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Sidney T. and Charles Boddy Fisher Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00145 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1743-1990

The collection consists primarily of manuscript material collected by C.B. Fisher and S.T. Fisher. Among the authors they collected include Norman Douglas,. Lord Dunsany, Sidney H. Sime and Rudyard Kipling. The collection also includes S.T. Fisher's correspondence relating to his book and print collections, as well as articles and other writings by him and C.B. Fisher.

Fisher, Sidney T.

[Collection of British travel ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Fisher ephemera box 00001
  • Collection
  • 1896-1990
  1. A.E. Lepage, Toronto. -- 2. Adams Furniture Co., Toronto. -- 3. Army & Navy Stores, Regina, SK. -- 4. Artistic Tree Service, Downsview. -- 5. Avery Office Products, Bowmanville, ON. -- 6. Bayswater Business Products, Markham, ON. -- 7. Beardmore & Co., Acton, ON. -- 8. Belyea Bros., Toronto. -- 9. Bill Brown Esso, Toronto. -- 10. Bill's Hardware, Lockeport, N.S. -- 11. Borden's Dairy. -- 12. Bramalea Ltd. -- 13. Braun. -- 14. C. & E. Roberts, Leeds. -- 15. Canada Permanent Trust Co., realtor. -- 16. Canadian Steel Co. -- 17. Can-Amer Advertising Agency, Hamilton, ON. -- 18. Carter's Ink Co., Boston & New York. -- 19. Cedarvale Landscape Services, Toronto. -- 20. Consumers' Gas Co., Toronto. -- 21. Corman Engineering Co., Toronto. -- 22. Crosstown Pharmacy, Toronto. -- 23. Cutler-Feberal Plain Glassware, Toronto. -- 24. D. English & Co., Montreal. -- 25. Delahay-Cone, Brockville, ON. -- 26. Dominion Textile Co. -- 27. E.W. Gillett, Toronto. -- 28. Elias Rogers Co. (Texaco), Don Mills. -- 29. Erion's Drug Store / Neilson's ice cream, Toronto. -- 30. John W. Polley, Hamilton. -- 31. Esso "Free for all little books". -- 32. Esso "Free for all little books". -- 33. Foster's Casual Shop, Toronto. -- 34. C-A Graphics, St. Louis, MO. -- 35. Fuller Brush Co., Hamilton, ON. -- 36. Gidley Boat Co., Ltd., Penetang, ON. -- 37. Gift & Toy Shop, Toronto. -- 38. Grande Boucherie Centrale de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium. -- 39. Gutta Percha and Rubber, Ltd. -- 40. Harvie & Co., Toronto. -- 41. Hofstetter Business Products, Toronto. -- 42. Irwin Specialties (Toys), Toronto.

Peter Hanson Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00060
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1985-1989

The collection consists of materials, notes, manuscripts, galleys, correspondence, reviews promotional materials and other printed materials for two Hanson books: The Joy of Stress and Stress for Success. The papers document the way in which a book privately published in Canada became an international best seller.

Hanson, Peter G. (Peter George)

Johnny Wayne Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00XXX (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1946-1989

Miscellaneous scripts and screenplays.

Wayne, John

Doris Huestis Mills Speirs Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1870-1989

Collection of Thoreau MacDonald papers (1917-1981) and others in the Canadian and American art world in the 1920s.

Speirs, Doris Huestis Mills

Ernest Buckler Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00099 (Downsview offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1929-1989

Drafts and final typescripts of literary works, juvenilia, correspondence, photographs, and biographical materials. Copies of all Buckler's published books are available in Fisher Library's main collections.

Buckler, Ernest

University College Collection of Canadian Authors

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00382
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1912-1989

The collection consists of correspondence of various Canadian authors and printed materials removed from University College's Al Purdy Collection.

University College (Toronto, Ont.)

Alan Lund Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00571
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1960-1989

Collection scripts, music and film of productions by Alan Lund, primarily at the Charlottetown Festival in Prince Edward Island, the Stratford Festival and the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE).

Lund, Alan

[Collection of printing ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00064
  • Collection
  • 1804-1989

A collection of 53 folders of printing press ephemera, originating principally from Canada and the United States; some printing ephemera originates from Great Britain.

[Collection of miscellaneous ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00020
  • Collection
  • 1880-1989

A collection containing ephemera on a number of topics, including dance steps, disarmament, the Dionne Quintuplets, domestic life, Denmark, and pharmaceuticals.

