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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

Slides.

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

Stereograms.

Five stereograms. Two depict humorous marital scenes, one a child putting on makeup, one a humorous scene involving a misunderstanding of the term undressed, and one showing Ontario’s contribution to Canada’s fruit exhibition at the Pan America Exposition.

Bird, Michael

Symbols.

Notes by Michael Bird on symbols in art.

Bird, Michael

Thomas MacDonald.

Research notes on Thomas MacDonald, including essays, clippings, photocopies of works, correspondence and more. There is also some material relating to Joseph. H. Davis.

Bird, Michael

Tintypes.

Three tintypes of unknown people collected by Michael Bird. Two show the same two men in formal wear, posed in front of a backdrop of Niagara Falls, and the third shows two men in more casual clothing in front of a backdrop of a rushing river. The tintypes include the original paper mats.

Bird, Michael

Promotion and salary.

Correspondence and documentation relating to Michael Bird’s salary and promotion to rank of Associate Professor.

Bird, Michael

Book covers.

Photocopies of covers of publications by Michael Bird.

Bird, Michael

Book notices and reviews.

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

Renison University College history.

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

Corrections to Hallowed Timbers.

Proofs from the editor with corrections for Michael Bird and Susan Hyde’s book “Hallowed Timbers: the Wooden Churches of Cape Breton.”

Bird, Michael

Correspondence: Country Furniture.

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

Correspondence.

Correspondence between Michael Bird and others. Correspondents include Stan K. Johanneson; Nany-Lou Patterson; Rt. Rev. Gerald O’Keefe, Bishop, Diocese of Davenport; Rt. Rev. Monseigneur M.J. Dingman; Monseigneur Meinberg; Rev. Mather; Robert F. Kennedy; Dr. Roberts (Parsons College); Julian Blackwell (Blackwells Booksellers); Selective Services Board; Institute for Freedom in the Church; Sister Mary Barbara (Mount Mercy College); Wyn Rees (Renison University College); Senator Jack Miller. Topics of correspondence include interfaith prayer services; Vietnam War peace; ecumenical questions; Indigenous poverty; the civil rights movement; establishing a college in Tama-Toledo; teaching requests; and and anti-ballistic missiles.

Bird, Michael

Cross County Canada.

Article by Michael Bird in the October 1994 issue of Century Home titled “Cross Country Canada” on his book Canadian Country Furniture.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor essay.

One essay plus notes and photographs on Doukhobor furnishings as well as correspondence from Koozma Tarasoff.

Bird, Michael

RS 100: Spiritual Quest.

Notes and outlines for RS 100: Spiritual Quests taught by Michael Bird at Renison University College.

Bird, Michael

Film as Hierophany.

Article by Michael Bird titled “Film as Hierophany” by Michael Bird. Also accompanied by an item of correspondence indicating that the article was accepted for publication in the Journal of the College Theology Society.

Bird, Michael

Folk Art in Wood.

One essay by Teruko Kobayashi titled “Folk Art in Wood” on the life of David B. Horst.

Kobayashi, Teruko

Folk Art on Walls.

Article by Michael Bird on painted interiors from the July-August 1984 issue of The Upper Canadian.

Bird, Michael

Folk art.

Article by Michael Bird accompanying an exhibit at the Gallery & Library, Cambridge.

Bird, Michael

Fraktur in Markham Township.

Research and an article on Fraktur in Markham Township by Michael Bird. The article was printed in the July/August 1977 issue of an unknown publication.

Bird, Michael

Hearn, John: Correspondence.

Correspondence between Michael Bird and John Hearn, a journalist who wrote on Canadian antiques. He published a column on Bird’s book on Ontario fraktur art.

Bird, Michael

Image and Likeness.

Notes and correspondence relating to the editing process of the work “Image and Likeness” which Michael Bird co-edited.

Bird, Michael

Ingmar Bergman.

Article by Michael Bird on religion in the works of Ingmar Bergman from the book Religion in Film, edited by Michael Bird and John R. May.

Bird, Michael

Let His People Go!

Paper written by Michael Bird for a course at the University of Iowa.

Bird, Michael

Margareta Riehl fraktur.

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

RS 254/255: Religion and Literature.

Notes and outlines for a course taught by Michael Bird on religion and literature at Renison University College.part of the St. Jerome’s annual Institute for Studies in Theological Renewal summer programme on religion in the Canadian context.

Bird, Michael

Mennonite Gardens.

One essay by Nancy-Lou Patterson titled “Mennonite Gardens.”

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Mennonite Georgian.

Article on Joseph Schneider Haus by Nancy-Lou Patterson and Susan Burke.

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Oberman paper.

One essay titled “An Analytical Review of Heiko Oberman’s The Harvest of Medieval Theology” written by Michael Bird for the course 16:124 Reformation History.

Bird, Michael

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