Item is a photograph of the interior of one of the rooms at Beech Hill, the home of R.H. Brown of Sydney Mines built in 1829.

Item is a photograph of wallpaper in one of the rooms at Beech Hill, the home of R.H. Brown of Sydney Mines built in 1829.

Item is a photograph of the day after Sydney's Great Fire. View is from the YMCA on the corner of Charlotte and Pitt Street.

Item is a photograph of the day after Sydney's Great Fire. View is from the YMCA on the corner of Charlotte and Pitt Street.

Item is a photograph of the day after Sydney's Great Fire. View is from the YMCA on the corner of Charlotte and Pitt Street.

Item is a photograph of Sydney's Great Fire. The view is of the ruins of the Prowse Bros. and Crowell's building on the sourtheast corner of Charlotte and Prince Street.

Item is a photograph of a man selling fish amidst the ruins of Sydney's Great Fire.

Item is a photograph of the Coal Company office staff in Glace Bay, showing the interior of the office building. The names of the staff members are included on the reverse of the photograph.

Items are four photographs of the devastation of the Great Fire in Sydney taken on November 1, 1901. Photographs a, b, and c: A view of the devastation of the Great Fire twelve days after the event. These images were taken from the corner of Charlotte and Wentworth Streets. Photograph d: View of the ruins left by the Great Fire on the west side of Bentinck Street from Wentworth to Prince. The buildings destroyed there were: Robert Ingraham House, Dillon Dwelling, Woodill House, Rudderham House, Conway Building (now Ingersall Road).

Item is a photograph of a conductor and motorman for the Cape Breton Electric Company Tramways . The men stand with one of the tramcars near Indian Cove on a snowy April day.