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[Collection of English engravings.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00011
  • Collection
  • 1616-1731

Contains illustrations and engravings of various landmarks and areas across the Unikted Kingdom.

General Wolfe's letters to his parents

  • CA OTUTF wolfe MSS 00001
  • Collection
  • 1740-1760

A collection of holograph letters between General Wolfe and his parents, detailing recounts of his military operations.

[Collection of Portuguese ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00053
  • Collection
  • 1700-1800

A collection of 38 folders of ephemera originating from Lisbon, and greater Portugal.

George Whitaker Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2107
  • Collection
  • 1810-[199-?]

The collection contains records pertaining to George Whitaker’s Provostship, as well as his final departure to England. It consists of vital records, correspondence, financial records, newspaper excerpts, tributes, manuscripts related to his theology teaching, and photographs.

Whitaker, George

Victoria College (Cobourg, Ont.). Literary Societies Collection

  • CA ON00357 2089
  • Collection
  • 1846-1852

Consists of a small number of constitutions, by-laws and minutes from the following societies: Calliopean Association, 1846; Fraternitas, 1847-1849; Polyhymnia, 1849-1850; and Philo-Rhetorician, 1850-1852. File level description has not been completed.

Victoria College (Cobourg, Ont.). Literary Societies

Alexander Neil Bethune Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2022
  • Collection
  • 1835 - 1866

The collection consists primarily of correspondence between John Strachan and Bethune. Also included are published inserts, memoranda, sermons and copies of letters.

Bethune, Alexander Neil

Signal log of S.S. "Great Eastern" during the laying and recovery of Atlantic cables 1866-65 [sic].

  • CA OTUTF MS Coll 00650, Box 4-folder 3
  • Collection
  • 1866

“Signal log for the Great Eastern during the cable laying and recovery of Atlantic cables 1866-65” [Signals here are between the Great Eastern and the “Terrible”, “Racoon”, “Medway”, and “Albany” [...] the messages comprise S.S. Great Eastern July 13, 1866 – Sept. 8, 1866 Telegraphs Telegraph Collection a narrative of the laying of the cable. Minor incidents are recorded here such as on July 17 “warning bell touched by accident” and the following day “cables are entangled in tank”. The cables become much more detailed toward the end of July and the second part of this signal journal describes the successful attempt to refind the 1865 cable repair it and complete its connection with Newfoundland.]

John Strachan Collection

  • CA OTTCA F2021
  • Collection
  • [1778-1868]

The collection includes correspondence from every period of Strachan's life, official documents, notes, and writings.
Contains series

  1. Early Life
  2. Life in Canada
  3. Notes
  4. Official documents

Strachan, John

[Collection of playbills and ephemera relating to panoramas]

  • CA OTUTF T-10 00121
  • Collection
  • 1810-1869

Collection of approximately 110 playbills and broadsides advertising dioramas and panoramas displayed in 22 different British theatres during the nineteenth century. Includes advertisements for the Cosmorama, Eidophusicon, Cyclorama, Panorama, Diorama, and Kineorama, as well as for traditional plays and pantomimes.

[Collection of nineteenth century Scottish chapbooks]

  • CA OTUTF chap
  • Collection
  • 1750-1883

A collection of approx. 600 chapbooks, mainly from the first half of the nineteenth century, although most are undated. Most are printed in Scotland; imprints include Glasgow, Paisley, Edinburgh, Stirling, Falkirk, Aberdeen, Ayr and Kilmarnock, as well as London, Sheffield, Newcastle, Manchester, York and Coventry. Most are anonymous but some titles attributed to authors such as Hannah More, Daniel Defoe, Robert Burns, John Bunyan, James Hogg and Allan Ramsay. Many of the titles are illustrated wtih woodcuts.

[Collection of caricatures and cartoons, chiefly medical.]

  • CA OTUTF cmg
  • Collection
  • 1700-1898

Accompanied by a vol. of cartoons clipped from Punch (1883-1885); slides and photographs.

Includes works by: Henry Alken, H.W. Bunbury, George, Isaac and Robert Cruikshank, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, G.M. Woodward, and others.

