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One photograph of a man standing in front of trees holding a knife and an apple [?]. He is wearing a salt and pepper style cap and a pocket watch chain with a croix pattée.

Summer 1980 Vol.5, No. 2.

Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1980 edition of NASCAP News. Articles include: The Five Standards for Safe Childbearing; California Midwife Charged Twice for Same Offense; Florida Lay Midwifery Bill Narrowly Defeated; NJ Doctors Seek to Dominate Midwives; Testimony Before New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners Public Hearing; Alaskan home Birth Physician Acquitted in Homicide Trial; Letter to NJ Board Medical Examiners; Notes from the FDA; Once a Section, Always a Section an Anachronistic Concept; Warning: Episiotomy can be Lethal; Fetal Monitors Spread Infections; Do Doctors Object to Home Birth out of Concern for Safety? Or is it Money?; Two Bushels of Socks, an Interview with Henrietta. There are also advertisements for books, courses, directories, films, birthing and baby care products such as breast feeding dolls, as well as letters to the magazine, a classified section and a calendar of events in the Childbirth Reform Movement across the United States.

NAPSAC

Articles.

Articles and short stories written by Lydia Dotto that were both published and unpublished.

Dotto, Lydia

University of Waterloo leather jacket.

A black leather jacket from the University of Waterloo likely purchased and worn by an undergraduate student in the kinesiology and co-op programs. The front left-side of the jacket includes a patch of the University of Waterloo crest and motto. The back of the jacket contains letter patches that spell out, “UNIVERSITTY OF WATERLOO.” The left sleeve of the jacket features letter patches that spell out, “CO-OP / KIN.” The right sleeve of the jacket includes the number patches, “84.”

University of Waterloo

Master's thesis as typed by James Walker.

Typed copy of James Walker’s Master’s thesis titled "The Black loyalists of Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone," submitted to the University of Waterloo. Includes annotated copies of sections:

  • Introduction,
  • Chapter I – Origins of the Black loyalists,
  • Chapter II – Loyalist Nova Scotia,
  • Chapter III – The foundation of Sierra Leone,
  • Chapter IV – Clarkson’s mission to America,
  • Chapter V – Pioneers in Africa,
  • Chapter VI – Black and white: the slave mentality,
  • Chapter IX – External relations,
  • Chapter X – Rebellion,
  • Chapter XI – The maroons in Jamaica,
  • Chapter XII – Nova Scotian interlude,
  • Chapter XIII – The dying company,
  • Chapter XIV – Crown government,
  • Chapter XV – Black and black: the creole process,
  • Epilogue,
  • Appendix I,
  • Footnotes.

Walker, James

Journal.

Robert Shipley's journal for the years 1979 and 1980. Includes Shipley’s daily journaling, personal notes, drawings, and remarks, as well as related photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings collected and pasted on the journal. Also includes a drawing by Shipley from 1971.
Also contains a document created by Shipley identifying the people and places mentioned in the journal.

Shipley, Robert

Anthropological studies in the strange and sexual practices of all races in all ages.

Mail order prospectus for 'Anthropologic studies in the strange sexual practices of all races in all ages, ancient and modern, oriental and occidental, primitive and civilized' by Dr. Iwan Bloch, physician of diseases of the sexual system, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Dr. Bloch was also the author of 'Sexual life of our time', 'origin of syphilis', and 'Marquis de Sade'. The work was translated from the German by Keene Wallis and printed by Blackfriars Press. The prospectus gives more information on some of the strange sexual practices discussed, including savage lesbian love, obscene cults, modern apparatus and pleasure expedients, sexual magic, and more. On the verso of the prospectus is a form to fill out to have the book mailed to you, with a note that only mature students of anthropology, sociology and allied subjects need apply.

Blackfriars Press

Manuscripts Held in Trust

Series is comprised of a collection of manuscripts held in trust, given to the archive by Doris Davis, widow of Bertram R. Davis. The items include letters, poetry, an indenture and other miscellaneous notes by romantic poets and their relatives including Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Davis, Bertram R.

Ivan W. Keffer : Personal

Series consists of material created and accumulated by Ivan W. Keffer relating primarily to his personal life. Includes includes diaries, correspondence, notices and certificates, a passport and other personal/identification documents, clippings, ephemera, photographs, a scrapbook, and other material. The diaries, relating to Keffer's career as well as his personal life, cover the period during which he and his family lived in Germany and include entries that illustrate the escalation of political tensions and economic difficulties in Germany leading up to World War II and their impact on business in the country. Other material of note includes certificates and notices from the National Air Protection League (Reichsluftschutzbund).

