Fonds consists of records relating to Edwin B. Dunke, the Benton St. Baptist Church, the German Baptist Church of Berlin, and the Dunke & Co. grocery store. Includes accounts of the German Baptist Church from 1894-1923; annual reports and financial statements for the Benton St. Baptist Church ca. 1919-1930; and "day books" of the Dunke and Co. grocery store. The latter include customers' names, purchases and store inventories that reveal the daily lives, diets and purchasing patterns of local families and individuals from 1896 to 1930.
Dunke, Edwin B.Correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and prose, and clippings of published work and reviews. Six volumes of verse have been catalogued separately. Correspondents include Nellie McClung (2 letters), Laura Goodman Sanderson (1 letter) and Charles G.D. Roberts (1 letter).
Catley, Elaine MaudOne item of correspondence from Charles Gaston Smith Jr. of the Harvard Club of Boston to Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. The letter is dated July 25, 1924 and in it Smith asks Coburn if she knows of any girls in real life that are of the same quality as those in her books.
Coburn, Eleanor Hallowell AbbottContents: fonds consists of records relating to the administration, operation, products, and history of Electrohome Limited and its subsidiary companies, as well as its predecessors, Pollock-Welker Limited, the Grimes Radio Corporation Limited, and the Phonola Company of Canada Limited. Includes letters patent and by-laws, share certificates and registers, board of directors' minutes, legal records, financial statements, correspondence, memoranda, advertisements and product literature, internal and external publicity materials, news releases and press kits, press clippings, speeches, sales kits and manuals, photographs and other visual materials, ephemera, architectural and technical drawings, sound recordings, computer disks, and artifacts.
Fonds is arranged in fifty-three series:
- Incorporation
- Board of Directors Minutes
- Board of Directors Secretary Files
- Executive Officers Files : Carl A. Pollock
- Executive Officers Files : John A. Pollock
- Executive Officers Files : James Holmes
- Executive Officers Files : Howard W. Main
- Executive Officers Files : Donald S. Sykes
- Executive Officers Files : Administration of A & C Boehmer Limited
- Executive Officers Files : Andrew Malcolm Furniture Company
- Administration : Annual Reports
- Administration : Annual Report Working Files
- Administration : Corporate Planning Files
- Administration : Legal Files
- Administration : Financial Files
- Administration : Personnel
- Administration : Labour Relations
- Administration : Facilities
- Subsidiaries : CAP Communications
- Public Relations Manager's Files
- Public Relations Working Files
- Public Relations Working Files : Personnel
- Public Relations Working Files : Photographs
- Public Relations Working Files : Electrohome Design Lecture Series
- Publicity : External Publications
- Publicity : News Releases
- Publicity : Press Kits
- Publicity : Internal Publications
- Sales and Marketing : Reports and Plans
- Sales and Marketing : Projection Systems Marketing and Communications Manager Files
- Sales and Marketing : Promotional Material for Sales Staff, Dealers, and Distributors
- Advertising : Working Files
- Advertising : Working Files : Appliances
- Advertising : Working Files : Display and Communications
- Advertising : Working Files : Furniture
- Advertising : Working Files : Television and Stereo
- Advertisements
- Advertisements : Product Literature : Commercial Electronics
- Advertisements : Product Literature : Consumer Products
- Advertisements : Product Literature : Motor and Industrial
- Advertisements : Product Literature : Service
- Operations : Electronic Products Division Manager's Files
- Operations : Product Development Files
- Operations : Wartime Production
- Company History and Anniversaries
- Museum and Archives
- Visionary Thinking : Working Files
- Press Clippings
- Scrapbooks
- Visual Material
- Sound Recordings
- Computer Disks
- Artifacts
Contents: accrual consists mainly of moving images, sound recordings, and slides relating to Electrohome, especially public relations, sales and marketing, and advertising, as well as some documenting various aspects of the company's facilities, operations, and history. Accrual also includes materials relating to the administration of Electrohome, and in particular financial reports for the company from 1985-2000 as well as some public relations materials from 1979-1984 and annual reports for the years 1997-1999.
The accrual is arranged in the following eight series:
- Administration : Annual Reports
- Administration : Financial Files
- Administration : Public Relations Manager's Files
- Visual : Photographs and Slides
- Visual : Moving Images
- Sound Recordings
- Computer Disks
- Miscellaneous
Materials accumulated by Elizabeth Long relating to women and women's issues. Includes clippings files on famous women and women's issues, radio letters from her programming, correspondence and materials relating to her activities.
Long, ElizabethMaterial documenting a social and family history spanning almost one century. It revolves primarily around three women: Elizabeth Smith Shortt, and her daughters, Muriel Clarke and Lorraine Shortt. The fonds contains family correspondence, 1880 - 1970, general correspondence 1876-1970, manuscripts, diaries, typescripts, pamphlets, clippings and photographs. Correspondence includes Cecil B. and Senator E.D. Smith, the Smith and Shortt family letters, Adam and Elizabeth Shortt love letters, but primarily correspondence during and after the war period between Elizabeth, her daughters Muriel and Lorraine, until Elizabeth's death in 1949. Letters follow Elizabeth Smith through Queen's University, her role in formation of the Queen's Medical School for women, her concern with local and national councils of women, and a variety of clubs, commissions, and organizations. Correspondents includes Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Dr. Jennie K. Trout, Eliza Fitzgerald, Lady Ishbel Aberdeen. Also present are 15 manuscript diaries kept by E. Smith Shortt covering the period from 1872-1932. Diaries 1892-1911 are memoirs of Shortts' European trips. twenty-three diaries or day books kept by Lorraine Shortt from 1912-1943 are also present. The fonds contains also approximately 50 manuscript addresses, reports and speeches given by Elizabeth Shortt, as well as speeches by Lorraine Shortt. About 100-150 pamphlets and leaflets on a variety of subjects document Elizabeth's interests and activities, especially war period and restoration, National Council of Women, Mother's Allowance Commission, etc. Also present are clippings from 1800-1960, original and photocopied newspaper and magazine clippings and articles arranged under about 50 headings dealing with the Shortt and Smith families, and with a multiplicity of organized groups that formed at the turn of the century. Miscellaneous documents include notebooks of Elizabeth Shortt's subjects at Queen's Medical School, certificates, records of investments, bank records, war medals, autograph books, and scrapbook belonging to the family. Photograph albums and approximately 100 loose photographs of family and friends are included.
