Scrapbooks and related materials created or accumulated by Hon. Dr. James Horace King (Minister during Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King Ministries). Scrapbooks contain photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings related to Canadian politics of the 1920s and 1930s.

Series is comprised of artifacts accumulated by Kay Rex. Includes two arrowheads, a sock darner, tatting and lace samples and gifts given to her aunt Frances Kathleen Montgomery.

File consists of articles, offprints, excerpts from books and other items accumulated by Bertram R. Davis in the course of his research and study on Bristol and the romantics. Some offprints are presentation copies and feature inscriptions to Davis. A number of Davis' correspondents are represented through the articles in this series.

Series consists of documents illustrative of some aspects of the history of beverage alcohol, particularly in North America. Contains correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and newspapers relating to the shipment of wine and alcohol to Canada in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to eighteenth-century distilling processes, to a single piece of ephemera relating to prohibition in Canada in the 1920's.

Photographs and realia created and collected by Harry J. Byers. Includes coins and banknotes, photographs of Harry with family and friends and more. Most of the materials were created or collected during Harry's time in Russia.

Series consists of framed and unframed graphic material owned by Dendy, including engravings and etchings, original artwork, posters, photographs, and illustrations cut out of Harper's Weekly and The Illustrated London News. These items reflect Dendy's interests in architectural history, but also in art, opera, theatre, and literature.

This series includes single original paintings by A.Y. Jackson and Nicholas Hornyansky; an original colour cartoon by E.W.Kemble; hand-coloured photographs by H. Marshall Gardiner and W. R. MacAskill; engraved work by A. Sterner.

Series consists of research files created and accumulated by Bertram R. Davis on his various areas of interest. Includes files on Coleridge, Wordsworth, Chatterton, Southey, Lamb, and others, as well as personal research files.

File consists of one manuscript titled "Chattertonian ms." The manuscript itself is a transcribed typed copy of the original, which was compiled and written by George Catcott. Catcott was the first person to be approached by Chatterton regarding the Thomas Rowley poems. The manuscript includes passages from works by Thomas Chatterton, letters to and from Catcott and Chatterton, as well as notes by Catcott on Chatterton and the Thomas Rowley affair. Inlaid in the front of the book is a signature of Thomas Chatterton's as well as a letter addressing the authenticity of the signature. Also included is a print of George Catcott. The bookplate reads "Conrad P. Fry oneth me is me jure tenet, and this booke confesse to be quieunque me invenit."

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.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt documenting her personal life, and the lives of her family members. Includes photographs, clippings, ephemera and artefacts.

Material created or accumulated by various members of the Schantz-Moyer family. Includes ephemera.

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex relating to her personal and family life. Includes photographs, clippings, ephemera, etc. Also includes materials on Kay Rex created posthomously.

Series is comprised of photographs acculumated by Kay Rex. Photos include those of Rex, her family and friends as well as of holidays and events.

Series is comprised of correspondence to and from Elizabeth Smith Shortt. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent. Correspondents without known surnames are at beginning of series.

Series is comprised of correspondence to and from unidentified correspondents.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Elizabeth Smith Shortt and her family members. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Material created and accumulated by Franklin Abram Schantz. Includes ephemera, clippings, notebooks and household accounts relating to properties in Kitchener and homestead lands.

Material created and accumulated by Tobias Kolb Schantz. Includes diaries, ephemera, school material, character references, and household and homesteading records.

Correspondence and related ephemeral items, to and from members of the Schantz family and friends, including Moyer, Nash, Kolb and Russell relatives.

Maps and plans collected by members of the Schantz family. Includes maps of the greater Waterloo region, as well as other areas of Canada and the United States. Some of the maps show homesteading areas in which members of the Schantz family owned property.

An artifact accumulated by members of the Schantz Russell family.

Material created and accumulated by Orpheus Moyer Schantz. Includes one account of a dream.

Material created and accumulated by Orpheus Moyer Schantz and family. Includes ephemera from Orpheus and his wife Carrie Schantz (nee Flagler).

