Ten letters received by Hervey Bowman, one from his father Isaac L. Bowman, addressed to "Sons," four from his mother, Elizabeth Meyers Bowman, one each from his brothers Frank and Leander, one from his Cousin David Bowman, two postcards from friends H. Corny and C.W McClean.

Date and Place from: May 19, 1891 Berlin, Ont. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Bowman, E.M.

Date and Place from: June 27, 1891 Toronto, Ont. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Leander Notes: Written on Office of the Medical Health Officer Toronto letterhead

Date and Place from: July 2, 1891 Berlin, Ont. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Bowman, E.M.

Date and Place from: July 2, 1891 Berlin, Ont. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Bowman, Isaac Lucius, d.1893.

Date and Place from: Aug. 14, 1891 Berlin, Ont. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Bowman, E.M.

Date and Place from: Aug. 21, 1891 Steelton, Pa. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Bowman, F.M. Attachments: Envelope, no stamp.

Date and Place from: June 10, 1893 Brockville, Ont. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From McClean, C.W. Notes: Postcard.

Date and Place from: June 15, 1893 Kemptville, Ont. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Corny, H. Notes: Postcard.

Date and Place from: Mar. 8, 1899 Berlin, Ont. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Bowman, E.M. Attachments: Envelope with stamp.

Date and Place from: Jan. 19, 1930 Edmonton, Alta. To Bowman, Hervey M., d.1931 From Bowman, David Attachments: Envelope, no stamp, also 2 small photographs.

Ephemera, notes regarding expenses.

Photograph of a steam locomotive at the Harlem Avenue station in Berwyn (now Chicago) Illinois.

Contains 1 day book (498 pages) for the William Kriesel stoves and tinware store (hardware store) from 1891-1892. Daily entries include names and corresponding ledger page numbers for customers, with a description of what they bought, whether they paid for it, the prices and quantities of items bought, and whether customers paid by cash or by eggs, rags, beef, pork, butter, or similar materials.

Kriesel indicates what he has sold by writing "To" and then the items, and how the person paid by writing "By" and then the method of payment.

Customer names include the Roseville School, Baptist Church, Cassel, Philip Poth, the Clare Brothers, the Woelfle brothers, and other notable New Dundee business people.

File consists of a letter from Herbert J. Bowman, superintendent of the Berlin Water Works Company, to the mayor and council of Berlin regarding the extension of the water main on Waterloo Street.

One fold map of Chicago and suburbs, compliments of Cremin & Brenan real estate. The map has been marked with the location of Orpheus Moyer Schantz’s home in Morton Park and Cicero. Verso reads “Cremin & Brenan 142 Dearborn St., Cor. Madison Chicago. Real estate dealers in high class property, business and residence properties improved and unimproved in all parts of Chicago and suburbs.” Cover of map is signed by Orpheus Moyer Schantz, Worth Flagler Schantz and George D. Humbert.

Marriage certificate for William Lapsley and Clara S. Joachimi dated April 14, 1891.

File consists of one letter signed by stockholders of The German Printing and Publishing Company of Berlin.

File consists of one letters patent for the German Printing and Publishing Company of Berlin, Ltd. The patent is dated November 11, 1891 and is awarded to John Fennell, George Rumpel, Henry Louis Janzen, Michael Scherer and Joseph Emm Seagram.

A collection of musical notation to be sung by students from Sunday Schools across Chicago as part of the Chicago Sunday School Field Day.

One group studio portrait of Samuel Moyer and Emma Bliss Moyer with their children Ela Bliss Moyer (standing right), Robert B. Moyer (standing left) and Louise Moyer.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence.

Map shows: township boundaries, sectional survey and railways. On verso: Manitoba farming information.

File consists of cards accumulated by Martha Rieder announcing the deaths and funerals of family members and friends. Several empty envelopes are also present.

