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The Prat family lived in Wolfville, NS. They played host to a variety of well-known individuals, including Bliss Carman, Charles G.D. Roberts, and William Inglis Morse. At the turn of the twentieth century, three of the Prat children--Annie, Minnie, and May--left Wolfville to live and work in New York. These sisters were talented artisans. Annie and May eventually returned to live the Wolfville area. The records contain family photographs, personal records and watercolours of Annie, personal records of Minnie and May, and records of the Elephant and Primrose Binderies. Most of the records date between 1880 and 1950.

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Title: Annie L. Prat
Date Created: 1903
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/8a
Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 8 cm, on matte 33 x 20 cm. Portrait of Annie Prat in a white dress with a [bandaged] hand. On back: Mother dear- With [Nauce’s love]- Xmas 1903. This portrait of Miss...
Show more1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 8 cm, on matte 33 x 20 cm. Portrait of Annie Prat in a white dress with a [bandaged] hand. On back: Mother dear- With [Nauce’s love]- Xmas 1903. This portrait of Miss Annie L. Prat-. PANS Halifax have the same print or a very similar one- Harry Starr June 1988 THE MISSES SELBY, 292 FIFTH AVENUE, BET. 30TH & 31ST STS. NEW YORK.
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Type: photograph

Title: Annotated page in the "FLORA SYMBOLICA"
Date Created: [1---]
Accession Number: QK84.I54C.1 SPRARE
Description: 1 page : b&w ; 18 x 11.5 cm. Annotated page in the "FLORA SYMBOLICA"; page after the Table of Contents. Annotated by Annie L. Prat in ink.
Type: textual record

Title: Annotated page in the "FLORA SYMBOLICA"
Date Created: n.d.
Accession Number: QK84.I54C.1 SPRARE
Description: 1 page : b&w ; 18 x 11.5 cm. Annotated page in the "FLORA SYMBOLICA"; page facing page 305. In pencil: My dear Father planted and successful grew a "Passion Flower" in one of our large front...
Show more1 page : b&w ; 18 x 11.5 cm. Annotated page in the "FLORA SYMBOLICA"; page facing page 305. In pencil: My dear Father planted and successful grew a "Passion Flower" in one of our large front windows at home. It had many beautiful blossoms. Annie L. Prat Wolfville, N.S.
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Type: textual record

Title: Book plate for The Elephant Bindery
Date Created: [1---]
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/11
Description: 1 page : b&w ; 9 x 11 cm. Book plate for The Elephant Bindery, 115 East 56th Street. Printed on front: The Bindery 115 East 56th Street (Established by the late Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff.)
Type: textual record

Title: Elizabeth Prat
Date Created: 1900
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/8b
Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8.5 cm, on matte 18.5 x 13 cm. Portrait of Mrs. Samuel Prat wearing a black dress and a black bonnet. On the front: Harold Climo St. John, N.B. On back ink Mrs. Sam (nee...
Show more1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8.5 cm, on matte 18.5 x 13 cm. Portrait of Mrs. Samuel Prat wearing a black dress and a black bonnet. On the front: Harold Climo St. John, N.B. On back ink Mrs. Sam (nee Morse of the [Jea] firm) Prat Mrs [Wilcox Harlop] [Mother] wife of my (Rhoda Nixon’s) grand father’s brother Typewritten Mrs. Samuel Prat of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, nee Morse of Paradise, N.S. Mother of Rupert (married Lilian Harris of Annapolis), Charlotte (Mrs. G.H. Wilcox of Windsor), May (Mrs. R.S. Starr of Starr’s Point), Minnie (died engaged to Goodridge Roberts, a brother of Sir Charles G.D.), and Annie, an artist, some of whose work is in the Nova Scotia Archives. Annie’s grandfather’s first cousin, S.F.B. Morse of telegraph fame was of course also an artist. In ink Photo Circa 1900.
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Type: photograph

Title: Goodridge Roberts
Date Created: 1889
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/8t
Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15.5 x 10.5 cm. Portrait of Goodridge Roberts. On front: Lewis Rice Windsor, N.S. On back in ink Goodridge Roberts. / To M.S.P. September 1889.
Type: photograph

Title: Handwritten note inside "FLORA SYMBOLICA"
Date Created: n.d.
Accession Number: QK84.I54C.1 SPRARE
Description: 1 page : b&w ; 18 x 11.5 cm. Handwritten note inside "FLORA SYMBOLICA"; faces page 83. Written in ink by Annie L Prat.
Type: textual record

Title: Handwritten note inside "FLORA SYMBOLICA", reverse.
Date Created: n.d.
Accession Number: QK84.I54C.1 SPRARE
Description: 1 page : b&w ; 18 x 11.5 cm. Handwritten note inside "FLORA SYMBOLICA"; faces page 83; reverse. Written in ink by Annie L Prat.
Type: textual record

Title: Leather work
Date Created: 1903
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/14a
Description: 1 object : colour ; 13.5 x 13 cm. Round, leather bookbinding with iris on the front cover, containing two soft leather inserts. Signed M.R.P. 1903.
Type: object

