Ephemera

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  • Transient everyday items, usually printed and on paper, that are manufactured for a specific limited use, then often discarded. Includes everyday items that are meant to be saved, at least for a while, such as keepsakes and stock certificates.

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      Ephemera

      • UF Programmes, leaflets, receipts, menus, playbills, pamphlets, flyers, greeting cards, business cards, invitations, coupons, tickets

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        2147 Archival description results for Ephemera

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        Women's museum : displays.
        SCA171-GA146-14-343 · File · 1986
        Part of Anne Innis Dagg fonds.

        Contains material relating to a temporary women's museum project for International Women's Day. Includes notes, 13 photographs of the exhibit with unidentified individuals in them, a list of events, drafts of short biographies of famous women scientists, drafts of display material for the exhibit, magazine clippings, and a photocopied newspaper article.

        Dagg, Anne Innis
        SCA171-GA146-14-342 · File · 1986
        Part of Anne Innis Dagg fonds.

        Contains material relating to a temporary women's museum project for International Women's Day. Includes notes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, International Women's Day flyers, and a list of Women's Museum events.

        Dagg, Anne Innis
        SCA171-GA146-14-345 · File · 1985-1986
        Part of Anne Innis Dagg fonds.

        Contains material relating to a temporary women's museum project for International Women's Day. Includes photocopied articles, notes, magazine clippings, a photograph of "Golden eagle in the Grisons mountains, Switzerland, Swiss National Tourist Office", drafts of unused exhibit material, and a newspaper clipping.

        Dagg, Anne Innis
        SCA171-GA146-14-344 · File · 1986
        Part of Anne Innis Dagg fonds.

        Contains material relating to a temporary women's museum project for International Women's Day that. Includes notes, newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, a booklet on women's fashion, and drafts of display text.

        Dagg, Anne Innis
        Wood, Elizabeth Wyn.
        SCA25-WA14-4-381 · File · 1959, 1960
        Part of Elizabeth Long fonds.

        Clippings of two Globe and Mail articles about Canadian sculptor Elizabeth Wyn Wood.

        Long, Elizabeth
        SCA261-GA276-3-191 · File · 2001-2004
        Part of Architectural Conservancy of Ontario : North Waterloo Region Branch fonds

        File consists of information on Woodside National Historic Park as well as on the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario : North Waterloo Region Branch Christmas party held there in 2004. Includes correspondence, clippings and copies of The Woodside Chronicler newsletter.

        Architectural Conservancy of Ontario : North Waterloo Region Branch
        Work & play.
        SCA339-GA384-7 · File · [ca.1880]
        Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

        File consists of paper doll advertisements. The first is a stand up paper doll of a sheep wearing a dress holding a duster advertising Enameline stove cleaner. The verso reads "Look out for imitations and parties who claim to have something 'just as good.' It is not as good. There's but one Enameline that's the best. For sale by all dealers. Manufactured by J.L. Prescott & Co. 11 Jay Street New York."; a set of six double sided paper dolls with two interchangeable heads, advertising Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton. The interiors of the dolls reads "if the child who receives this doll is sent to the store for thread she should ask for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton and see that she gets it. Double Dolls "work and play" 12 in a set. By sending three 2 cent stamps, with name and address, to Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton Factory. Newark, N.J. a complete set will be sent by mail be careful to state that the double dolls are wanted."

        SCA222-GA209-6-140 · File · 1944-[ca. 1974]
        Part of Central Ontario Art Association fonds.

        File consists of miscellaneous material probably accumulated during the process of researching and writing the history of the COAA. Includes published material relating to community development and recreation (pamphlets, minutes of proceedings in the House of Commons (Ottawa) of the special committee on reconstruction and re-establishment), material prepared by the Teachers' Council of the association (lectures, articles), handwritten and typed notes, lists of workshop and sketching trip participants. a typed history of the association, an exhibition catalogue, and other material.

        Central Ontario Art Association
        SCA222-GA209-6-141 · File · 1962-1965
        Part of Central Ontario Art Association fonds.