Mainly English, but including three French, two Italian and six Japanese prints.

Trinity Medical College Collection

  • CA OTTCA F1018
  • Collection
  • 1871 - 1917

This collection consists of administrative records, calendars, student academic records, and records of student life at Trinity Medical College. Administrative records include Minutes of Corporation, records related to the amalgamation of medical faculties at Trinity College and the University of Toronto, correspondence files, a small number of general administrative and financial records, a Register of Students, and miscellaneous reports. Student records include textual and photographic records of academic standing and participation; records of student life include documents and photographs related to college groups, committees, societies, and teams. Also in the collection are a cap, belt, (and blazer purported to be from Trinity Medical College), as well as a manual press of the seal of Trinity Medical College.
Contains series

  1. Administrative records
  2. Calendars
  3. Student academic records
  4. Student life
  5. Artefacts

Trinity Medical College

Wolfeiana

  • CA OTUTF wolfe MSS 00003
  • Collection
  • 1761-1918

This volume, assembled by Dawson Turner for his projected biography of General Wolfe, is principally comprised of material extracted from the Henrietta Wolfe papers at Squerryes, from later Warde papers, and other material.

[Collection of printed ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00013
  • Collection
  • 1900-1920

A collection of stamps, Australian immigration information, and Canadian kitchen advertisements.

[Collection of postcards and souvenirs 1917-1923]

  • CA OTUTF T-10 00099
  • Collection
  • 1910-1923

This collection of post cards, greeting cards and silk handkerchiefs belonged to the Parker/Marriott families. Cards were manufactured predominantly in France, England and Germany. Most of the cards in this collection are addressed to Kate Marriott and Kate, Frank and Vera Parker. WWI period post cards were sent by Frank Parker to his wife Kate and daughter Vera from Europe. Addressed postcards were sent to England and Toronto. The collection includes 18 items that are embroidered silk or include textile components. A list of the items in the collection is available as an electronic finding aid.

Plowman Family Postcard Collection

  • CA ON00389 C7
  • Collection
  • 1902-1932

Collection consists of 312 postcards received or collected by members of the Plowman family. The collection has been arranged as follows:

1.) Postcards addressed to Olive Plowman (178; 1903-1932, predominant, 1908 - 1919)
2.) Postcards addressed to Charles Plowman. (15 postcards)
3.) Postcards addressed to Samuel Plowman (9 postcards)
4.) Postcards addressed to Ellen Plowman (53 postcards)
5.) Postcards addressed to Charles and Ellen Plowman (21 postcards)
6.) Postcards addressed to the Plowman family (3 postcards)
7.) Unaddressed postcards (33 postcards)

The postcards have been arranged chronologically. Undated cards have been placed at the end of the sections. The majority of the postcards are addressed to either 120 MacPherson Avenue (Toronto) or 96 MacPherson Avenue (Toronto), while the remaining 11 postcards are addressed to various hotels, inns, sanatoriums, and homes in Buffalo (NY), Rochester (NY), Long Beach (CA), San Francisco (CA), Petaluma (CA), and San Benito [?] (CA).
The collection includes greeting cards for birthdays, Easter, Christmas, New Years, Halloween, St. Patrick's day, the 4th of July, Valentine's day, Mother's day, and Thanksgiving. The collection also includes popular novelty cards such as photographic portrait postcards or postcards decorated with glitter. Numerous postcards depict buildings and streetscapes, the aftermath of the San Fransisco earthquake of 1906, and advertisements for barbershops, department stores, and hotels.

Plowman Family

Temperance news

  • CA OTUTF Temperance box 00042
  • Collection
  • 1922-1935

79 pieces of ephemera related to the liquor industry and laws in Scotland. All material created by the Scottish Women's Union and the British Women's Temperance Assocation. Material originates from Glasgow, UK.

[Neighborhood Workers Association and Jean Speziali correspondence: mansucript]

  • CA OTUTF MSS gen 66
  • Collection
  • 1934-1939

Typed letters from the Neighborhood Workers Association in Toronto, Ontario, to Jean Speziali, regarding volunteer work as a camp counsellor at the Hastings Lodge and Bolton Fresh Air camps in Bolton, Ontario. Also includes manuscript letters from Jean Speziali to the Neighborhood Workers association and to her family from camp.

