stanser; a letter from Charles Ingles, rector of Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; a letter from J. How to Dr. F. W. Vroom attached to letter of John Inglis; a printed proclamation from John Medley announcing Bishop Kingdon's consecration; a letter from Rowley to Archbishop Matheson; a lease; and an advertisement. These documents are filed in the relevant bishop's series.