Keffer, Ivan Wilbur

Correspondence.

Correspondence written between Forbes family members and friends, predominately George Alexander Forbes, Millicent Lyall Forbes, Betty Forbes, and Peg Forbes.

Forbes, Betty

Federal and provincial government.

File consists of correspondence to and from G. Elmore Reaman relating to possible government employment and also to his pension. Includes one letter from Lester B. Pearson.

Reaman, George Elmore

Partnership Agreements: Declaration of Names and Residences of Partners of the Firm of George Randall & Co. of Waterloo Village Under the Registration of Co-partnerships Act, 1869.

Verifax copy and ts. transcript of an original document filed in the Registry Office in the County of Waterloo, signed by Geo. Randall, Jos. E. Seagram, and W. Roos, which states their partnership to have begun April 15, 1869.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Design notes.

File consists of material relating to Kindree's work on the /360 WATFOR and WATFIV projects. Includes notes (some photocopied), diagrams, and flowcharts.

Kindree, William

Woelfle, John : correspondence to his brother Edward Woelfle.

Contains 10 letters from John Woelfle to his brother Edward E. Woelfle, written while John Woelfle was travelling for a company called Callaghan & Co. accross the United States.

  • Date and Place From: January 3, 1895 Chicago, [Illinois] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: February 13, 1895 Chicago, [Illinois] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: March 10, 1895 Fort Wayne, [Indiana] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: March 17, 1895 Urbana, [Ohio] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: September 22, 1895 Lexington [Missouri] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: October 6, 1895 Hot Springs, [Arkansas] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: October 20, 1895 Fort Worth, [Texas] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: December 8, 1895 San Antonio, [Texas] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: December 15, 1895 Brenham, [Texas] To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.
  • Date and Place From: December 22, 1895 Galveston, Texas To Woelfle, Edward E., 1873-? From Woelfle, John Attachments: Stamped envelope.

Woelfle, John

Family Papers.

Includes a diary written by Mary Ham detailing the events of her summer trip from Port McNicol, Ontario to the Canadian west including Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

Installation of Lord Aberdeen.

One address book kept by Lady Aberdeen listing those who attended the installation of Lord Aberdeen as Governor General of Canada.

Hamilton-Gordon, Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks

Political career

Series consists of records pertaining to Leavine's political career at the municipal and provincial level. Includes notebooks with speeches drafts and notes, as well as clippings about electoral campaigns, political positions, policy changes, and events attended as a public figure.

Leavine, Stanley Francis

Ptg on way to Tiny beach.

Photograph of five adults and two children by a wooden bridge taken in Penetanguishene on the way to Tiny Beach (Ontario). Three adults are standing on the bridge, and two adults with two children are closer to the edge of the water.

People in photograph are: Carrie Breithaupt is standing at front left and looking at the camera, John Edward Breithaupt is possibly the child seated on the right, John Christian Breithaupt is standing at right and Lydia Anthes is seated at right on wooden railing.

Breithaupt Hewetson Clark family

19th century photographs.

Two 19th century photographs, unidentified. One is a portrait of a young man taken by W. Theaker, Markdale and the other is of a farmhouse and barn with people, taken by W.H. Love, Markdale.

English Family

Hyde Park demonstration.

Postcard with photograph of Christobel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence seen looking at camera and wearing "Votes of Women" sashes taken of at Hyde Park demonstration. The pair is standing in front of a display with a "Votes for Women" banner and other demonstration attendees are visible in background. Caption at bottom of postcard reads: "Hyde Park Demonstration, June 21, 1908: Miss Christobel Pankhurst, LL.B. & Mrs. Pethick Lawrence."

The post card was published by Sandle Brothers, Empire House, Paternoster Row, London EC and identified as No. 101, Photo, Half Tones.

Address book.

One address book kept by Harry J. Byers. Includes lists of names and addresses of friends in North America as well as those met overseas. Also includes financial notes, Russian language translation notes, menus, etc.

Robert Alden Sanborn : Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence to and from Robert Alden Sanborn to family, colleagues and publishing contacts regarding his writing process and progress, his family, and his personal interests including the social development of children and the work of Carl Jung.

