Harry Piers: Museum Maker
Channel: nsarchives
Date: 2013-05-07

https://novascotia.ca/archives/Piers/

Whether you are interested in stories about murder on the high seas, or the province's natural history, a new online exhibit tells a fascinating story created over a century ago by former Nova Scotia Museum curator and archivist, the late Harry Piers. 

The exhibit, Harry Piers: Museum Maker, on the Nova Scotia Archives website, involved the digitization of some of the Nova Scotia Archives' and museum's earliest items, including photographs and artifacts dating back to around 1900.
 
From 1900-1939, Mr. Piers maintained meticulous, detailed records of donations made to the museum's collection. In a series of accession ledgers, he carefully listed all donations, making note of their names, collection dates and localities, plus the significance of the artifacts and specimens. All these items are now part of either the archives' or museum's collections.
The items recorded by Piers' and his books have been stored by the province for 100 years, used sparingly by curators and archivists because of their fragile condition. Now, thanks to digital technology, the items and books have been scanned and representative samples of the information they contain are available online.