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Material relating to the 1937 Royal visit to Canada of Queen Elizabeth and King George VI. Includes two postcards and one photograph.

Postcard featuring photograph of Mackenzie King standing at the front of his childhood home. He is seen standing with right hand in suit pocket and left on the cope of a walking cane. Top of postcard reads: Birthplace of Hon. Mackenzie King, Kitchener, Ont.

Postcard a photograph of Edna Louise Augustine and her husband Albert William Augustine aboard a ship to Europe in 1930. This postcard was likely sent by Albert William Augustine to his granddaughter Mary Martha Ham in 1970. File also includes a document written by Mary Caroline Ham describing the provenance of the postcard.

Message reads: Dear Mary Martha. "This is taken aboard ship 1930 - 40 years ago - best to you all. Grandad A."

Albums contains photographs and postcards recording a trip to Europe made by Louis Jacob Breithaupt in 1900. Some items have manuscript identifications. One photograph is a photomontage of images of Berlin, Ontario., including an aerial view, industries, homes, etc., as well as an inserted portrait of Louis Jacob. The album begins with images of ships and progresses with images of England, France, Germany, Switzerland, etc.

File consists of one postcard addressed to Dana Porter from Bill [?] featuring a photo of an Atomic Detonation in Nevada.

Twenty six postcards sent between Montgomery and her family while she was studying in Paris at the Sorbonne. Also includes one postcard sent to Kay Rex by her mother, and Montgomery's sister, Grace Montgomery Rex.

Correspondence primarily between Ulrich Sommer and Lina Neumeyer Raatz. Lina Neumeyer Raatz was Ulrich Sommer’s aunt and she lived in Germany. Includes letters interspersed with details about family life such as Lina’s death on January 21, 1969. Records include letters, postcards, poems, amateur drawings, and photographs of family members and friends.

Reproduction postcard of "Women and Dog" sculpture by Marisol, 1964 by Museum Press Inc, Alexandria, Va.

Correspondence between various members of the Sommer family including letters that describe Cornelius Sommer’s European vacation and Angelika Sommer’s political involvement in Germany, her Marxist beliefs and her plans to pursue post-secondary education in Germany. Some letters also indicate that Angelika Sommer met and was dating Uwe Schriever, who later becomes her husband. Also includes greeting cards, postcards, a pamphlet, and photographs of Uwe Schriever, and the wedding of Friedemann and Petra (surnames unknown) in March 1970.

Letters and postcards from Betty and Peg Forbes to their parents, Millicent Lyall Forbes and George Alexander Forbes, during their time as students at Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, Ontario.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family and Isle Stein. Isle Stein was a friend of the Sommer family and she lived in Germany. Includes letters that discuss Angelika Sommer’s impending divorce from her husband Uwe Schriever. Records include letters, greeting cards, postcards, and photographs of Christmas decorations.

Twenty-seven postcards featuring handwritten messages and drawings by constituents sent to Andrew Telegdi during his tenure as a Member of Parliament. The postcards document the opinions of constituents regarding co-operative housing and the potential transfer of operating agreements between housing co-ops and the federal government to the Ontario provincial government.

File consists of materials relating to Kay Rex's trip to Yugoslavia. Includes ephemera, itineraries, postcards, notes and travel information.

File consists of miscellaneous prose, postcards and photographs of sculptures and copies of artwork by Virgil Burnett.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters expressing concern for Angelika Sommer because she was increasingly committed to Communist ideologies and involved in politics in Germany during the 1970s. Records include letters, greeting cards, postcards, and a press clipping.

File consists of twenty-seven picture postcards received by A.L. Breithaupt between 1907 and 1920 from family and friends. Two of note: Hope Mission, Berlin Ont. and a card from Albert to Mrs. L.H. Wagner of A.L. Breithaupt's children in a sleigh, dated Feb. 1912.

File consists of twenty-four picture postcards and greeting postcards received by Albert and Louisa's children, other than Fred. They are addressed to Marie, Rudolph, Arthur and "Baby Anna." Includes "Typical Canadian Indians on parade," May 7, 1914.

Postcard of the Berlin Collegiate and Technical School.

