Print, Photographic
Chestico Museum
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| Object Name: | Print, Photographic |
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| Category: | Graphic Documents |
| Material: | paper ink |
| Accession Number: | CMP 01-60 |
| Other Geographical Data: | [46.017395124459,-61.53292690166] |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1948-01-01 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1948-12-31 |
| Description: | A photo of the school fair in 1948. Pictured is a fenced in area near Port Hood Academy. A number of cows are being paraded around this area, presumably by their owners. A crowd is watching from outside the fence. Port Hood Island is visible in the background. |
| Narrative: | Schools fairs were revived in Inverness County after World War II. They were usually held in September. In Port Hood the fair was held on the grounds of the Port Hood Academy in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Schools from the area that took part were Hawthorne, Harbourview, Dunmore, Glencoe Station, Baden, Colindale, St. Peters Convent and Port Hood Island. Fairs were open not only to students but to anyone in the surrounding community who wished to enter cows, horses, sheep, handcrafts, baked items or preserves. |
| Length: | 7 cm |
| Width: | 11.3 cm |
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| Institution City: | Chestico |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |