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Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Unpublished manuscript with notes on Jesus in world art by Michael Bird.
Bird, Michael
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Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Unpublished manuscript with notes on Jesus in world art by Michael Bird.
Bird, Michael
The Waterloo County domestic hof.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Lecture given by Michael Bird at the Joseph Schneider Haus on the concept of the hof, the hof at the Schneider haus, and on butter making and butter molds. Includes slides from the lecture.
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A completed mock up, as well as notes, for a seemingly unpublished book by Michael Bird.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.
Clippings, brochures and ephemera relating to museum and art gallery exhibits either curated by Michael Bird or that he had an interest in. Includes exhibits of religious art, folk art, handschriften, Abraham Latschaw, John Gemeinhardt, the painting of Anu Banerji, works by Nancy-Lou Patterson, fraktur, love spoons, quilts, wine, pottery, and more.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Research files for Michael Bird, including his research on folk art, fraktur, religious iconography, film, and more.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Research on Doukhobor arts and furniture making. Includes correspondence between Bird and Jim Mcleod, Koozma Tarasoff and Mark Mealing. Also includes research notes, images of furniture, and essays on Doukhobor decorative arts and the folk artist Wasyl Evanovich Zubenkoff.
Bird, Michael
Materials relating to the professional life of Michael Bird. Covers his time teaching at Renison University College, as well as his research and publications on folk art, fraktur, religious imagery and film.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Materials relating to the teaching career of Michael Bird. Includes his time as a professor at Renison University College teaching in fine arts and religious studies, as well as teaching summer courses at Cape Breton University.
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
Cookies and Folk Art exhibition.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes, slides, and information relating to an exhibit at Schneider Haus on Cookies and Folk Art.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Materials relating to lectures and exhibits given by, organized, or attended by Michael Bird.
Bird, Michael
Germanic Folk and Decorative Arts in Canada: Perpetuation and Adaptation in New Cultural Contexts.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Materials for a lecture given by Michael Bird at the Royal Ontario Museum on “Germanic Folk and Decorative Arts in Canada: Perpetuation and Adaptation in New Cultural Contexts.”
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Speech, notes, outlines and jokes for a talk given by Michael Bird titled “Laughter and After” on the connection between religion and humour.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Speeches, notes, correspondence, and ephemera relating to talks given by Michael Bird. Includes a copy of his talk “Sacred Banquet.”
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and outlines for RS 100: Spiritual Quests taught by Michael Bird at Renison University College.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
25 negatives of gravemarkers in Blair.
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.
5 negatives of gravemarkers in St. Agatha.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
23 negatives of gravemearkers at St. Clements.
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.
18 negatives of gravemarkers at Wilmot Centre.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
130 negatives of the works of David Horst.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
217 negatives of Doukhobor art, architecture, artefacts and textiles.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
173 negatives of the works of John Gemeinhardt.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
18 negatives of the works of Katie Metzger.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
6 negatives of the works of Nicholas Durer.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
15 negatives of the works of Orvie [Orville] Schantz.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
55 negatives of items at Joseph Schneider Haus.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes by Michael Bird on symbols in art.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
11 negatives of the works of Thomas MacDonald.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Photocopies of covers of publications by Michael Bird.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Documents relating to Michael Bird’s rationale for writing a book on folk painting in Canada.
Bird, Michael
Grassroots and Mainstreams: Some Considerations on Folk Art in Canada.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One essay by Michael Bird. It is unknown where or if it was published.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One essay by Michael Bird titled “Newfoundland Furniture.”
Bird, Michael
When Originality is not a Virtue: Sources and Influences in Folk Art.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Michael Bird on similarities in folk art.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
54 negatives of gravemarkers at Hagey.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
42 negatives of gravemarkers at Maryhill.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
13 negatives of gravemarkers at New Hamburg.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes, correspondence and photographs all relating to Bird’s research on Doukhobor art and furniture. Correspondents include Jim McLeod and Mary Zuhenkoff.
Bird, Michael
English Architecture 1170-1270.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes by Michael Bird from a course taken at York University on English architecture 1170-1270 taught by Malcolm Thurlby.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
351 negatives of fraktur art.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes by Michael Bird on humour and religion.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Images of Ontario German gravemarkers from Markham; Heise Hill; Martin Meeting House; Kinzie-Bean; Breslau; Hagey; Strasburg; Blair; Maryhill; St. Clements; St. Agatha; Formosa; Mildmay; Carlsruhe; Hespeler; Unionville; Eub; Goschenhoppen; St. Matthew’s Lutheran.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
112 negatives of show towels.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
35 negatives of the works of Wilbur Lepp.
Bird, Michael
Dieses Bild gehoret mir: Transforming Bucks County Fraktur in Canada.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Michael Bird on the relationship between fraktur art in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Waterloo, Ontario.
Bird, Michael
Trees and Chimneys: Conflicting Images of the Waterloo Landscape.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One essay by Michael Bird. This copy is a photocopy from a publication but which publication is unclear.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Six formal portraits of Michael Bird.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
A Germanic folk art primer and activity book.
Eby, Elizabeth R.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
76 negatives of the works of Albert Geisel.
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.
24 negatives of gravemarkers in Strasburg.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and research on the crucifix in art and literature.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Slides and photographs of Doukhobor furniture, arts, textiles and architecture.
Bird, Michael
ENG 201: British Literature from 18th Century to Present.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes for the course ENG201: British Literature from 18th Century to Present. It is unclear if Bird taught or attended the course.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
164 negatives of the works of Fred Hoffman.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Research relating to the works of Ingmar Bergman, with analysis of music, religion and more in his films.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
53 negatives of the works of John Hummel.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
33 negatives of Manitoba Mennonite fraktur.
Bird, Michael
Pennsylvanian-German Foodways in Waterloo County.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Short booklet with recipes on food in Waterloo County.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Slides on the topics of: Folk Art at Bill & Pauline Hogans’; At Zalma Ami & Ann Sutherland’s October 26, 1989; At Ruth & Jamie Stalker’s October 26, 1989; Silverberg; Douax Box; Redware; mixed folk art; Fryfogel exhibit; Alexander McNeilledge; show towels; Gemeinhardt; birdhouses; Doukhobor; Native paintings JSH exhibit; OHF exhibit BJ Bungle; OHF exhibit Karl Schoen Creche; Ontario-German painted furniture; At Seitl’s; Markham fraktur; gameboards; yard art 1984 Atwater-Hallatt RR#! Morpeth (near Rondeau Provincial Park); lawn art at Tom Bremner’s June 1989; yard art; Geroge Laithwaite; fraktur; Pennsylvania German parallels; barge board and folk art around Rockwood; misc. decorated articles; Jacobi potery; Christian R. Gerber; rugs; Emmanual Soehner; Peter Van Ee; painted room Drayton (Reindeers); Fred Hoffman; Judith Humphries Songbook; Leah Daum; Anna Weber; Gerber furniture; stencils Isaac Moyer; John K. Lemp 1860-1938; Byer apple peeler; samples Ontario-German; decorated farm implements; Toronto walking stick; Ploethwer-Pletsch furniture; pieced comforter.
Bird, Michael
The Folk Image: Symbols and Subjects in North American Folk Art.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One essay by Michael Bird titled “The Folk Image: Symbols and Subjects in North American Folk Art.”
Bird, Michael
Ukrainian, Indigenous, Doukhobor, Hutterite.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Slides of Ukrainian, Indigenous, Doukhobor and Hutterite folk art, furniture and architecture, primarily from the West Coast of Canada.
Bird, Michael
Outside the Mainstream: Aspects of Canadian Folk Painting in the 20th Century.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One article by Michael Bird titled “Outside the Mainstream: Aspects of Canadian Folk Painting in the 20th Century.”
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.
6 negatives of gravemarkers at Hespeler.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
18 negatives of gravemarkers at Kinzie-Bean.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
18 negatives of gravemarkers at Zurich.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Photographs of folk art by artists including Eli Whiteway; Joe Norris; Gordon Lux; Fred Moulding; P. Boutilier; Don Boudreau; Pierre Corriveau; Mereille Corriveau; Sid Howard; George Cockayne; C. Eisenhauer; Gladys Johnston; Jahan Maka; Don Manzer; Edward Mondaggio; Emery Nowlan; Eugene Poulin; Randall Smith; Charles Tanner; John Sharpe; D. Stryjek; Joseph Sleep.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Research and notes on Fraktur art.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
26 negatives of the Hunsicker fraktur art.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
155 negatives of the works of John P. Klempp.
Bird, Michael
Gravestone symbolism: St. Boniface Cemetery, Maryhill.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One article and research by Michael Bird on gravestone symbolism in St. Boniface Cemetery, Maryhill, Ontario.
Bird, Michael
Johann Adam Eyer: Lost Fraktur Writer of Hamilton Square.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Earl F. Robacker on Johann Adam Eyer, a fraktur artist from Monroe County, New York.
Robacker, Earl F.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Michael Bird on what has been learned about fraktur since the 1970s.
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
Bucks County, Pennsylvania Fraktur.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Cory M. Amsler from the April 1998 issue of Antiques magazine.
Bird, Michael
Renison University College history.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Information on the history of Renison University College, including annual reports of the principal to the board of governors, founders day programmes, Renison reports newsletter, and reports relating to the proposed establishment of a Bachelor of Social Work programme.
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
Ontario Fraktur: Some Reflections 20 Years Later.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Text of a lecture given at the Joseph Schneider House on research in Fraktur art over the past 20 years.
Bird, Michael
Secret arithmetic of the soul.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One copy of an article written for the journal Kinema titled “Secret Arithmetic of the Soul: Music as Spiritual Metaphor in the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman.” Also includes two pieces of correspondence with the editor of the journal.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Images, notes and ephemera relating to an exhibit and accompanying talk given by Michael Bird on fresh finds in fraktur at the Joseph Schneider Haus.
Bird, Michael
Fraktur article for Upper Canada.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One article by Michael Bird on Fraktur written for the publication Upper Canada.
Bird, Michael
Correspondence: Country Furniture.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Correspondence between Michael Bird and others including publishers, colleagues, museums and more relating to the research, writing, and publication of his work “Canadian Country Furniture.”
Bird, Michael
Corrections to Hallowed Timbers.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Proofs from the editor with corrections for Michael Bird and Susan Hyde’s book “Hallowed Timbers: the Wooden Churches of Cape Breton.”
Bird, Michael
Nancy-Lou Patterson: The Canadian Years: 1962-1995.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and ephemera relating to Nancy-Lou Patterson’s exhibit “Nancy-Lou Pattersion: The Canadian Years: 1962-1995” at Homer Watson House & Gallery.
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
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Copy of a lecture given by Michael Bird for St. Bede’s Lenten Series at Church of the Holy Saviour titled “Language and Community: Seven Words that Define Spiritual Relatedness.” Also includes notes and research for the speech.
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
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
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Article by Michael Bird in the October 1994 issue of Century Home titled “Cross Country Canada” on his book Canadian Country Furniture.
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
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One essay plus notes and photographs on Doukhobor furnishings as well as correspondence from Koozma Tarasoff.
Bird, Michael
Is there a distinctly Canadian religious art?
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes for a talk given by Michael Bird for the St. Jerome’s Centre for Catholic Experience lecture series on is there a distinctly Canadian religious art.
Bird, Michael
RS 294: Religion in the Canadian Context.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and outlines for a course taught by Michael Bird as part of the St. Jerome’s annual Institute for Studies in Theological Renewal summer programme on religion in the Canadian context.
Bird, Michael
Doukhobor Furnishings: Design, Decoration, and the Transformation of the Ordinary.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Essay by Michael Bird titled “Doukhobor Furnishings: Design, Decoration, and the Transformation of the Ordinary.”
Bird, Michael
Proposal for the purchase of the former Wettlaufer home.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
A proposal created by Tim Mosher to purchase and renovate the former Wettlaufer home in Sebastopol.
Mosher, Tim
The Religious Voice: The Artistic and Imaginative Landscape.
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Lecture given by Michael Bird for the Institute for Studies in Theological Renewal titled “The Religious Voice: The Artistic and Imaginative Landscape.” Also includes slides that accompanied the lecture.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
Notes and research for a proposed article on Russell Harper.
Bird, Michael
Part of Michael Bird fonds.
One short essay by Michael Bird on the Magareta Riehl birth and baptismal certificate. Also includes photocopies of the certificate and a translation into English from German.
Bird, Michael