Shortt, Elizabeth SmithTwo items of correspondence from Emily Bax to a Mrs. Milner Wood of Woodman's Point on the St. John's River, dated June 3, 1938 and May 16, 1939. Topics discussed include Emily Bax's book, the World's Fair, the King's speech, and her daily life and plans.
Bax, Emily, 1882-1943Material by and about Emily Murphy, particularly relating to the "persons" case, her work as a police magistrate, material relating to a biography of her by Byrne Hope Sanders, as well as biographical material assembled after her death. Includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, notebooks and petitions.
Murphy, Emily FergusonContents: Fonds consists of material related to the family of J.B. English of Plattsville, Ontario. Includes a store ledger dates 1916-1923; two 19th century photographs, and a folder of genealogical information including a family tree.
J.B. English (family)Contents: collection is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Eric Gill, as well as materials created and accumulated pothumously relating to Gill's life or by various presses in which he was involved. Includes a large collection of Gill prints and original drawings, as well as materials created by and relating to various presses with which Gill was involved or owned. Arranged in series as follows: Series 1. Gill, Eric and Family; Series 2. Prints; Series 3. Other Art; Series 4. Golden Cockerel Press; Series 5. Hague and Gill; Series 6. Nonesuch Press; Series 7. St Dominic's Press; Series 8. Ephemera; Series 9. Artifacts.
Gill, Eric, 1882-1940Fonds consists of materials documenting Eric McCormack's activities as a writer. It includes manuscripts, typescripts, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence. Fonds is comprised of the following series: 1. About Eric P. McCormack: Biographical 2. Correspondence 3. Book Reviews and Announcements 4. Works by Eric P. McCormack.
McCormack, Eric P.Accession consists primarily of material relating to Eric P. McCormack's work The Dutch Wife, as well as manuscripts and published versions of other works. Also includes biographical information in the form of clippings about McCormack from 1988 to 2002 and files relating to literary awards.
McCormack, Eric P.Two notebooks containing draft manuscript versions of Partridge's work "Shakespeare's Bawdy", published in 1947.
Partridge, EricOne scrapbook assembled by Ethel and Anne Longfellow during their attendance at Smith College, Massachusetts between 1902-1906. The scrapbook contains correspondence, photographs, programmes, clippings, notes and ephemera detailing the academic and social life of the sisters.
Longfellow, Ethel Carol and Anne SewallAutographs collected by Eugene Ferrin Clark from various British and American actors. Correspondence from Clark to various people soliciting autographs and autographed photographs are included.
Correspondence:
1. Granville Barker also G. Barker’s autograph
2. John Randolph Bolling; November 23, 1921
3. Witter Bynner, New York; December 12, 1921/December 21, 1921
4. W. L. George, New York; October 22, 1920
5. B. Roland Lewis, University of Utah; December 14, 1919/December 19, 1919
6. Joseph Pennell, London/Philadelphia; June 8, 1913/November 16, 1919
7. G. Rollin, Chicago; May 10, 1919
Autographs collected by Clark:
8. George Arlis, Walter Hampden, Victor Herbert, William Hodge, James Hunellar, Oliver Lodge, Nance O’Neil, Eugene O’Neill, A.C. Read, Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Photographs:
9. Floral Tributes on Grave of Actor James O’Neill, 1920 and photographs with autograph signatures of:
- Nazimova, n.d.;
- Henry Irving dated 1894;
- Anton Lang as Jesus dated 1922;
- Anton Lang dated 1922;
- Guido Moyr dated 1922.
Consists of sewing patterns, ms. recipe books and other material belonging to Flora J. Reaman during her school days and married life.
Reaman, FloraCorrespondence, diaries, ephemera, manuscripts, photographs and artifacts, documenting the life and career of Frances Kathleen Montgomery. Also present is a small amount of material, primarily photographs, relating to the Montgomery and Havey families.
Montgomery, Frances KathleenFonds consists of four notebooks kept by Frederick Arthur Edmonds as diaries as well as a typed transcript. The notebooks include details regarding Edmonds' experiences during WWI.
Edmonds, Frederick Arthur, 1884-1962A small notebook containing clippings of reviews, advertisements, and articles from Journal des Bals, La Danse and manuscripts of articles by G. Desrat regarding various types of dance (such as ancient Greek dancing, Scottish dancing, the cotillion, waltz, minuet, and the quadrille), along with handwritten notes. Also included in the fonds are three leaves of documents relating to the origin of the notebook and sources of the article clippings contained inside.
Desrat, G.