Personal correspondence received by Joan Hollobon from her father (Ernest Frederick "Tony" Hollobon), her step-mother, and other family members and friends in the United Kingdom. Also contains correspondence between Joan Hollobon and doctors requesting information about her father's health, and a letter written by her father to his Officer Commanding.
Includes postcards and sections of the publication Eastbourne Paris Church monthly news from March 1973. Also includes photographs of Joan Hollobon's father.

Postcard of Central School, Berlin, Canada.

Postcard of Central School, Galt, Ontario.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters interspersed with details about family life such as Cornelius Sommer’s university graduation and his plans to open his own law firm as well as Angelika Sommer’s move to Hamburg, Germany. Also contains letters describing Isle Stein’s upcoming visit with Ulrich Sommer and Gisela Sommer in Canada. Records include letters, greeting cards, and postcards.

Postcard of Courtland Avenue School, Berlin, Ontario.

One packet of 20 souvenir photographs of Montreal and six packets of souvenir postcards, including the Canadian Rockies, Lookout Mountain in Colorado, Washington D.C., Canadian National Exhibition and Chatham, Ont.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters sent between Gisela Sommer and Ulrich Sommer that were written while Gisela visited her parents in Germany. Also contains a copy of the last will and testament of Friederich Höpken. Friederich Höpken was Eduard Höpken’s brother and he lived in Brazil. Records include letters, greeting cards, and postcards.

Postcard of a photograph of the first brick schoolhouse in Conestogo, taken in 1900.

Postcard of the first school house in Waterloo, now located in Waterloo Park.

Four German postcards with humorous artwork. Two of the postcards are by August Thiele.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family and Isle Stein. Includes letters indicating that Isle Stein moved from Essen, Germany to Reutlingen, Germany. Isle Stein was a friend of the Sommer family. Records include letters, greeting cards, postcards, and photographs of Christmas decorations, animals, buildings, and landscapes.

Postcard of historic stone bridge in Jackson Park, Galt, Ont.

Postcard of the King Edward School, Kitchener, Ont., Canada.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters interspersed with details about family life such as information related to Angelika Sommer’s partner Gunther (surname unknown) and Cornelius Sommer’s request to his grandmother, Elisabeth Höpken, for a loan of money to buy a house near Toronto, Ontario. Records include letters, greeting cards, and postcards.

Postcard featuring a Japanese woman in traditional dress sent to Emma Kaufman by Mary Eleanor (surname unknown), likely her niece Mary Eleanor Kaufman Merritt.

Message reads: Nov. 23. Dear Aunt Emma - Received your card. This week is out + I don't see my way clear until after Christmas. I apologize for seeming so ungrateful. I'm really not, but these next weeks are so full of activities. If I may, perhaps in January. Love Mary Eleanor.

Postcard of Margaret Avenue School, Berlin, Canada.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters sent between Gisela Sommer and Ulrich Sommer that were written while Gisela visited her parents in Germany. Of special interest is a letter by Ulrich to Gisela that describes his experience attending Barker Fairley’s birthday celebration at University College in Toronto, Ontario on May 21, 1986. Records include letters, greeting cards, postcards, funeral invitations, and photographs of family members.

Seven postcards featuring various facilities and properties of the Tokyo Young Women's Christian Association (Y.W.C.A.).

Seven postcards of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt with annotations about the trip and an envelope.

Postcard of the Grand River, near Kitchener.

Postcard of the Speed River, Guelph, Ontario.

Postcard of Presbyterian Church, Berlin, Ont., Canada.

Album contains postcards and photographs documenting a trip made May 24 to July 31, 1960 by Rosa and Spencer Clark to Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, England and Scotland. Many items are accompanied by separate manuscript identifications folded in. Also included is a trip itinerary.

Postcard featuring photo of Frederick H. and Ella Schneider's home addressed to daughter Jean from her father, sent while she was in Rockcliffe, Ottawa in Royal Canadian Air Force (women's division).

Correspondence primarily between members of the Höpken and Sommer families. Includes several candid letters from Eduard Höpken that describe his experiences during and after World War II as well as the political climate in Germany during the 1950s. Of special interest is a family newsletter written on January 6, 1971 by Eduard and his wife Elisabeth Höpken that provides biographical information about their children including Gisela Sommer and her husband Ulrich Sommer, Johann Höpken, Walter Höpken, Karl Höpken, Wilhelm Höpken, and Peter Höpken. Records include letters and postcards.

