Articles authored by Donna Jean MacKinnon (some signed as Isabella Street). Most articles were published on Fifty-Five Plus 25 (2013), Canadian Living (1988), House and Home (1985), Select Homes (1988), Great Expectations (1985), Free Saturday Star (2014), and City and Country Home (1983-1985).
Includes a negative of a photograph used in one of the articles.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Catherine Smyth, Stasia Evasuk, and Maggie Reeves (fashion designer). Includes articles by MacKinnon about Reeves, obituaries for Smyth, handwritten notes about Evasuk, and four negatives of Reeves designs with some of her clients during the 1970s (such as Susan Cohon, wife of George Cohon, founder and senior chairman of McDonald’s Canada).

High-resolution photographs of Donna Jean MacKinnon taken by photographer Linda Kooluris Dobbs for the photo portrait of the author in Newsgirls.

Materials related to the promotion and launch of the book Newsgirls during different book launch and promotion events. Includes information for events at the North Toronto Historical Society, the Literary Table of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, the Women’s Art Association of Canada, the S. Walter Stewart Library Auditorium, Belmont House, CBC Radio, the University Women's Club of Toronto, Victoria University Library, the Toronto Public Library, and the Toronto Hunt. Includes a promotional poster, bookmarks, and a nametag and lanyard. Also contains photographs of several presentations and events.

Five photographs of Joan Hollobon in different moments of her professional career and personal life.

Correspondence sent by Dusty Vineberg to Donna Jean MacKinnon in 2016. Correspondence includes three photographs of Dusty Vineberg conducting interviews and at her desk during her years at the Montreal Star. Includes a description of four photographs created by Dusty Vineberg and some annotations by Donna Jean MacKinnon.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Ruth Hammond. Includes handwritten research, biographical information, and a photograph of Hammond’s professional life. According to annotations, photograph was taken during the Canadian Women’s Press Club party, ca. 1970.

Materials about Donna Jean MacKinnon’s professional career, including photocopies and original newspaper clippings of articles she authored and ghostwrote for the Toronto Star, and invitations to art shows. Includes MacKinnon’s business cards and her curriculum vitae as of January 2020.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Olive Dickason. Includes articles by and about Dickason, Dickason’s curriculum vitae (from 1995 and 1997), drafts of Dickason’s chapter in Newsgirls, handwritten research notes, correspondence between Dickason and MacKinnon and between MacKinnon and David T. McNab (historian who updated the fourth edition of Dickason’s Canada’s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times, published in 2009 by Oxford University Press), photocopies of photographs of Dickason’s professional life, and a photograph of Dickason from 1970.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Maureen Keller (journalist at the Toronto Daily Star). Includes newspaper clippings contextualizing Keller, handwritten biographical notes and database searches, and original and photocopies of photographs of Keller in different moments of her professional career. Also contains two drafts of Keller’s chapter for Newsgirls.

Five photographs of Angela Burke taken in 1931 and accumulated by Done Jean MacKinnon on October 10, 2015.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Kay Kritzwiser. Includes photographs of Kritzwiser’s personal life, newspaper articles by Kritzwiser and contextualizing articles about her life. Also contains Canadian journalist Alanna Mitchell’s curriculum vitae.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Yvonne Crittenden (journalist at the Toronto Sun). Includes biographical information provided by the Toronto Sun, database searches, two photographs, and originals and photocopies of newspaper articles by and contextualizing Crittenden.

Photographs and photocopies of photographs of Marilyn Dunlop, Dorothy Howarth, Kay Kritzwiser, Olive Dickason, Stasia Evasuk, Marjorie Earl, and June Callwood. Includes correspondence between Donna Jean MacKinnon and Luke Gagliardi (York University) regarding the photographs to be included in Newsgirls, and annotations by MacKinnon about photographs missing.