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Compendium of Folk Artists in Canada: reader reviews.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Correspondence from the University of Toronto Press to Michael Bird with read reviews of his book “Compendium of Folk Artists in Canada.” Also includes two matted slides of folk art.
Bird, Michael
Comments on Winthrop Hudson’s American Protestantism.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Paper written by Michael Bird for his course Genius of American Protestantism at the University of Iowa.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Clippings relating to Michael Bird’s work, as well as to topics that he was interested in.
Bird, Michael
Cinema and spirituality conference.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and correspondence relating to a conference on cinema and spirituality organized by Micheal Bird and others at Renison University College.
Bird, Michael
Christian Alsdorff, the Earl Township Artist.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by David R. Johnson on fraktur art by Christian Alsdorff from Earl Township, Pennsylvania from Volume 20, no 2 of rthe Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society.
Johnson, David R.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and research on the life and passion of Christ in art.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
18 negatives of gravemarkers at Zurich.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
18 negatives of gravemarkers at Wilmot Centre.
Bird, Michael
Cemeteries - Unionville and Heise Hill.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
29 negatives of gravemarkers at Unionville and Heise Hill.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
24 negatives of gravemarkers in Strasburg.
Bird, Michael
Cemeteries - St. Matthew’s Lutheran Conestogo.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
12 negatives of gravemarkers at St. Matthew’s Lutheran.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
23 negatives of gravemearkers at St. Clements.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
5 negatives of gravemarkers in St. Agatha.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
13 negatives of gravemarkers at New Hamburg.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
42 negatives of gravemarkers at Maryhill.
Bird, Michael
Cemeteries - Martin Meeting House.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
6 negatives of gravemarkers at the Martin Meeting House.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
18 negatives of gravemarkers at Kinzie-Bean.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
6 negatives of gravemarkers at Hespeler.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
54 negatives of gravemarkers at Hagey.
Bird, Michael
Cemeteries - Breslau Mennonite Church.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
9 negatives of gravemarkers at Breslau Mennonite Church.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
25 negatives of gravemarkers in Blair.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
CVs, departmental review updates, teaching reviews, information on promotions and tenure, and a report titled “Some Reflections on My Areas of Exploration, Writing, Teaching.”
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and outlines for a course taught by Michael Bird in the Canadian Studies programme at the University of Waterloo on the theme of landforms and mindscapes.
Bird, Michael
Canadian Museum of Civilization 100th centennial of the Doukhobors.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes, correspondence and research for an article written for the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s exhibit on the 100th centennial of the Doukhobor’s arrival in Canada. Correspondents include Val Burkitt and Koozma Tarasoff.
Bird, Michael
Canadian Folk Art: The Extraordinary Art of Ordinary People.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One article by Michael Bird titled “Canadian Folk Art: The Extraordinary Art of Ordinary People.”
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and research on Canadian folk art.
Bird, Michael
Cabinetmaker and Weaver Friedrich K. Ploethner.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Michael Bird titled “Cabinetmaker and Weaver Feiedrich K. Ploethner” from the May/June 1980 edition of an unknown publication.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Clippings and notes created and collected by Michael Bird in preparation for his article “Bush Garden or Little Paradise: Reconsideration of a Canadian Landscape Image in Waterloo County, Ontario.”
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One article by Michael Bird titled “Bush Garden or Little Paradise: Reconsideration of a Canadian Landscape Image in Waterloo County, Ontario.”
