Manuscripts

Plan of intended line of battle at the landing on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Description: In color.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1758 June
Call number: LO 5869
Provenance: Purchased from the Campbell family through the agency of Sotheby's and Sir Joseph Duveen, 1923.; Portion of the Scottish papers purchased with the Hastings family papers (mssHA) from Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, Countess of Loudoun, through the agency of Maggs Bros., 1927.; Addendum purchased from Myers & Co. Booksellers Ltd, 1944.
Restrictions: IN PROCESS COLLECTION.; RESTRICTED. Tartan swatch enclosed in James Seton letter to John Campbell, 1746 August 28 (LO 12589). Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.

Glace Bay Cape Breton Nova Scotia wireless station: photograph

Manuscripts

A collection of material related to the work of Guglielmo Marconi and Richard Norman Vyvyan; the collection includes a manuscript volume, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The bulk of the collection is comprised of letters from Marconi to Vyvyan concerning the construction and successful implementation of a wireless transatlantic telegraph system in the first decade of the twentieth century. The collection also includes Vyvyan's detailed bound manuscript overview of wireless technology: "Notes on Long Distance Wireless Telegraphy and The Design and Construction and Working of High Power Wireless Stations" written between 1900 and 1904. Other correspondents in the collection include: Paul Brenot, Sir John Ambrose Fleming, Godfrey C. Isaacs, Beatrice Marconi, Alldin Usborne Moore, and Percy Wright Paget. Additional subjects covered in the collection include: the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd; the legacy of Marconi; and World War I.

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Mackinlay's map of the province of Nova Scotia, including the island of Cape Breton

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An accurate map of the islands of New Found Land, Cape Breton, &c.; with the adjacent province of Nova Scotia

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Describes division between British and French as a result of the Treaty of Utrecht. Kashnor dates as ca. 1755. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Ms note: 250 (on backing).

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Operators and staff at Marconi wireless station, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia: picture postcard

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mssMarconig

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A journal of visitation in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and along the eastern shore of New Brunswick

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Gut of Canso, which divides the Island of Cape Breton from the Continent of Nova Scotia

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Kashnor notes, " A long chart with sailing directions, very rare." Text with sailing directions.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, statute & nautical. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 117.

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Plan of intended line of battle at the landing on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

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