Scrapbook and photograph album covering the lives of Margaret and Cully Schmidt. First part of the album recounts the life of Margaret Schmidt, including part of her family's history and, more thoroughly, from her early childhood to her old age, with an emphasis on her married life. Second part of the album recounts the life of Cully Schmidt, including part of his family's history more thoroughly, from her early childhood to her old age, with an emphasis on his work life.
Album includes photographs with captions, newspaper clippings, certificates, and ephemera created or accumulated by the Schmidt family. Photographs show Margaret exercising as a teenager, socializing with friends and family, spending time with her children, attending various personal and professional events, and travelling with her husband around the world. Photographs also show Cully exercising and working as a teenager, socializing with friends and family, working and travelling for work, spending time with his family, attending various personal and professional events, and travelling with his wife around the world.

Letter to Harvey J. Sims dated August 4, 1930 from John R. Connon of Elora, enclosing advertisements for what he describes as "relating to your father's unfortunate venture in the Salem Woollen Mill." Includes an original manuscript copy of an advertisement for the Sims Bros. Salem Woollen Works, and the advertisement as published in the Elora Observer, no. 39 Friday April 17, 1868.

Three paper lace valentines, possibly handmade:
Paper lace and coloured floral valentine with lift-up flowers hiding three heart-shapes to write messages on. Inside the card is a hand-written poem to the "Belle" of the ball, signed "Valentine"
Paper lace overlay of bird's nest and flowers over second layer with a two-piece embossed lift up figure of a woman with cherub on her shoulder, purple ribbon and coloured floral decoration applied on her skirt, under this is a third layer with a coloured metallic bird flying into pasted-on coloured floral decorations. A gold and white banner is pasted at the bottom of the page, with "A Token of True Love" printed in blue.The back of this card is signed "from Jemima." Maker's name embossed on back: "Meek"
Pink paper folded valentine with embossed gold floral design surrounding pasted-on die-cut flowers and leaves, below this a white and gold banner reading "A Pledge of Love" in blue. Inside the card is signed" Miss Mary Jemima Cook"

File consists of a marriage licence or certificate of marriage between John S. Anthes (Township of Wilmot) and Lydia Catharine Herlan (Town of Berlin).

File consist of clippings relating to Canadian history.

File consist of clippings relating to the Fenian Raids.

New Years card given to Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz) from Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Becker.

Twenty-seven letters received by Tobias Kolb Schantz and his wife Mary Schantz.

Date and Place from: June 13, 1899 Danville, Ill. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Watt, Mary C. Notes: wedding invitation for Jessie Watt and Ela Bliss Moyer; includes envelope with stamp.

Date and Place from: July 12, 1896 Leamington, Ont. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From White, Ward Malott, 1870-1948.

Date and Place from: March 23, 1902 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From White, Ward Malott, 1870-1948.

Date and Place from: May 27, 1866 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868.

Date and Place from: March 22, 1878 Hutchison Co., [D.T.?] To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Christian, 1840- and Shantz, Mary Hutchinson.

Date and Place from: February 28, 1866 [Plattsville?] To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868.

Date and Place from: March 13, 1866 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868.

Date and Place from: April 20, 1866 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868.

Date and Place from: August 22, 1866 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868.

Date and Place from: September 18, 1866 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 Notes: Partial letter, including prices of fruit, crops, lumber and describing wild game.

Date and Place from: October 17, 1866 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868.

Date and Place from: January 24, 1867 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 Notes: Partial Letter.

Date and Place from: February 16, 1867 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868.

Date and Place from: April 04, 1867 s.l. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 Notes: Describes life in the West, including the birth of his newest son, Isaac, his horses, the weather, the prices of food etc.

Date and Place from: September 23, 1867 Longlane, Dallas County, Mo. U.S.A. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 Notes: Writes about being settled in their new place, as they moved from Montgomery County to Dallas County, Mo.

Date and Place from: February 06, 1868 Longlane, Dallas County, Mo. To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 Notes: Writes that he has not sold his place in Montgomery Co., has not received any money from Canada and has fallen on hard times. He has been digging a well for water, and feed is scarce.

Date and Place from: March 29, 1868 [Dallas Co., Mo.?] To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935.

Date and Place from: May 31, 1868 Longlane,[Dallas Co., Mo.] To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 Attachments: Slip of paper, short note included with letter. Notes: Note included which describes locusts.

Date and Place from: July 20, 1868 [Longlane, Dallas Co., Mo.?] To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 Notes: Letter Written By Menno S. Shantz for Benjamin Shantz.

