Pewter plate brought to Canada by Nickolas Klinck and used by his daughter Elizabeth Dunke [nee Klinck] on their voyage to Canada from Hamburg, Germany in 1857.

Photocopy. Ms. notes, bond for deed from John Chantler to Moses Chantler.

File consists of statements of account and two agreements, one relating to a sheepskin factory dated June 3, 1852 and the other relating to a tannery, dated March 30, 1857.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt. Includes statements of accounts, business correspondence, telegrams, railroad advice notes and freight receipts, notes receivable, tax notices, etc. Also in the file are documents relating to work done on the church and minister's house corner of William and Emslie Sts., letter from J. Long, Cleveland regarding 18 boxes of Universal Salve, written on the verso of printed instructions for the salve, correspondence between J.F. Schoellkopf and L. Breithaupt, letters in German from Rev. Jacob Wagner, August Klein, Jacob Hailer, Reinhold Lang, F.A Goetze (including cigar bill), statement from Hoffman and Weaver for land in Berlin. Also included is one letter in German from Louis Breithaupt, Berlin, November 6, 1857 to Catharine Breithaupt in Buffalo [last item].

Agreement between Jacob Wagner and Louis Breithaupt from April 1, 1858, regarding setting up a tannery in Berlin (now Kitchener).

Indenture between Jacob and Margaret Hailer and their daughter Margaret Hailer Wagner Bean regarding approximately four acres of land on the north side of Adam Street in Kitchener.

Indenture between Margaret Hailer Wagner Bean and her father and Jacob Hailer for the sale of four and a portion lots of land on the north side of Adam Street in Kitchener.

Correspondence from Heinrich Wagner to the Breithaupt family. The letter seems to discuss the handling of an estate and the care of the children of his son Jacob Wagner (Louis Henry Wagner and Catherin Wagner) by Heinrich. He references them needing a guardian as well as payment for their upkeep. Heinrich ends the letter by noting that Mary's 4 children (Heinrich's grandchildren?) are ill with scarlet fever.

File consists of three letters in German. Includes one letter from Jacob and Margaret Wagner in Grove [?], [New York], dated January 18, 1858, and a joint letter dated Berlin, August 29, 1858 with page 1 signed by Margaret Wagner and the overleaf signed by Jacob Hailer. This was probably written after the death of Jacob Wagner in Berlin that spring. A third letter, dated 1858, is written in an unknown hand.

File consists of contains two documents in German. The first document is an undated poem signed by Catharina Breithaupt. The second document is a letter dated July 3, [1858?] written from Buffalo in three separate hands. The first is possibly that of Catharina Goetz Breithaupt, widow of Liborius, and is signed Catharina Breithaupt. The second is two lines by Catharine Hailer Breithaupt, signed by her. The page overleaf is written and signed by Margaret Wagner.

File consists of one manuscript copy of a set of correspondence between Queen Victoria and James Buchanan.

Illustration from the Illustrated Times, June 19, 1858.

One sheet recording marriages solemnized before James Sim [sic], Baptist minister, for the year ending December 31, 1858, among whose effects it was found. "Peter Sim" is listed as witness for the marriage of William Parker, age 21, and Sarah Jane Harris, age 15, both of Wellesley, that took place in Wellesley May 10, 1858.

Photocopy.

File consists of notes payable and receivable, relating to business conducted in Buffalo, N.Y., by L. Breithaupt and J.F. Schoellkopf.

Head and torso studio portrait of Peter Rieder seated and looking at camera.

Extract of entry of birth for James Oswald Brown, son of James Brown and his first wife Elizabeth Oswald, dated August 23, 1858.

File consists of John Motz's naturalization paper stating that he is a Canadian citizen under the naturalization act. Motz is recorded as having been born in Prussia.

Letter of guardianship appointing Jacob Hailer the legal guardian of Catherine Wagner and Louis Henry Wagner. Catherine and Louis Henry were the children of Margaret Hailer Wanger and Jacob Wagner, and were left without an appointed guardian upon the death of their father Jacob Wagner in 1858.

