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Ration coupons and scrip

File contains an two envelopes with examples of German ration coupons from the 1920s and examples of scrips from Rochester, New York and Multnomah County in Oregon. The ration coupons include a pencil identification that reads: "Walter Johann".

Bowlby family.

File consists of two identical snapshots of members of the Bowlby family in Los Angeles in 1901. Includes David Sovereign Bowlby, Martha Esther Murphy Bowlby, Grace Bowlby Fennell and two unknown people. Versos read "Los Angeles May 6, 1901. To dear Mosom with love from Grandma" and "Lose Angelse Cal. May 6, 1901. To dear little Frieda with grandma's love."

Bowlby Boyd Family

Clement, Edwin Perry.

File consists of a portion of a photograph that shows Edwin Perry Clement standing outside in California. An unidentified women is visible in the background, smiling at camera.

Clement Bowlby Family

Sturbridge?

One image of what appears to be a stable, identified on the verso as possibly from Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.

Rempel, John I.

Unidentified man.

Studio portrait postcard of an unidentified man in military uniform, seen smiling at camera, from the Bechler family photo album. Postcard made in the United States of America and bottom right corner of portrait signed Holloway.

Bechler family

Columbia River highway.

File consists of three photographs taken along the Columbia River highway in Oregon taken by R.I. Gifford (Portland, OR).

Keffer, Ivan Wilbur

Woman on a street.

Photograph of a woman in a street holding books in one hand with buildings in the background. Photograph was possibly taken at North-Western College, Naperville, Illinois.

Breithaupt Hewetson Clark family

All aboard.

Photograph of three adults and one child standing by a train. Photograph was possibly taken at North-Western College, Naperville, Illinois.

Breithaupt Hewetson Clark family

Betty Forbes's photograph album.

An album containing photographs of the Forbes family and their friends including Betty Forbes, Peg Forbes, Millicent Lyall Forbes, Robert Forbes, Grace Forbes (nee Bickford), Judy Forbes, George Alexander Forbes, Jim Johnson, Bill Stuart, Bob O’Connor, and others. Several photographs feature camping activities, cars, picnics, family pets, planes, parades, trips to British Columbia and Alaska, Lake Tyson, Puslinch Lake, Tobermory, Bishop Strachan School, St. George’s Nursery School, Thistletown, part of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and Club Kingsway in Toronto. Also includes photographs of Betty and Forbes in their nursing uniforms and their graduation ceremonies, and images related to the World Wars including George Alexander Forbes in uniform, prisoner of war Jack Currie [?] and many other individuals in military uniform.

Forbes, Betty

Betty Forbes's diary.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1947. Several entries describe family events, parties, dances, trips to Buffalo, Sudbury and British Columbia, and Betty’s work at Claremont Nursery School. The diary includes letters, telegrams, invitations, programs, press clippings, pressed flowers, a napkin, and a photograph of an unknown individual.

Forbes, Betty

Diaries: 1867.

Diary entries begin with March 8, 1867, but this whole section is marked cancelled and is re-copied starting April 8, 1867. It begins with a record of Tobias' trip to Missouri to see his father, leaving his wife Mary Schantz (nee Moyer) with their 3-year old son Orpheus and new baby Etta, born the previous October. Tobias' father Benjamin with his second wife Margaret and children had gone to homestead near Wellville, west of St. Louis, in 1866. Tobias records his impressions of the countryside, the people, the prospects, the discouragement of all but his father with life in Missouri (March 17th). On July 2 he returns to Canada to where he is then living (near "Campden" --Grimsby within walking distance.) Throughout the diary Tobias records the weather and a daily health bulletin, letters sent and received, as well as his daily reading. He goes through periods of recording his meals. Tobias also lists all the work he does every day. He mentions setting the water for porridge, making the bed, polishing his son's shoes, carrying the baby to church, etc. On Nov. 9 he took a bath, on Nov. 25 he "did not sleep short of midnight. Was talking with Mary about my thought, troubles about religion ...". All parts of the diary have been filled with writing, dating as far as 1889 -- some accounts, recipes both household and medical (many give source), a record of the family tree -- births, marriages, deaths, transcribed songs, and an account probably written in Conestogo ca. 1875 of his spiritual trials and tribulations dating from 1862 and his efforts to achieve inner peace. This account is continued in the "other book," although it is not clear what book this referred to.

