Affiliated Items
Drawing of a College hall, circa 1842
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Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Artist's conception of a College hall set against a hill of trees with a road and stairs leading to the building. External view of a three-storey structure with four pillars. Accompanying note indicates this is First College Hall, and the drawing is similar but probably not the structure opened in 1844. Similar etchings were made by a Boston company.
Accession Number: APC388
Type: photograph
Ruins of Acadia College, 1877
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Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Twenty, unidentified men, posing on the rubble of (First) College Hall. The remains of brick and stone walls are easily visible. Fences, houses, a farm, and the church and parsonage on Prospect Street in the background. Camera is facing east. Written in ink on reverse: "Ruins of Acadia College, burned Dec. 2nd 1877".
Accession Number: APC410
Creator: Chase, W.
Type: photograph
Group photo next to College Hall ruins, 1877
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Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Large group of men and a few women, sitting and standing in this posed print. Ruins of (First) College Hall, a thicket of trees, and a flag pole in the background. Camera is facing north. Written in ink on matte: "Meeting of Governors, Professors, students + friends the morning after Old Acadia was burned. They were gathered directly in front of where the old building stood the trees behind…
Accession Number: APC411
Creator: Chase, W.
Type: photograph
Acadia University. Students, circa 1870
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Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Class Photos
Description: Large group of men, sitting and standing, on the steps of an unidentified building. Individuals are not identified. Although the building is not identified, the cataloguer believes this is First College Hall. The steps, window, and door are not the same as those on Second College Hall.
Accession Number: APC573
Type: photograph
Horton Collegiate Academy. Class of 1877
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Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Class Photos
Description: Group of 23 men sitting on the steps of (First) College Hall. Individuals are not identified. One man is holding a paper that reads: "COMD[illeg.] PAPER". Handwritten in ink on reverse: "Matriculating Class, Acadia College June 1877" and "AC Chute".
Arthur Crawley Chute matriculated from Horton Academy in 1877.
Arthur Crawley Chute matriculated from Horton Academy in 1877.
Accession Number: APC295
Creator: Borden, J.W.
Type: photograph