Title: Minnie Sophia Prat
Date Created: 1897
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/8e
Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm. Photograph of Miss Minnie Sophia Prat working as a bookbinder. On back in ink: MISS MINNIE SOPHIA PRAT, BORN WOLFVILLE N.S. MARCH 12, 1868 5TH CHILD OF SAMUEL PRAT...
Show more1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm. Photograph of Miss Minnie Sophia Prat working as a bookbinder. On back in ink: MISS MINNIE SOPHIA PRAT, BORN WOLFVILLE N.S. MARCH 12, 1868 5TH CHILD OF SAMUEL PRAT AND ELIZABETH DUPORT (MORSE). M.S. PRAT WAS ENGAGED TO GOODRIDGE BLISS ROBERTS. PHOTO TAKEN (PROBABLY) IN THE STUDIO AT 37 WEST 22ND STREET NEW YORK CITY WHERE SHE DID BOOKBINDING AND HER SISTER MAY ROSINA (STARR) DID HANDBEATEN LEATHERWORK AROUND 1897 NO! TAKEN IN STUDIO OF MISS DOROTHY CORNELL AT CORNELL RESISDENCE AT FOREST PARK N.Y. MISS M.S. PRAT.
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Type: photograph

Title: Pencil sketch of a tree-lined field, entitled “Kingscroft”.
Date Created: 1891
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/7k
Description: 1 pencil sketch : b&w ; 19 x 12 cm. Pencil sketch of a tree-lined field, entitled “Kingscroft”, signed by A. L. P. On back in pencil: From Kingscroft Library window Looking South Mar. 11. ‘91” and ...
Show more1 pencil sketch : b&w ; 19 x 12 cm. Pencil sketch of a tree-lined field, entitled “Kingscroft”, signed by A. L. P. On back in pencil: From Kingscroft Library window Looking South Mar. 11. ‘91” and “Kingscroft was the residence of C.G.D.R. when a Prof. at Kings College Harry Starr May 1985.
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Type: painting

Title: Pencil sketch of the dykes, staddles, Medford, and Blomidon.
Date Created: 1882
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/7i
Description: 1 pencil sketch : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm. Pencil sketch of the dykes, staddles, Medford, and Blomidon. On back in pencil: Cape Blomidon 450 feet high Sep 11th 1882. The Reverend D. [Cameron?] The Right...
Show more1 pencil sketch : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm. Pencil sketch of the dykes, staddles, Medford, and Blomidon. On back in pencil: Cape Blomidon 450 feet high Sep 11th 1882. The Reverend D. [Cameron?] The Right Reverend Gilbert Burney Lord Bishop of N.S.; other writing is illegible.
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Type: drawing

Title: Straight razor belonging to Goodridge Roberts, in case.
Date Created: [1---]
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/14i
Description: 2 objects : colour ; razor 15 cm, case 3 x 13 cm. Straight razor belonging to Goodridge Roberts, in case labelled Wade & Butcher Sheffield. Drawing on razor of the Marquis de Lorne, Governor...
Show more2 objects : colour ; razor 15 cm, case 3 x 13 cm. Straight razor belonging to Goodridge Roberts, in case labelled Wade & Butcher Sheffield. Drawing on razor of the Marquis de Lorne, Governor general of Canada. Writing on razor: The Marquis of Lorne LATE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF Canada WADE & BUTCHER SHEFFIELD Writing on case WADE & BUTCHER SHEFFIELD G.B. Roberts Sept [?]
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Type: object

Title: Wallet, belonging to G.B. Roberts, exterior
Date Created: [1---]
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/14g
Description: 1 object : colour ; 20 x 29 cm. Leather wallet, belonging to G.B. Roberts, exterior.
Type: object

Title: Wallet, belonging to G.B. Roberts, interior
Date Created: [1---]
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/14g
Description: 1 object : colour ; 20 x 29 cm. Leather wallet, belonging to G.B. Roberts, interior. Writing in ink: G.B. Roberts King's College Windsor N.S. G.B. Roberts Kings College Windsor N.S.
Type: object

Title: Watercolour and sketches of two unidentified, flowering plants, both yellow.
Date Created: [1---]
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/7ee
Description: 2 watercolours and sketches : colour ; 23 x 35 cm. Watercolour and sketches of two unidentified, flowering plants, both yellow.
Type: painting

Title: Watercolour and sketches of two unidentified, flowering plants, one pink, one red.
Date Created: [1---]
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/7ee
Description: 2 watercolours and sketches : colour ; 23 x 35 cm. Watercolour and sketches of two unidentified, flowering plants, one is pink, and one is red.
Type: painting

Title: Watercolour and sketches of two unidentified, pink and white, flowering plants, ornately trimmed, stiff paper.
Date Created: [1---]
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/7u
Description: 2 watercolours and sketches : colour ; 14.5 x 25 cm. Watercolour and sketches of two unidentified, pink and white, flowering plants, ornately trimmed, stiff paper. Some writing along edge.
Type: painting

Title: Watercolour in frame of Starr's point
Date Created: 1881
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/7h
Description: 1 watercolour : colour ; 17 x 33 cm. Watercolor in frame of Starr’s Point with the dykes and Cornwallis River in the foreground. On front in watercolour: Annie L. Prat. On back in ink: Starr’s...
Show more1 watercolour : colour ; 17 x 33 cm. Watercolor in frame of Starr’s Point with the dykes and Cornwallis River in the foreground. On front in watercolour: Annie L. Prat. On back in ink: Starr’s Point Cornwallis Nova Scotia Painted from the garden at Uncle George Prat’s, Wolfville, N.S.
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Type: painting

Title: Watercolour of Partridge berries on a post card for Windosor Castle.
Date Created: 1919
Accession Number: 1990.007-PRA/7r
Description: 1 watercolur : colour ; 25 x 12.5 cm. Watercolour of Partridge berries on a post card from Windsor Castle. Both sides of the card contains handwriting in pencil and ink.
Type: painting