Writings and paperwork related to Bettie Bernice Wilson during her time at the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Includes a drawing, a certificate of discharge for Wilson from the RCAF from September 1945, writing titled "The plight of 'C' flight" by AW2 Lockwood, J.B.E. in May 1942, the Christmas program for No. 16 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Hagersville (Ontario) for 1944, and the menu for the 25th Anniversary Reunion of Women of the RCAF (1966).

Circular wood burning by Orpheus Schantz of a woman's face surrounded by symbols.

Manuscript poem entitled, "On Parting from My Sister and Her Children." Also included are two pencil drawings, one of which depicts a church and graveyard scene in a village located three miles from Dublin. The poem and drawings have been bound into a book. In the front cover of the book is a newspaper clipping of an obituary for Isabella Jane and Caroline Olivia Clare.

File consists of a proof copy of the work, What the Petroglyphs Said by Nancy-Lou Patterson published by the Pasdeloup Press in 2004. Also present is an original pen and ink drawing on matte board by Nancy Lou Patterson titled "Stone is an open woman," which was incorporated into the final publication.

File consists of four watercolour paintings of landscapes.

One photograph album kept by an unknown woman with pictures of famous women. The album is made with wooden boards which feature paintings of a sunset over water and a song sparrow with calligraphic poetry. Each page includes a photograph of a different woman surrounded by a hand drawn frame that speaks to her life and work. Women in the album include Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Lady Florence Baker, Mary Somerville, Emily Davies, Johanna Maria Lind, and Rosa Bonheur.

Collection consists of seven caricature prints of "men of the day" from the British weekly magazine Vanity Fair. Includes images of Mr. R. Richardson-Gardner; Mr. Herbert Spencer; Marquis of Winchester; Admiral Sir H.R. Yelverton; Mr. Joseph Ernest Renan; The Reverend Arthur Tooth; Lord H.F. Thynne.

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

File consists of two illustrations, ink on paper, by Virgil Burnett for While breath persist by Gael Turnbull (Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1992).

Fonds consists of one print of a work by Thomas Austen Brown. The drawing shows ships in the water at night underneath a moon. Signed by the artist.

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)."

Black ink drawing of a couple seated close together by Orpheus Moyer Schantz captioned "The last day of summer" of a despondent looking couple.

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.

File consists of one reproduction of a handkerchief showing an etching of Chatterton with a brief biography of his life, and a poem. The bottom right corner reads "The Chatterton pocket handkerchief c. 1782" and the verso reads "For Dr. Warren U. Ober. University of Waterloo. Ontario, Canada."

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 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)."

Correspondence, clippings and drawings from Lionel Burt to William H. Kaufman, concerning the "Sorel Strut" ski system.

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

File consists of twenty drawings, mostly pencil sketches, of scenery, still lifes and friends and family.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (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 (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.

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

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

Partial sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

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 (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 (25 pages). Includes ms. notes, equations, sketches of boats and harbours, seascapes, landscapes, plans for paintings, still life studies, figures, and landscapes in watercolour.

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

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 (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.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

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.

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

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

One sketchbook (12 pages). Includes landscape sketches of Cape Cod and Ogunquit for paintings, and studies of birds and boats.

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

Sketchbook containing pen and ink sketches by David Hill.

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

One sketchbook, four pages.

File consists of a sketchbook belonging to Virgil Burnett. On flyleaf: Stratford, 2 February 1995. Includes sketches, manuscript notes.

Undated sketchbook containing pencil sketches by David Hill.

File consists of a sketchbook belonging to Virgil Burnett. On flyleaf : Wellesley, 17 January 1987, a birthday gift from Jane; Flavigny, 7 August 1993; Stratford 2002. Includes sketches, manuscript notes, insertions tipped-in.

File consists of a sketchbook belonging to Virgil Burnett. On flyleaf: Toronto, June 1994. Includes sketches, manuscript notes.

File consists of a sketch (self-portrait) of artist Leonard M. Davis presented to Catherine Taylor in appreciation for her services in the US and overseas.

File consists of one sketch of a landscape identified as being looking towards Tann and Pirmass. Sketch is signed W.H.E. Schmalz, II Class.

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

Fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by Stan Johannesen including seven diaries and original artwork for his novel Sister Patsy.

Photograph of Ruth Schantz on an illustrated mount. The photograph consists of four separate shots of Ruth in different poses that have been developed together as one photograph and mounted on a large board around which Carrie Flagler Schantz has painted pink flowers. The mount is dated September 30, 1899 and includes two lines from the poem, Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow: “I've said my seven times over and over; Seven times one are seven.”

Small painted drawing of the back of a woman wearing a pink bonnet by Carrie Flagler Schantz.

Retirement gift in the form of a drawing received by Cully Schmidt from his work colleagues at the Kitchener-Waterloo Record in 1975. Drawing shows a caricature of Schmidt as "The Iron Duke" by Bert Bullock, and signed by his colleagues.

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

Posters advertising concerts held at the Village Bistro featuring a variety of artists including the Papa Bears, Chase Anderson, the Paisleys, Black Shake Blues Band, Sleepy John, Seeds of Time (later known as the Passionate Mad), Tomorrow’s Eyes, the Poppy Family, Mock Duck, Grady Moore, Black Snake, Hydroelectric Street Car, As Sherriff, the Billy Joe Bottom Band, and the Isle of Sky. One poster contains a handwritten contract on the verso transferring ownership of the Village Bistro to Allan Kirton for the sum of $2000.00. The contract is dated March 22, 1969 but is not signed by Telegdi or Kirton.

Also includes posters and related material including press clippings and a brochure advertising musicians and bands performing at other venues in Vancouver, British Columbia or Toronto, Ontario including Sweetwater, Buffy Saint-Marie, Dick Gregory, the Poppy Family, Mother Tucker, Black Shake, Seeds of Time, Mock Duck, Tomorrow’s Eyes, Tiny Tim, Country Joe and the Fish, A Wizard of the North, Tunnel, Deyong Sound, Lights by Ecto Plasmic, the Papa Bears, Man Child, Elusive Butterfly, the Collectors, the Tote Family, and a variety of other bands that performed at the 1969 Thunderbird Peace Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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

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 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.

A colour copy of a political cartoon by editorial cartoonist Patrick Corrigan that was likely featured in the Toronto Star. The cartoon depicts Michael Ignatieff, then Leader of the Opposition, driving a large Liberal bus closely behind Stephen Harper, then Prime Minister of Canada, shown driving a small car filled with recreational items such as golf clubs and a fishing rod. The cartoon includes the following caption: “Objects in the rear-view mirror may appear closer than…” This copy was likely given to Andrew Telegdi. The political cartoon is signed by Michael Ignatieff.