The collection consists of blueprints, drawings, sketches, specifications, correspondence, and invoices for Kingston and area buildings, including Tete du Pont Barracks; Kingston General Hospital Nurses' Home; Carruthers, Nicol, Fleming, and Ontario Halls on the Queen's University at Kingston campus; private residences including Fettercarin, Bermingham, Spragg, the Eastbourne Summer Home; and commercial buildings including Kingston Auto Sales. Architects include William Newlands, Power and Son, Gillen & Gillen, and Frank T. Lent.
Farmer's work diary and accounts, 1890-1893, agricultural periodical and advertisements, 1898, and religious pamphlets. Includes: one Constitution, By-Laws, Rules of Order etc for Cataraqui Lodge, No. 10 of the Independent Order of Oddfellows; two Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book, designed for Farmers, Mechanics and All People; one Catechism for Confirmation; one "Are You Regenerate?" booklet relating to being "born again"; one notebook containing farm happenings includes harvests and animal deaths or purchases etc; one issue of The Canadian Horticulturist (Oct 1898); one Pocket Compendium for the Friends of Massey-Harris Co. Limited; one price list of E.D. Smith Nursery in Winona, Ontario; one envelope for Green's Nursery Co., Rochester, NY; one Surprise Soap catalogue (1899); one Elipse Soap catalogue; one Almanac & Notebook containing rough notes; and one The Perfect Life booklet.
This collection consists of photographs (prints and negatives, b/w and colour), slides, colour separations, and clippings from various early Kingston newspapers, accumulated during the research and writing, by Nick and Helma Mika, of publications relating to Kingston, and the surrounding region.
This fonds consists of correspondence, on personal, literary, artistic and particularly theatre matters. Material also contains a couple of pieces of art work by Grant Macdonald.
Photographs donated by Vernon S. Ready showing images of the Faculty of Education, the visit of Bill Davis to Duncan McArthur Hall, tuition protests by students, John Deutsch and others.