Schantz Russell Family

Handbill for The Public Life of Capt John Brown.

  • SCA357-GA409
  • Collection
  • 1860

One handbill advertising the publication of James Redpath's "The Public Life of Capt John Brown." Redpath and Brown were contemporaries and abolitionists and Redpath wrote this work the year after Brown's execution.

Thayer and Elridge

Receipt for work performed by enslaved Black female.

File consists of one receipt, in French, for work performed by an enslaved Black female named Maria on a chain gang in New Orleans in 1825. Translation reads "Wages for negress on the chain: The city treasury will pay to Mr. D. Fitch the sum of 11 piastre and 50 cents for forty six days of work by his negress Maria, employed by the public works from August 9 to October 3." The document is signed by David Fitch and Precend Lament [?] and is dated at New Orleans, Oct. 3, 1825.

Attached to the receipt is what appears to be a clipping from the vendor catalogue which listed the item for sale. It reads:
"174. NEGRO CHAIN GANG LABOR RECEIPT. Printed document, in French, signed, one page, oblong small quarto. Nouvelle-Orleans, 1825. Interesting if not gruesome document. Receipt for labor in the chain gang performed by a negress."

Eisen, Sol

Notebook : movies, plays and concerts.

A promotional notebook published in 1912 by the Alaska Feather & Down Co., Montreal, used by Dorothy Russell to record movies, plays and concerts she attended in Kitchener, Ont., Toronto, Sarnia, Chatham and Chicago, 1921-1928. Included are the names of actors and actresses, the theatre and the date.

Schantz Russell Family

Moyer, Louise.

One upper body portrait of Louise Moyer seen leaning over the back of a chair and wearing a dress with a lace collar.

Schantz Russell Family

Book, John or Jesse.

Head and torso studio portrait possibly of John Book or Jesse (last name unknown) seen looking off camera and dressed in suit and tie.

Schantz Russell Family

Nash, Agnes.

Head and torso studio portrait of Agnes Nash seen in partial profile looking off camera. Nash is wearing a top with lace edging around the collar and a cross on a choker necklace.

Schantz Russell Family

Honsberger family.

Studio portrait of the Honsberger family. The spelling of the Honsberger name varies in inscription on verso.

Back row, left to right: Lucinda Honsberger, Amanda White (nee Honsberger), Owen Honsberger, Lovina Levagood (nee Honsberger).

Front row, left to right: Benjamin Honsberger, Phoebe Murphy (nee Honsberger), Ervine Honsberger, Rosa Honsberger, Mrs. Stickney (first name unknown), Esther Honsberger (nee Biehn).

Schantz Russell Family

Schantz, Orpheus Moyer and Ruth.

Cyanotype photograph of Orpheus Moyer Schantz and Ruth Schantz. Orpheus is seated on a swing out front of their home at Morton Park with arm around Ruth who is standing at his side.

Schantz Russell Family

Schantz, Orpheus Moyer : Morton Park.

Photograph of the home of Orpheus Moyer Schantz and family at Morton Park. Two unidentified children, possibly Ruth and Worth, are visible standing on the porch. The photograph has been mounted on a board and with a decorative handwritten caption that reads "Residence of Mr. & Mrs. O.M. Schantz, Morton Park, Ills., Sept. 9, 1892."

Schantz Russell Family

Schantz, Ruth.

Three photographs that have been hole punched and tied together. The first shows Ruth Schantz sitting in a wheelbarrow with Carrie Flagler Schantz in front of the home at Morton Park. The second shows Ruth Schantz and Orpheus Moyer Schantz on the steps of the home at Morton Park. The third shows Ruth standing in a garden holding flowers.