[Collection of original advertising illustrations and proofs for Simpson's Department Store]

  • CA OTUTF mapc 01025
  • Collection
  • 1928-1941

A collection of 43 original ink and wash illustrations and 26 proofs produced by the art department at Simpson's Department Store for advertising purposes. Illustrations depict common household goods, such as furniture, mattresses, and glassware which would be featured in Simpson’s catalogues, and ads in the Globe and Mail, The Evening Telegram and The Toronto Daily News. Includes illustrations made for the Royal Coronation in 1937 and the Royal visit to Toronto in 1939.

Ontario Music Teachers' Association collection

  • OTUFM 82
  • Collection
  • 1936-1944

Collection consists of records from early conventions of the Ontario Music Teachers' Association (OMTA), primarily from the first convention, held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto (October 6-8, 1936). Papers include programs (1936-1944); correspondence; meeting minutes; lists of registrants; scripts for speeches, including an address by Sir Ernest MacMillan at the first convention; drafts of the OMTA constitution; and proceedings (1936, 1937).

Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association

[Collection of First and Second World War ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00001 ovs
  • Collection
  • 1914-1945

A collection predominately of newspaper clippings from the First and Second World War, including those from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the German Empire.

Collection of World War II ephemera

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00127
  • Collection
  • 1935-1945

American propaganda leaflets (5 pieces).-- "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht" armband.-- Newspaper issued in Delmenhorst by British occupying forces.-- Catalogue of new books issued by von Hase & Koehler.-- Order to concentration camp commanders.-- Letter in Danish.-- Death notices.-- "Ehren Karte".-- Envelope. addressed to the commander of concentration camp Natzweiler. -- German propanganda leaflets directed towards Allied troops (4 pieces).-- German propanganda leaflets directed towards Red Army forces (2 pieces).-- Identity card.-- "Jewish question".-- Soldier's pay book.-- Political cartoons (4 pieces).-- Posters (3 pieces).-- Questionnaire.-- Russian propaganda leaflets directed towards German forces (5 pieces).-- Song sheet.-- Stationary.-- Ticket of leave.-- Vacation schedule for foreign workers.-- 'Vote for Hitler".

Hart House String Quartet collection

  • OTUFM 48
  • Collection
  • 1924-1946

Collection consists of 10 scrapbooks created by the Hart House String Quartet and their business manager, Milton Blackstone, which contain programs and newspaper clippings of reviews and press releases for their concerts. Two volumes (Volume 5, 1929-1931; and, Volume 7, 1932-1934) are missing from the collection. The collection also contains two scrapbooks for the Canadian Concert Association, during the time that Milton Blackstone was the director (1933-1935 and 1936), and a small collection of annotated scores and parts for violin and piano, previously owned and annotated by Geza De Kresz.

Hart House String Quartet

Roy Lamont Smith collection

  • OTUFM 45
  • Collection
  • 1899-1946

Collection consists of a handwritten book of lyrics for songs written by the American composer Roy Lamont Smith, and a collection of his published and unpublished (manuscript) sheet music.

Smith, Roy Lamont

[Boxed collection of World War II scrapbook and photo album : manuscript.]

  • CA OTUTF MSS gen 59
  • Collection
  • 1944-1947

20 unnumbered leaves, with 16 additional items laid-in. Contents of a scrapbook and photo album (disbound) compiled by Sergeant Norman L. Smith during World War II. Includes copies of letters, telegrams, and postcards sent home, newspaper clippings, Christmas and Mother's Day cards issued by the Army, hand-drawn maps, photographs of the soldiers in Smith's division and the areas in which they were stationed, French and German currency, printed maps annotated by Smith, and German-language leaflets dropped by American forces to instruct enemy soldiers on the process of surrendering.

[Collection of First and Second World War ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00111
  • Collection
  • 1914-1948

A collection largely of educational ephemera for servicemembers. Also includes some brochures and booklets regarding civilian life. Materials from Canada and the United Kingdom.

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