Fonds - Thomas Andrew Hall fonds

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Thomas Andrew Hall fonds

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  • Document textuel

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Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)

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Date(s)

  • 1835, 1840, 1913-1942 (Production)
    Producteur
    Hall, Thomas Andrew

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Description matérielle

15 cm of textual records and photographs
1 photograph album
1 scrapbook
2 photographs

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Nom du producteur

(1867-1944)

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).

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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.

    Éléments associés

    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

    Mots-clés

    Mots-clés - Sujets

    Mots-clés - Lieux

    Mots-clés - Noms

    Mots-clés - Genre

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    Ébauche

    Niveau de détail

    Moyen

    Dates de production, de révision et de suppression

    Created - April 26, 2013

    Langue de la description

    • anglais

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