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201 x 151 mm. A view on a wharf at St John’s showing a pile of seal carcases on the pier with the sealing ship behind. Part of the city of St John’s can be seen in the background.

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201 x 151 mm. Showing cod being laid out to dry on wooden stages or ‘flakes’ on the St John’s waterfront.

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151 x 196 mm. Showing the exterior of the Bank of Montreal.

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151 x 195 mm. Showing the solidly built signal tower erected to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee and opened in 1900.

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150 x 201 mm. A view looking along the cathedral nave and showing the choir stalls and altar.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album of photographs, with some loose insertions, including an annotated map of 'St. John's N.F, 1905', relating to Newfoundland 1902-1912. Most are 100 x 80 mm., but in many cases only part is visible owing to the size and shape of the frame through which they are seen.The collection was studied by Professor Maurice and Mrs Shirley Scarlett in 1985; their information is embodied in the captions to nos. 3, 5-17, 30-51, 53, 55-56, 67, 69, 71, 74-75, 80, 82, 86, 90, 92-93, 95-101,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album of photographs, with some loose insertions, including an annotated map of 'St. John's N.F, 1905', relating to Newfoundland 1902-1912. Most are 100 x 80 mm., but in many cases only part is visible owing to the size and shape of the frame through which they are seen.The collection was studied by Professor Maurice and Mrs Shirley Scarlett in 1985; their information is embodied in the captions to nos. 3, 5-17, 30-51, 53, 55-56, 67, 69, 71, 74-75, 80, 82, 86, 90, 92-93, 95-101,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album of photographs, with some loose insertions, including an annotated map of 'St. John's N.F, 1905', relating to Newfoundland 1902-1912. Most are 100 x 80 mm., but in many cases only part is visible owing to the size and shape of the frame through which they are seen.The collection was studied by Professor Maurice and Mrs Shirley Scarlett in 1985; their information is embodied in the captions to nos. 3, 5-17, 30-51, 53, 55-56, 67, 69, 71, 74-75, 80, 82, 86, 90, 92-93, 95-101,...

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Postcard (2 copies).

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151 x 201 mm. A view looking along the nave towards the west end of the Cathedral.

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150 x 202 mm. Showing the carved stone pulpit of the cathedral.

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201 x 151 mm. An exterior view of the West Porch of the Cathedral. In the background at the left of the picture stands the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Baptist.

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202 x 151 mm. Showing the interior of the exhibition hall at St John’s with a stand of metal stoves in the foreground. The exhibition (along with an Agricultural one) was held to celebrate the tercentenary of the first officially sanctioned colony in North America.

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Quarter-plate. Kingfisher entering the Narrows.

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161 x 193 mm. Showing the attractive wooden Congregational Church built after the great St John’s fire of 1892.

Scope and Contents 200 x 150 mm. Showing a platform with an awning and bedecked with flags from which the Prime Minister of Newfoundland, Sir Edward Morris, is giving a speech. On his right stands the Governor, Sir Ralph Champneys Williams, in full uniform with various ecclesiastical, military and civil dignitaries in the background. Behind the Governor stands a guillotine-like apparatus which, at 12.30 in Newfoundland, laid a foundation stone at the push of a button in Buckingham Palace. See Sir Ralph...

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151 x 202 mm. Showing the exterior of the Court House nearing the end of construction (c 1904). The building also contained the offices of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.

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201 x 151 mm. A view looking along Water Street, with an electric tram in the middleground of the picture.

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Quarter-plate. St. John's Harbour.

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The main part of the principal building of Messrs. Baird, Gordon and Co’s fish warehouse in Water St after the fire had been extinguished. This photograph was taken by the Rev. James Bell, and published in the ‘Daily Graphic’ on 12th November 1908. (See cutting and remittance advice inserted in album.) Fires have often caused severe damage to St John’s. The worst of these was in July 1892.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Stages and bathing place, North side, St. John's Harbour.

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Landscape format. Entering the Narrows St John's Harbour.

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Landscape format. Entering the Narrows St John's Harbour.

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Landscape format. Entering the Narrows St John's Harbour.

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Landscape format. Entering the Narrows St John's Harbour.