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Women and Work Collection.

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The Women and Work collection consists of 74 contemporary British and European imprints which focus upon women and the workplace.

Included are autobiographical accounts, which range from Dorothy C. Keeley's The Crowded Stairs: Recollections of Social Work in Liverpool 1919-1940 (London: National Council of Social Services, 1961) to Sex work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry (London: Virago Press, 1987). Other personal accounts include: The Life and Writing of a Working Woman (London: Virago Press, 1984) by Ada Nield Chew, which describes her work in the Women's Trade Union League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and Front Line Heroines: Stories of Ten Soviet Women (Soviet War News, 1945).

Commentaries on women in the workplace are represented by such titles as Women in Industry: a Marx House Syllabus (Southampton: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., [n. d.]); Helping Women at Work: the Women's Industrial Council, 1889-1914 (London: Hutchison, 1985); and Willing Hearts and Ready Hands: the Labours and Triumphs of Earnest Women (London: Nelson, 1883).

William Blake Collection.

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The William Blake Collection consists of more than 200 titles of which the majority are facsimiles of Blake's works or privately-printed reprints and editions containing facsimiles of the illustrations. The collection also forms part of a larger collection devoted to joint painter-illustrator-author books that include followers of Blake, e.g. Palmer & Calvert, William Morris, Eric Gill, and David Jones.

One of the highlights of the William Blake Collection is the 1951 Trianon Press edition of William Blake's Jerusalem.

Blake, William

Town of Waterloo, Canada : with views of principal business buildings.

Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations of buildings: Snyder Roos & Co.; L. Kuntz Brewery; Joseph E. Seagram; Huether's Hotel and Lion Brewery; Waterloo Planing Mills & Lumber Yard; Wegenast & Co.; Zimmermann House; Waterloo Mfg. Co. Ltd.; Waterloo Mutual Insurance Co.; Ontario Mutual Life Assurance Co.; Waterloo Town Hall & Fire Hall; Waterloo Woolen Co. Ltd.; Wm. Snider & Co.; and John B. Snider.

Schantz Russell Family

Thomas, Aeronwy : poems by Dylan Thomas.

Inscription reads: To an admirer of Dylan's work, Rienzi Crusz, from an admirer of his, Aeronwy Thomas. An attached note reads: This book was sent to me by Aeronmy Thomas, the daughter of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, R.C.

Crusz, Rienzi

The poet and the Indian : Indian themes in the Poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott and John Collier.

An offprint of an article titled, “The Poet and the Indian : Indian themes in the poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott and John Collier,” written by E Palmer Patterson The article was published in Ontario History 59, no. 2 (June, 1967), p. 69-78. The cover of the offprint features a drawing by Nancy-Lou Patterson illustrating the interpretations of Indian themes in the poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott and John Collier. The offprint was originally housed in a package titled, Tongass Tlingit: Tongass at Ft. Simpson.

Patterson, E Palmer

The geography of voice: Canadian literature of the South Asian diaspora / edited by Diane McGifford.

One anthology of poetry titled "The Geography of Voice: Canadian Literature of the South Asian Diaspora", edited by Diane McGifford. The anthology includes the poems "Elegy", "Sun-Man in Suburbia", "The Elephant who would be a Poet", "Love Poem", "Dark Antonyms in Paradise", "Elegy #2", "Song of the Immigrant", "Song for the Indian River Man", "The Geography of Voice"," Bouquet to my Colonial Masters", "The Rain Doesn't Know me Anymore", "Poem", and "He who Talks to the Raven." by Rienzi Crusz.

Crusz, Rienzi

The Black Loyalists.

Correspondence received by James Walker from different people and institutions, mostly related to his doctoral research and book The Black Loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783-1870.

Also contains related newspaper clippings, book reviews, and the script for a Conference on American Loyalists (February 6-8, 1975, Saint Augustine, Florida) titled “Black as American loyalists: comments.”

Walker, James

Second edition of the Black Loyalists, with correspondence, drafts, and contract.

Materials related to the second edition of James Walker’s book The Black Loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870. Includes correspondence related to the edition and promotional events, preface to the 1992 edition and corrections to it, biographical information about Walker, forms and agreements for the first and second edition of the book, author information sheets, correspondence about the reprint from the University of Toronto Press and other people and organizations, Walker’s copy of the letter of agreement from Toronto University Press, handwritten notes, letters relating copyright of the first edition of the book published by Longman International Education.

Also contains correspondence thanking Walker for reading and/or proofreading other manuscripts and cheques with payments for the service and correspondence related to Walker’s revision of the article “Transplanting Communities: Black women in Ontario, 1850s-1890” in The Canadian Historical Review.

Walker, James

Rosa Breithaupt Clark Architectural Collection

The Rosa Breithaupt Clark Architectural Collection is the result of an endowment made by Herbert Spencer Clark in 1982 in memory of his late wife, Rosa Breithaupt Hewetson Clark, formerly of Kitchener. Included in purchases made through this endowment are exemplary treatises from the sixteenth to the twentieth century supportive of the School of Architecture's cultural history emphasis.

Awards made in 1987 and 1990 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada under their programme supporting the development of specialized research programmes enabled the collections to grow significantly. The first grant was dedicated to the purchase of landmark titles in the history and theory of architecture. Since the discourse of architecture ultimately looks back to the Roman writer, Vitruvius, it was appropriate that the first acquisition using these funds was a rare edition of a Vitruvian treatise printed in 1536.

