One print showing a bouquet of flowers in a bucket.

One print showing the enlarged premises of the Marshall & Field Company building in Chicago. Orpheus worked for Marshall & Field.

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

Ten prints including:

One portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

Two memorial portraits of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.

One portrait of the [George] Washington family.

One portrait of Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron, 1857-1941. This print is mounted on the lid of a box and decorated with gilt paper trim.

Side-by-side portraits of George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 and Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953.

Side-by-side portraits of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910 and Alexandra, Queen, consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1844-1925.

One illustration of the G?ltzsch Viaduct, a railway bridge in Germany.

One illustration of a landscape in Switzerland.

One illustration of cupid and another figure warming their hands by a fire.

File consists of 2 ink drawings and 4 prints prepared for use in a calendar. Drawings depict a piece of machinery at RMS and have an inset depicting the historical equivalent to that machine.

File contains 6 pen and ink drawings created by John Herbert in 1973 regarding his comic "The Slideshow". The drawings have captions written on them. Includes author's note on the envelope: "Box D: John Herbert archives. D15: original drawings, 1973. The Sideshow (a comic book). The enclosed 6 pages were John Herbert's beginning of a comic-book project (under the name 'Jack Past') based on his memories of working with a carnival burlesque show (Model Shows' 'Paris After Midnight') in 1953, travelling through Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (over a 6 months period)."

File contains 28 drawings (originals and photocopies) of draft cartoon drawings, unfinished drawings, and sketches. They also include notes regarding story development ideas. Includes a photocopy of a three page manuscript letter to the editor of Now Weekly. Includes author's note on the envelope: "Box E: John Herbert archives , Porter Library, University of Waterloo. Enclosed: cartoons. E16: a variety of complete and incomplete cartoons and comic strips by John Herbert (under one or another of his 'noms de plume' as cartoonist) - plus some preliminary sketches and notes in planning the cartoons. Names (noms de plume) Nemesis, Hellican, Jan, R.U. Horny, Jacki Brun, No. of items: 31 pages - Dates: 1989 to 1994."

File contains the April 2, 1992 issue of the magazine "Frank". There is a comic created by John Herbert published in the magazine on page 22. Includes author's note on the envelope: "Box C - C6: FRANK Magazine: A comic strip by J.H. aka 'Nemesis', page 22 - 'The Club on Bay Street'. Note: John Herbert used the nom de plume 'Nemesis', as a cartoonist for Onion, the Toronto Paper on the Arts, from 1975 to 1982. (See collection of Onion issues in J.H. archives, the Porter Library, University of Waterloo)."

Twenty drawings and sketches by Orpheus Moyer Schantz. Included are portraits, studies of animals, technical drawings for a boat, one ink drawing of the back of a woman in a gown, two drawings after C.D. Gibson- "When Doctors Disagree" and "Mr. Pipp just after dinner steps our for a few moments with a change acquaintance. He returns at 2 A.M.", and two with leaf varieties and poetry. Smaller drawings were originally found in an old men's silk handkerchief box with other ephemera.

Series consists of artwork, cartoons and comics created by John Herbert between 1964 and 1998. Many of the drawings illustrate story development and ideas for his plays as well as comics and advertisements. The series is divided into files and arranged chronologically.

One pen and ink sketch of a Chateau at Monte Bello, signed M. Krueger, 1928; one watercolour [of Mount Fuji?] signed HMR.

Contains one colour poster advertising Dare Foods Limited schoolhouse promotion. The promotion consisted of customers filling out ballots to win a free cardboard schoolhouse playhouse for children.

File consists of one drawing of Dana Porter by Ed Keiss.

File consists of one reproduction of a caricature of Dana Porter by Henry H. Bull. Bull was the Crown Attorney for Metropolitan Toronto and the County of York and drew many caricatures of colleagues. The reproduction print is mounted using Durograf technology, a type of screen printing where the image is applied to a spunbonded polyester fibre. The image has been mounted on a piece of acrylic, with a biography of Henry Bull on the back.

File consists of six high quality colour photocopies of original paintings by Dana Porter. The paintings are typically Northern Ontario landscapes and were stylistically inspired by the Group of Seven. Porter's maternal uncle was Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris.

