The collection consists of pictures taken by an unknown photographer, or photographers, in Kingston and the surrounding area, around the turn of the twentieth century. The photos show local landmarks such as Kingston City Hall, Kingston homes, Kingston Mills, Martello Towers and Jones Falls. Also included are photographs of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, men, horses and guns. Steam vessels such as the Rideau Queen, the Toronto and even pleasure sail boats, ice boats and quite a number of pictures of canoes and canoeists are included along with pictures taken at or near the Kingston Yacht Club. There are many pictures of as yet unidentified individuals in various poses including family scenes, picnics and fishermen. Another sizable lot of pictures were taken away from Kingston at various sites that have yet to be identified. One series were shot in what looks like a summer resort area and several others are of cities or a city yet to be identified.
Includes calendars, 1841-1911, Kingston Women's Medical College calendars, 1883/84 - 1893/94, School of Mining annual reports, 1894-1915, and Queen's letters and deeds.
The collection consists of various documents from Kingston, including receipts, permits and handwritten histories of the area, as well as a map of Port Arthur and a stock certificate for Meridian Gold Mining Company in Nova Scotia. Also includes a permit for privy cleaning, and an overdue notice for library books.
This collection consists of an album comprising an assortment of post cards from Eastern Ontario, the United States, and Europe, 1905-1911; an accounts ledger from a general store located in Newington, Ontario, 1872-1878.
The collection consists of handbills and broadsheets from Kingston, Montreal and elsewhere in Ontario. Includes feight tariffs for steamboats and stagecoaches, a listing of goods for C & J McDonald in Gananoque, a dissolution notice for A&W Morris & Co. of Brockville, a petition for a cheese factory and other material.
The collection consists of postcards and photographs showing mines in Timmins and Porcupine, Ontario. The collection includes images of McEnany Mine B, McIntyre Mine, Hollinger Gold Mine, Dome Mine, South Porcupine and Main St. Timmins.
The collection consists of four scrapbooks compiled by Miss Mary Cartwright, about the career and death of Sir Richard Cartwright, and one printed volume 'The Picnic Speeches' 1877 (Globe Printing and Publishing Co.; Toronto, 1878).