File consists of a statement of L. Breithaupt's credit and debit from 1858 up to May 1st, 1859.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt including business correspondence, statements, rail road freight receipts, an ephemera. Includes documents relating to the tannery in Berlin, correspondence from Charles A. Ahrens, correspondence with Jacob J. Vogt, Niagara Falls (who is a relative and who has invested in the Berlin tannery), Hoffman & Weaver, J.F. Schoellkopf. Also in the file are letters in German from Jacob Hailer, A. Klein, F.A. Goetze, W. Brill. A letter from W. Mentz addresses L.B. as "Esteemed Brother" and comments on the dissolution of co-partnership with J. Vogt.

Also of note are business cards: "L. Breithaupt, manufacturer and dealer in leather, findings, hides, wool, oil, &c., Berlin, C.W.", a doctor's bill for 19 visits in June 1859 to visit child, and one one letter written on one side to L. Breithaupt from Jacob Burgley [i.e. Burckle], Utica, August 15, 1859, and on the other side to "Dear Sister", from M.A. Burgley.

Fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by Mary B. Churchill (nee Brewer). Includes a letter from Mary to an aunt, a clipping regarding Mary's daughter, Harriet Churchill, and an autograph album.

File consists of one hand-written agreement relating to the Louis Breithaupt's continuance of joint business after the death of Jacob Wagner dated May 17, 1858. The document is witnessed by Jacob Hailer and is signed by all parties and sealed. Includes a receipt, and statements of account.

Photocopy.

File consists of land transaction documents relating to property in Berlin, Ontario.

File consists of a hand-written partnership agreement relating to a tanning business to be carried on in Berlin, Ontario, by Jacob Vogt and Louis Breithaupt, signed by both parties.

File consists of two letters in German, one from Margaret Wagner and the other from Jacob and Margaret Hailer.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Mary B. Churchill addressed to "My dear Aunt" dated May 20, 1859. The letter details a trip to visit an ailing uncle and gives information on housework, cooking, diet and the activities of neighbours, including a mention of a Mrs. Fennimore.

Full body studio portrait of John Christian Breithaupt standing, seen looking at camera.

Three notebooks kept by Thomas P. Stowell with mathematical problems, solutions, and notes.

File consists of one studio portrait of Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement with cousin Samuel W. Jackson dressed up and wearing hats. Janie, seen seated, is holding a doll and Samuel, standing next to her, is holding a flag and powder horn.

Bronze farthing from England showing on the obverse the head of Queen Victoria and on the reverse Britannia seated. This is a bun farthing, so called because of the young head of Queen Victoria with a bun, with a beaded border.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt including statements of accounts (including shoes and gaiters for Wagners, Hailers and Breithaupts), freight receipts, business correspondence, etc. Includes 22 letters from Charles A. Ahrens, Berlin concerning business and conditions in the tannery there. Letters in German include those from Margaret Wagner, Buffalo, W. Goetze, New York, A. and L. Klein, Rochester, Jacob Hailer, Ludwig Breithaupt, Th. Wagner, and others. Also in the file are documents relating to the Evangelical Association Church property, William and Emslie Sts. in Buffalo, circulars of F.A. Goetze, tobacconist, letters from Jacob Vogt, Nigara Falls and a letter from J.F. Schoellkopf, Buffalo.

File consists of one letter [?] in German signed by Jacob Hailer.

The History of the children in the wood, published by Lumsden & Sons, Glasgow. This is a single sheet with eight hand-coloured woodcuts with verses beneath; versions of which circulated in Great Britain and the United States, most often in chapbook form. A note on the back says "This was given to Catharine as a prize at school at Berlin."

One handwritten notebook with mathematical equations determining the relative positioning of the sun, moon, and earth, during lunar and solar eclipses. Includes information on lunar eclipses that occurred February 1841; November 1, 1844; March 8, 1849 and solar eclipses on: March 1858, May 1854 and July 18, 1860. Also includes other mathematical problems related to astronomy.

• [Copper?] coin - Albert Edward Prince of Wales Visited Canada and Inaugurated the Victoria Bridge 1860.
• 2 [Silver?] coins - The Victoria Bridge Medal Grand Trunk Railway of Canada 1860.
• 2 [Silver?] coins - H.R.H. The Prince of Wales To Commemorate the Visit of Albert Edward Prince of Wales to Canada 1860.

Two poems by Elizabeth Williams Cook, one addressed to her husband James Cook and one to her children.