File consists of one portrait of David Sovereign Bowlby. The painting is oil on prepared canvas. A signature on the bottom left is hard to read, but may say [Ella] [Moss].

File consists of one painted portrait of George Herbert Bowlby in his army uniform. The painting appears to be watercolour on ivorine, and the signature reads E.C. Blisley, 1917. Bowlby died in 1917 during First World War and this is possibly a commemorative portrait.

One mounted painting of a jack-in-the-pulpit flower, one watercolour landscape signed by D.E.W., and one reverse painting on glass of puppies.

One small watercolour sketch and a drawing of a dog with puppies mounted on board and matted with construction paper and secured with brass brads.

One sketch of an owl by Dorothy Etta Russell (nee White) in pencil outline which has been filled in with crayons.

File consists of one poster advertising the Kaufman Lofts. The poster is double sided with two different advertisements.

File consists of one reprint of the Busy Berlin map of 1912. The map was reprinted in 1989 at 69% of the original size by the Kitchener Public Library.

Notecard with a reproduction of a sketch of the Olympic Range in B.C. by Lady Aberdeen.

Artwork created by Mary Ham (nee Augustine).

One sketchbook, four pages.

One sketchbook, nine pages. Includes Scotland landscape sketches of Cornwall and Dunreay, flowers, profiles, and geometric designs.

One sketchbook, five pages. Includes Scotland landscape and cityscape sketches of Polperro Cornwall, and Iona Cathedral off the Island of Mull.

One sketchbook, eight pages. Includes landscape and cityscape sketches of Wellfleet, Cape Cod.

One sketchbook, ten pages. Includes landscape sketches of Preston Springs, studies of trees and figures, and sketches of a cottage.

One sketchbook, ten pages. Includes landscape sketches of Egol (Isle of Skye), other landscape sketches, and a transcript of a tombstone.

One sketchbook (27 pages). Includes landscape, architecture, and cityscape sketches of Venice (St. Mark's and the Grand Canal), Ravenna, Arsini, Rome, Naples, and Capri.

One sketchbook (13 pages). Includes landscape sketches of the harbours of Provincetown and Orleans, Cape Cod, boats, trees, and a sketch of the Preston flour mill.

One sketchbook (9 pages). Includes landscape sketches of Bermuda scenery, cacti, figures, flowers, boats, and a sketch of a map of Bermuda.

One sketchbook (12 pages). Includes ms. notes, sketches of figures, geometric designs and equations, and landscape sketches.

One sketchbook (8 pages). Includes landscape, cityscape, figure, and architecture sketches of Lugano.

One sketchbook (20 pages). Includes landscape and cityscape sketches of Glasgow, the Victoria Infirmary, cars, and boats.

One sketchbook (9 pages). Includes landscapes and cityscapes of London and Lugano: Hyde Park, the Marble Arch, Great Cumberland Crescent, an outdoor scene in Lugano, still life studies, flowers, and figures.

One sketchbook (7 pages). Includes sketches of ships, still life studies, figures, and landscape sketches of the Chateau de Chillon, Montreux, Terretel.

One sketchbook (11 pages). Includes landscape, cityscape, architecture, harbour, and figure sketches.

One sketchbook (12 pages). Includes ms. notes, landscape and seascape sketches of Terretel, Roches des Naye, Turbach Restaurant, Rhone Valley Estuary at Gringolph, and the Isle of Skye.

One sketchbook (10 pages). Includes sketches of flowers, figures, landscapes, cityscapes, and seascapes.

One sketchbook (17 pages). Includes landscape sketches of the Western Isles, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Loch Lomond, the Highland Ferry, and Iona, as well as sketches of flowers, ships, boats, birds, and cars.

One sketchbook (50 pages). Includes sketches of ships, boats, birds, harbours, trees, landscapes, seascapes, and ms. notes.

One sketchbook (17 pages). Includes sketches of landscapes, cityscapes, marinas, flowers, boats, geometric studies, birds, and still life studies.

One sketchbook (11 pages). Includes still life studies of historical objects, figures, landscape and cityscape sketches of Levis and Tobermory, and a sketch of Tobermory, with a harbour scene and boats.

One sketchbook (21 pages). Includes ms. notes, landscape sketches of Provincetown and Wellfleet, sketches of harbours and boats, figures, cityscapes, still life studies, geometric designs, and painting plans.