        File consists of miscellaneous material probably accumulated during the process of researching and writing the history of the COAA, mainly relating to the association membership. Includes handwritten and typed membership lists, lists of potential teachers and of participants at a workshop, correspondence, flyers, and an exhibition catalogue.

        Central Ontario Art Association
        SCA222-GA209-6-142 · File · 1966-1992
        Part of Central Ontario Art Association fonds.

        File consists of miscellaneous material probably accumulated during the process of researching and writing the history of the COAA, mainly relating to the association membership. Includes typed membership lists (heavily annotated), lists of teachers and of participants at a workshop, correspondence, flyers and newsletters, and an exhibition catalogue.

        Central Ontario Art Association
        SCA222-GA209-6-143 · File · 1971-1989
        Part of Central Ontario Art Association fonds.

        File consists of material created and accumulated by Oreen Campbell and relating to her work on the history of the association. Some material relates to the events and the history of the COAA and some relates to the coordination of the a Belwood School reunion (it is unclear how this event relates to the activities of the COAA). Includes correspondence, flyers for COAA events, draft histories of the association, draft and final versions of the association's constitution, exhibition lists, financial statements (1972), annual meeting minutes (1983), newsletters, clippings, and other material.

        Central Ontario Art Association
        SCA222-GA209-6-144 · File · 1959-1988
        Part of Central Ontario Art Association fonds.

        File consists of material probably created and accumulated by Oreen Campbell and relating to her work on the history of the association. Some material relates to a Leaders' Insitute held in 1959 at the MacDonald Insitute in Guelph. File includes COAA newsletters, flyers for events, correspondence to Campbell, meeting agendas, sketches, and other material.

        Central Ontario Art Association
        SCA222-GA209-6-146 · File · 1958-2001
        Part of Central Ontario Art Association fonds.

        File consists of material probably accumulated by Oreen Campbell and relating to her work on the history of the COAA. Contains miscellaneous material, including: correspondence, photographs of COAA members and artwork, exhibition catalogues and invitation cards (for COAA member shows as well as other galleries), typed information about the COAA, flyers, minutes of a special meeting of the Homer Watson House Foundation (1982), a draft speech given at a fall workshop on the death of Gordon Couling, mock-ups of potential COAA logos, and other material.

        Central Ontario Art Association
        World War I.
        SCA94-GA64-5-183 · File · 1915-1939
        Part of Maines Pincock Family fonds.

        This folder actually contains material on a variety of topics and probably belonged to F.J.T. Maines. Includes two envelopes of material dating from 1915-1916. These include manuscript material: untitled sermon (?) on loyalty and war, 7 leaves; a hymn with music; a second untitled ms. sermon, 4 p.; manuscript notes on "Christian brotherhood". Includes ephemera and pamphlets produced for troops "On Active Service." Includes clippings relating to the war, to politics, and to topics of interest to F.J.T. Maines. A third gathering of material dates from 1931- 1939 and consists of clippings on topics such as world politics, Grey Owl, Niagara Falls, hawks, liquor legislation, poems, letters to the editor, etc.

        Maines, Frederick J.T.
        World War II : ephemera.
        SCA161-GA134-16-16.5-11 · File · 1942-1945
        Part of Schneider family collection.

        Printed material relating to service in WWII. Includes pamphlets published by Gutta Percha & Rubber Lts. of medals and insignia, as well as a portfolio of reproductions of the documents of surrender, no. 1603 of a limited edition "presented by the National War Finance Committee."

        Schneider family
        SCA424-GA494 · Collection · [191-]-May 1921

        A collection of food circulars distributed during the First World War in both Canada and the United States. The circulars provide information on food nutrition, rationing and recipes.

        World Youth Conference.
        SCA204-GA535-3-28 · File · 1945, 1950
        Part of Breithaupt Hewetson Clark collection.

        File consists of predominantly clippings relating to Clare Clark's trip to London, England as the Adult Adviser to the Canadian Delegation where she attended the World Youth Conference in November 1945. At this time Clare Clark was a member of the executive of the National Council Y.M.C.A. Other clippings contain information on the conference generally and on the Canadian delegation which attended this conference.

