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."

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

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

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.

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.

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 ms. speeches given by Elizabeth Smith Shortt at a variety of events.

Material created and accumulated by Orpheus Moyer Schantz. Includes one small memorandum book.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Adam Bowlby. Includes one obituary and a photocopy of the obituary.

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

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

One diary belonging to Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz). The diary was given to Etta in 1882 for her sixteenth birthday and in it she has written poems, songs and diary entries. Also includes clippings, drawings, fabric swatches and writings that were inserted into the diary.

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

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

Series is comprised of school notebooks created by Elizabeth Smith Shortt.

Material created and accumulated by Arthur M. Bowman. Includes one item of correspondence.

Material created and accumulated by Herbert Cecil Palmer Schantz. Includes one envelope addressed to Herbert.

Material created and accumulated by Franklin Abram Schantz. Includes two new years cards and one birthday card.

Material created and accumulated by Arthur Benjamin Schantz. Includes one new years card.

Material relating to the personal life of Florence Annie Catherine Schantz. Includes gifts from her brother Austin Tobias Schantz and her sister Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schnatz).

Material created and accumulated by Herbert Cecil Palmer Schantz. Includes one drawing book.

Series consists of one ledger book kept by Rieder and Ruby, General Merchants of New Hamburg.

One wedding announcement of Etta Lydia Mary Schantz to Ward Malott White.

Material created and accumulated by Florence Annie Catherine Schantz. Includes two greeting cards.

Series consists of day books and a payroll journal in tabular format that were used to record employees, pay, pay periods and number of days worked. The ledgers were maintained at the Kitchener head office.

Material created and accumulated by Sophie Schantz. Includes one autograph album.

Series consists of records relating to the operation and activities of the Berlin Water Works Company and the sale of the company to the Corporation of the Town of Berlin. Includes correspondence, reports, contracts and other legal documents, architectural drawings, and other material.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

Material created and accumulated by Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz). Includes one photograph, ephemera, cards, certificates, examinations, and other records.

Series consists of a single framed item for a child's bedroom.

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

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by J.I. Frank Anthes. Includes ribbons collected by J.I. Frank.

Material created and accumulated by Florence Schantz. Includes one small accounts notebook.

Series is comprised of ms. reports created by Elizabeth Smith Shortt, primarily related to her medical and women's rights work.

Correspondence and related ephemeral items, to and from members of the Schantz family and friends.

Series consists of incoming correspondence relating to the operation of the Berlin Water Commission for the years 1899, and 1901-1905. Correspondence is addressed to the water commissioners in general, or to individual commissioners (mainly chairman J.C. Breithaupt) or the superintendent (W. Mahlon Davis and his successor Henry Hymmen).

Series consists of administrative records, correspondence and ephemera related to the operations of the Berlin Young Men's Christian Association.

Series is comprised of visual materials accumulated by Bertram Davis. Includes a print of James Sharple's pastel portrait of Robert Southey.

Series is comprised of materials relating to the life of John George Motz. Includes a postcard photograph, funerary cards and a handkerchief.

Series consists of material created and accumulated by Ella Anthes Cook. Includes autograph albums, a scrapbook, ephemera, and correspondence.

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.

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

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

Series is comprised of correspondence between Damaris Isabelle Smith (mother of Elizabeth Smith Shortt) and others. Correspondence is organized by surname of correspondent.

Series consists of material relating to the administration of personnel, primarily salary information. Contains paybooks from 1909 to 1912, cheque information, unclaimed wage information and pay worksheets.

Material created and accumulated from the Schantz family renunion. Includes one reunion register.

Material created and accumulated by Franklin Abram Schantz. Includes one certificate of appreciation.

Series comprises materials created by W.H.E. Schmalz, primarily when he was a student at RMC and during his professional life. Includes maps, drawings, paintings and architectural plans.

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 is comprised of ms. speeches given by Elizabeth Smith Shortt at various events and lectures.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Alfred Bowlby and his wife Margaret Bowlby née Chrylser. Includes clippings, and an article written by Alfred on his own recollections of life in Berlin and on the history of his family.

Report cards from Berlin public school for Dorothy Russell.

Series consists of artifacts created or accumulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the various companies and newspapers that it has owned. Includes one vanity plate from owener J.E. Motz, and two printing plates.

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

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of David Ward Clement. Includes clippings and genealogical notes. Note that

Series consists of cartographic items collected by the Hobson family. Includes two maps of Southern Ontario showing train and maritime routes.

Series consists of correspondence received by Margaret Rieder. Includes primarily Christmas cards, and one birthday card. Correspondents include: Anthes, Carolina; Clarke, Evelyn; Edkins, Phyllis; Morley, Margaret Louise and Anna Elizabeth; Parry, Magaret; Rieder, Emeline Merner; Rieder, Margareth Anthes.

