Zone du titre et de la mention de responsabilité
Titre propre
Dénomination générale des documents
- Document graphique
- Document textuel
Titre parallèle
Compléments du titre
Mentions de responsabilité du titre
Notes du titre
- Source du titre propre: Title is based on the contents of fonds
Niveau de description
Cote
Zone de l'édition
Mention d'édition
Mentions de responsabilité relatives à l'édition
Zone des précisions relatives à la catégorie de documents
Mention d'échelle (cartographique)
Mention de projection (cartographique)
Mention des coordonnées (cartographiques)
Mention d'échelle (architecturale)
Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)
Zone des dates de production
Date(s)
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1835, 1840, 1913-1942 (Production)
- Producteur
- Hall, Thomas Andrew
Zone de description matérielle
Description matérielle
15 cm of textual records and photographs
1 photograph album
1 scrapbook
2 photographs
Zone de la collection
Titre propre de la collection
Titres parallèles de la collection
Compléments du titre de la collection
Mention de responsabilité relative à la collection
Numérotation à l'intérieur de la collection
Note sur la collection
Zone de la description archivistique
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Thomas Andrew Hall (1867-1944), engineer and civil servant, was born at Portadown, Ireland in 1867, son of William Hall. He married Harriet Robinson in 1907 and had one daughter, Doreen. Hall died at St. John's on 21 June 1944.
He was educated at Queen's College, Galway, and earned a B.A. and B. Eng. (honours) from the Royal University of Ireland. Following his graduation, Hall was employed as engineer on a variety of railway projects in England and Ireland from 1888-1906. Hall was a member of the Church of England.
In 1906, Hall was hired as Newfoundland's Government Engineer. During his career, Hall held a variety of positions in the Newfoundland civil service, including member of the Royal Commission on Newfoundland's High Cost of Living (1917), secretary to the Colony's Minister of Shipping (1917-1929), Government Railway Commissioner (1920), Chief Commissioner of Newfoundland's Highroad Commission (1925), Chief Engineer for the construction of the Newfoundland Airport at Gander (1935). Hall retired from public service in 1941.
Hall was awarded a C.B.E. in 1919.
Historique de la conservation
Portée et contenu
The fonds consists of professional and personal fonds of T.A. Hall, predominantly documents and correspondence which relate to Hall's various building projects, including a hospital for the insane; Rose Blanche church; St. John's Cathedral decorations; Port de Grave breakwater; Rennies Mill Road church; Queen's College chapel; various blueprints including, the Church of England boys' orphanage (circa 1936), Placentia bridge (1941), Newfoundland airport, Humber Arm dam, etc. The fonds also contains personal correspondence, a sketchbook of people, images, and landscapes, a photograph album of the Argentia Naval Air Base, a travel log, and postcards. The fonds also includes the 1835 will of John Hall and a related letter (1840).
Zone des notes
État de conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Acquired from John Caines, Dealer.
Classement
Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
Localisation des originaux
Disponibilité d'autres formats
Restrictions d'accès
No restrictions
Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication
Instruments de recherche
File level access
Éléments associés
See also 1144-1382, Caines Collection, "Newfoundland Airport". This material might belong to the Hall fonds.
Accroissements
No further accruals are expected.
Description physique
The bound album measures 25 cm x 31 cm, and is hand-inscribed in black ink.
Désignations alpha-numériques
C-2
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Numéro normalisé
Numéro normalisé
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle
Identifiant de la description du document
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles ou conventions
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision et de suppression
Created - April 26, 2013
Langue de la description
- anglais