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[Collection of gaming ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00029
  • Collection
  • 1887-1983

A collection of various materials, including sports event tickets, dance cards, Bridge booklets, rule booklets, and more.

Douglas Family Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00188 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1888-1945

A small collection of letters, photos, commonplace books and memorabilia. The material chiefly relates to the Hughes family of St. Thomas, Ont.

Douglas Family

Patrick McGahern Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00697 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1888-2012

This collection demonstrates the scope and practice of operating an antiquarian bookseller’s establishment both before and during the use of computerized orders, payments, and catalogue creation. In particular, it deals with Patrick McGahern Books in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, also known as both The Book Boutique and Patrick and Liam McGahern Books. The collection contains business records,financial records, book orders, correspondence, memorabilia, a card catalogue, and bookseller’s catalogue proofs, masters, and prints related to the operation of Patrick McGahern Books.It also contains a moderate collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century bookseller’s catalogues either collected or used by Patrick and Liam McGahern.

Patrick McGahern Books

Dora Mavor Moore Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1888-1979

This collection consists of correspondence, scripts, photos, clippings, theatre programs and tapes covering the personal and professional career of Dora Mavor Moore. It excludes that part of Moore's career when she was director of the New Play Society and School. This material can be found in the New Play Society Papers (MS Coll. 228).

Moore, Dora Mavor

Lord's Day Alliance of Canada Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00129 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1888-1994

This collection includes correspondence, minute books, administrative records, legal documents, photographs, scrapbooks and printed materials generated by the Alliance and many of its branches from 1888 to 1979. The second part of the collection includes records and artifacts from the renamed Alliance: the People for Sunday Association of Canada, from 1982 until its dissolution in 1994. There is also material from other organizations concerned with Sunday observance.

Lord's Day Alliance of Canada

Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Toronto Branch Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00102 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1889-1921

Minute books, business records (correspondence, minutes, reports, vouchers, mailing lists) and advance proofs of articles on engineering topics.

Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. Toronto Section.

Alfred Tennyson DeLury Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00071
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1890-1941

The DeLury collection contains correspondence with Anglo-Irish writers, with friends and with book dealers. It also contains card files and notebooks relating to his collection of Ango-Irish literature and a few diaries from the 1920s.

DeLury, Alfred Tennyson

Charles Mason Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00061
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1890-1891

Transcript and translation of Le Roman de Rou.

Mason, Charles

[Collection of miscellaneous greeting cards.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00031
  • Collection
  • 1890-2003

A collection of cards for birthdays, various holidays, and other sorts of greeting cards from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and France.

Eileen Clairmonte Collection

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00446
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1890-1997

Collection consists primarily of material relating to China from the late 19th century to early 20th century. The bulk is photographs taken by Robert John Davidson, a Quaker missionary in Western China for 35 years beginning in the 1890s, and include some rare and unique photos of life in China at the turn of the 20th century. It also includes various papers, including missionary travel itineraries, of the Davidson family.

Clairmonte, Eileen

[Collection of travel guides.]

  • CA OTUTF guides pam 00016
  • Collection
  • 1890-1994

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, the United States, and then-Czechoslovakia

James Elgin Wetherell Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00028
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1891-1921

The collection consists of correspondence from authors concerning Wetherell's anthologies of poetry.

Wetherell, J. E. (James Elgin)

Gilbert Parker Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS Coll. 00022
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1892 - 1937

Contains letters and notes written by Gilbert Parker to various recipients between 1892 and 1926. Collection also includes promotional pamphlet for Parker’s novel The World for Sale and a press photograph.

Parker, Gilbert

William Arthur Deacon Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00160
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1893 - 1977

Collection of personal & business correspondence with authors,publishers, organizations, readers; minutes of the Canadian Authors Assoc.; manuscripts and typescripts of his writings and lectures as well as galleys and publicity for his books; clippings and scrapbooks of his columns and articles in the Globe & Mail and Saturday Night; 976 photographs of Canadian and international authors.

Deacon, William Arthur

Heidenreich Collection of Dorothy Walker Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00431
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1894-1975

Contains the papers of Dorothy Walker, daughter of Sir Edmund Walker. Includes correspondence, a diary, manuscripts and notes documenting Sir Walker’s life and his contribution to Canadian culture.