One sketchbook (7 pages). Includes sketches of Wellfleet Harbour, boats, and birds.

One sketchbook (6 pages). Includes landscape sketches of Preston and Galt, Ontario, and other local scenery.

One sketchbook (7 pages). Includes landscape and harbour and boat sketches of Wellfleet, South Wellfleet, and Provincetown.

One sketchbook (16 pages). Includes ms. notes, still life studies, sketches of boats, painting plans, landscape sketches, geometric designs, equations, a watercolour sketch of boats, and a sketch of the Courthouse Theatre in Niagara on the Lake.

One sketchbook (10 pages). Includes landscape sketches of Cape Cod and local scenery, and sketches of boats.

One sketchbook (43 pages). Includes ms. notes, landscape sketches of Cape Cod, still life studies, flowers, harbours, boats, and plans for paintings.

One sketchbook (19 pages). Includes ms. notes, still life studies, sketches of figures, plans for paintings, landscapes, boats, and harbours.

One sketchbook (45 pages). Includes ms. notes, landscapes, plans for paintings, harbours and boats, geometric designs, cars, figures, interior scenes, studies in perspective, and still life studies.

One sketchbook (14 pages). Includes ms. notes, sketches of landscapes, cityscapes, Grahams Restaurant, cars, and painting plans.

One sketchbook (17 pages). Includes ms. notes, landscape and cityscape sketches of Eaglesham, Dunure, Perthshire, Dunlop, and Prestwick, figures, still life studies, painting plans, calculations and equations.

One sketchbook (11 pages). Includes ms. notes, sketches of boats and harbours, landscapes, and plans for paintings.

One sketchbook (39 pages). Includes ms. notes, landscape sketches of Wellfleet, Cape Cod, painting plans, sketches of boats and harbours, calculations, and geometric designs.

One sketchbook (7 pages). Includes sketches of boats and harbours, still life studies, cars, figures, and painting plans.

One sketchbook (58 pages). Includes ms. notes, seascape sketches, boats and harbours, landscapes, sketches of mountains, a watercolour sketch, and geometric designs.

One sketchbook (39 pages). Includes ms. notes, sketches of boats and ships, figures, birds, painting plans, flowers [coloured pen], architecture, geometric designs, cityscapes, landscapes, mathematical models, and plans for some kind of water dispenser.

One sketchbook (55 pages). Includes ms. notes, sketches of landscapes, notes and calculations relating to perspective, sketches of boats, harbours, plans for paintings, plans for linocut prints, and geometric designs.

Contents: contains 1 sketchbook (19 pages). Includes ms. notes, painting plans, landscape sketches of Scotish locations (Flowerdale, Ross Shire, Kimloch, Iona), one set of landscape sketches of Wellfleet, Cape Cod, geometric designs, and calculations.

One sketchbook. Includes ms. notes, landscape sketches, plans for paintings, geometric designs, sketches of boats, ships, harbours, figures, still life studies, watercolour sketches of geometric designs for a painting, and a list of paintings completed.

One sketchbook (66 pages). Includes ms. notes, sketches of a railway station, Cape Cod Canal, landscape sketches of various locations including the Scottish Highlands, geometric designs, sketches of ships, boats, harbours, still life, figures, cars, textures, perspective calculations, and birds.

One sketchbook (61 pages). Includes ms. notes, a time-line relating to an automobile accident and phone conversations with the CAA, sketches of Cape Cod landscapes, ships, boats, harbours, birds, geometric shapes, figures, perspective calculations, and lists of watercolour paint names.

One sketchbook (89 pages). Includes sketches and ms. notes regarding landscape in Orleans and Cape Cod, ms. notes and sketches regarding Kandinsky, a "list of stuff to paint/sketch", landscape sketches, design sketches, sketches of cars and other objects, and notes relating to an automobile accident.

One sketchbook (65 pages). Includes ms. notes, geometric designs and sketches (some with coloured pen), Christmas card designs with a watercolour sketch version, landscape sketches, and perspective calculations.

One sketchbook (59 pages). Includes ms. notes, geometric designs and sketches, mathematical calculations, sketches of profiles, figures, cityscapes, landscapes, ships, and birds.