Schantz Russell Family

Welden Combination : staff.

Portrait of the employees of Welden Combination of Iowa Falls, Iowa. Identified on the verso are: William Welden (Proprietor & Manager), S.H. Welden (Travelling Salesman), J.L. Welden (Shipping Clerk), Robert Wright, Jr. (Manager Clothing Department), E.R. Stewart (Assistant Manager Clothing Department), Aaron McDonell (Manager Grocery Department), Clint McDonell (Delivery-man), Orpheus Moyer Schantz (Manager Dry Goods Department), Kate Griswold (Stenographer and Typewriter), O.J. Lawson (Fashionable Cutter), J.H. Flemming (Journeyman Coatmaker), George Schade (Pants Maker).

Ephemera : business cards, external.

Ten business cards collected by Orpheus Moyer Schantz. Businesses include: McLean Armature Works, Chicago ; C.S. Allen family pharmacist, Chicago (business card opens to reveal price list) ; Hathaway, Soule & Harrington, Chicago (advertisement for new fall and winter men's shoes) ; The Butterick Publishing Co. Ltd., Chicago ; Alex M. Rivenburg, D.D.S., Chicago ; Chinese and Japanese Store, Chicago ; The Northern Trust Company Bank, Chicago (with timecard from Chicago to Wilmette on verso) ; J.H. Kelley, agent for O.R. Gilbert & Co., Taxidermy and Furs, Council Bluffs, Iowa ; Blair Union Christian Endeavour Society, annotated by Carrie Belle Blaschke (unfolds to show listing of lectures for the season) ; C.F. Steckleberg, Music Teacher and Soloist, Council Bluff, Iowa. Of interest to note is that C.F. Steckleberg was head of the violin department at University of Nebraska School of Music.

Schantz Russell Family

Ephemera : business cards, internal.

Two business cards of Orpheus Moyer Schantz from when he was employed by Carson, Pirie & Company (now Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company). One card is professionally printed and shows the company's office, the other has been hand lettered on a small piece of painted canvas. In 1890 the company became Carson, Pirie & Scott, and in 1904 they moved to the landmark Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building. Now called Carson's, the company continues to be an important Chicago business.

Schantz Russell Family

Unidentified woman.

Head and shoulders studio portrait of unidentified woman seen looking directly at camera in hair short bangs and a high bun.

Schantz Russell Family

Unidentified teenager.

Head and shoulder studio portrait of unidentified teenager seen looking off camera and wearing a top with large leg of mutton sleeves.

Schantz Russell Family

Schantz, Ruth.

Upper body studio portrait of Ruth Schantz, age three, seen dressed in a lace trimmed top and looking off camera.

Schantz Russell Family

Schantz, Ruth.

Full length studio portrait of Ruth Schantz, age 15 months, seen standing on a wicker chair in a long black dress and looking off camera.

Schantz Russell Family

Schantz family.

Photograph of members of the Schantz family and friends seen seated together in a residential home.

Back row: Etta Schantz, [Kathryn Ellis]
Middle row: H. Goodwal Dickerman, Charlotte Hayes Moyer, Harry Rollin Moyer, Orpheus Moyer
Front row: Carrie Flagler Schantz, Ruth Schantz, Mary Emma Moyer.

Schantz Russell Family

Album 4.

File consists of an album probably compiled by Paul Rieder. Includes snapshots of friends and family members and snapshots taken on trips to the US and around Ontario. Album also includes ts. notes "Tour of Western States," describing a trip to the US. Some photographs include date/captions. Some photographs appear to be missing.

Rieder and Anthes family

Feick, Catherine and family.

File consists of a studio portrait of Catherine Feick and family, seen looking at camera in two rows, standing and seated. Catherine and husband Menno Liebler are likely the couple seated at centre front.

Rieder and Anthes family

INGOLF Plaza, Sunnyvale, CA : ECP 2100 projector sale.