Reproduction postcard of "The Family" sculpture by Marisol, 1962. Photo in black and white.

File consists of 147 pieces of correspondence (handwritten and typed originals) to Stan Johannesen from family, friends, academic colleagues, publishers, and other, including 27 original letters from Stan in reply. Includes greeting cards, postcards, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, photographs and other memoranda. Also included in the file are:

• ca.46 pages of notes (handwritten and typed originals) by Stan related to his works;
• two books reviews by Stan;
• four unattributed ink sketches with colour of furniture;
• two unattributed sketches of the female form;
• two unattributed poems;
• promotional posters for Stan's book releases and book talks;
• two editions of The Gazette newspaper;
• Historical Reflections Summer 1975; and
• other ephemera.

There are also copies of the following essays and papers:

• "Material Shapes and Collective Memory: A Norwegian Pentecostal Congregation in Brooklyn";
• "Holy Ghost";
• "Republicanism as Piety: The Self and the Sacred in America";
• "John Turnbull's Declaration of Independence: The Minimalist Society of the American Enlightenment";
• "Dickinson's 'Farmer' in American Revolutionary Consciousness";
• "Collective Perception and American Design: Large Case Furniture in the Chippendale Style"; and
• a screenplay for "Sister Patsy".

Letters and postcards from Betty and Peg Forbes to their parents, Millicent Lyall Forbes and George Alexander Forbes. Postcards feature illustrations and photographs of the Bigwin Inn in Lake of Bays, Ontario and Huntsville, Ontario.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters interspersed with details about family life such as Angelika Sommer’s training and participation in a local choir and Cornelius Sommer’s trip to Hamburg, Germany in 1993. Records include letters, greeting cards, postcards, press clippings, and photographs of family members, events, pets, and a choir.

Six postcards from Japan and Switzerland.

Nine postcards of Cairo in Egypt with annotations about the trip and an envelope.

File consists of two unused postcards showing Letchworth State Park in New York and the Administration Building of the State University Teacher's College in Geneseo, New York.

File consists of a postcard containing a photograph of two men, a woman, and a baby seated on steps leading to a front porch. One of the men in the photograph could be Charles Greb Sr. [?].

File consists of a postcard advertising Burnett's book Scarbo Edge (Blaurock Press, 2008).

Includes invitation to the Cook family reunion, correspondence about peafowl and other wild stock available, and a postcard showing Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida.

Postcard of scene in Waterloo Park, Waterloo, Canada.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family. Includes letters interspersed with details about family life such as information about Angelika Sommer’s partner Gunther (surname unknown) and Angelika’s concern for Isle Stein’s well-being. Isle Stein was a friend of the Sommer family and she lived in Germany. Records include letters, greeting cards, postcards, press clippings and, photographs of family members, flowers, buildings, Christmas decorations, and art.

Postcard photograph of Emma Kaufman (right) and Miss Kawai in Japanese dress outdoors at Elgin House during the Young Women's Christian Association (Y.W.C.A.) conference in June 1916.

Six postcards of the Delfos and Athens in Greece with annotations about the trip and an envelope.

Correspondents include Bob Kay and L. Keyzer. Bob Kay, an old friend of Harvey Sims, lived in Hartford, CT and Florida, and was acquainted with Harvey's sister Rella and her husband John Ross Stewart. The correspondence concerns mostly the scrapbooks about curling and football that Kay had assembled and their eventual disposition.
Postcard in this file: "RMS Ausonia, White Star Line" from L. Keyzer, a fellow Rotarian, postmarked Brussels.

File consists of 17 separate picture postcards, b&w and col. of Allendorf a Werra, birthplace of Louis Breithaupt, d. 1880. Duplicates also present.

File consists of 11 picture postcards, col.

File consists of one picture postcard, col.

File consists of one picture postcard, col.