Personal Papers

Series consists of personal papers created and accumulated by Harry Byers. Includes epehemera, clippings, certifcates, correspondence, a passport, employment and education information, and a diary detailing Byers' time working in Russia.

Byers, Harry J.

Book launches: First blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women.

Relates to media events aimed at promoting First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. This includes a list of interviews given by Eric McCormack to the media in Ottawa and a reading at the National Library. Additionally, this file contains a list of media events (primarily interviews) attended by Eric McCormack as part of efforts by himself and his publisher, Penguin Canada, to promote First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

McCormack, Eric P.

Career

Materials relating to the career and teachers education of Mary Johnston. Includes professional development, career trajectory information, and work by students.

Johnston, Mary

Bilger, Anna.

Full body studio portrait of Anna Bilger (nee Fry) seen looking at camera and standing with left hand resting on the back of a chair.

Schantz Russell Family

Files

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by the Walter Bean Grand River Community Foundation. Includes all unpublished written materials including office files, correspondence, etc.

Walter Bean Grand River Community Trails Foundation

Hunting the slipper.

File consists of one musical manuscript. written on staff paper. The manuscript is oblong and features numerous short songs, as well as small portions of notation. Notation is written in two distinct hands.

Eisen, Sol

Schantz, Franklin Abram.

Material relating to Franklin Abram Schantz's activities and interests, primarily household and personal accounts and investments. Includes correspondence, clippings and ephemera.

Schantz Russell Family

Address book.

Notebook with F.A. Schantz stamped on cover in gold, issued by the Toronto Carpet Mfg. Co., used as an address book.

Canada Volunteer Award.

Material relating to the National Health and Welfare Volunteer Award given to W.H. Kaufman in 1986 for his work with the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital. Includes a letter from Jake Epp, Minister of National Health and Welfare, Aug. 14, 1986, informing W.H. Kaufman of this award, and a clipping.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Kaufman, A.R. : Biographical

Series consists of biographical information about A.R. Kaufman. Includes clippings, articles, interviews and obituaries. Arranged in alphabetical order.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Kaufman family and personal affiliations.

Materials related to A. R. Kaufman's family. Includes family photographs with Jacob and Mary Eidt Kaufman's family, A. R. and Jean Kaufman and their children, and other members of the extended family and friends; correspondence received by A. R. and Jean Kaufman; materials related to A. R. and Jean Kaufman's wedding and anniversary celebrations and birthdays; A. R. Kaufman legal documents; and materials related to A. R. Kaufman retirement and passing.
Also contains materials related to A. R. Kaufman's personal affiliations in the Grand River Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, the Royal City Lodge of Perfection, Springfield College, and a Silver Jubilee medal awarded to Kaufman.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Correspondence

Series documents John Walter’s correspondence with William Daum Euler and the Kitchener Daily Record. The correspondence focus on Walter’s request for a public debate with Euler over capitalism and the economy. Other correspondence and newspaper clippings cover the Record’s refusal to publish, in their newspaper, the letters Walter sent about challenging Euler. There are also clippings of Euler's speech which Walter references in his letters.

Walter, John

Autograph book.

A small autograph book that belonged to Florence Annie Catherine Schantz. Includes a gilded embossed cover and small pictorial Victorian cuts pasted beside some entries.

Schantz Russell Family

Cost accounting manager : G.R. Good.

Contains material relating to the cost accounting manager, G.R. Good. Includes memoranda, design sheets, mill room day staff allowance, line balance procedure, production calculations, and shoe room rates.

Kaufman Footwear

Historical

Series consists of materials documenting the history of Dare Foods Ltd. Includes meeting minutes, clippings, advertising, logos, ephemera and more. Also includes materials documenting the Dare strike of 1972,

Dare Foods Limited

Predecessor companies : recipe and formula books.

Four recipe or formula books dating from 1938 to 1942 that originally belonged to Dare Foods Limited's predecessor companies including the Paulin-Chambers Company Limited and McCormick's Limited.

The first book is identified on the spine with the word, 'Paulins.' This book contains formulas written between 1938-1939 for a few products which remain in Dare's product line, although the formulas used today are quite different, including those for Ruffles and Normandy (now spelled "Normandie").

The second book is identified on the spine with the word, 'Weston.' This book was likely used in the McCormick plant in London, Ontario, which was owned at the time by George Weston Limited. The recipes in this book were written in 1940.

