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Contains various records from the lives of the Perry family of Whitby, including mortgages, court documents, ilitary commissions, and portraits.

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 consists of approximately 6000 books, journals and pamphlets that comprise the working library of Herbert Marshall McLuhan. The library reflects McLuhan’s diverse personal and academic interests, from Catholicism to the environment, from communications theory to James Joyce. The collection also includes the many notes, bookmarks, items of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other documents laid into the books by McLuhan. These have been removed, indexed, and housed separately.

Collection comprises more than six thousand sheets of engravings and lithographs illustrating the characters and scenery from British and some European plays between 1810 and 1940.

This collection includes over 120 Canadian broadsides and printed blanks, predominantly pre-Confederation items from the Province of Quebec. Included are legal or judicial documents, including summons from the Quebec Court of Common Pleas, affidavits, court notices, warrants, property agreements, deeds of land sale and land applications; and military documents such as service records and return of provisions forms. Municipal printed forms issued from the City of Montreal or City of Quebec include building permits, house and property assessments, business tax assessments, and bills/receipts for water and gas rental. There are also cashier’s cheques and purchase receipts issued by the Bank of Montreal and Bank du Peuple. Among the numerous receipts gathered in the collection are those for shipping; college payments; church membership and pew rental; insurance premiums, including Alliance Life, Phoenix Fire Insurance, and the Quebec Fire Office; merchants James Ferrier, Moss & Brothers, and Robertson, Masson, Strange & Co.; post office rental; and payments issued to surveyors working under Alphonso Wells, Provincial Surveyor. Other material includes public notices, religious items such as prayer cards and church tickets, and ephemera from the St. Jean-Baptiste Society. A significant part of the collection is comprised of items relating to the early printing, publishing, and book-selling industry in Quebec. There are a number of bills and receipts issued for advertisements printed in the Montreal Gazette, Quebec Mercury, L’Aurore des Canadas, la Minerve, Montreal Herald, and Moniteur Canadien, as well as from Booksellers and Stationers such as Armour and Ramsay and William Neilson.

A collection of 365 separate items with particular focus on concrete poetry and alternative publishing practices taking place in England in the 1960s and 1970s, but with international leanings. Presents the practice of Concrete Poetry as an international movement in which borders are blurred, including those between countries; between languages; and between the entites known as the author, the publisher, and the reader. Related movements such as Mail Art and Fluxus are represented. Shows a close relationship between writing and the physicality of published material through the exploration of alternative publishing practices that utilize a variety of printing and binding techniques. This materiality of the book provides a spectrum that stretches from Independent Publishing Alternatives to Fine Press Publishing through the use of offet printing, letterpress, Xerox, Mimeo, and printing by hand; binding techniques used include anything from stapled chapbooks to loose leaflets in plastic bags or custom folders, or single sheets or cards with no binding at all.

Includes pen nibs, letters from calligraphy sets, and some informational materials about some authors, including Thomas Hardy.

Various publications from the United States and Canada, including newsletters from conservation societies, booklets on local birdsightings, meeting programmes, and more.

A collection of 111 original art sketches (3 ink and 108 watercolour) of British landscape scenes by Arthur John Randle Ford made on envelopes that were mailed to his son Norman Renwick Randle Ford in Canada. The majority of sketches date from 1908 to 1916. Two date from 1921.

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Germany, Italy, and Jerusalem,

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom.

A collection of guidebooks created by Her Majesty's Stationary Office. Guidebooks cover various areas and landmarks from across the United Kingdom.

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, the United States, and Hungary.

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States, and Canada.

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, as well as Paris and Toronto.

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

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, as well as Paris.

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

A collection of guidebooks created by Her Majesty's Stationary Office. Guidebooks cover various areas and landmarks from across the United Kingdom.

A collection of guidebooks created by Her Majesty's Stationary Office. Guidebooks cover various areas and landmarks from across the United Kingdom.

A collection of guidebooks created by Her Majesty's Stationary Office. Guidebooks cover various areas and landmarks from across the United Kingdom.

A collection of Amercan and Cuban ephemera related to travel.

A collection of travel ephemera originated from Asia, the Philippines, and Israel.

A collection of various materials relating to railways in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, including railway tickets, historical information, receipts and invoices, and more.

A collection of 14 folders holding ephemera related to shipping, transportation, trucking. Material originates from Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.

31 pieces of ephemera related to the liquor industry in United States, principally in Westerville, Ohio

80 pieces of ephemera from the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union related to the liquor industry in the United States. All material originates from Evanston, Illinois.

2 pieces of ephemera related to the liquor industry in Denmark, Surrey, Minneapolis, and Chicago.

23 pieces of ephemera related to the liquor industry in the United States.

A collection of 13 folders of taxation ephemera. Material originates principally from Canada. Remaining material originates from London, UK, and Philadelphia, PN.

Montreal.-- Box 2. Montreal. Québec (Province and city.).-- Box 3. Québec (Province and city).-- Box 4-6. Niagara Falls.-- Box 7. Stereoscope.

A collection of 43 folders of stationary ephemera. Material originates from Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.

A collection of magazines, photographs, postcards, objects, and other materials relating to the British royal family.

A collection of ephemera related to British Royalty, originating from Canada and Great Britain.

Collection of road map ephemera.

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

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

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

A collection of 37 pulp fiction titles from various local bookstores in Toronto, ON.

A collection of 14 pulp fiction publications from local bookstores in Toronto, ON.

Collection of publications issued by patent medicine companies, 19th to 20th centuries

A collection of prints designed by English painter William Hogarth. The collection contains prints published both during Hogarth's life and after his death.

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

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

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