File consists of seven items of correspondence addressed to Minnie, Fred, and Colleen Maines from Dr. Tehyi Hsieh. The relationship between the Maines family and Dr. Hsieh is unknown however Dr. Hsieh was a lecturer and director of the Chinese Service Bureau in Boston.

File consists of one séance notebook with handwritten notes by Minnie O'Hara Maines. This séance appears to be an attempt to contact Fred Maines by Minnie, her daughter Colleen and Colleen's husband Earl.

File consists of one séance notebook with handwritten notes.

File consists of one séance notebook with handwritten notes by Minnie O'Hara Maines.

File consists of one séance notebook with handwritten notes by Minnie O'Hara Maines and Frederick J.T. Maines.

File consists of one séance notebook with handwritten notes by Minnie O'Hara Maines.

File consists of one séance notebook with handwritten notes by Minnie O'Hara Maines.

File consists of one séance notebook with handwritten notes by Minnie O'Hara Maines.

File consists of one séance notebook with handwritten notes by Minnie O'Hara Maines.

File consists of photographs created and accumulated by the Maines Pincock family. Includes photographs of séances, family members and friends, and events at Lily Dale. People identified:

• Austin, Dr.
• Cartheuser, Billy
• Cartheuser, Gerry
• Cartheuser, William
• Compton, Mrs
• Gildner, Colleen
• Grey, Bert
• Grey, Eveyln
• Maines, Frederick J.T.
• Maines, Minnie O'Hara
• Pincock, Jenny O'Hara

File consists of one notebook with notes from the National Council of Women regarding assisting the war effort. Notes are in the handwriting of Minnie O'Hara Maines.

File consists of one notebook listing names and contact information of members of the Church of the Divine Revelation. Also includes materials relating to the church such as correspondence, a treasurers report and clergyman's records.

Accrual consists of material created and accumulated by members of the Maines Pincock family primarily related to séances and the occult. Includes séance notebooks, sermons, ephemera, photographs, and more.

The collection is made up of approximately 600 books, periodicals, and ephemera related to spiritualism, psychic phenomena, and alternative religious movements. The book collection complements the archival portion of the donation, the Fred and Minnie Maines fonds.

The collection includes the library maintained by the Church of Divine Revelation and the Radiant Healing Centre, established by Newton and Jenny Pincock in St. Catharines. Fred and Minnie Maines continued to add to the collection over the years.

Many titles in the field of spiritualism are represented, such as B. F. Austin's The Prophet of Nazareth and the Seer of Poughkeepsie (Los Angeles: B. F. Austin, n.d.); Albert Durrant Watson's The Twentieth Plane (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1918); Florence Marryat's There is no Death (London: Rider, 1920); Thirty Years Among the Dead, by Carl A. Wickland (Los Angeles: National Psychological Institute, 1924); and several works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Several copies of Jenny Pincock's seance accounts, Trails of Truth (Los Angeles: Austin, 1930), are available, along with the original manuscript and notes.

Also present are numerous journals from the spiritualist community, such as Light: a Journal of Spiritualism, Psychical, Occult and Mystical Research, The Occult Digest, and Two Worlds: Monthly Magazine Featuring Spiritualism and the Supernormal. A complete run of Progression, published by the Radiant Healing Centre is present. Other subjects represented include the Theosophical Society, psychic healing, numerology, and vegetarianism.

Titles of Canadian literary interest include several first editions of works by E. J. Pratt (many of which are dedicated to Jenny Pincock and her husband, Newton, a childhood friend of Pratt's), a copy of Elsie Pomeroy's Sir Charles G. D. Roberts: a Biography (Toronto: Ryerson, 1943) which contains a dedication inscription to Jenny Pincock from Roberts' widow, Joan, and Jenny Pincock's own book of poetry, Hidden Springs (Privately printed, 1950), with an introduction by E. J. Pratt.