Date and Place from: March 19, 1876 [Scotland?], Bonhomme Co., Dakotah To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Christian, 1840- and Shantz, Mary Hutchinson Notes: Writes about the move to Dakota.

Date and Place from: May 08, 1875 Lebanon To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Sarah Notes: Letter telling of her marriage to a Mr. Henry Snyder, their plans to visit people in Port Elgin after the wedding. Describes her wedding dress and says "I will send you a piece of my wedding dress."

Date and Place from: March 17, 1890 Bloomingdale To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Snyder, Lydia.

Date and Place from: September 12, 1866 Hawkesville To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Tropp, H. Notes: Signature illegible.

Date and Place from: March 14, 1871 Breslau To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Josiah Kolb, 1834- and Shantz, Anna Notes: Note included, initialled by Josiah.

Date and Place from: May 20, 1866 Wellsville To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Unknown? Notes: Partial letter, no closing.

Date and Place from: Dec. 26, 1901 Oshkosh, Wis. To Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 and Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 From Soper, Benjamin Hutchinson Notes: Marriage announcement of Lucia Moore and Homer LeRoy Schantz, includes envelope with stamp.

Date and Place from: March 29, 1868 [Longlane, Dallas Co., Mo.?] To Schantz, Tobias Kolb, 1842-1925 and Schantz, Mary, 1840-1935 From Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868.

Empty envelopes addressed to Jemima Cook, postmarked 1864-1867.

File consist of clippings relating to education.

Ephemera including greeting cards, tracts, memorial cards, trade cards, and envelopes.

The History of the children in the wood, published by Lumsden & Sons, Glasgow. This is a single sheet with eight hand-coloured woodcuts with verses beneath; versions of which circulated in Great Britain and the United States, most often in chapbook form. A note on the back says "This was given to Catharine as a prize at school at Berlin."

File consists of three cheques signed by D. Bethune.

File consist of clippings relating to Toronto.

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."

File consists of materials relating to research for the Smith Family tree. Includes notes and clippings.

Five hand lettered visiting cards of Jennie Moyer, Edmund Warren Moyer, Austin Schantz, and Orpheus Moyer Schantz and F.J. Ottmax. The cards of Edmund and Jennie list them as living at 3823 Langley Ave., Chicago. The card of Orpheus and F.J. Ottmax is inscribed "A Happy New Year 1889."

One piece of tissue paper printed with a blue crane and flower motif by Percy Lund & Co., Bradford.

File consists of buiness envelopes for Rittinger and Motz (both as publishers and proprietors) as well as from the Berliner Journal, Combined German Newspapers, the Kitchener-Waterloo Records and combinations of other newspapers they owned and ran. Also includes one envelope from John P. Becker, agent to Rittinger and Motz.

A photograph album containing photographs, postcards, press clippings, and greeting cards accumulated by the Bechler family.

Handmade New Years card sent to Sophie Schantz. The card has scherenschnitte edges and features calligraphy and a painting of pink flower blossoms by Carrie Schantz. It reads "Of this joyous day. Sophie Schantz. Many happy returns."

File consists of materials accumulated by Kay Rex on the genealogy of her family. Includes photocopies, clippings, correspondence, biographies and photographs.

File consists of a scrapbook compiled by Damaris Smith containing clippings, engravings, stamps and seals, and obituaries and biographies of prominent suffragists, literary, political and social women, some of whom are British.

Photocopies of clippings dating from the 1960's to 1980's.

Clipping of portraits with caption from unidentified newspaper: "By-election candidates in May 26 voting include (left to right) Herbert Roy Scott, 54-year-old Seagrave farmer and CCF choice in Ontario riding; Miss Elizabeth Janzen of Kitchener, Progressive Conservative candidate in Waterloo North, and her Liberal opponent Norman C. Schneider, packinghouse executive."

Programs.

One issue of the Dutch Girl News v. 10, no. 29 (March 1968) containing a biographical piece on J.D. Small on the occasion of his retirement

Envelopes addressed to Irene Hancock without accompanying correspondence. These are likely all from Ray Strachey. Also includes an envelope with Irene's handwritting indicating that a group of letters from Ray Strachey and regarding her leaving the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship were kept in it.

Three clippings regarding the Schneider Male Choir. One about the 1965 trip to Bermuda and two about the death of choir director Paul Berg.

Copy of a mortgage held by J.M. Schneider for one of his employees, William Radtke, dated January 25, 1905.

Records related to the Schneider Male Chorus. Includes a constitution, clippings, and ephemera.