• Anthes, Catharina (d. November 24, 1894)
• Anthes, John S. (d. April 13, 1915)
• Anthes, Franklin, Norman (d. October 16, 1915)
• Anthes, Magdalena (d. May 20, 1914)
• Anthes, Martin (d. April 10, 1891)
• Breithaupt, Catharine (d. July 5, 1910)
• Baumann (d. November 25, 1918)
• Herlan, Caroline (d. March 12, 1889)
• Herlan, F., Rev. (d. January 4, 1889)
• Kaufman, Jacob (d. April 20, 1920)
• Kimmins, Eva Wilhelmina (d. July 8, 1919)
• Knechtel, Daniel L. (d. July 10, 1913)
• Merner, Charles Frederick (d. December 25, 1913)
• Merner, Christian (d. February 17, 1912)
• Rieder, Lauretta Elizabeth (d. April 2, 1908)
• Rieder, Samuel (d. November 27, 1912)
• Rieder, Talmon Henry (d. April 15, 1922)
• Strasser, Seloma Anthes (d. March 7, 1921)
• Weber, Aaron D. (d. May 7, 1916)
• Zeller, Noah (d. February 8, 1914)
• Zurbrigg, Clinton Berge (d. February 1, 1921)

File consists of an autograph album. Includes notes and quotations from school friends and family members.

Studio portrait of Louis Jacob Gordon Wagner as a child standing in a row boat holding an oar.

Contains 1 ledger (794 pages), and one name index (24 pages) for the William Kriesel stoves and tinware store (hardware store) from 1891-1895. Entries are categorized by name and date, and include such information as what items were purchased, what day they were purchased on, and what type of payment was used (cash, exchange, or none at all). Some accounts include notes that state that they are transferred onto different pages or into Ledger E, and sometimes there is more than one account per page.

Includes a separate index of names with the corresponding page number beside the customer's name.

Customer names include Cassel, the Wilmot Township Council, Charles Hiller, Charles Kaufman, the Kolebrenner brothers, the Mennonite Church, the Lutheran Church, the Baptist Church, A.B. McRae, Dr. Andrew Miller, Charles Meyer, Philip Poth, Roseville School, Eyra Thamer, J.S. Wing (Wing & Co.), J.M. Weber [ie. Webber], John Woelfle, E.W.B. Snider [ie. Snyder] and other notable New Dundee business people.

File consists of one bound scrapbook compiled by Isabel Mackay. The scrapbook includes clippings of Mackay's published works, reviews, and biographical sketches. Pages 278-286 consist of a partial index to the scrapbook.

Four scribblers or exercise books, most with pictorial covers, owned by Florence Annie Catherine Schantz.

File consists of one white handkerchief with pink borders. The handkerchief is inscribed "From Grandpa 1891."

Library and lecture cards, sketch, Literary Society items, print of building, YMCA card.

One draft agreement dated November 21, 1891 between Simon Reid and Noah Weber, with initials H. B. [Hervey Bowman?] repeated in margin.

File consists of one ledger from Rieder and Ruby, General Merchants, of New Hamburg.

File consists of one facsimile of a Japanese railroad timetable.

Diary kept by Louis Henry Wagner.

Correspondence from Louis Henry Wagner to Bishop J.F. Esher. The letter discusses the possibility of the Evangelical Church in Canada merging with the Methodist Church, and seeking Esher's thoughts on the subject.

Correspondence from Albert Liborius Louis J. Breithaupt to Louis Henry Wagner. The postcard discusses a trip down the Rhine including visiting Koblenz and Bonn.

The Saturday Globe, Toronto, Saturday June 27, 1891, 1-4. A booster publication outlining the history, leading citizens, businesses, and industries. Includes portraits and photographs of buildings. Includes a portrait of Peter H. Sims.

Correspondence from John G. Litt to Louis Henry Wagner discussing church matters.

Correspondence from J.R. Hauch to Louis Henry Wagner. The postcard discusses Hauch having to go before a tribunal and would Louis Henry attend, and also bring a basket of grapes.

Correspondence from [M.L.W.?] to Louis Henry Wagner. The postcard discusses the church conference and a sermon given by a bishop.

Correspondence from Eusebius Haier Bean to Louis Henry Wagner. The postcard discusses the health of the family, goings on in the church and local funerals.

Correspondence from Jacob Wesley Bean to Louis Henry Wagner. The postcard discusses Louis Henry's son Louis' health and activities.

