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The Breithaupt Leather Co., April 1930.

Panorama group portrait of Breithaupt Leather Company employees standing in a row, on muddy terrain, outside of the tannery building and office entrance. Most are in caps and several are wearing rubber boots and ankle-length aprons. A building with a bell tower is visible in the background.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Santa Claus at Kitchener, Xmas.

Copy negative of a mounted Denton photograph of Santa Claus visiting Kitchener in a horse drawn sleigh in 1921. Caption accompanying negative reads: "2) Santa at Kitchener 1921 (on Frederick?)."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

The First Saengerfest in Berlin, 1876.

Copy negative of old photograph printed in a book showing a decorated building with a large crowd of people at front. The caption under the reads: "The First Saengerfest in Berlin, 1876. Photograph kindly lent by Mr. Aug. Schmiedel." Typed caption included in file reads: "SAENGERFEST HALL 1876. photo from old book. located where present-day Woodside athletic field area is... large group of people."

Demolition of Buildings on Hall's Lane, Kitchener, April, 1958, to make way for Parking Lot.

Print photographs, with typed captions on verso, taken by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record of building demolition along Hall's Lane. File also includes April 5, 1958 newspaper clipping of published version of one of the photos [GA92-9-26_002].

Caption on verso of GA92-9-26_001 reads: "KITCHENER - Demolitions (April 3, 1958). Old home vanishes from Hall's Lane, together with three-story building used for some years by William Knell and Company. Purchased for city parking lot. (Walper Hotel in right background.)

Caption on verso of GA92-9-26_002: "KITCHENER - Demolitions. Two old buildings on Hall's lane east just off Queen street south are being demolished to make way for new Parking Authority car lot."

Caption on verso of GA92-9-26_003: "KITCHENER - Demolitions. April 5, 1958. Hall's Lane."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Building at Corner of King and Water St., ca. 1900.

Photographs of a commercial building at the corner of King and Water taken decades apart. The first, from the 1900s, is a copy of a photo of the building when occuped The Berlin Granite & Marble Works. The second, taken in 1947, should the building occupied by TNT. Surplus Ltd.

Parade From American Hotel.

Copy negative of an old photograph of three open top cars, carrying men and women in hats, driving past the Walper Hotel as crowds of people look on from the sidewalk. Caption accompanying negative reads: "3) Parade from American Hotel, 20s."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

John Roat's Commercial Hotel After Fire, Site of the Walper Hotel, ca. 1892.

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..."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

American Hotel, [Tyson's Store, American Block] Corner of King & Queen Streets, ca. 1861 and later..

Copy negatives of American Hotel building block. Two negatives are of a photograph of the exterior of A. Tyson's Grocery on Page 81 of "Berlin today Centennial number in celebration of the old boys' and girls' reunion August, 6th, 7th, 8th, 1906". The third is of a photograph of the exterior of the American Hotel on the page of an unidentified book.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Daily Record: 1930's Local Business Newspaper Advertisements: Ford, Schreiter, Victor Radio, Dominion Stores, Goodrich, Kabels, Lockhart Buick, Tip Top Tailors, Goudies.

Nine shots of various pages from bound editions of the Daily Record featuring advertisements from the 1930s for: Ford, Schreiter, Victor Radio, Dominion Stores, Goodric, Kabels, Lockhart Buick, TipTop Tailor, and Goudies.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Dunke Grocery Store, 35 King St. E. between Queen and Benton, Interior and Exterior views.

Copy negatives of photographs of the interior and exterior of Dunke Grocery Store that operated in Kitchener from ca. 1800s to 1936. Caption and envelope notes accompanying negative read: "DENKEL'S STORE - interior and exterior view of Dunke Grocery Store 35 King East between Queen and Benton. May 22/1979. Copies Dunke Store. Submitted by Bill Dunke, 187 Lydia St."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Circus Parade, King. St. near Water.

Two copy negatives of old photographs. One shows elephants walking double file down a dirt road beside [electric railway?] tracks headed by two single elephants with ladies riding on top. The negative is annotated: "Circus Parade. King St. near Water St. 1904." The other, taken from the same position, shows uniform wearing [firemen?] horseback riding a double file down a dirt road while carrying flags that read: "Fighting the Flames".

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Artesian Well on Caroline St., Waterloo.

Image of Waterloo PUC and town officials at the tapping of an artesian well on Caroline St. in 1919. The group is seen standing on either side of the well, which is gushing with water. The well was capped in 1934; the accompanying news story also shows the gusher resulting from this same well being struck during construction of Waterloo Town Square in 1961.

Mysterious Well Poses Problems.

Image of Waterloo Town Square construction site covered in snow with a Seagram Distillers building in the background. At bottom right is a pool of water seeping out of an old, capped artesian well, struck by construction workers.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

118th Parade at King and Queen from old film, turning onto King.

Copy negative of clip from film of the 118th Battalion marching band traveling down a city street while playing instruments. Hanging signs for Staebler Insurance, Lockhart's Garage and Dominion Cafe are visible in the background. Caption accompanying negative reads: "6) 118th parade at King and Queen from old film turning onto King."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Scene Outside Kitchener Market, ca. 1890's?

Copy print, taken on the other side of the building shown in GA92-9-73, showing what is possibly a weigh scale for wagons. The domed building is the town hall and the light coloured building in the background is the Kitchener Hotel.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

New Hamburg, Main Street.

Print photograph of Main Street in New Hamburg with shadow of photographer at bottom of frame. Storefronts for Fischer's Footwear and Luggage, Peel Variety Centre, Ecker's, and Valerie's Coiffures are visible along street.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Fire Hall, Berlin, Ont., Canada.