Correspondence primarily between members of the Sommer family and Wilhelm and Helga Höpken. Wilhelm and Helga Höpken are Gisela Sommer’s brother and sister-in-law. Of special interest is a programme for an exhibit presented by the University of Guelph from January 12, 2001 to March 17, 2001 titled, The John & Gisela Sommer Collection: 40 years of collections at Gallery House Sol. The exhibit featured 111 items, mostly books and prints, collected by Ulrich and Gisela Sommer for their art gallery, Gallery House Sol. All of the items featured in the exhibit were subsequently donated to the University of Guelph. Records include letters, greeting cards, post cards, a programme, press clippings and, photographs of family members, friends, plants, art, and animals.

Three postcards of Istanbul in Turkey with annotations about the trip and an envelope.

Postcard of the old Tassie High School, Galt, Ontario.

File consists of one picture postcard, col.

File consists of three postcards, b&w and col. One, a view of Medicine Hat, Alta., appears to be a hand coloured photographic card, one is a b&w photograph labelled "Ranching, horse round-up in Alberta," The third is labeled "Reaping, Western Canada C.P.R."

File consists of one picture postcard, b&w

File consists of three picture postcards, col.

File consists of 8 picture postcards, b&w, of Calais, Cherbourg and Paris.

File consists of three postcards, b&w and col. One, a view of Bayview Cottage, the summer home of the Breithaupts, appears to be a hand coloured photographic card. One by J.W. Bald is a b&w photograph labelled "Evergreen Isles, Georgian Bay." One is published by Valentine-Black Co. Ltd. and is labelled "Tourist camp, Honey Harbor, near Penetanguishene, Ont."

File consists of 11 picture postcards, b&w and col. of Hanover, Hanstein, Karlsruhe, Mainz and Rudesheim.

File consists of one picture postcard, col.

File consists of one picture postcard, b&w.

File consists of one postcard showing the champion world Swiss team.

File consists of two picture postcard, col.

Fifteen postcards of Vienna in Austria with annotations about the trip and an envelope.

Ephemera and other material probably collected and kept by Jessie Gartshore Martin. Includes an invitation and program for a banquet in honour of Rev. William M. Martin; a ts./ms. list of people who contacted John and Jessie Martin upon Jamie's death; a postcard depicting a tank in Caen, France; a clipping of a photograph of John Alexander Martin; and other material.

File consists of one picture postcard, col.

File consists of seven cards, col., printed on the verso, probably used in North America for mission or church purposes.

File consists of one picture postcard, col.

File consists of one picture postcard, b&w

File consists of four picture postcards, col.

File consists of one envelope of 3 black-and-white souvenir postcards (originally contained 24 postcards.

File consists of two picture postcards, col.

File consists of one picture postcard, col., with "Canadian sport series : toboggan party" printed on the recto; two copies of another "Park toboggan slide, Montreal," with glitter representing ice on the slide.

File consists of 11 picture postcards, col., from the same series..

Snapshots of Herb and Betty: skiing, fishing, hiking and sailing in New Zealand, Alaska, Austria, Switzerland and Georgian Bay. Includes two postcards, one to Herb from Carl Holman, head brewer for Carlsberg Beer.

Letters and postcards from Peg and Betty Forbes to their mother, Millicent Lyall Forbes. Letters from Betty Forbes during her time as a nurse in Vancouver are included.

Materials related to travels by A. R. Kaufman. Includes sixty-seven postcards of Thailand, India, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Ceylon, Pakistan, and Egypt with annotations on the verso. Also includes notes of trips covering Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Bangkok, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Austria.

File consists of five picture postcards, b&w and coloured.

File consists of three col. postcards. Two appear to be hand coloured photographic cards of "Crow Eagle, chief of the Piegan Indians" and "Black Plume, Blood Indian." The third is "Chief Red Cloud, Sioux," by F.A. Rinehart, Omaha, Neb.

File consists of three picture postcards, b&w and col.

File consists of contains fourteen views.

File consists of one booklet of 19 black-and-white souvenir postcards (originally contained 24 postcards.

File consists of three picture postcards, colour

File consists of one picture postcard, b&w.

File consists of seven picture postcards, some hand-coloured.

File consists of four picture postcards, black-and-white and colour, of views of Saskatoon. Includes Nutanba Collegiate, C.N.R. Depot. Y.W.C.A. and University buildings.