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Image of Design Seminar attendees Carl Hentschel, R.W. Sclater, C.J. Lochnan and W.A. Howard looking at an exhibit featuring a hair dryer.

Image of the Carter twins, dressed identically with bows in their hair, seated next to each other on an armchair. One of the children is holding a stuffed elephant.

Image of Design Seminar attendees C.J. Lochnan, R.W. Sclater, Carl Hentschel, W.A. Howard and C.J. Lochnan looking at an exhibit featuring a hair dryer.

Image of Design Seminar attendees C.J. Lochnan, R.W. Sclater, Carl Hentschel, W.A. Howard and C.J. Lochnan looking at an exhibit featuring a hair dryer.

Image of Design Seminar attendees C.J. Lochnan, R.W. Sclater, Carl Hentschel, W.A. Howard and C.J. Lochnan looking at an exhibit featuring a hair dryer.

Image of the Carbert triplets kneeling on a front lawn, looking down at a dog. All are wearing the same type of dress and have their hair parted and pulled back in a similar manner.

Image of a student looking at the camera smiling while operating a Van de Graff electricity generator. A fellow student touching the generator with visibly static filled hair is sitting on the same table smiling in response as others look on.

Contains a photocopy of Harry Byers' diary from 1930-1931, while in Russia. The diary is titled "Mile stones a five year diary", is ring-bound, and has ca. 202 one-sided leaves, with two days per leaf. The diary includes daily entries detailing general activities, conditions in Russia, places Harry and hist wife Violet Byers stayed, meals, sickness and health, agricultural details, how the Grain Trust Russian Five Year Plan was going, details of social activities and events, notes from friends, lists of books read while in Russia, and lists of names and addresses of acquaintances. Byers mentions Violet quite often, and some entries are written by her.

Image of three Ontario Agricultural College students with their heads shaved with the letters W [O?] and E. The group is standing with arms around each other and each person is wearing a leather jacket and ear muffs.

File consists of 33 letters received by John S. and Lydia Catherine Anthes from Martha Rieder. Also includes 1 letter from Ella Anthes Cook (June 30, 1914) and a note from Talmon Rieder enclosed with another letter (December 25, 1914). Several letters are addressed individually to "mother", some include drawings and notes from Martha's children, and some are undated. Letters make reference to day to day happenings such as Margaret getting tonsillitis, Paul Rieder's birth, Talmon's busy work schedule, and the death of Henry William Anthes.

File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from April 25, 1898, to July 11, 1899. Diary was kept in ink and pencil in an unlined notebook, and the author has dated the entries and separated them with a horizontal line. Enclosures: cutout of three roses, invitation.

File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from March 1, 1895, to April 24, 1898. Diary was kept in ink and pencil in an unlined notebook, and the author has dated the entries and separated them with a horizontal line. Note after last entry: "Finis 1st book, continued in Book No. II."

File consists of the pocket diary of Talmon Henry Rieder for the year 1901. Kept predominantly in ink, the entries frequently includes brief comments about the weather and his mood, and often includes cash account notes at the end of diary pages. No entries were logged between January 10, 1901 and April 6, 1901.

The identification page near the front of the diary partially filled out by Rieder indicates he was 24 years, with a dark complexion and weighed 134 pounds. Also included are entries regarding the sizes of his shoes, collar, cuffs, hat, shirt, gloves and underwear.

Topics of note are his burgeoning relationship with Martha Anthes, frustrations with Albert Liborius Breithaupt, business dealings with a variety of contacts including the Kaufmans, and his activities with the church-based Young People's Alliance.

File consists of the diary of Talmon Henry Rieder for the year 1903. Diary kept in ink in printed diary. Includes cash account at the end of the diary on pages marked "Memoranda."

File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from December 15, 1904, to December 27, 1905. Diary was kept in ink in a printed pocket diary.

Fonds contains three books written by Robert Forbes. They consist of ledgers dating from 1823 to 1873 and daybooks documenting Forbes' activities as a farmer and merchant dating from 1856 to 1891. Also included are three leaflets with information about postal and farmers’ schedules from the Department of Agriculture, Ontario.

Daybook coverage:

• January 1871 – October 1881;
• January 1882 – December 1891; and
• March 1856 – December 1862.

Ledger coverage:

• July 1839 – [1858?];
• September 1851 – December 1857; and
• September 1823 – 1873.

Three files:

1. 3 pamphlets; Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 1 of 3), 1839 – 1862
2. Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 2 of 3), 1851 – 1881
3. Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 3 of 3), 1843 – 1891