Copy negative of a postcard of the Berlin Fire Hall with two horse drawn wagons out front. File also includes caption notes for other photos in series titled BERLIN FIREHALL.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

William Dickson collection.

  • SCA12-GA7
  • Collection
  • 1818, 1831-1834, 1839

Collection consists of seven legal documents regarding the sale of land in the Township of Dumfries in Southern Ontario.

File list:

1. Deed of land between Aaron White and Joseph Dorland -100 acres (Hallowell Township) – June 5, 1818
2. Deed of land between between William Dickson and William Otis - 50 acres – May 9, 1831
3. Deed of land between between William Dickson and John Campbell - 315 1/3 acres – July 14, 1832
4. Deed of land between between William Dickson and Jacob Kinsey - 150 acres – April 25, 1833
5. Deed of land between between William Dickson and John Fraser - 50 acres – October 1, 1834
6. Deed of land between between William Dickson - Levi Howell, 25 acres – April 16, 1834
7. Receipt for Joseph Pettengall from the Commissioner for Crown Lands - 100 acres (Hillier Township) – June 6 1839

Dickson, William

Ottawa

File includes:

  • Copies of The Galley, newsletter of the Media Club of Ottawa, 1992, 1995-1996;
  • Original and copied news clippings re members, including Charlotte Whitton, 1960's-1970's;
  • Photocopy of Letters Patent continuing the Incorporation of the Canadian Women's Press Club Under the name Media Club of Canada, 1971;
  • a December 2, 1949 [Ottawa Citizen?] news clipping and print version of photo from clipping;
  • Copies of The Ottawa Galley, 1948-1951, 1961.

Women's Press Club of Toronto

Toronto

Original copy of constitution and bylaws, 1953; correspondence; drafts [by Kay Rex?]; ephemera; membership lists; news clippings; notes; reminiscences; reports; and photographs. Also in the file are the Senate Bill S-8, Act to Incorporate Canadian Women's press Club, 1958; issues of Open Line; a list of memorial award winners; a branch member directories, 1966-1967, 1967-1968, 1969-1970, undated; a copy of Pathfinders by Miriam Green Ellis, and a photocopy of Then We Were Four: The Story of the Toronto Women's Press Club by Byrne Hope Sanders.

Includes biographical material about members and women journalists including: Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, Dora Conover, Zora McMillan Cherry, Virginia Etherington, Agnes MacPhail, and Anne Merrill.

Women's Press Club of Toronto

Canadian Women's Press Club, Toronto Branch.

Scrapbook of news clippings and ephemera collected by the Toronto branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club regarding their activities and members from 1954-1955. Includes news coverage about a luncheon poisoning, as well as a program and menu from Golden Jubilee celebrations held in Toronto June 22-June 25, 1954 at the King Edward Hotel.

Women's Press Club of Toronto

Women's Press Club of Toronto: 1985 Gala.

Group portraits and snap shots of members, many in historical costumes, taken during a gala at Sutton Place in 1986 by Christine Marshall-Smith. Photos of panelists Jan Tennant, Margaret Weiers, Lydia Dotto and Vicki Gabareau are included. Oversize photograph (28 x 38 cm) is blown up, partially coloured black and white group shot of Doris Whiteside, Laddie Dennis, Roberta Corey, Corinne Nemy and Ruth Hammond in historical costumes.

Women's Press Club of Toronto

Copy of Arthur Lang's diary

  • SCA123-GA96
  • Collection
  • 1820

Carbon typescript transcript of Arthur Lang's diary prepared as a Christmas souvenir in 1907 by T.A. Lang in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. It includes a copy of a letter from one of Arthur Lang's granddaughters, giving some family background. Arthur Lang describes the sea voyage, scenery, and passengers on trip from Montreal, through the Lachine Rapids, to Prescott, Ontario. The diary also discusses Lang’s experiences inspecting land near the townships of Ramsay, Lanark, and Dalhousie in Lanark County, Ontario.

Lang, Arthur

Keswick - Port Carling.

File consists of material relating to the property and camp at Port Carling owned by the Ontario conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, known as Canadian Keswick Conference, the rezoning of the lands, and the development of a resort there. Includes correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, photocopied agreements, photocopied Ontario Municipal Board decisions, reports, handwritten notes, etc.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Maps.

File consists of maps of the Muskoka region. Includes maps of Lake Muskoka, Lake Rosseau, and Lake Joseph by the Canadian Hydrographic Service, Department of the Environment, Ottawa; the road system in the District Municipality of Muskoka by A.R. Ferguson, Gravenhurst; and 6 blueline prints of topographical maps of the Humphrey, Medora, Wood, Muskoka, Monck, and Watt townships in Muskoka by the Ontario Forestry Branch, Perry Sound (1933-1942). Material probably collected by Michael Vaughan.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Political action (file 1 of 2).

File consists of material relating to the activities of the Political Action Committee of the MLA during the 1978 and 1980 municipal elections in the District of Muskoka. Includes typed lists of electoral areas and previous election results, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, the mandate of the committee, a letter to Michael Vaughan, a map of the Township of Muskoka Lakes, etc.

Muskoka Lakes Association

Distillery.

File consists of 1 photograph of Seagram distillery in field.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

Aerial view of Breslau plant, Ontario.

File consists of 1 aerial photograph of Breslau plant and surrounding area. Verso reads: taken January 21, 1966. Negative no. 946. No extra prints.

Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Ltd.

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