Mary Gilliam Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00453
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1928-1988

Collection consists primarily of material related to the British writer and poet Kenneth Hopkins. It includes correspondence Hopkins wrote in the 1960s to Franklin Gilliam, who at the time was proprietor of the Brick Row Book Shop, as well as a number of original Hopkins manuscripts from the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Gilliam, Mary

Víctor Viano Collection

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00333
  • Collection
  • 1958-1988

Collection of materials related to the life and work of Argentinian designer and illustrator Víctor Viano. Includes books, book covers, pre-print paste-ups and negatives, logos, drawings, paintings, posters, cards, brochures, cards, catalogues, and some additional ephemera including a photograph, a newspaper clipping, posters for exhibitions, a pamphlet featuring his work, and a mounted printing plate with one of his designs. The collection documents Viano’s design process from an initial drawing for a book cover or a logo to the finished product and his artistic production and work in commercial and editorial design in Argentina, Venezuela, and Spain between 1958 and 1988.

Viano, Víctor

John Reeves Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00006
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1940-1988

Correspondence; manuscript entitled Autumn nocturne, typescript of a Beach of stranger, 1959. photocopy of typescript of The Human Face". tapes, cassettes, videotapes of prominent Czech and Slovak leaders interviewed either by John Reeves or by Vera Blackwell. Reminiscences of pre-1948 Czechoslovakia used in CBC's The Human face (Ideas programme).

Reeves, John

[Collection of menus.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00047
  • Collection
  • 1912-1988

A collection of 41 menus from various restaurants throughout Canada.

Joseph Salsberg Collection

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00084
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1902-1988

Collection of materials relating to the labour movement in Canada.

Salsberg, Joseph

Thomas York Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00304 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1973-1988

The collection includes manuscript and typescripts of York's novels We, the Wilderness (1973), Snowman (1976), Musk-ox Passions (1978), Trapper (1981), Desireless (1988), and Pimping for Jesus (unpublished). It also includes correspondence and non-fiction writings.

York, Thomas

Sharon Okuno Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00671
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1988

70 photographic negatives taken at National Association of Japanese Canadian (NAJC) meeting, award of merit ceremony and redress celebration dinner.

Okuno, Sharon

[Collection of recipes.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00067
  • Collection
  • 1925-1988

A collection of 14 folders holding recipes originating from Canada and the United States

Stanley Morisse Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00561
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1897-1987

Includes personal and professional correspondence; personal photographs; official documents; receipts and invoices; typescript drafts of books; newspaper articles, passports, cultural and political pursuits. Various highlighted items in his collection include many interesting photographs documenting the May Day Rallies of 1933-4 in Hamilton, Ontario-suggesting that he had an active role in organizing these demonstrations. There are also a number of newspaper clippings (primarily from The Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.), documenting such issues as communism, the war in Vietnam, Cyprus, various actions taken by the Canadian Government, and celebrities such as Marilyn Munroe and Princess Diana. A series of postcards document a trip taken by Sam Lawrence across Europe in 1936. Also featured is a collection of photographs of Lenin from 1897-1917 from a book of photographs entitled “Lenin” edited by Vladimir Il’ich and a collection of postcards documenting the Third Congress of Komintern in Russia, 1919. Lastly, there are two typescript books dedicated to Morisse and written by Georgoula Beikos entitled “The Greece That Fights: A Collection of Articles in Russian”, and a book of poems written by political prisoners on the Cypriot island of Gioura after the Greek civil war from 1945-1949.

Morisse, Stanley

[Collection of Christmas ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00058
  • Collection
  • 1613-1987

A collection of 73 folders of Christmas card ephemera, originating principally from Canada; a few christmas cards are from Europe and Great Britain.

David Mazierski Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00280
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [1987?]

The collection consists of drawings in pen and ink for the book Anatomy of the Dromedary by Malie M.S. Smuts and A.J. Bezuidenhout (1987).

Mazierski, David

[Collection of travel guides.]

  • CA OTUTF guides pam 00009
  • Collection
  • 1950-1987

A collection of guidebooks created by The National Trust. Guidebooks cover various areas and landmarks from across the United Kingdom.

Cooper & Beatty Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00297 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1921-1987

The collection contains office files of correspondence, interoffice memos and financial records for Cooper & Beatty designs, as well as proof copies of work completed, copies of work and mounted samples for exhibits, posters, photographs and organizations connected with the firm.

Cooper & Beatty, Limited

Albert Collignon Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00451
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1928-1987

Collection includes correspondence, photographs and manuscript material related to the life and work of poet Albert Collignon, including his Martha's Clinic Letters series.

Collignon, Albert

Jon Pearce Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00282 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1964-1987

The collection consists of papers and tapes (with transcriptions) relating to Pearce's book of interviews with twelve Canadian writers titled Twelve Voices (1980). It also includes tapes and transcripts with Milton Acorn for an article in Canadian Poetry.