The third book is identified on the spine with the words, 'English [&] Canada.' This book is likely a compilation of recipes from England and Canada written in and around 1942. Some of the recipes list a name in the top right (e.g. T. Jamieson for "Alsation" biscuits) or refer to their having been made in "King's England." Other recipes are ascribed to "McCormick," "CBF" (a reference to "Cracker Baker," possibly an industry handbook) and "McV & P" (McVitie & Price of Edinburgh, Scotland). At the end of the book there are seven pages of handwritten notes and recipes on the back of McCormick biscuit wrappers.

The fourth book is not identified on the spine however, it contains recipes for fillings, coatings and mixtures written in 1941. Fillings and coatings were applied to cookies after they were baked. Mixtures were packages of assorted biscuits, typically with a different cookie in each row.

This file also includes one memorandum written by Bryan Dare providing detailed historical information about Dare Foods Limited's predecessor companies, recipes, and manufacturing technologies referred to in the books.

Dare Foods Limited

Incorporation : Acts and Bills

Series consists of records relating to the incorporation and organization of the Grand River Conservation Authority and its predecessors, the Grand River Conservation Commission and the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Includes originals and photocopies of acts, bills, and letters patent.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Course notes.

File consists of one notebook with course notes from an unidentified course.

Stanton, Ralph G.

Family Files

Series consists of records documenting aspects of the lives, careers, and interests of Charles E. Greb, Harry Greb, Clara May Greb, Erwin C. Greb, and Charles E. Greb Sr.; and the lives and disappearance of basset hounds Velvet and Jasmine. Includes press clippings; correspondence; birth, marriage, and death certificates; wills; photographs; certificates and awards; ephemera; and other material. Material probably collected and compiled by Charles E. Greb.

Greb, Charles E. family

Greb, Charles E.

File consists of material documenting the career, community involvement, and achievements of Charles E. Greb. Includes press clippings, certificates and awards, ephemera, correspondence, personal profiles and biographies, a news release, etc. Includes a letter from Ontario Premier William G. Davis and Secretary of State Walter McLean.

Greb, Charles E. family

Personal

Series consists of material, much of it personal or biographical, accumulated and kept by Ross Dixon and documenting his activities and interests outside of his career and businesses. Includes material relating to Dixon's time as a student at Hillfield School (later Hillfield Strathallan College), his involvement in the Toronto Skating Club and planning skating carnivals, his wedding to Doris McRae Whiting, their cottage at Paradise Lake, his role in the Belmont Business Association, his political interests, honours he received, etc.

Series includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, agreements, photographs, biographies, certificates, honourary degrees, personal documents, agendas and minutes, a scrapbook, and other material.

Dixon, Ross

Die Soldaten Des Fuhrers Im Felde.

The Fuhrer's Soldiers In The Field, a propaganda book about high ranking Nazi officials and their work. Also included are 100 stereoscope photographs along with a viewer, showing various Nazi operations.

NSDAP

Correspondence

Correspondence between Nalza L. Dane and others, including letters of congratulations and Christmas cards.

Dane, Nazla L.

Incorporation

Series consists of records relating to the incorporation of Dominion Electrohome Industries Limited and its predecessors, the Phonola Company of Canada, Pollock-Welker Limited, and the Grimes Radio Corporation Limited; as well as the incorporation of Pollock Enterprises Limited. Series also includes records relating to the administration of Grimes Radio Corporation from 1925 to 1939 and Pollock Enterprises from 1947 to 1959. Includes share certificates, letters patent, by-laws, board of directors' meeting minutes, registers of shareholders and directors, and stock subscription applications.

Electrohome

Rieder, Martha.

Full length studio portrait of Martha Anthes looking down at a flower held in hands, seen wearing a long white dress and standing in front of an arm chair with throw pillows. A side table with a potted plant is visible in the background at right.

Rieder and Anthes family

Letters patent and by-laws.

File consists of a leather-bound volume in which are pasted the letters patent and by-laws for the Greb Shoe Company Limited, created in 1916; special by-laws passed during the life of the company; and the acceptance by the Province of Ontario of the surrender of the company's letters patent in 1931. Volume also includes a register of shareholders.

Greb Industries Limited

Appeal.

