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Seen from South Side, just before Fort Amherst. Fishing stages and shack, ice in water. Cabot Tower visible on Signal Hill.

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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Fish flakes (to dry cod). Just west of Y3061E/3. Signal Hill and Cabot Tower in background, right hand side.

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201 x 151 mm. Showing drifting icebergs in the St John’s Harbour mouth.

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Number 36 shows the exterior, the remainder the interior. 30, 34-35, 37, 39 show mourning for the sealing disaster of March 1914, in which 78 sealers from Newfoundland lost their lives when they were cut off on the ice in a blizzard. A pamphlet on this disaster, by the Rev James Bell, is included. The loss of the ship 'Southern Cross' at the same time brought the deaths among the fishing community to over 250. See 'Death on the Ice' (1972) by Cassie Brown.

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Fire engine at work after the fire had been in progress for twelve hours. Published in the ‘Daily Graphic’; see Y3061E/1.

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Façade of gutted building seen in Y3061E/1 with crowd outside. See also Y3061E/2.

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Quarter-plate. Fore and After Fishing Schooner.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Ships and waterfront].

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Showing a sailing vessel leaving St. John's harbour.

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202 x 151 mm. Showing the wooden building and tower of the Church of St Thomas which was consecrated circa 1840.

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199 x 145 mm. Showing the Synod Hall, a large building with a tower, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1892. Print not signed by Parsons.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Entering St. John's Harbour. [Newfoundland].

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Coloured postcard.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). The Narrows, St, John's Harbour. The small rock just showing out of the water is one to which the chain was attached to stretch across the Narrows and stop shipping.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Quarter-plate. St. John's.

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Quarter-plate. St. John's.

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202 x 151 mm. A view looking out over part of the town towards the narrow channel which forms the entrance to St John’s Harbour.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). St. John's Harbour.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). St. John's Harbour.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note swivel guns. St. John's Harbour.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note swivel guns. St. John's Harbour.

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This is adjacent to Fort Amherst.

Scope and Contents On the left hand side are the Methodist College and home for boarders. The former was pulled down in 1984/85, the latter much earlier. The spire behind is that of the Presbyterian Church, and the scaffolded building in the centre is the new Gower Street Methodist (now United) Church. The Anglican Cathedral is behind it. The ships in harbour could belong to the North Atlantic Squadron. In the background on the left is Signal Hill and the Cabot Tower. On the right are the South Side Hills, and...