        Also in the file is a memo (August 21, 1945) addressed to Muriel Jacobson by Harriet Christie, Associate General Secretary of the Student Christian Movement of Canada. This memo relates to the impending World Youth Council and Conference which is to take place in London, England in November 1945.

        This file also contains a clipping which reports that Istanbul will be the venue for a Council meeting of the World Assembly of Youth in August 1950. The Canadian delegation comprised four youth leaders including Clare Clark.

        Writings and paperwork.
        SCA399-GA465-5 · File · 1942-1966
        Part of Bettie Bernice Wilson collection.

        Writings and paperwork related to Bettie Bernice Wilson during her time at the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Includes a drawing, a certificate of discharge for Wilson from the RCAF from September 1945, writing titled "The plight of 'C' flight" by AW2 Lockwood, J.B.E. in May 1942, the Christmas program for No. 16 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Hagersville (Ontario) for 1944, and the menu for the 25th Anniversary Reunion of Women of the RCAF (1966).

        Wilson, Bettie Bernice
        Wyle, Florence.
        SCA25-WA14-4-382 · File · January 15, 1968
        Part of Elizabeth Long fonds.

        Clipping of Globe and Mail article "Florence Wyle: Human anatomy classes turned her from medicine to sculpture" about American-Canadian artist and poet Florence Wyle.

        Long, Elizabeth
        SCA408-GA475-3-118 · File · 1995-1997
        Part of James Walker fonds.

        Materials related to the Yad Vashem seminar on teaching the Holocaust for the summer of 1996, in Israel. Includes related correspondence, travel advance and settlement claims for attending the seminar, grants, fare and travel information, ephemera related to the event, records related to registrations and financial matters during the time there,
        Also contains correspondence sent by Walker relating to the Jewish Studies Committee at the University of Waterloo and the Holocaust studies conference and a related newspaper clipping.

        Walker, James
        Yonge, Charlotte.
        SCA25-WA14-4-383 · File · 1963, 1964, 1966
        Part of Elizabeth Long fonds.

        Clippings of reviews of biographies about English novelist Charlotte Yonge.

        Long, Elizabeth
        SCA204-GA529-12-211 · File · December 1893
        Part of Breithaupt Hewetson Clark collection.

        File consists of a programme in German and English from the Young People's Alliance of the Evangelical Association : Canada Conference Convention held in Sebringville, Ontario, December 12-13, 1893 in which L.J. Breithaupt is listed as "Secretary"; L.H. Wagner on the executive.

        Breithaupt, Albert Liborius
        Your passport to friendship.
        SCA234-GA233-1-10 · File · 1965
        Part of Rotary Club of Kitchener fonds.

        File consists of one "passport to friendship" given out by Rotary International. The passport was intended to be taken by members of Rotary International to various clubs and to receive a stamp.

        Rotary Club of Kitchener
        SCA420-GA488 · Collection · 1930-1955

        Photograph album containing photographs and other materials related to the Zagar family with an emphasis on their youngest daughter Margaret Ann.

        Photographs and ephemera in album cover the lives of the Zagar family from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. First sheets include photographs of the grandmothers, parents (Stephan and Wilma), twin oldest daughters (Rosalyn and Marilyn Ann), and youngest daughter as a baby (Margaret Ann). Rest of sheets focus on Margaret Ann and her development from early childhood to adulthood after having contracted Polio as an infant. Photographs include family pictures and celebrations, class photographs at the Gompers School for the Handicapped (located at South State St. and 123rd, Chicago), photographs of Margaret Ann's development at different stages, and photographs of family friends. Album also contains religious ephemera, school ephemera related to Gompers School events, and a newspaper clipping related to a function at Gompers School.

        Zagar family
        Zeller, Walter.
        SCA161-GA134-14-14.2-77 · File · February 19, 1975
        Part of Schneider family collection.

        Clipping of article from the February 19, 1975 edition of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record titled "Zeller a leading merchant," by Ernie Ronnenberg. Walter Zeller was a boyhood friend of Norman C. Schneider.

        Schneider, Norman Christoph