Material created and accumulated by Arthur Benjamin Schantz. Includes primarily school notebooks and copybooks.

Material created and accumulated by Austin Tobias Schantz. Includes two drawing course books.

Photographs, negatives, and slides of members of the extended Schantz family including the Russell, Schantz, Moyer, Flagler, Eby, Clark, Fry, Hunsperger, Snyder, Spelman, White and Wismer families as well as friends and places lived.

Series consists of photographs of members of the extended Bowlby and Boyd families.

Photographs of members of the Augustine and Kaufman families of Kitchener, Ontario and of the Ham family of Toronto, Ontario.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt documenting her professional life. Includes primarily manuscripts, as well as materials relating to the publication and review of her works.

Photographs and realia documenting the life of Mary Johnston as well as the history of education in the Waterloo Region.

Material created and accumulated by members of the family of Tobias and Mary Schantz. Includes school books, ephemera, and more.

Series consists of photographs, most of which were accumulated by Martha Rieder, with some accumulated by Talmon Henry Rieder and some probably by Margaret Paisley and Paul Rieder. Photographs relate predominantly to multiple generations of the Anthes and Rieder families and include formal and informal family portraits, snapshots of family and friends, and snapshots taken while visiting cottages in the Penetanguishene area.

Other subjects include: Martha and her friends at Ontario Ladies College, business associates of Talmon, the Dominion Tire Company, the Anthes Manufacturing Company, Zion Evangelical Church events and groups, the Kitchener Natatorium, and other subjects. Many photographs from the period 1895-1906 were taken and possibly developed by Martha Rieder.

Series contains eight portraits (plus two duplicates) by Notman & Son, Montreal, all of which are in very good condition; and many portraits by James Esson of Preston. Includes loose photographs, photograph albums, and negatives.

Series consists of photographs and negatives depicting GRCA conservation activities, stuctures and locations of interest, such as properties, rivers, dams, etc.

Series is comprised of biographical materials related to members of the Smith-Shortt family, primarily Elizabeth Smith Shortt and Damaris Isabel Smith. Includes manuscript and typescript notes, clippings, and a copy of Silas Smith, U.E.L. and his Descendants.

Material relating to the personal life of Florence Annie Catherine Schantz. Includes ephemera and a book of pressed flowers.

Material relating to the personal life of Franklin Schantz. Includes one copybook.

Photographs of members of the extended Schantz family and friends. Includes primarily studio portraits, with some tintypes.

Material created and accumulated by Sophie Emma Schantz. Includes school notebooks.

Series is comprised of photographs of members of the Smith-Shortt family and friends.

Series consists of 347 photographs and 12 negatives showing extended members of the Clement-Bowlby families. Includes formal studio portraits, snapshots, and negatives showing Clement, Bowlby, Jackson, Berkinshaw, Boehmer, Boyd, Chalk, Forbes, Kelly, Murphy, Oliver, Pope, Southgate, and Stewart families as well as friends, animals, and locales.

Detailed family relationships are outlined in genealogical documents prepared by Gordon Wagner.

Series is comprised of miscellaneous materials created and accumulated by members of the Smith-Shortt family.

Series consists of materials relating to the life, interests, and death of Florence Grace Clement. Includes biographical information, clippings, aid-memories, correspondence, diaries, poetry written and collected by Florence and other ephemera.

Series consists of files which appear appear to be Mary McDougall Maude's files and Wendy Cameron's files. The folders contain material relating to editing the manuscript and correspondence, faxes, e-mails and other working papers circulated among the primary researchers for comment and correction. The "primary researchers" in this case are Wendy Cameron, Mary McDougall Maude, Shela Haines, Leigh Lawson, Brenda Dougall Merriman and sometimes Gwen Peroni.