Heidenreich, Conrad E.

[Collection of printing ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00061
  • Collection
  • 1895 - 1999

A collection of 49 folders of printing press ephemera, originating ffrom Canada, Great Britain, and the United States.

Duncan Campbell Scott Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00013
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1896-1946

Personal and literary correspondence; notebooks with drafts of poems, unpublished and untitled novel. 1896-1946.

Scott, Duncan Campbell

Earle Birney Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00049 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1896-1990 (bulk 1940-1976)

Collection includes correspondence; manuscripts, typescripts and some galley proofs of the work of Earle Birney; teaching materials; some Malcolm Lowry material; typescripts of other Canadian authors; scrapbooks and memorabilia.

Birney, Earle

[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.

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

Ronald Bryden Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • [1897]-2004

The collection consists of the papers of Ronald Bryden and cover a wide range of his professional life, including scripts co-written by Bryden when he was an undergraduate at Trinity College, University of Toronto, through to his published work as a journalist and up through the period when he was director of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto.

Bryden, Ronald

J.B. Collip Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00269
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1898-1976

A collection of scrapbooks containing correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs; bound volumes of offprints; medals, awards and pins; and texts related to James Bertram Collip's research career in biochemistry and endocrinology.

Collip, J. B. (James Bertram)

[Collection of British royal family clippings and ephemera]

  • CA OTUTF T-10 00097
  • Collection
  • 1898-2005

Collection of issues of various Canadian, American and British periodicals; newspaper clippings (mounted in scrapbooks and loose), plus commemorative pamphlets and other souvenirs. Also includes one manuscript journal by Norah McMurray, and a small number of stamps and original photographs. All material is related to the British royal family ca. 20th century.

Reid Dominion Packaging Limited Collection

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00465
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1898-1973

The majority of the collection consists of financial, administrative, land and patent records of the Reid Dominion Packaging Limited, formerly known as Reid Press, and its predecessor, the Duncan Lithography Company.

Reid Dominion Packaging Limited

Harley Granville-Barker Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00089
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [1898?]

The collection consists of an original manuscript of Granville-Barker's The Wicked Man, an unfinished and unpublished play. It also includes typescripts of two unpublished versions of his play The Weather Hen, written in collaboration with Berte Thomas.

Granville-Barker, Harley

E.A. (Edwin Austin) Hardy Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00017 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1898-1940

The collection consists of correspondence pertaining to Hardy's anthology of Canadian poetry, his secretarial duties for the Canadian Authors' Association, his editing of a directory listing of Canadian artists in the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation Bulletin, and his collection of autographs.

Hardy, E.A. (Edwin Austin)

Flora MacDonald Denison Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00051
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1898-1921

Correspondence, draft manuscripts of writings and speeches, scrapbooks; address presented to Denison by Canadian Suffrage Association and designed by A.H. Howard

Denison, Flora MacDonald

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

William R. Feasby Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00235
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1899-1978

Collection consists of research materials and drafts for an unpublished biography of C.H. Best, containing much direct comment and dictation by Best. It also contains research materials and typescript of an unpublished history of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine, drafts and notes for various articles and speeches, and some biographical and autobiographical materials.

Feasby, William R.

Robert Finch Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1900 - 1995

Collection of drafts and final manuscripts for his published and unpublished writings, correspondence; 170 photographs; family papers including correspondence from his sister Mary and his grandfather John Allen.

Finch, Robert

[Collection of printed ephemera.]

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

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

Thomas Griffith Taylor Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00020 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [190-]-1996

The collection consists of Taylor's research notes, typescripts and galley proofs for his books on geography, urbanography and similar subjects. It also includes correspondence with Taylor's family and colleagues, photographs and offprints of his articles in connection with Marie Sanderson's biography, Griffith Taylor: Antarctic Scientist and Pioneer Geographer (1988).

Taylor, Thomas Griffith

[Collection of European travel ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00086
  • Collection
  • 1900-1999

A collection of 20 folders holding travel ephemera originating from Germany, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey.

[Collection of museum ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00050
  • Collection
  • 1900-2000

A collection of 21 folders holding museum ephemera from Canada, Europe, and the United States, principally from Germany.

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