Coffee pot made of japanned tin, with a painted wooden finial and reed covered handle. This pot belonged to Robert Macaulay (1744-1800) and was presumably of British or American manufacture.
Pair of painted chairs ca.1820-1830. Wood and painted wood. The paint is the original paint and the chairs were used by the Strange Family of Kingston.
Photo of the 'Royal Chair' in the parlour of a private home. The Royal Chair was first used in 1879 on the occasion of a visit by the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne.
Excerpt from Richard Cartwright's Letterbook, 1785-1786, which is among the best documentary sources for early commercial history of Kingston. Open at a letter to the Montreal firm of Todd & McGill on the 13th of February 1786.