Records documenting the family of George Davidson and his wife Margaret Garden, their daughters Margaret Kempt and Elizabeth Roos, and Elizabeth Roos' daughter Florence (the future wife of Harvey Sims.) Although there are very few letters from George extant, they are enough to show his genial and good-natured love of family, his keen and self-deprecating sense of humour, and his stoic acceptance of circumstances beyond his control. He had an unspecified affliction that require him to walk with canes; and two letters from New York City in 1880 describe in vivid detail the treatments he is receiving, most likely some form of electro-magnetic therapy.
Records making up the series include correspondence from George to his wife Margaret, letters written to Margaret by her daughter Maggie Kempt in Glasgow, letters from family in Scotland and friends in Canada, correspondence from Margaret to her granddaughter Florence, ephemera, and printed music. Some of the correspondence concerns Davidson and Sims genealogy.

This series consists of files on the "Cluster" settlements in Ontario. These are Wendy Cameron's files.

Material created and accumulated by members of the Bowman family. Includes ephemera, an indenture and an agreement.

Series consists of business records, correspondence and ephemera related to the life and activities of Louis Breithaupt and his family, first in Buffalo, N.Y. and then in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario from 1848-1881. The majority relate to the operation of his tanning business, and include account books, agreements, correspondence with family, friends, employees and business contacts, freight receipts, invoices, legal and tax documents. Included are records relating to Louis Breithaupt's tannery businesses in Buffalo and Berlin including documentation of his partnership and work with Jacob F. Schoellkopf. It also documents the sale of land by Jacob Hailer to Louis Breithaupt and Jacob Wagner and the subsequent legal documents necessary after Jacob Wagner's death. Includes financial records, agreements and records relating to property.

Also in the series are business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt including business and personal correspondence, statements of accounts, freight receipts, notes payable, ephemera, etc. The correspondence is in both English and German and it is evident that Louis was comfortable using either language. Correspondents include relatives and friends, like his mother Catharina, and friends and business contacts like Charles A. Ahrens in Berlin, Ontario, and from from Jacob Hailer.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Wilhelm Christoph Schneider.

Series consists of materials related to the life of Emma Allen Bowlby Boyd. Includes one autograph featuring signatures from family and friends.

Series is comprised of materials relating to the life of John Motz and his wife Helena Vogt. Includes correspondence, ephemera, legal documents and clippings.

Series consists of material relating to Charles A. Ahrens family, primarily photographs, genealogical and biographical information.

This series consists of correspondence, ephemera, estate records, photographs, scrapbooks, wills, etc. which shed light on the lives of some members of the Seagram family and their activities from 1848 to the 1980's, including Joseph Emm Seagram and his wife Stephanie, their daughter Adine, son Edward Frowde and grandson Joseph Edward Frowde.

Series consists of biographical information and photographs relating to Maria Anna Schneider Alles.

Correspondence to and from the Wagner Hailer family.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Peter Rieder and his family. Includes a mid nineteenth century scrapbook, correspondence, and ephemera.

Material created and accumulated by Mary Schantz (nee Moyer). Includes a genealogy notebook and school essays.

Series consists of documents relating to land transactions. Most materials document the ownership history of the property consisting of Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, and in particuar Lot 3, on the south (or west) side of Ahrens Street and the north side of Weber Street in David Weber's survey in the town of Berlin (now Kitchener); this property contained the Anthes home at 44 Weber Street and the Rieder home at 58 Roy Street.

Also present are documents relating to other land in Berlin as well as land in the Township of Wilmot, the Town of Moberly, and the District of Parry Sound. Series includes mortgages, deeds and certificates of ownership, abstracts from the Registry Office (Berlin), invoices, etc.

Series consists of documents and ephemera related to members of the Bowlby, Davison and Hoffman family members. Included are clippings, correspondence, marriage certificates and report cards.

Series consists of records related to Catharine Hailer Breithaupt including 91 pieces of correspondence received by Catharine Hailer Breithaupt between 1852-1863 and 1880-1910 and two diaries. The diary documents the first part of Catharine's first trip to Germany in 1888. The early correspondence provides further documentation of the establishment of Louis Breithaupt's tanning business in Berlin, Ontario; the later correspondence is primarily from her children, including her nephew Louis Henry Wagner.