Correspondence, telegraphs and typescript documents of and related to the notice of appeal issued by C. R. Magone, solicitor to the Attorney General for Ontario including copies of the notice of appeal, a list of particulars of the grounds of appeal, notes by F. W. Wegenast, and telegraphs sent before and after the hearing of the appeal on June 1, 1937 by people including [James] Bright, A.R. Kaufman, Wegenast. Of note is correspondence to and from Kaufman and Wegenast following the end of the trial in March 1937 about the possibility of an appeal based on the appointment of Paul LeDuc as the new Attorney General, and a telegraph from A. R. Kaufman to Dorothea Palmer congratulating her on the dismissal of the appeal and advising to "not grant newspaper interviews."

Wegenast, Franklin Wellington

Correspondence : Bill.

File consists of one postcard addressed to Dana Porter from Bill [?] featuring a photo of an Atomic Detonation in Nevada.

Porter, Dana Harris

Executive member binder : Corinne Nemy.

Binder kept by Corinne Nemy during her term as president of the Women's Press Club of Toronto from 1976-1978. Includes open line newsletter, monthly program notices, business meeting minutes, executive meeting minutes, correspondence, AGM material, by-laws, officer duties, financial reports, membership forms, letter's patent for the club, clippings, and material relating to the Canadian Women of Note - Computerized biography project with York University, etc

Women's Press Club of Toronto

Anthes, John S. family.

Studio portrait of John S. (seated left) and Lydia Anthes (seated right) with their children. Ella and Martha are seen posed between their parents with siblings (left to right) John, Louisa, and Carrie standing at back.

Rieder and Anthes family

Advisory report to Simon Fraser University.

File consists of an advisory report to Simon Fraser University written by James Downey and James Kalbfleisch. Also includes correspondence between James Downey and Michael Stevenson regarding the report.

Downey, James

Dominion Rubber employees.

One photograph of Dominion Rubber employees outside of the factory. Visible in the photograph are: Charlie Baldwin, John Calrenbo, Nick Mason, Carl Johnson, John Kallgreen, Tony Partello, P.Y. Ho, Bob Olds.

About Nancy-Lou Patterson

This series contains folders maintained by Nancy-Lou Patterson. For published items about Nancy-Lou Patterson, see Series: Publications and Printed Items.

Patterson, Nancy-Lou

Christmas cards.

File consists of various Christmas cards all showing woodcuts by Gill. One is signed from Mary and Eric Gill and one from Hilay and Clare Pepler.

Gill, Eric

Organizational

Series consists of materials relating to the operation and history of Dominion Rubber, its subsidiaries, companies it was later purchased by. Includes histories of Dominion and Uniroyal, financials, materials relating to branches and operations, etc.

Dominion Rubber Company

Album #1 : negatives with no prints.

Negatives accompanying Album #1 for which no positive prints were found. Includes negatives of Ethel and Howard and Brita Schneider in a park; and shots of Herbert, Howard and Brita Schneider as children, alone and together.

Schneider family

Heaven’s Blessing on the Twain.

A stereograph titled, “Heaven’s Blessing on the Twain” taken by Benjamin Kilburn and mounted by James M. Davis. The stereograph is part of Benjamin Kilburn’s “Marriage series” and depicts a man and a woman asleep in bed with a spectral outline of an angel overlooking them. This stereograph is an example of spirit photography.

Kilburn, Benjamin West

Sapolio advertisement

Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing three women washing dishes with the caption "Wash dishes with Sapolio." Verso reads "There is no one article known that will do so many kinds of work in and about the house and do it so well as Enoch Morgan's Sons Sapolio. (Each cake is wrapped in Tin Foil, and surrounded with Ultramarine Blue-Band, and bears the above device) always note this. A cake of Sapolio, a bowl of water and a brush, cloth or sponge will make house cleaning a quick and easy job, will clean paint and all painted surfaces, will clean marble, mantles, tables and statuary, will clean oil-cloths, floors, shelves, etc., will clear bath tubs, wash basins, etc., will clean crockery, glassware, etc., will clean kitchen utensils, of all kinds, will clean windows without splashing of water, will polish tin, brass and copperware, will polish knives as you wash them, will polish all metal surfaces and will clean all household articles and is better and cheaper than soap, emery, rotten stone, etc. John Wanamaker, Grad Depot, Phila."

Sweeperette advertisement

Die cut card showing five women behind a fence with a caption reading "The look well on the fence! Much better on the other side. This road leads to success used by the million." The verso shows the backs of the women, each of whom are holding a Sweeperette sweeper. Verso reads "always in the push our Sweeperette. Sweeperette Company 76 5th Ave. New York Grand Rapids, Mich."

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