The second of the SSHRC grants was awarded in 1990 specifically to support the collection in an area of critical importance: architectural developments in Northern Europe and on the North American frontier which have a profound effect on architectural theory and urban development in Canada.

A third award made by SSHRC allowed the Library to purchase The Dictionary of Architecture issued by the Architectural Publication Society (1853-1892), described as a monument to nineteenth-century scholarship.

Report on Social Security for Canada.

Copy of Session Nineteen Forty-Three – House of Commons. Special Committee on Social Security titled Report on social security for Canada, prepared by Dr. L. C. Marsh for the Advisory Committee on Reconstruction, and presented to the Special Committee on Social Security on March 16, 1943, by Hon. Mr. Mackenzie, Minister of Pensions and National Health.

King, William Lyon Mackenzie

Printed Materials.

Notes and poems; items issued by the K-W Christian Business Men's Committee ca. 1948; an assortment of printed ephemera regarding dreams, sign language, a 1887 Rand-Mcnally railroad map of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico; 1909 Railway Lands Branch, Department of the Interior Map of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta showing lands finally disposed of; a partial book on the Boers in South Africa, 1899; The Voyageur, a broadside poem by Walter Stewart Stinson, 1929 by the Moreau Studio; stories from magazines, ca. 1935.

Maines Pincock Family

[Plan of Kitchener (then Berlin)].

This untitled drawing/plan shows part of the city of Kitchener (then Berlin), several lots bounded by Yonge and Railroad Streets. Includes lot numbers, extensive pencil annotations.

Schantz Russell Family

Plan for flood control and water conservation in the Grand River Watershed : submitted to the Government of Ontario represented by the Honourable J.R. Simonett, Minister, the Department of Energy and Resources Management, and the Government of Canada represented by the Honourable Arthur Laing, Minister of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources.

Consists of a typescript brief prepared by the Grand River Conservation Commission to demonstrate to federal and provincial authorities the need for proposed multi-purpose reservoirs and other control work the Grand River Watershed.

Includes four blackline maps of proposed reservoir catchment areas in Ayr and West Montrose, Ont. and flood stage maps of the cities of Brantford, Paris and Galt, Ont., prepared by J.M. Tomlinson & Associates Ltd, Consulting Engineers, January, 1964. Also present are photographs of floodwaters in the Grand River Watershed at Brantford, Galt and Paris, March 20-22,1948.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Plan.

Plan showing a subdivision of Berlin with 642 lots in three parcels. Includes transparent overlay stencil reflecting the locations of current Kitchener buildings and landmarks.

Schantz Russell Family

Pieris, Aloysius : give Vatican II a chance.

Inscription reads: For Rienzi with affection & admiration Aloysius 25/01/11 Tulana. Attached note reads: Aloysius Pieris is the famous author of "Asian Theology of Liberation." He is now the Director of the Tulana Research Centre, Sri Lanka. He is the editor of the journal "Vagdevi, Journal of Religious Reflection." He has published some of my poems in this journal R.C.

Crusz, Rienzi

Peiris, Harrison : selected poems.

Inscription reads: With compliments and kindest regards from Harrison. Attached note reads: Presented to me by Harrison Peiris - Sri Lanka's best poet of the 1950's R.C.

Crusz, Rienzi

Notes for the general information and guidance of the next-of-kin or other relatives of airmen reported missing, deceased, prisoners of war, or interned.

Air Force pamphlet; no. 10 published by the Royal Canadian Air Force. The pamphlet provides general information on a variety of topics to the next-of-kin or other relatives of Royal Canadian Air Force personnel reported missing, deceased, prisoners of war or interned. Topics include personal effects under Air Force control, dependents allowance and assigned pay, moneys on deposit in banks, claims for pension, dispatching letters and parcels, and war graves.

The pamphlet was likely received by Cameron Hill's parents, Britton and Grace Hill, while Cameron was held in custody as a prisoner of war.

The text inside the pamphlet is written in English and French on inverted pages.

Hill, Cameron Clare

Nehiro-iriniui aiamihe Massinahigan, Shatshegutsh, Mitinekapitsh, Iskuamiskutsh, Netshekatsh, Misht', Assinitsh, Shekutimitsh, Ekuanatsh, Ashuabmushuanitsh, Piakuagamitsh, gaie missi missi nehiro-iriniui Astshitsh ka tatjits, ka kueiasku aiamihatjits ka utshi.

A book of prayers and catechism for the use of the Montagnais Indians by Jean Baptiste de La Brosse, a Jesuit missionary. This is one of the few books ever to be printed in the Montagnais dialect.

Native Peoples' history : extracts from a speech.

Two copies of the same issue of Past & Present (December 1982), a periodical published by the University of Waterloo. This issue of Past & Present contains an article titled, “Native Peoples’ history : extracts from a speech,” written by E Palmer Patterson. The periodical was originally housed in a package titled, Tongass Tlingit: Tongass at Ft. Simpson.

Patterson, E Palmer

Maps of Axis prisoner of war camps.

Three maps showing the locations of Axis prisoner of war camps in Germany, Italy and adjacent countries during the Second World War. The maps were possibly accumulated by Cameron Hill's parents, Britton and Grace Hill, while Cameron was held in custody as a prisoner of war.

Hill, Cameron Clare

Map of Manitoba.

Map shows: township boundaries, sectional survey and railways. On verso: Manitoba farming information.

Schantz Russell Family

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