File consists of one trip diary kept by Florence Bray. The diary details trips to Europe (1926), California (1938 & 1939), New York and Atlantic City (1932), Virginia (1950), Florida (1930 & 1938), Scotland (1892), Gaspe (1946), Muskoka (1946). Also included in the diary are addresses of people met while on trips, a list of hotels stayed in and a fold out map of the United States and Mexico. The 1926 trip to Europe is of particular interest, with descriptions of major European cities and First World War battlefields.

File consists of invitations received by Martha Rieder to weddings, anniversaries, and other events. Includes invitations to weddings of some of her sisters and children and her own wedding invitation, as well as newspaper clippings about some of the weddings. Also present is an invitation received by Margaret Paisley to the wedding of her aunt Louisa Breithaupt. Duplicate invitations are present.

File consists of mounted snapshots taken in Penetanguishene, probably by Martha and Ella Anthes. Includes snapshots of people on a beach, a cottage, loads of bark on a dock and a boat, people resting from travelling, hiking, etc.

Document signed by Philip Hohmeier acknowledging receipt of all of Peter H. Sims' interest in the listed Canadian and American patents for improvements to hot-air stoves and furnaces, witnessed by Jas. S. Lockie.

File consists of The Prize Winner (vol. 1, no. 3), a monthly published in Waterloo by The Prize Winner Publishing Co. The journal describes itself as "a journal of choice literature, devoted to the improvement and amusement of the family circle." Contains a write-up about the wedding of John C. Breithaupt and Caroline (Carrie) Anthes.

File consists of thirty clipping on the life and works of William Wordsworth.

Date and Place from: September 12, 1892 Chicago, Ill. To Schantz, Franklin Abram. From Schantz, Austin Tobias. Notes: Written on Chas. Gossage & Co. Letterhead.

Date and Place from: March 10, 1893 Chicago, Ill. To Schantz, Franklin Abram. From Schantz, Austin Tobias. Attachments: Letter to Mary Schantz.

Date and Place from: September 13, 1898 [?] To Schantz, Franklin Abram. From Schantz, Austin Tobias.

Date and Place from: Feb. 27, 1912 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram. From Schantz, Austin Tobias. Includes sketch map.

Date and Place from: June 11, 1912 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram. From Schantz, Austin Tobias.

Date and Place from: Aug. 00, 1912 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram. From Schantz, Austin Tobias.

Date and Place from: Aug. 2, 1912 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram. From Schantz, Austin Tobias.

Corrected exercises.

One leaf folder programme for the First Congregational Choral Union concert of April 21, 1892.

Contains 1 day book (592 pages) for the William Kriesel stoves and tinware store (hardware store) from 1892-1893. Daily entries include names and corresponding ledger page numbers for customers, with a description of what they bought, whether they paid for it, the prices and quantities of items bought, and whether customers paid by cash or by eggs, rags, beef, pork, butter, teaming supplies from St. Petersburg to New Dundee, wood, oats, flour, hay, or similar materials.

Kriesel indicates what he has sold by writing "To" and then the items, and how the person paid by writing "By" and then the method of payment.

Customer names include Cassel, the Lutheran Church, J.M. Weber [ie. Webber], E.W.B. Snider [ie. Snyder], the public school, Dr. Andrew Miller, the Kolebrenner brothers, and other notable New Dundee business people.

File consists of a poster advertising an auction sale of a house and five acres of land in the village of St. Clements (Ontario), held by Colquhoun & McBride, vendor's solicitors, Waterloo. Auctioneer: Josep Hmickus.

Thirty-four letters received Franklin Abram Schantz.

Date and Place from: May 24, 1911 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958 Notes: Closing says Frank but written by may be written by Arthur Schantz.

Date and Place from: July 10, 1911 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Oct. 16, 1911 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Jan. 13, 1912 Calgary, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Dec. 17, 1912 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958 Notes: Written on Golden West Hotel letterhead.

Date and Place from: Jan. 12, 1913 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Jan. 24, 1913 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Feb. 16, 1913 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: April 28, 1913 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: June 1, 1898 Atlantic, Iowa To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958 Notes: partial letter, closing missing.