Series contains materials relating to the estate of Ratz Brothers Business, mostly pertaining to the work of John and George Ratz. Includes correspondence, tax records, receipts and invoices, cheques, ledger books, land deeds and legal documents.

Material related to the Ratz family history and genealogy. Includes artifacts, photographs, genealogy research notes and booklets, correspondence, a diary excerpt, press clippings, and ephemera.

Material created or accumulated by various members of the Schantz-Moyer family including Arthur Benjamin Schantz, Abraham Nash Moyer, Jesse Gross Moyer, Austin Tobias Schantz and Tobias Moyer. Includes property records, ephemera, and Abraham Moyer's 1889 travel album.

Materials kept by Louis Henry Wagner. Includes diaries, notes, clippings, mss. etc.

Records documenting the lives, activities and interests of Peter Harvey Sims and his wife Jemima Cook, of Peter's interactions with his father James Sims, mother Janet Harvey Sims, step-brother John Robertson, sister Janet McQueen, and business partners, and childhood records and young adulthood records relating to their children Harvey and Rella.
Letters from Jemima's sisters shed light on girls' and women's lives in the latter half of the 19th century, the activities available, the desolation of being socially isolated, detailed recounting of the deaths of loved ones, all interspersed with everyday news of family and friends.
In his letters to family, Peter displays an articulate and caring nature, a love of his children and family, and good sense of humour. He writes long letters; the larger the paper the larger his writing, and he never hesitates to offer Harvey advice and opinions on Harvey's actions and activities, most of which fall short of Peter's expectations. Whenever Peter and Jemima travel together or alone, Peter surveys the social, economic, cultural, architectural state of the place visited, the habits, dress and morals of the inhabitants, and its agricultural and business prospects.

This series consists of originals and photocopies of correspondence, clippings, ephemera, essays, newspapers, photographs, etc. relating to all aspects of the history of the Seagram Company and distilling in general, to other business interests such as CanBar and Hopewell Farms, to the history of the plant site itself and the place of Seagram's in the larger context of Waterloo and the industrial history of the area from the 1850's to the plant's closing in 1990.

Photographs primarily of Schantz Russell family members and possibly some friends of the family.

Material created and accumulated by Tobias and Mary Schantz and family. Includes one photograph, a clipping, ephemera, song sheets and two books.

Series consists of genealogical information and photographs relating to Johann Christoph Schneider.

Series consists of files created and maintained by the K-W YWCA mostly concerning construction, maintenance and renovation of the building at 84 Frederick St. Includes correspondence, blueprints, and maps, as well as construction files related to the renovations of the building in the 1980's.

282 pieces of correspondence and related ephemeral items, to and from members of the Schantz family and friends, including Moyer, Nash, Kolb and Russell relatives.

Series consists of correspondence received by various individuals in the Anthes family: Martin Anthes, Carrie Anthes Breithaupt, and Leo Anthes. Includes letters, invitations, clippings, and a postcard.

Material created and accumulated by Issac Lucius Bowman. Includes ephemera, diaries, notebooks, estate information, correspondence, and materials related to the Freeport Academy.

One small notebook, 58 leaves, used as a trip diary by Mary Gross Nash Moyer.

Series consists of legal documents created and accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record relating to mortgages, land and building ownership, taxes, stocks, etc. Includes indentures, correspondence, tax forms, etc.

Series consists of ephemera including advertisements, business cards, calendars, labels, signs, stationery, trade cards, etc. which illustrate some aspect of Seagram history.

Includes one diary belonging to Mary Schantz (nee Moyer). Includes names, addresses and death dates of friends and family.

Series consists of material created and accumulated by John S. Anthes and material accumulated by Talmon Henry Rieder and Martha Rieder during the process of settling his estate. Some of the latter material relates to the administration and eventual sale of the Anthes Furniture Company. Series includes correspondence, agreements, wills, estate statements, financial statements of the Anthes Furniture Company, share certificates, an accounting journal, a cemetary map and grant of burial lots, a marriage certificate, and other material.

