Postcard photograph with a cut-out print of (left to right) Allen Huber, Mayor of Berlin Ont. and Sir Wilfrid Laurier in a carriage. Both are seen wearing hats and looking at camera. This photograph was found with Hervey Bowman's belongings.

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.

Head and torso studio portrait of Ward Malott White seen in profile and wearing a Salvation Army uniform.

Four negatives of Harold Russell as an infant with mother Dorothy White, on a tricycle as a toddler, in [Victoria Park] being held by an unidentified adult, and in a carriage with another child as an unidentified adult looks on. Enclosure included in file.

Image of Harold Russell sitting upright in a baby carriage as an infant with mother Dorothy looking on. The pair are seen outdoors on the sidewalk of a residential street.

Image of Harold Russell seated on a tricycle smiling happily toward the camera. A clothes line, trees and a garden bed are visible in the background.

Image of Harold Russell as an infant, wrapped in a blanket and wearing a hat, being held by an unidentified adult in [Victoria Park] along a shoreline. In the background trees, a foot bridge and a swan are visible.

Image of Harold Russell in a carriage looking toward the camera with an unidentified toddler trying to show something to Harold. At right in the background an unidentified adult looks on.