Series contains materials relating to the estate of George Ratz. Includes correspondence, tax records and receipts.

Series consists of material relating to J.R. Worthington's employment in the candy manufacturing industry. Series contains files pertaining to candy manufacturing including machinery, production, suppliers, ingredients, publications and different lines of candies. Series includes formulas, correspondence, and machinery, equipment and ingredient advertisements and pamphlets. Includes correspondence and records relating to J.R. Worthington was employment at McCormick’s Limited, London, Ontario.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of George Herbert Bowlby and wife Blanche Alexandrine (Adine) Bowlby née Seagram. Includes clippings.

Photographs of the extended Schantz family, as well as friends and dwellings. Includes one snapshot of an unidentified family group.

Series consists of materials relating to the life and death of Ward Hamilton Bowlby, wife Lissie Bowbly née Hespeler and daughter Annie Perley née Bowlby. Includes clippings.

Series consists of material relating to the Lapsley family, primarily photographs. Includes some genealogical information and wedding certificates. Includes images of Ethel Schneider before her marriage to Norman C. Schneider, and images of Lapsleys, Bucks, Joachimis and Seilers.

Series consists of artifacts, including two cookie cutters and a clipboard, from Dare Foods Limited.

Series consists of three war medals given on behalf of David Ward Clement’s service in First World War. Includes the Memorial Cross (given to Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement), the Victory Medal and the British War Medal (awarded posthumously to David Ward Clement).

Photographs created and accumulated by Dorothy Russell. Includes photographs of friends, groups, Victoria park and self portraits.

Material created and accumulated by Dorothy Etta Russell (nee White) during her education, both elementary and high school and during teacher's college. Includes primarily notebooks.

Series comprises architectural drawings created for the competitions for the city of Kitchener's city hall and municipal buildings.

Series consists primarily of material created and /or accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt, documenting her involvement in the suffrage movement in the United States. Includes clippings, ephemera, photographs, artifacts and textual material, including reports by A.R.H. of campaigning work for the right to vote. Photographs include a series of snapshots of the Suffragist Parade in New York City, 1911. Artifacts include breast banners, a flag and a ceramic geese match holder.

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

Education material created and accumulated by Dorothy Russell. Includes school notebooks, examinations, artwork, and certificates.

Series is comprised of school effects, primarily of Lorraine Shortt. Includes notebooks, exams, and student handbooks.

Materials created by the Canadian Liberal Party during Conservative Ninth Canadian Ministry with Prime Minister Right Honourable Sir Robert Laird Borden (October 1911 – October 1917) and Unionist Eleventh Canadian Ministry with Prime Minister Right Honourable Arthur Meighen (July 1920 – December 1921).

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

Series consists of material accumulated by J.I. Frank Anthes relating to securities investing. Includes correspondence, flyers, and brochures.

Series consists of correspondence received by Talmon Henry Rieder. Most correspondence is personal, from family and friends, including from his wife Martha Rieder. Includes letters, telegrams, and postcards.

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 accumulated by Peter Rieder relating to taxes paid in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Includes correspondence, tax notices, and tax receipts.

Correspondence to Dorothy Etta Russell (nee White) from friends and family. Includes letters of congratulations from classmates on completing teacher's college.

Series consists of photographs created and accumulated by the Hobson family, thier relatives and friends. Includes photographs of a drugstore, a banquet hall, a Kiwanis trip and Victoria Public School students.

Material relating to Orpheus Moyer Schantz's activities and interests; primarily entertainment, business and leisure pursuits. Includes ephemera, art, and business cards.

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.

Material created and accumulated by Tobias and Mary Schantz and family. Includes book cars, a daily diary from Arthur Benjamin Schantz and funerary memorials.

Issues of local newspapers and printed material.

Series consists of photographs of Isabel Mackay, as well as her friends and contemporaries.

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.

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.

Series consists of souvenir material probably accumulated by Ivan W. Keffer, most of which was likely collected during the time they lived in Germany. Includes mainly souvenir postcards in booklet form and loose postcards. Most postcards depict European cities and attractions; some are souvenirs from places in Canada and the United States. Series also includes souvenir material from the Keffer's voyage on the S.S. Leviathan when they moved to Germany.

Personal material relating to the life of Flemming Clarke Russell.

Series consists of five scrapbooks created by Isabel Mackay. The scrapbooks include clippings of Mackay's works, reviews, obituaries, and photographs of contemporaries.

Contents: series consists of materials relating to the personal life of Anne Innis Dagg. Includes correspondence, childhood records, journals, materials relating to her family and more.

Photographs created and accumulated by the Schantz Russell family. Includes one photograph of Tobias Schantz.