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A life story / by Irene Brown

  • ON00351 GA 132
  • Item
  • 2000-2003

Contents: autobiography of Irene Brown. The first fifteen pages are computer output typescript, the remaining 459 pages are ms.

Account book

  • ON00351 GA 40
  • Item
  • 1800-1809

Unidentified English account book containing entries from 1800 - 1809, including wages paid, property taxes, debts. etc.

Amelia Alderson Opie letter

  • ON00351 WA 38
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  • 1838

One holograph letter from Amelia Opie to an unidentified correspondent refusing an invitation. 1838 May 5.

Armistead Churchill Gordon letter

  • ON00351 GA 39
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The fonds consists of a single holograph letter to C.C. Pinckney discussing John Drinkwater's "Robert E. Lee."

Arthur Lang diary copy

  • ON00351 GA 96
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  • 1820 (transcribed 1907)

This document is a 13 p. carbon ts. transcript of Arthur Lang's diary prepared as a Christmas souvenir in 1907 by T.A. Lang, Clearfield Pennsylvania. It includes a copy of a letter from one of Arthur Lang's granddaughters to another, giving some family background. Arthur Lang describes the sea voyage, scenery, passengers, trip from Montreal through the Lachine Rapids and on to Prescott, and his experiences inspecting land near Lanark, in Ramsay, Lanark and Dalhousie Townships.

Auguste Bienaime Desire Pioch manuscript

  • ON00351 GA 42
  • Item

Holograph manuscript (304 p.) entitled "Cours de calcul integral." Bound with his Memoire sur les fonctions arbitraires exprimes par des integrales doubles. Taken from Tome XV of Memoires Couronnes, Academie Royale de Bruxelles.

Breithaupt Leather Co. truck

  • ON00351 GA 142
  • Item
  • [191-]

Contents: one undated photograph showing a Breithaupt Leather Co. truck in front of the Shipping Dept. at the tannery, which was located in Kitchener, Ont. Photograph by Denton.

Bridgeport School construction crew / [by] Denton Photo

  • ON00351 GA 213
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  • 1924

Contents : consists of one group photograph of a construction crew, purportedly for Bridgeport School. They are posed with a sign: "John V. Gray Construction Co. Ltd, General Contractors, head office Toronto ...."

Christian Enslin : Letter to Frederick Heinitsch, M.D., August 1849

  • ON00351 GA 177
  • Item
  • 1849

Contents : file consists of one letter from Christian Enslin, bookseller and bookbinder, Waterloo, Ontario to Fredrick Heinitsch, M.D., Lancaster, Pennsylvania requesting the right to "Mother Drops", a medicine created by Dr. Heinitsch on which he held the patent.
The letter also includes information on bookbinding and printing practices in Upper Canada and makes reference to local figures such as Benjamin Eby, Bishop of the Mennonites.

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