One sketchbook (50 pages). Includes ms. notes, plans for paintings, perspective calculations, landscape sketches, cityscape sketches, geometric designs and sketches, figures and profiles.

One sketchbook (62 pages). Includes ms. notes, geometrical designs, sketches of birds and landscapes, and mathematical calculations.

Contains 1 sketchbook (29 pages). Includes sketches of symbols and geometric designs (some in colour), mathematical calculations, sketches of landscapes, boats, harbours, and cityscapes.

Series contains leaflets relating to Homer Watson’s life and memorial exhibits. Leaflets contain information about memorial exhibits such as one held by the Waterloo Trust and Savings Company building in Kitchener. One of the leaflets also contains a photocopied sketch of a graveyard scene. The series also contains a typescript biography of Watson written by his friend, Ross Hamilton. Another typescript covers a speech by Watson to shareholders of the Waterloo County Grand River Park. The speech calls for the conservation of a woodland area called Cressman Bush.

Typescripts
14. Address by H. Watson “Conservation of Cressman Bush for Waterloo County”
15. Homer Watson Paintings
16. Expense Account of Ross Hamilton in Connection with H. Watson Estate Feb. 4-10

Pamphlets
17. Homer Watson, Artist - A Tribute
18. Biography of Homer Watson by Ross Hamilton
19. Catalogue Memorial Exhibition of Original Paintings by Homer Watson, R.C.A., L.L.D. 1947

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill, only partially filled.

Sketchbook containing pen and ink sketches by David Hill.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

Partial sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

Undated sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

One folder of loose pencil and pen and ink sketches by David Hill.

One folder of loose pen and ink sketches by David Hill. Includes two clippings dated 1952.

One folder of undated loose pencil sketches by David Hill.

One undated, unattributed sketchbook, containing pencil and pen and ink sketches, possibly by both David Hill and Joe Plaskett.

File consists of one drawing of a lighthouse on an island. The bottom right hand corner is signed F.K.M. (probably Francis Kathleen Montgomery).

Contains 1 sketchbook (56 pages) with manuscript notes and architectural sketches relating to A.G. Shoosmith's studies at the Royal Academy Schools.

Contains 1 sketchbook (88 pages) with manuscript notes and architectural sketches relating to A.G. Shoosmith's studies at the Royal Academy Schools.

File consists of two etchings accumulated by Florence Grace Clement. One is a plate taken from a book with identifying notes showing Louisa Elizabeth, Baroness Durham engraved by Thomson from a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1831. The other is an advertisement for an exhibit of oil and watercolour drawings and modern etchings at the City of London Fine Art Gallery by H. Gillard Glindoni from 1882.

File consists of one portrait of Ross Dixon and one portrait of Doris Dixon, done in pastel by K. Costas.

A print of a purple bouquet of flowers.

File consists of ten collage artworks created by Virgil Burnett. Each artwork is a large piece of construction paper with words cut out from newspapers pasted on to form poems. Some have illustrations as well.

File consists of twenty three prints by Virgil Burnett. The prints are of five different images by Burnett.

One reproduction print of a charcoal portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, by Tom Hall, specially commissioned by Rolland Paper Company Limited, and its coated papers division: Canada Glazed Papers Limited.

Pen drawing by Orpheus Moyer Schantz titled, The Girl He Left Behind Him. The drawing features a woman sitting in a field with ships visible in the distance. Artist's note underneath signature confirms this drawing was modeled after the works of Charles Dana Gibson.

Pen drawing featuring the lines of the poem titled, My Symphony by William Ellery Channing as well as flower and butterfly motifs. The creator of this drawing changed the order of some of the lines in the original poem titled, My Symphony by William Ellery Channing.

Pen drawing featuring the lines of the poem titled, A Slumber Song as well as butterfly and 16 point compass rose motifs. The drawing also includes a monogram possibly made by combining the letters F, A, C, S and the date October 5, 1902.

The poem featured in the drawing was originally titled, Sleep Sweet and was written by Ellen M. Huntington Gates. The creator of this drawing changed the title and a few words in the lines of the original poem titled, Sleep Sweet by Ellen M. Huntington Gates.

Print of a photograph of Levi Nash Moyer.

One print of a studio portrait of Levi Nash Moyer.