Date and Place from: May 16, 1912 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Dec. 14, 1892 New Dundee, Ont. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Sept. 12, 1898 Chicago, Ill. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958 Notes: Written on P. B. Weare & Co. Grain letterhead.

Date and Place from: July 1, 1899 Hopewell, OR To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958 Attachments: Envelope, no stamp.

Date and Place from: Aug. 3, 1899 Vancouver, B.C. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: May 17, 1911 ? To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Aug. 14, 1911 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Jan. 15, 1912 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: April 24, 1912 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: July 6, 1912 To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Feb. 19, 1913 Didsbury, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Sept. 14, 1913 Westcott To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Oct. 12, 1913 Westcott To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Aug. 22, 1901 Athabaska Landing Trail To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: June 20, 1898 Chicago, Ill. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958 Notes: Written on P. B. Weare & Co. Letterhead.

Date and Place from: Feb. 14, 1915 Westcott, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Mar. 11, 1915 Carstairs, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: May 31, 1915 Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Jan. 17, 1916 Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Feb. 23, 1916 Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Apr. 24, 1916 Big Prairie, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958 Notes: Written on Royal Hotel letterhead.

Date and Place from: Aug. 3, 1916 Big Prairie, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Nov. 21, 1916 Big Prairie, Alta. To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

Date and Place from: Oct. 31, 1898 Chicago, IL To Schantz, Franklin Abram, 1874-1962 From Schantz, Arthur Benjamin, 1876-1958.

One letter to Mary Ann Wismer from Uncle Jacob Moyer, St. Catharines, Ont.

One head and shoulders studio portrait of Etta Schantz. Etta is wearing a unique hairstyle.

Hand coloured head and shoulders studio portrait of Etta Schantz seen looking off camera.

A notebook belonging to Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz), and later given to Florence Annie Catherine Schantz in 1894.

Printed schedules, notes and newspaper results for April and September supplemental exams.

File consists of one 800 page journal giving account information from 1892-1897.

One leaf folded advertisement for Baronne Staffe's publication "My Lady's Dressing Room : a Manual of the Toilet."

Six scribblers or exercise books, most with pictorial covers, owned by Florence Annie Catherine Schantz.

Date and Place from: Oct. 12, 1892 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Arthur Benjamin. From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary. Attachments: Stamped envelope.

Photograph of employees standing outside of C.H. Doerr & Co. Biscuit & Confectionery Works looking at camera. They are seen standing on the front steps of the building and next to horse-drawn delivery buggies parked along the side.

One image of an unidentified man on the platform at the Canadian Pacific Railway station in Savanne, Ontario. The caption also reads: "From a Geological Survey of Canada photograph in the Public Archives of Canada."

Two compositions by Florence Roos, with comments by the teacher, dated 1892.

File consists of a keepsake box and sewing kit received by Martha Rieder for Christmas, 1892, from John and Carrie Breithaupt. Box is red velvet with a painting of two birds on the top (painting cracked and flaking off in some places). Contents of the box include:

• sewing kit items (needle case, needle, hook, thimble, etc.),
• pin cushion for displaying trinkets,
• 2 trinkets (birch bark canoe, souvenir of [?] tower),
• small paper fan with painting of matador and bull,
• mother of pearl bottle with decorative metal trim and cork stopper (scent flask?),
• clam shells attached with metal hinges and painted with flowers (souveinr of Niagara Falls [?]; paint flaking off; containing some type of fragrant material?),
• red velvet coin purse with leather interior containing a miniature pocket knife and coins (5 cents Canadian 1902, 5 cents US 1895, 25 cents US 1895).

Box also contains ms. note: "Martha M. Anthes, Christmas 1892, from Carrie and John."

Two business cards from Louis Henry Wagner.

Copy negatives from an old photograph ang Page 255 of W. V. Uttley's book "A history of Kitchener, Ontario" (1975). Taken by Sebastian Fischer, the photo is of John Roat's Commercial Hotel, at the corner of Queen and King, following a fire. One of the negatives includes a photograph of the first ambulance with nurses. Also included in the file are typed captions about the hotel and the ambulance that read:

"John Roat's Commercial Hotel after fire

site of Walper

destroyed 1892, after the fire, site bought
by Abel Walper of Zurich, Ont

sign says Livery Stable

(see Uttley History of Kit ..page 255)

2) same pic from book

3) same pic /with first ambulance
& nurses..."

