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Viola Desmond's Notebook
CA BI MG 21.14-A-9-4 · Item · ca. 1945
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is Viola Desmond's notebook, where she kept notes on hairdressing and styling, manicuring, ingredient lists for the products she used as a hairdresser, and price lists for services she offered at her salon.

CA BI MG 21.14 · Collection · 1890-2017

Collection consists of records related to Viola Desmond’s 1946 arrest at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and her posthumous 2010 free pardon granted by the Government of Nova Scotia. Also included are materials related to Viola Desmond and Wanda Robson’s civil rights work in Nova Scotia, including newspaper clippings and articles, diplomas, certificates, scholarship and bursary documents, a scrapbook and materials related to Robson’s education and published book, Sister to Courage. Included are photographs of the extended Davis family and published books about the Black Nova Scotian experience.

Robson, Wanda Eloise
Books
CA BI MG 21.14-C · Series · 1977-2016
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Series consists of 11 books of fictional poetry, interviews, biographies, case studies, and history that explore race and the Black experience in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the United States. Viola Desmond is featured in Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land by Dr. Graham Reynolds, which includes a chapter written by Wanda Robson.

CA BI MG 21.14-B-164 · Item · July 1924
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of Gwendolyn Davis with her daughters. Standing on the left side of the photo, from left to right, are: Viola Davis, Emily Davis, and Helen Davis. Seated is Gwendolyn Davis holding Genie Davis as a baby. To the right of Gwendolyn, from left to right, are: Connie Davis, Dorothy Davis, and Olive Davis.

Photographs
CA BI MG 21.14-B · Series · [189-]-2017
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Series consists of photographs taken or collected by Wanda Robson that document the early lives of she and her siblings, including Viola Desmond, growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Robson's efforts to gain recognition for the life and legacy of her sister. Also included are photographs of Robson's family life, education, and events and ceremonies she attended that were related to her activism and social justice work.

Atlantic Fisheries party
CA BI MG 21.14-B-54 · Item · December 20, 1945
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of Wanda Robson (second from left) and Jessie Murphy (third from left) having drinks with two unidentified co-workers at the Atlantic Fisheries lab in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Children Playing in Snowbank
CA BI MG 21.14-B-248 · Item · [195-?]
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of children playing on a snowbank on the side of a city street while a group of women, which might include Wanda Robson (née Wanda Davis) and Jessie Murphy, watch from the background.

Wanda Davis
CA BI MG 21.14-B-239 · Item · 1941
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a studio portrait of Wanda Robson (née Wanda Davis) taken at Mayfair Studios. A handwritten note in the corner reads: "To Em and Bus, With Love, Wanda."

Davis Children and friends
CA BI MG 21.14-B-235 · Item · originally created August 1934
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of Wanda Robson (née Wanda Davis; front row, centre), John Davis (possibly, front right), Genie Davis (Eugenie Davis, centre left), and Olive Davis (possibly, centre middle) with a group of six other unidentified children standing outside next to a wire fence.

Wanda Davis
CA BI MG 21.14-B-231 · Item · [ca. 1929]
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of Wanda Davis (Wanda Robson) as a young child sitting on a chair on the sidewalk of Swaine Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

CA BI MG 21.14-B-228 · Item · 1953
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of a calendar produced by Viola Desmond and Jack Desmond's businesses - Viola's Hairdressing & Jack's Barber Shop - which was located at 445 Gottingen Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The calendar is attached to a piece of paper featuring photographs of Viola and Jack and information about the businesses.

CA BI MG 21.14-B-227 · Item · 1945
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of a calendar produced by Viola Desmond's 'The Desmond Studio of Beauty Culture,' which was located at 91 1/2 Gerrish Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The calendar is mounted to a piece of paper featuring a photograph of Viola Desmond.