Pearce, Jon

Ernest J. Schwarz Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00276 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1981-1986

The collection consists of originals and copies of correspondence, proposals for productions, investors' agreements, contracts between the producers and the theatres as well as between the producers and actors; scripts, financial statements (including expenses, revenues, pre-production and production budgets, balance sheets); investors' kits, publicity, production and casting notes, programmes, flyers, newspaper and magazine reviews, resumes and photographs of actors, directors, choreographers and technical crews; videocassettes of some of the productions and a few properties.
The collection also contains the papers (contracts, proposals, financial statements, correspondence, notes, scripts, reviews of past productions, publicity and productions notes) of unrealized project possibilities.

Schwarz, Ernest J.

Byrne Hope Sanders Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00754
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1920-1986

Contains newspaper clippings and photographs related to BHS’s career as a writer and businesswoman, including a scrapbook and draft manuscripts for an autobiography; plus a small number of personal and family records.

Series:
Series I: Writing and career-related material
Series II: Personal and family records
Series III: Photographs

Sanders, Byrne Hope (1902-1981)

Marjorie Wilkins Campbell Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00138 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1923-1986

Collection of literary papers of Marjorie Wilkins Campbell including published and unpublished works, personal and business correspondence.

Campbell, Marjorie Wilkins

[Collection of road map ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00048
  • Collection
  • 1930-1986

A collection of 33 pieces of ephemera: roadmaps of various locations in Canada.

Jan Drabek Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00611
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1971-1986

Correspondence between Jan Drabek, Josef Škvorecký, Zdena Salivarová, and Lumír Salivar (1971-1986), concerning 68 Publishers, Czech writers in exile, Czech publishing and translating. Includes information regarding surreptitious funding being given by several organizations to Czech banned writers, letters outing Czech cultural figures supporting Bolshevik organizations and includes also references to author and President Václav Havel, Nobel laureate Jaroslav Seifert and filmmaker Miloš Forman.

Drabek, Jan

[Collection of railway ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00066
  • Collection
  • 1864-1985

A collection of 19 folders holding ephemera from various Canadian railways companies.

[Collection of British travel ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Fisher ephemera box 00002
  • Collection
  • 1787-1985

Contains maps, articles, clippings, and pictures of various areas in London, as well as their histories.

Charles G. D. Roberts Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00253 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1899-1985

Collection of five letters and typescript, two photographs and mounted newspaper clippings about Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts and one letter from Theodore Goodridge Roberts , his youngest brother.

Roberts, Charles G. D. (Charles George Douglas), Sir

Michael Bliss Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1979-1985

The papers consist of manuscripts and typescripts together with some research materials for M. Bliss' books: 'The Discovery of Insulin' (McClelland & Stewart: 1982) and 'Banting: a Biography' (McClelland & Stewart: 1984). The remainder of Michael Bliss' papers are being donated to the University Archives.

Bliss, Michael

Jack Shapiro Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00642
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1984-1985

Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda and other material related to the Board of Directors and Shareholders of McClelland and Stewart, 1984-1985, specifically to the involvement of Jack Shapiro.

Shapiro, Jack

Charles Best Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00241
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1928-1985

1982 Accession:
Correspondence, research notes and articles, offprints of his published research and of his colleagues including Banting and McLeod, his other writings and lectures, biographical material, photographs, films, slides, records, tapes, and cassettes.

2003 Accession:
Includes material related to the discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto; Margaret Mahon Best’s journals 1925-1984(75) describing their life and extensive travels following the discovery, plus several holograph notebooks about Sandy and Henry as
children, and from MMB’s childhood, 1914-1919; original course notes of Charles Best; original holograph insulin manuscript; research, drafts, correspondence and other material related to Margaret and Charley by Henry Best; letters of correspondence to
MMB and HB regarding the death of Alexander (Sandy) Best and Charles Best; letters scientific to Dr. Best; ‘Dear Jessie’ letters from Linda Mahon on her travels with Margaret and Charley to her cousin Jessie at home in Toronto; H.H. Dale letters; photographic images of awards, citations, etc. given to CB; other material related to the discovery of insulin and the writing of the book on their lives by their son, Henry Best.

Best, Charles Herbert

[Collection of postal service ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00054
  • Collection
  • 1860-1985

A collection of 16 folders of postal office ephemera. Material originates from Canada, and The United States.

[Collection of British travel ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Fisher ephemera box 00015
  • Collection
  • 1832-1985

Contains clippings, postcards, photographs, and calendars illustrating various areas and landmarks across the United Kingdom.

[Collection of miscellaneous ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00042
  • Collection
  • 1680-1985

A collection of labels from books, liquor, various household labels, and shipping, as well as book leaves, bookplates, and other images. Some materials are in German.

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