One tract "A Plea for Temperance Unity" by Rev. Canon Wilberforce.

The Kitchener, Waterloo & Bridgeport Coal Dealers Association was organized April 20, 1919 to bring dealers together at regular intervals "to discuss matters of importance to the coal trade." This minute book contains records of meetings from the founding in 1919 to 1927. The minutes record decisions made about the conduct of business, retail prices, dicounts and terms, in the K-W area.

Insertions: ephemera and loose items found in this volume include: price list for coal, coke and wood, 1915; clippings, 1920-1937, correspondence, invoices. Two items of correspondence from 1933 deal with coal prices for the Family Relief Board and for the Kitchener Public Schools. The earliest document entitled "Coal Memo" is a copy of an agreement, signed by three parties, A.A. Pipe, J. Fennell, Kloepfer & Co., re prices and suppliers for public buildings including the Post Office and Poor House.

"Hett & Hallman, Printers, Berlin."

File consists of a deed of land. Concerns part of Lot 7 of the German Company Tract in the Township of Woolwich, which became Lot 9 and part of Lot 10 of Levi Cress' survey in the village of St. Jacobs.

One of a series of daybooks kept by Tobias Schantz containing personal and business accounts, calls made, orders taken, diary entries, notes to self, recipes, family information and more in one chronological sequence. Includes a transcription[?] of the "Family Register" starting with Isaac Schantz in 1774. Also notes: " Cousin Benjamin Shantz started for the North West on Monday 13 March, 1893. Cousin Benjamin Erb with Family started for the North West on Tuesday 14th March 1893. Moved. 15-3-93 Very Cold and Stormy. Walked from Dundee to Mannheim, to Petersburg & home, froze ear and tips of fingers..

Eighteen letters received by Sophie Emma Schantz.

Date and Place from: November 14, 1892 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: June 4, 1893 Chicago, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: September 12, 1894 Chicago, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900 Notes: Written on Chas. Gossage & Co. Letterhead.

Date and Place from: January 06, 1893 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: March 02, 1893 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: March 16, 1893 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: March 28, 1893 Chicago To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: March 30, 1893 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: May 02, 1893 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: July 07, 1893 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: December 22, 1893 Chicago To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: February 25, 1894 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: March 22, 1894 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: July 08, 1894 Chicago To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: September 15, 1894 s.l. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: August 21, 1893 Chicago To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: Oct. 15, 1893 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

Date and Place from: April 29, 1894 Morton Park, Ill. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Schantz, Etta Lydia Mary, 1866-1900.

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."

One upper body studio portrait of Nancy Bowman, friend of the Schantz family. Identification from album.

File consists of invitations received by Martha Rieder to weddings, anniversaries, and other events. Includes invitations to weddings of some of her sisters and children and her own wedding invitation, as well as newspaper clippings about some of the weddings. Also present is an invitation received by Margaret Paisley to the wedding of her aunt Louisa Breithaupt. Duplicate invitations are present.

File consist of clippings relating to Methodists in Canada.

Letter from Hattie A. Bruce dated Waterloo June 16, 1892 on behalf of the Ladies' Aid Society, thanking Margaret for her donation and giving her news of friends and family: "I had the pleasure of spending Tuesday evening at Mr. Davidson's watching Emma and a number of her friends going through their Delsarte exercises" (Includes envelope addressed c/o Dr. Davidson, 207 College St., Toronto.)

Correspondence from Eusebius Haier Bean to Louis Henry Wagner. The postcard discusses the health of their mother and Eusebius' plans to visit Ohio.

Correspondence from Eusebius Haier Bean to Louis Henry Wagner. The postcard discusses the whereabouts of Eusebius as well as his plans to hold sermons.

Correspondence from {Henry?] Dierlamm to Louis Henry Wagner.

Correspondence from Eusebius Haier Bean to Louis Henry Wagner. The postcard discusses Eusebius sending Louis Henry 5 1/2 dozen dried herring.

