This item consists of a folder containing ten published 56 cm x 43 cm pictures of American Revolution war scenes.
Fonds consists of correspondence, journals, religious materials, and newspaper clippings related to the family of Thomas Alexander Stewart and Frances Stewart. Many papers originate from the family of their son, Henry Louis Stewart. Also included are a book about the Stewart family, Poole's history of Peterborough, a photograph of people at camp at "Indian Hill near Coldwater Ontario," a sketch of Auburn (the family homestead), and a map depicting townships with lots and concessions in the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Victoria, and Peterborough.
Stewart familyFile includes 8 pencil sketches of people, flowers, & farm animals: 2 unsigned; 3 signed "M.E.R." 1 signed "Bessie"; 1 signed "S.E.R."; 1 signed "F.B." and titled "Kate & Pompey in the stable & the other Pompey mending the first Pompey's collar." "The other Pompey" according to Stewart Brown is his grandfather, T.A. Stewart Brown (1852-1936).
Also includes 1 ink sketch unsigned. 1 envelope addressed to Bessie Lydia Stewart.
Also included is a linen-backed map of Ireland "published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." Sir Francis Beaufort, relative of Frances Stewart, is known to have been involved in the preparation of such maps/atlases published by the above Society
Fonds consists of two letters and 5 watercolour paintings. One letter is from Susanna Moodie to Mrs. Katie Vickery, Susanna Moodie's daughter, which is undated. The second letter is from Moodie's her publisher in England congratulating her upon the success of Roughing it in the Bush and enclosing a contract for a subsequent book entitled _Mark Huddleston. The watercolour paintings are by Susanna Moodie and all depict flowers.
Moodie, SusannaFile includes The Peterborough Summer Theatre programs for 1950; photographs, transparencies, and watercolours of characters of the play "Antigone," 1947 (Stewart was connected with the Ontario Classical Association); and handwritten notes about a play.
This fonds consists of various original and copied records of the business activities of Thomas Hay, and related family data, such as birth-death records, correspondence, drawings (technical and sketches) and photographs. A small genealogical table compiled by the archivist is enclosed.
Thomas Alexander Stewart Hay familyParks Canada print of Trent Hydraulic Lock No. 1 Peterborough. Longitudinal section through well, scale 1/6" to 1ft. Reproduced by litho from original linen blueprint as signed by R.B. Rogers. Trent Severn Waterway Interpretive Program. Includes description on side of the Peterborough Liftlock.
File includes various materials including a canoeing newsletter called “Chen-Mun”, Camp Wanapitei letterhead, Lake Temagami and Cross Lake storage levels (1980-1981), correspondence, a print of “The Mandan Chief, Four Bears” by Karl Bodmer, “Journeys End” by Tom Roach, “Report on the tour to Canada 1963”, newspaper clipping of the Taylor Statten camper reunion (1972), newspaper clipping of rafters on the Ottawa River (1984), and a colour promotional booklet for Keewaydin Camp on Lake Temagami with application for admission inside (
File consists of photographs, postcards, greeting cards, at least some of which relate to Macmillan's family. Also included is a watercolour painting of the exterior of a home and yard.
Fonds is comprised of three bound volumes of correspondence, sketches, paintings, diaries, receipts, newspaper clippings, deeds, baptismal and marriage records, family trees, and scrapbooks pertaining to the Wallis family. Included also are several documents pertaining to the Forbes family, related to the Wallis family through marriage. The Peterborough-born sculptress Katherine E. Wallis (1860-1957), whose papers are located in Trent University Archives, was a member of the Wallis family.
The volume spines are inscribed as follows:
This item is a watercolour of chrysanthemums by Susanna Moodie. It includes the inscription "or dear Victor with Grandmother's kind love. Designed from Nature in the 72 year of her age, Toronto, August 31th 1875."
File consists of four original watercolours by Susanna Moodie. The works are untitled. All depict flowers: columbine and violets on mossy ground; a single red rose; white roses on a single stem; and a white wild rose entwined on a wood cross on mossy ground. Three of the paintings are signed by Moodie.
This fonds consists of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts. Included are personal letters, articles, essays, journals and daily planning books, research notes, drafts of books and plays in manuscript form (including an unpublished first novel), royalty statements, photographs and documentation on the novelizations of the films "Corvette Summer," "Dragonslayer," "Batteries Not Included," and "Willow". Also included are materials regarding the film, "Places Out of Time."
Drew, WaylandThis fonds consists of records, photographs and slides of Windy Pine, private cottage and cabins owned by Dr. Mary Northway and Flora Morrison. They ran girls canoe trips at the camp during the 1940s.
Windy Pine PointTitle: "Suburban White", depiction of houses in a winter landscape, ("oil on arches").
Fonds consists of the wills of W.T.C. Boyd and Ida Lillian Boyd, with attached deed of Laurence Chadwick Boyd. Also included are several Boyd family photographs and one portrait. One of the albums has a photograph of Anne Langton, pioneer artist and teacher who settled in the Sturgeon Lake area, and whose journals have been published.
Boyd, W.T.C.