One handbill advertising the publication of James Redpath's "The Public Life of Capt John Brown." Redpath and Brown were contemporaries and abolitionists and Redpath wrote this work the year after Brown's execution.

Silver sixpence from England showing on the obverse the head of Victoria and on the reverse the same in reverse. This coin is a brockage error during the minting process.

Letter of recommendation by school trustees written and signed in both German and English. "Translated by Solomon Hess [Ness?] Hawkesville We the undersigned certify hereby that the teacher Peter Sim [sic] of our school in the new school section between the fifth and sixth concession east section hath discharged his duties as such true and faithfully" and is signed by: William Klegholz, Henry Gerth, John Beckner, Stephan Schamber [not listed], Jacob Schamber, Henry Fleischhauer, George Zieck and Martin Happel.

File consists of one land transaction document.

Illustration from The Illustrated London News, Aug. 24, 1861, p. 202.

File consist of clippings relating to education.

File consists of one letter from Amanda M. Bowman, Waterloo, to "Mrs. Breidhaupt" and "Mrs. Wagner".

File consists of one facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States and miniature sketches of the signers.

Short holograph school essays by Mary Schantz (nee Moyer), many with corrections. One is dated Brantford, 1861.

A large printed broadside, filled in by the phrenological practitioner. The chart, on blue paper, was printed by Shaw & Moon, Book and Job Printers, Metcalfe St., Elora, C.W. Tobias Schantz was examined 18 February 1861 by Sarah Arm [Ann?] Daniels.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt including accounts, business correspondence, circulars, etc. Included are letters to and from Charles A. Ahrens and J.F. Schoellkopf. Letters in German include those from [?] Wagner, F.A. Goetze, P. Wentz, Jacob Hailer, Catharine Breithaupt, dated August 8, 1861 [marked C.B.], and others.

Also in the file is a drawing and notes of machinery, a bill for fruit trees, bushes and roses, and six letters from Jacob Burckle, and to Catharine Breithaupt, "Dear Sister", from M.A. Burckle. Jacob & his wife [Mary] were persuaded by L.B. to move from the U.S. to Berlin to help in the business and with boarders. Most of the letters are reports on the state of the business and on the charater of other employees.

Illustration from The Illustrated London News, April 20, 1861.

Illustration from The Illustrated London News, April 6, 1861. Also includes clipping from same issue of journal re Worcester Cathedral.

One carte-de-visite portrait of HRH Prince Edward VII.

File consists of one unbound account book labelled "Hide Book" containing records from 1856 to 1857 of "hides received from Canada to be charged to North Evans Tannery." Includes notes payable, relating to business mostly conducted in Canada by L. Breithaupt, to be paid by account of J.F. Schoellkopf, Buffalo, N.Y. Also contains two letters in German dated November 30 and December 2, 1861 from M. Strauss, Buffalo, N.Y.

Illustration from The Illustrated London News, Aug. 10, 1861, p. 135.

Certificate made out for "Peter Sim [sic]", as a "Second Class Teacher" in the North Riding of the County of Wellington, dated at Elora, signed by William Reynolds, Chairman and A. Dingwall Fordyce, Local Superintendent, to remain in force until recalled.

Contents: file consists of one photograph of Mary Osgood Riggs Hunt, mother of Alice Riggs Hunt.

Accrual consists of materials created and accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt and her family. Includes correspondence to and from Alice, locks of hair, and photographs. The photographs document other members of the Hunt family including her mother Mary Osgood Riggs Hunt (1860-1953) and her brother Charles Warren Hunt Jr. (1888-1953). Also present are over 500 slides documenting Charles Warren Hunt Jr.'s trip around the world.

File consists of one print showing the death of Chatterton, based on the 1856 painting by Henry Wallis. The lithograph was published March 20, 1862 by R. Turner and engraved by T. Oldham Barlow.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt. Includes business correspondence, a contract with William Brower, May 1862, to tear down a warehouse and build a stable, correspondence with Jacob J. Vogt, and correspondence with the Singer Sewing Machine Co. Letters in German include those from M. and John Straus, some written on letterhead: "Breithaupt & Straus, manufacturers and dealers in sheep-skins and wool, Carroll St. . . . Buffalo, N.Y.",End of file: one letter in German from Catharine Breithaupt, dated Aug. 8, 1861 [marked C.B.]. A. and L. Klein, Wm. Schroeder, Samuel Moyer, Martin Anthes, F.A. Goetze and others.