Bird, Michael
Bucks County, Pennsylvania Fraktur.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Cory M. Amsler from the April 1998 issue of Antiques magazine.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Research on fraktur, including images, correspondence and notes, with a particular emphasis on the stylistic relationship between Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Ontario.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Advertising ephemera, correspondence, research, and articles relating to the publication and review of books written by Michael Bird. These books include “Canadian Country Furniture,” “Hallowed Timbers,” “Art and Interreligious Dialogue,” “Fraktur and Spirituality in Pennsylvania Folk Art,” “Canadian Folk Art: Old Ways in a New Land,” “A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists,” “Ontario Fraktur: A Pennsylvania-German Folk Tradition in Early Ontario,” “A Splendid Harvest: Germanic Folk and Decorative Art in Canada,” “Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario,” and “Out of the Mainstream: Folk Art in Canada.” There are also reviews by Michael Bird of “The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis,” “Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of Exchange,” “The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture,” “Waterloo Portfolio: Woldemar Neufeld’s Painting and Block-Prints of Waterloo, Ontario,” “Early Ontario Potters: Their Craft and Trade,” “The Stations of the Cross: A Calculated Trap?” and “A Reflection on Fleming’s Painted Furniture of French Canada.”
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Photocopies of covers of publications by Michael Bird.
Bird, Michael
Beyond Time and Circumstance: Art as a Spiritual Vision.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Materials relating to the creation of the exhibit “Beyond Time and Circumstance: Art as a Spiritual Vision” held at the Lynnwood Arts Centre.
Bird, Michael
Behind the Face: Interpreting Portraits through their Background Elements.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and outlines for a talk given by Michael Bird titled “Behind the Face: Interpreting Portraits through their Background Elements” give at the Canadian Antique Dealers Association antiques fair.
Bird, Michael
Baseball as Spiritual Metaphor.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Speech, notes, ephemera, and correspondence relating to Michael Bird’s lecture “In the Big Inning: Baseball as a Spiritual Metaphor” given as part of Renison College’s St. Bede Series of lectures.
Bird, Michael
Aspects of Religion Folk Art: The Cross.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Michael Bird from the January-February 1990 issue of Upper Canadian.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes for a course taken by Michael Bird on Art on the Road to Santiago through University of Toronto continuing education taught by Susan Marcus.
Bird, Michael
Art and Society: From Mainstream to Crosscurrent.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
A completed mock up, as well as notes, for a seemingly unpublished book by Michael Bird.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article from Mennonite Life on Waterloo fraktur artist Anna Weber.
Patterson, Nancy-Lou
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and research on angels in art.
Bird, Michael
All Things Common: Mennonite and Hutterite Decorative Arts in Canada.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Materials relating to the creation of the exhibit “All Things Common: Mennonite and Hutterite Decorative Arts in Canada” which was held at Canada House, London, England. Also includes 98 slides showing pieces that were in the exhibit.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
76 negatives of the works of Albert Geisel.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
A Germanic folk art primer and activity book.
Eby, Elizabeth R.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and research on Adam and Eve in art.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Two essays and ephemera relating to the dance Aaloka: The Eternal Dance of Spring.
Bird, Michael
A Spirit of Exuberance: Germanic Decorative arts of Nova Scotia and Ontario.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One essay by Michael Bird titled “A Spirit of Exuberance: Germanic Decorative arts of Nova Scotia and Ontario.”
Bird, Michael
A Sampler of Canadian Country Furniture.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One notebook with notes by Michael Bird for his book on Canadian country furniture.
Bird, Michael
A Holiness Wholly of this Earth: Four Spiritual Journeys in the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One seemingly unpublished manuscript by Michael Bird titled “A Holiness Wholly of this Earth: Four Spiritual Journeys in the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman.” Also includes research notes and correspondence between Bird and the publisher.
Bird, Michael
A Critical Review of Hans Conzelman’s The Theology of Saint Luke.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Paper written by Michael Bird for his course Theology of the Synoptic Gospels at the University of Iowa.
Bird, Michael
A Critical Analysis of The Crime of Galileo.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Paper written by Michael Bird for his course Western Civilization at the University of Iowa.
Bird, Michael
A Century of Humor in America.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Paper written by Michael Bird for the course American Literature at the University of Iowa.
Bird, Michael
32:183 Religious Thought in the 19th Century.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and outlines for a course taught by Michael Bird on religious thought in the 19th century.
Bird, Michael