From Waterloo: letter from James Lockie to P.H. Sims reporting internal issues and factions, personnel problems and cliques working for their own ends.

1 letter.

Date and Place from: November 5, 1892 Guelph To Schantz, Frank, 1874-1962 From Martin, M.B. Attachments: No envelope.

One snapshot of the Clement family and friends at Wees Beach in Sarnia, Ontario. People are shown in the water, in a boat and on the shore.

File consists of a class portrait. Martha Rieder is seated in the second row from the bottom, third from right. Ella Anthes is seated second from left, at front.

File consists of mounted photographs relating to Martha Rieder's involvement at her church. Includes a group portrait of the first officers of the Junior Young People's Alliance (including Rev. J.G. Litt, and Martha as secretary), a snapshot of Martha's Sunday School class at the Grand River, snapshots of picnics of the Junior Young People's Alliance, and snapshots of Martha with her sisters and friends dressed in costume for church play, "In want of a servant."

File consists of five letters received by Martha Rieder from family members and friends. Some envelopes are included; stamps have been removed. Also present is an empty envelope. Includes letter from J.I. Frank Anthes on Anthes Mfg. Co. of Berlin letterhead and company envelope.

File consists of miniature portraits of Martha, Ella, and Louisa Anthes and their friends and [cousins?], including Louise McEwen; J.E. Breithaupt; Peg [last name unknown]; Laurie, Lou and Emma Anthes and Lemar and Carrie Strawser; Zella Dexter McDonald; Alvin R. Kaufman; Emma Kaufman; and other unidentified individuals.

Letters written to and from Alice Egan Hagen. Correspondents include Woman's Art Association of Canada, and the Nova Scotia College of Art.

• Date and Place From: 1893.04.29 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From ?
• Date and Place From: 1896.11.06 Toronto, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Thompson, E.J. Notes: Partial letter
• Date and Place From: 1896.12.05 Toronto, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Thompson, E.J.
• Date and Place From: 1897.07.08 Toronto, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Thompson, E.J.
• Date and Place From: 1897.12.06 Toronto, Ont. To Egan, Thomas J. From Maughan, J. Notes: Re his daughter's work.
• Date and Place From: 1898.07.07 Toronto, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Morson, Jessie D. [?]
• Date and Place From: 1940.03.30 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Mulcahy, Mary
• Date and Place From: 1940.04.10 Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia To Mulcahy, Mary From Hagen, Alice Mary
• Date and Place From: 1940.04.13 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Nutt, Elizabeth S.
• Date and Place From: 1940.04.23 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Nutt, Elizabeth S.
• Date and Place From: 1946.08.07 Ottawa, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Smart, J.
• Date and Place From: 1947.08.05 Falmouth, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Emelie
• Date and Place From: 1948.10.08 Saskatoon, Sask. To Hagen, Alice Mary From McNaughton, Violet
• Date and Place From: 1948.10.25 Falmouth, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Emelie
• Date and Place From: 1953.04.29 Oakville, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Satterly, M.F.
• Date and Place From: 1958.08.05 Cambridge, ? To Hagen, Alice Mary From ?
• Date and Place From: 1961.08.07 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Rita and Bill
• Date and Place From: 1961.08.15 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Balcom, S.R.
• Date and Place From: 1961.08.16 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Roche, Gertrude
• Date and Place From: 1961.08.16 West Bay, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Urquhart, Earl W.
• Date and Place From: n.d. S.l., To Hagen, Alice Mary From Emelie Notes: Top of letter torn off.
• Date and Place From: n.d..09.10 Falmouth, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Emelie

Blueprints illustrating property owned by various members of the Ratz family including John Ratz, George Ratz, Simon Ratz and Daniel Ratz.

22 coloured illustrations of flowers, animals, children, and sentimental scenes. Most of the prints are Chicago Tribune Art supplements.

Date and Place from: Oct. 20, 1893 Blyth, Ont. To Schantz, Sophie Emma, 1869-1958 From Austin, Alf.

One promissory note signed by Mary Schantz (nee Moyer), 1893 as well as a copy of Lease and a copy of Premium, or agreement between Singer and prospective agents or employees setting out terms of employment and compensation, filled out with Tobias Schantz's name as employee.