File consists of material relating to the announcement of Electrohome's contract with INGOLF Plaza (Sunnyvale, CA) for the supply of ECP 2100 projection units for use with INGOLF's computerized golf simulator. Includes a portfolio of material about INGOLF, press clippings, copies of a news release, and five photographs of the projectors in use at INGOLF.

Electrohome

Clippings.

File consists of a letter and postcard to Carl A. Pollock from John Koegler, photographs of Koegler and his house in Hawaii, and 2 press clippings on award-winning annual reports and Electrohome's developments in reverse osmosis.

Electrohome

CalComp application story for Jan. 1994 TRAINING magazine.

File consists of material relating to the writing and publication of an application case history on the use of Electrohome's ECP 3100 projection system at the California Compensation Insurance Co. (CalComp, Novato, CA) in the January 1994 special advertising section of TRAINING magazine. Includes memoranda and correspondence, two issues of the section, faxed draft and final versions of the article, a clipped copy of the article, transparencies illustrating the application, and promotional material from TRAINING magazine.

Electrohome

Postcards.

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.

Innis family

Propaganda Research Papers : Series 3B Week No. 62. Intake Report : U.S.A. Broadcasts in English for North America during week 5th – 11th Nov.

Weekly intake report on broadcasts in English for North American listeners mainly from the United States of America, Germany, Italy and England. Copy no. 27.

University of Waterloo. Department of Political Science.

Propaganda Research Papers : Series 3B Week No. 64 Intake Report : U.S.A. Broadcasts in English for North America during week 19th – 25th Nov.

Weekly intake report on broadcasts in English for North American listeners mainly from the United States of America, Germany, Italy and England. Copy no. 27.

University of Waterloo. Department of Political Science.

Ivorine advertisement

Advertisement showing three women of different generations at a water pump with a washing bucket washing clothes and holding up a box of Ivorine. In the background are two men standing looking into the distance carrying farm implements. Verso reads "Ivorine the wonderful cleanser the best and purest article for all washing purposes that it is possible to produce; also, unequaled as a disinfectant. Use it, and clothes, money, and life will last longer. We use the same care in the selection of materials and the preparation of Ivorine, which, for almost half a century has given Williams' "Genuine Yankee" shaving soaps their wide popularity. A handsome silver plate tea-sponn is given with each one-pound package of Ivorine, and, with each two-pound package, either a substantial silver plated table spoon, knife, fork, butter knife, or sugar shell as the purchaser may prefer. By this way of advertising Ivorine and inducing the housekeeper to give it a trial, we are giving to them, directly, what others spend in newspapers and other expensive advertising from which the purchaser gets no benefit. As this plated-ware is made for us by the Williams Bros. M'f'g Co., of this town, under our direct supervision, we can guarantee each article to be of good quality and to wear well. Ask your grocer for Ivorine. The J.B. Williams Co., Established 1840, Glastonbury, Conn."

Soapine advertisement

Soapine advertisement illustrated by Charlotte Perkins Gilman showing a woman hanging laundry out from a wash basket. The laundry on the line spells out "Soapine." Verso reads "Soapine the great dirt killer, will remove dirt of all descriptions! Without injury to hands or fabric. Kendall Mfg. Co. established 1827 Providence, R.I."

David's Prize Soap

David's Prize Soap advertisement trade card showing an older woman standing at a washing bucket with a bar of David's Soap while two young women play the piano in another room. It reads "All got by using David's Prize Soap besides the excellent washing it does" as well as a caption under the women at the piano which reads "The prize pianoforte." Verso outlines details regarding incentives to try David's Prize products where users can exchange product wrappers for tickets that can be put toward a list of presents.

Sapolio advertisement

Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing three women polishing glassware with the caption "clean glass with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

The Human Aura as taught by Reverend Dr. Dean S. Psaras.

A lecture by Reverend Dr. Dean S. Psaras explaining the auras surrounding animate or inanimate objects. The lecture details how highly sensitive, psychic, or super receptive people can see/feel the aura. Psaras explains how aura reading works in the context of spiritualism, chakras, and what aura colours mean. The lecture was published by Churchill's of Birmingham in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Gauthier, Sofie

Colt-Farm clambake.