Also of note are four letters in German from Catharina Breithaupt [marked C.B. Sr. = Catharina, mother of Louis Breithaupt?]; one letter in German to Catharina Breithaupt, sent from Germany, four letter in German from Catharine in Buffalo to Louis in Berlin.

Illustration from The London Illustrated Times, October 18, 1862.

Fonds consists of two holograph letters from John Keble addressed to Henry Thomas Ellacombe [?]. The fonds also includes one photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Keble.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt. Includes statements of accounts, raiload advice notices and freight receipts (one dated 1862 at Berlin Station), business correspondence, etc. Includes letters in German from F.A. Goetze, N.Y., recipe for lubricating compound, receipts for city, county, and school taxes, 1858-1859 (one receipt shows three properties in Buffalo), letter to Thomas Bowness in Woodstock, Ont. from J.F. Schoellkopf, November 15, 1861, letter to Louis Breithaupt from J.F. Schellkoepf, July 23, 1861, letter from Charles A. Ahrens, June 19, 1861, letters written jointly to L.B. from Jacob J. Vogt (in English) and Jacob Hailer (in German), Niagara, June 7, 1859 regarding business matters (salutation reads "Dear Brother, Father and Mother Hiler came to our plase...), receipt for household goods purchased for Jacob Wagner, April 30, 1859. Also contains an unbound day book in German with entries from December 19, 1859 to August 15, 1861.

Collection consists of six British legal instruments, on vellum used by R.A. Haney when teaching law courses. Includes:

• 1. Richard Knight and Elizabeth Collyer to John Hilde, assignment of lease of land, July 20, 1738;
• 2. John Ball and Elizabeth Ball to John Hyde, partitioning of land, Dec. 23, 1754;
  3. John Ball and wife to John Hyde, assignment of land, Mar 14, 1757;
  4. George Elwes and John Elwes to Mr. George Lockett, reassignment of land, Apr 28, 1801;
  5. Benjamin Wall and Joseph Malden, lease, May 31, 1852;
  6. George Lockett to George Winter, reassignment of land, July 3, 1862 and George Winter to John Wright reassignment of land and John Wright to John Hyde reassignment of land.

File consists of one letter [?] in German signed by Margaret Wagner, dated Berlin, February 28, 1862. Contains several references to Mr. Louis Breithaupt, "driving shed," etc.

Illustration from The Illustrated London News, Jan. 25, 1862.

Illustration from The Illustrated London News, Oct. 18, 1862.

Clipping from The Illustrated London News, September 20, 1862.

Illustration from The Illustrated London News, March 15, 1862.

Collection consists of two prints and one copy of art works about the life and death of poet Thomas Chatterton. Includes one lithograph of his death, one of Chatterton writing the Rowleian manuscripts., and one reproduction of an eighteenth century handkerchief showing Chatterton.

Correspondence from Margaret Nusbickel to Margaret Hailer Wagner and Daniel Bean. The letter discusses a failed attempt to send Margaret and Daniel a basket of peaches, her activities at Christmas and the American Civil War. She discusses Philip Wagner being a First Lieutenant in the state militia and that the war is affecting the price of goods.

Letter from George Davidson in Berlin, Ont. Dated 9 ½ o'clock, May 5, 1863 to his wife Margaret who is in Toronto: "The children have gone to bed, and so I sit down – all alone – to write you the promised letter – you will be enjoying yourself with Mrs. Manning over Schedam Sch[illegible] while I poor unfortunate am enjoying myself in thinking how comfortable it will be to go up to a cold bed, and nobody in it. I have just been up stairs Bob & Sandy are in bed the former at the front the latter at the back with space and an extra pillow between for Lizzie who has been managing the children and the affairs of the household at a great rate." He gives Margaret a list of cash payments to make – boys' board, clothes, but also ask her to bring home seed catalogues and stock. A postscript the next morning describes the state of affairs: "Wednesday morning 7 ½ O.C. we have slept and waked – thank God – Lizzie was up about ½ hour ago went down and put [kettle on], is however still in her nightgown sitting on the floor with Sandy playing Jackstones or something of that sort – Bob is up and takes this to the P.O. Very cold rainy morning GD."