Series consists of photographs and other visual materials relating to the Kitchener Water Commission and the Grand River Conservation Commission. Photographs relating to the Kitchener Water Commission depict construction of water works facilities, pump houses, and pumping equipment mainly at the Shoemaker (now Greenbrook) and Strange Street pumping stations. Some photographs include the water commissioners. Photographs relating to the GRCC depict the the construction of the Shand and Conestogo dams.

Series also includes a mid-19th century portrait and cartes-de-visite of unidentified women and men, perhaps friends or relatives of the Pequegnat family.

Series is comprised of personal effects, including artefacts, of various members of the Smith-Shortt family.

Series is comprised of general materials related to the Motz family and their history. Includes a family history, and family correspondence.

Materials collected by Mary Johnston documenting the history of education both in the Waterloo Region and broadly in Ontario. Includes school registers, minute books, historical notebooks kept by students, etc.

Series consists of photographs of members of the Bowlby, Davison and Hoffman family members. Includes studio portraits and informal snapshots.

Series is comprised of materials relating to the life of William John Motz and his wife Rose Huck Motz. Includes correspondence, ephemera, legal documents and clippings. Also includes a scrapbook from a Candian Press Club trip to Europe in 1929.

This series includes the diaries of Rev. J. H. Shoults over the period 1870-1884. There are nineteen diaries in total and they are kept in copy books, bound diary books, and notebooks. The majority of diary entries relate to Rev. Shoults' work as a Minister with the Christian Church, though reference is also made to his work as a teacher, to family affairs, to farming and gardening activities, to shopping and errands, to prices of food and farm goods, to his personal finances, to social visits (Rev. Shoults had many friends and acquaintances), and to weather conditions.

Photographs taken by or belonging to A.L. Breithaupt and other family members. Includes snapshots, studio portraits, commercial photographs and negatives. Includes images taken at the time A.L. Breithaupt was attending school in Toronto in the early 1890's that feature his friends William Lyon Mackenzie King and D.S. Bowlby, as well as images of university buildings in Toronto. Includes images of the interior and exterior of Waldeck, the family home of the Breithaupts whose building is documented in Louis J. Breithaupt's diaries. Includes studio portraits of A.L. Breithaupt and his wife and children, as well as snapshots of family and friends at home, at Georgian Bay and on trips.

Series is comprised of photographs of photographs created and accumulated by the Motz family. Includes photographs of family members, the Motz family home, and of a printing press in England.

Series is comprised of diaries kept by Elizabeth Smith Shortt for the years 1872-1932. Not all years are accounted for.

Series is comprised of materials relating to the company Rittinger & Motz as well as the newspapers that it owned and operated. Includes stationary, ephemera, legal documents, clippings, etc.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of David Sovereign Bowlby and his wife Martha Esther Bowlby née Murphy. Includes clippings, correspondence, genealogical notes on the Murphy family, a print, and an article about David Sovereign from the Fifth Annual Report of the Waterloo History Society.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Edwin Perry Clement and wife Janie Elizabeth Clement née Bowlby. Includes clippings and biographical information on the family, an autograph book owned by Janie, correspondence and ephemera. Note that textiles created by Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement are located in Series 22: Textiles.

Photographs and photograph albums containing pictures of Forbes, Buck, Land, Wilson, and Kaufman family members as well as their friends. Many of the photographs capture family events, holiday celebrations, family trips, camping, cottages, family homes in Kitchener and Hespeler, Ontario, Betty and Peg Forbes's school experience and nursing career, individuals and battalions connected to the First World War and Second World War, and more. The photograph albums were primarily created by Betty Forbes.

Press clippings, notes, and programs created and accumulated by the Forbes family.

Series is comprised of correspondence between Ernest D'Israeli Smith (brother of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Series is comprised of clippings accumulated by members of the Smith-Shortt family. Includes primarily clippings on topics of interest such as medicine and women's rights, as well as those relating to members of the family.

Series consists of originals and photocopies of correspondence, invoices, partnership agreements re the business interests of Joseph Emm Seagram, George Randall and William Roos from 1869-1899.