File consists of material relating to a clambake hosted by Col. Samuel P. Colt at his farm in Rhode Island to meet the president and directors of the Industrial Trust Company. Colt was the chairman of the board of directors, as well as the president of the United States Rubber Company. File includes a personalized menu and guest list for Talmon Henry Rieder and newspaper clippings, as well as an invitation for a clambake held another year.

Rieder and Anthes family

Motz, Rose Huck : press pass.

File consists of Rose Motz's press pass, with photo, for the 1934 A Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago. Motz is seen in partial profile, wearing a hat and looking off camera.

Motz Family

New York Herald.

File consist of the April 15, 1865 edition of the New York Herald. This edition reports on the assassination of Lincoln.

Paul S. Burtness and Warren U. Ober Pearl Harbor research collection.

  • SCA251-GA261
  • Collection
  • 1960-2013

Collection consists of materials created and accumulated by Paul S. Burtness and Warren U. Ober relating to their research on the events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Includes correspondence with prominent members of the U.S. Forces during World War II, as well as published articles that came out of the research.

Burtness, Paul S.

Booking photograph of Rose Pena Ventura.

  • SCA414-GA482-1
  • Collection
  • September 22, 1955

Two photographs on one sheet from the Sheriff's Department Los Angeles showing the booking photographs of Rose Pena Ventura. Ventura is seen in full length profile and straight on. The verso of the photograph indicates it was taken September 22, 1955 when Ventura was 32. Her aliases are listed as Rose Pena and Rose Garduna and she was arrested for the crime of abortion.

Sheriff's Department Los Angeles

Man on a street.

Photograph of a man posing for the camera with buildings in the background. Photograph was possibly taken at North-Western College, Naperville, Illinois.

Breithaupt Hewetson Clark family

Man studying.

Photograph of an adult studying in a dorm room with a bed in the background and pennants on the wall. Photograph was possibly taken at North-Western College, Naperville, Illinois.

Breithaupt Hewetson Clark family

Letter to Joseph Jefferson from Jan Larue

  • SCA45-GA25
  • Collection
  • [18-?]

Collection consists of one undated typescript letter to Joseph Jefferson from Jan Larue in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. The letter requests Jefferson put in a good word for Larue. Also included is an undated photograph card of Joseph Jefferson, taken by Gilbert & Bacon studios in Philadelphia.

Eugene Ferrin Clark fonds

  • SCA50-GA27
  • Fonds
  • 1894-1922, predominantly 1920-1922

Fonds contains autographs collected by Eugene Ferrin Clark from various British and American actors. Correspondence from Clark to various people soliciting autographs and autographed photographs are included.

Correspondence:
1. Granville Barker also G. Barker’s autograph
2. John Randolph Bolling; November 23, 1921
3. Witter Bynner, New York; December 12, 1921/December 21, 1921
4. W. L. George, New York; October 22, 1920
5. B. Roland Lewis, University of Utah; December 14, 1919/December 19, 1919
6. Joseph Pennell, London/Philadelphia; June 8, 1913/November 16, 1919
7. G. Rollin, Chicago; May 10, 1919

Autographs collected by Clark:
8. George Arlis, Walter Hampden, Victor Herbert, William Hodge, James Hunellar, Oliver Lodge, Nance O’Neil, Eugene O’Neill, A.C. Read, Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Photographs:
9. Floral Tributes on Grave of Actor James O’Neill, 1920 and photographs with autograph signatures of:

  • Nazimova, n.d.;
  • Henry Irving dated 1894;
  • Anton Lang as Jesus dated 1922;
  • Anton Lang dated 1922;
  • Guido Moyr dated 1922.

Clark, Eugene Ferrin

Photograph collection.

  • SCA83-GA53
  • Collection
  • [186-?]-[19--?]