Certificate made out for "Peter Sims", as a "First Class Teacher" in the North Riding of the County of Wellington, dated at Elora, signed by William Reynolds, Chairman and A. Dingwall Fordyce, Local Superintendent, to remain in force for two years.

This indenture concerns land in the village of Maryborough. Printer's statement: "Printed at the 'Observer' Office, Elora." Ms. annotation, "[David] Kuntz" re a later transaction. Signed by "attorney James Ross."

File consists of one letter in German from Louis Breithaupt to Catherine[?] from New York, 1863. A note on overleaf is signed by W.H. Goetz and the salutation is "Dear Caroline".

Studio portrait of Arthur Pope Oliver, as an infant, sitting on the lap of his mother Catherine Pope Oliver. Catherine is seen looking off camera, wearing a large floral printed dress, and Arthur is wearing a white lace gown.

One manuscript copy (1 vol. 180 pp.) of excerpts from works by Pierre Jean Burette on the history of ancient dance and sport. The transcription is in an unknown hand and was copied from the work in the Bibliothèque de la ville de Boulogne-sur-Mer. From the library of Gustave Desrat.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt including business correspondence, letters in German to and from Louis Breithaupt and M. Strauss, railroad freight receipts, etc. Also in the file are letters in German from Wm. Goetze and others, and two letters in German from Catherine Raquet, Buffalo; two letters in German by C. Raquet with letters enclosed by Catharina Breithaupt; seven letters in German from Catharina Breithaupt, Buffalo; one letter to Louis and Catharine Breithaupt from Jacob and Mary Burckle in Berlin, who are caring for the children while their parents are away.

Notebook of accounts from April 2, 1862, to February 4, 1863. Inset are small handmade booklets with untranslated German script.

Copy prints showing the intersection of King and Queen St., taken from Queen St. S. looking North. Shows sign for Berliner Journal Printing office and Ayton's grocer.

Invitation to a quilting.

From: Waterloo.

From: Kent.

From: Kent.

From: "Canada Hygienic Home" Blair.

From: "Canada Hygienic Home" Blair.

From: "Canada Hygienic Home" Blair.

One letter received by Benjamin Shantz.

Date and Place from: June 19, 1864 Waterloo To Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 From Shantz, Josiah Kolb, 1834- and Shantz, Nancy Kolb.

Two letters received by Benjamin Shantz and his second wife Margaret Shantz (nee Swinton).

Date and Place from: September 05, 1864 Waterloo To Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 and Shantz, Margaret, 1840- From Shantz, Josiah Kolb, 1834- and Shantz, Nancy Kolb Notes: Writes that he and Nancy have a new son named Benjamin.

Date and Place from: [18-?] s.l. To Shantz, Benjamin, 1811-1868 and Shantz, Margaret, 1840- From Schantz, Josiah and Shantz, Nancy Notes: Partial letter, salutation missing.

Two letters dated Oct. 23, 1864, written by Tobias and Mary Schantz to Tobias' father Benjamin Schantz (September 2, 1811-November 9, 1868) and to his sister Lydia Schantz.

File consists of one 1972 photocopy of a plan of part of the town of Berlin by Joseph Hobson showing the block of land bordered by Weber, Queen, and Frederick, where the YWCA would later be built. On the side of the plan are affidavits relating to the survey of the area.

File consists of John Motz's Canadian passport.

Practice business documents completed by Tobias Schantz.

File consists of a family portrait of the [Hoffman] family. The old gentleman in the portrait closely resembles a known portrait of John Hoffman (1808-1878), but given the family connection it would more likely be his brother Jacob Hoffman (1809-1864), father of Isaac and grandfather of Caroline Barnes. Also in the photograph are a woman, a young man and five children.

File consists of Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Co. receipt to L. Breithaupt for insurance payment on dwelling on Seneca St., Buffalo, May 12, 1864.

File consists of one ms. containing three plays in Spanish. The plays are La Ultima Calaverada, Puntapie y un Retrato, and Por no Escrivirle las Senas. The plays are each stamped with the seal of the Municipality of Puebla, indicating that they have been read and okayed by the censor.