This album contains original photographs of: the unveiling of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue in City Park; a replica of Columbus' ship en route to the World's Fair in Chicago; Kingston Mills - locks and blockhouse; the Thousand Isands; Memorial Hall in Kingston City Hall; Niagara Falls; the Canadian Volunteer Force marching in a parade down King Street, Kingston prior to leaving for South Africa; shipbuilding at the Kingston waterfront; St. Paul's Church; street railways; Fort Henry; Carruthers Hall with observatory; the moving of the city cemetery from Clergy Street (Skeleton Park); Cataraqui cemetery; the Warden's Residence at Kingston Penitentiary; the fire at St. George's Cathedral in 1899; and various family portraits.
Collections consists of a typed article from The Monthly Review on Currency from 1841, photographs of Kingston currency and a clipping about Kingston currency, as well as three pages of bank or promissory notes from each of the Commercial Bank of Canada - Kingston (1859), Commercial Bank of the Midland District - Kingston (1842) and Watkins & Harris - City of Toronto.
The Cyril Greenland fonds which include correspondence, subject files, and miscellaneous files contain important files relating to the life and work of Merrill Denison, his family (including Flora MacDonald Denison, Mary Merrill and the Merrill family) as well as the property at Bon Echo. The files contain some information about Walt Whitman and Bon Echo and the suffrage movement in Canada.
Fonds consists of a 'Student's Drawing Book' (scrapbook), containing invitation cards from various Queen's University at Kingston Student Societies to attend their events; personalised Alma Mater Society student election cards.
The fonds consists of nine letters relating to the foundation and early history of the library at Perth, Upper Canada, sponsored by Lord Dalhousie before his departure from Canada
Fonds consists of legal records and clippings relating to the purchase and history of Elizabeth Cottage and the Horsey Stone Building, located in Kingston, Ontario; and images of the Horsey Stone Building.