Collection consists of 169 19th century American photographs. Included are 115 carte-de-visites, 40 cabinet portraits, 2 albums, 11 miscellaneous photographs and 1 envelope of miscellaneous business and greeting cards.

The photographs vary in size, but many of are 1 x 1 cm and mounted on card. Most are albumen type photographs depicting various people including infants, children, and adults. The photographs come from various studios across the United States though the majority come from studios in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Illinois. The photographs, since rehoused, were originally housed in two albums decorated with an intricate relief on the cover and a metal clasp lock.

Betty Forbes's diary.

A diary containing daily entries written by Betty Forbes in 1948. Several entries describe Betty’s work in British Columbia, family events, dances, a trip to Alaska, holidays, and Peg Forbes’s wedding to Colin Andrew (Joe) Wilson. The diary contains letters, invitations, lists, a patch, and press clippings including one titled, Girls advised to train for career and marriage published in The Globe and Mail on January 27, 1948.

Forbes, Betty

Group of people in the Court of the Little Theatre.

Informal group portrait of 7 unidentified individuals sitting by a fountain in a court. Caption on verso reads: "Note your big sis taken in the Court of the Little Theatre first of its kind in America and in the Old French Quarters a beautiful court, April 19 - 1930."

Byers, Harry J.

Ethel Carol and Anne Sewall Longfellow scrapbook.

  • SCA42-WA23
  • Fonds
  • 1902-1906

Fonds consists of one scrapbook assembled by Ethel and Anne Longfellow during their attendance at Smith College, Massachusetts between 1902-1906. The scrapbook contains correspondence, photographs, programmes, clippings, notes and ephemera detailing the academic and social life of the sisters.

Longfellow, Ethel Carol and Anne Sewall

Sol Eisen collection.

Collection consists of four files donated as part of the Sol Eisen collection of Canadiana. These items include a ms. of Mexican plays, a music manuscript, a receipt for work completed by a slave on chain gang, and materials related to the life of Frederic William Wile.

Eisen, Sol

Schantz, Orpheus Moyer and family.

One informal group portrait of the Schantz/Flagler family and friends. The group is seen sitting on the front porch of Orpheus' home at Morton Park.

Back row: Arthur Schantz, Melvina Dorthula Flagler, Samuel A. Flagler.

Middle Row: Sophie Schantz, Carrie Flagler Schantz, William Brown Flagler, Nell Johnston Flagler.

Front Row: G.H. Bowers with banjo, H. Goodwal Dickerman with Ruth Schantz and guitar, Orpheus Schantz.

Schantz Russell Family

Moyer family : Christmas dinner.

Group portrait showing the Moyer family having Christmas dinner at Levi Nash Moyer's home in Wilmette, Illinois. From left to right: Mary Emma Moyer, [Edmund Warren Moyer?], ?, Ela Bliss Moyer, ?, Charlotte Hays Moyer, Levi Nash Moyer, Jennie Moyer, Etta Moyer.

Schantz Russell Family

Moyer, Jennie.

Two identical three quarter length portraits of Jennie Moyer. Jennie is seen seated at a piano with left arm on the keys and a handkerchief in right hand with a ribbon in her hair.

Schantz Russell Family

Moyer, Jessie Watt and children.

One full body studio group portrait of Jessie Watt Moyer with children Barbara Helen and Dorothy Louise. Barbara is seated in Jessie's lap and Dorothy is standing next to them.

Schantz Russell Family

Moyer, Marguriete.

Studio portrait possibly of Marguriete Moyer (daughter of Edward A. Moyer, son of Anna Moyer) as an infant. Marguriete is shown in a gown, bonnet and cape, seated in a chair.

Schantz Russell Family

Moyer, Willard White.

Full body studio portrait of Willard White Moyer aged sixteen months. Willard is shown seated on an arm chair with a doll.

Schantz Russell Family

Schantz, Ruth.

Three quarter length studio portrait of Ruth Schantz seen seated, with arm resting on chair arm, and looking at camera. The bottom of the image has been intentionally faded out.

Schantz Russell Family

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