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Item is a photograph of the Ukrainian Hall on West Street in Whitney Pier, taken in 1983.

Item is a photograph of the collieries and furnaces of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Sydney Mines.

Item is a photograph of a coal company house in an unidentified town.

Item is a panoramic photograph of Sydney taken from Hardwood Hill.

Item is a panoramic photograph of a coal mine. At left are Sydney & Louisbourg Railway coal cars and coal conveyors; at right is a power plant.

Item is a panoramic photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant taken from Muggah's Creek.

Item is a photograph of a coal company house in an unidentified town.

Item is a photograph of a coal miner working underground.

Item is a pamphlet published in celebration of the parish's 60th anniversary with a written history of the parish and with photographs of church groups, members and leaders.

Item is a photograph of a youth reenactor posing at the entrance gate to the King's Bastion at Fortress of Louisbourg, National Historic Site.

Item is a photograph of Simon (may be Archie) MacKinnon with a fiddle.

Item is a photograph of Cape Breton Highlanders at VE Day celebrations.

Fonds consists of correspondence of Archibald Beaton, Donald MacDonald and Rev. Ronald Beaton in Rome. Letters deal with the opening of the coal mines at Broad Cove in the late 1890s, a description of Rome, and the ordering of a set of bagpipes as a gift. Interspersed there is also bagpipe music, written by Archibald Beaton.

Item is a photograph of pipers leading a parade across the newly opened causeway.

Item is a photograph of the MacNeil and MacKinnon familes of Christmas Island, Pipers Cove, and Grand Narrows. Fiddler Neil MacKinnon is identified as being present in the photograph.

Fiddler (seated) plays for dancers on the shore of St. Ann's Bay in Englishtown.

Item is a photograph of the MacDougall Girls' Pipe Band of Dominion and Glace Bay.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burials of Hughie MacDonald and his wife Mary Beaton MacDonald in St. Agnes Cemetery in New Waterford.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of fiddler John Alex MacDonald and his wife Margaret in St. Peter's Cemetery in Port Hood.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of musician Mike MacDougall n St. Peter's Cemetery in Ingonish.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of noted New Waterford musician, Dougall MacIntyre. Dougall was Margaret MacPhee's father and Dougie MacPhee's grand-father (both pianists). Mr. MacIntyre is buried at St. Agnes Cemetery in New Waterford.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of musician John C. MacLean and his wife Sarah. Mr. MacLean is buried in Washabuck.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of musician Duncan MacQuarrie. Mr. MacQuarrie is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in New Waterford.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of musician Michael "Little Joe" MacNeil. Mr. MacNeil is buried in West Arichat.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking noted musician Dan R. MacDonald. Mr. MacDonald is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Mabou.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of piper Archie MacDonald. Mr. MacNeil is buried in Stella Maris Cemetery, Inverness.

Item is a photograph of one of the four MacDonald fiddlers born in Judique.

Item is a photograph of a piper playing the bagpipes at Camp Baddeck.

Item is a photograph of fiddler Carl MacKenzie.

Item is a song book of traditional English and Gaelic folk songs.

Item is an account of the Gaelic Society of Cape Breton's tour of Scotland in 1974.

Item is a photograph of a ceremony during the Gaelic mod at the Gaelic College. Former premier of Nova Scotia, Angus L. MacDonald and Father Rankin in attendance on stage.

Item is a photograph of students from the Doris MacDonald school of dance. Students are in costume.

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking burials for fiddler John Alex MacDonald (1876-1958) and his wife Margaret MacDonald (1888-1973). Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald are buried in Port hood, NS.

Item is a photograph of Chieftain of Clan MacKinnon presenting the pipes to an unidentified student.

Item is a photograph of Joe Gillis and Jim Charlie MacNeil at Cape Bretoniana (now Beaton Institute), College of Cape Breton.

Item is a photograph of fiddler Duncan MacQuarrie.

Item is a photograph of Sandy MacIntyre (fiddler – Inverness), Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald (fiddler – Sydney), Ron Gonnella (fiddler – Scotland), Doug MacPhee (pianist – New Waterford), and Dan Joe MacInnis (fiddler – Big Pond).

Item is a photograph of the coke oven operations, showing the covered conveyor system leading to the transfer station at the docks.

Item is a photograph of cove oven operations, showing the brown bridge, a gantry crane used until 1969 for the unloading and transporting of coal.

Item is a photograph of coke ovens, showing the brown bridge, a gantry crane, being dismantled.

Item is a photograph of the coke ovens, showing the interior of the new coal wash plant built in the 1960's.

Item is a photograph of the coke ovens, showing benzol tankers in the foreground, with the new coal wash plant directly behind.

Item is a photograph of the coke ovens under construction, showing the coal pocket with covered conveyor leading to it, over the battery at left. In the foreground, the concrete for the second battery is about to be poured.

Item is a photograph of the coke oven operations, showing the brick benzol plant, left, and coal blending plant, tall building at right.

Item is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing a ship, the "Serafin Topic" at the low on number one pier, ready to take on finished steel products. The four towers on the pier were on a track and could be moved for ease of loading various ships.

Item is a photograph of the DOSCO Docks, showing the coal pier and its coal loading apparatus.

Item is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing an overhaul of the new floating dock,