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Illustration of a busy street surrounde by stores and other retail locations

Photograph of a body of water with a few sailboats near a coastal town. Incription on the postcard reads: "We cannot not have […]"

Illustration depicting the ruins of Fort Lousiburg in the foreground, with building across a field in the distance, and a body of water in the background

Painting of a lake during sunset with four sailboats and a rowboat with people on it, and a forest to the right extending past the frame. Incription on the postcard reads: "Having a fine time, I remain yous, Mrs. L. Hersey"

Illustration of a park with a path leading up to a lake with boats, and patches of land in the distance

Illustration of a lake with two rocky parches of land on the centre and foreground, and a two mountains in the distance that almost meet in the middle of the frame, where there is a sailboat

Illustration of a road lined by grass leading to a very large building with a blue roof and a tall brick fence extending from both sides of the building to the distance and past the frame. Incription on the postcard reads: "I (?) the place depicted on the other side of this card, but if is one (?) point of interests in the village, and is really very pretty. […]"

Collection consists of photos of City Hall, Kingston Dry Dock, the Pump House Museum, and a snow day on Bagot street.

Diary of a young woman touring the Thousand Islands for the month of August 1883 starting in Hartford, Connecticut on August 1st, 1883 and ending in Montreal on September 1st, 1883. The author spends much of the diary remarking on the beauty of the scenery, the quality of the food and variations in the weather. She recounts day excursions on both American and Canadian islands and towns and mentions Clayton, Alexandria Bay, Gananoque, Brown's Bay, Hay's Island, Whitney Point, Guernsey Point, and Stave, Bluff and Skinner islands. She is traveling with the Redfield family (Mr. and Mrs. Redfield and their children George and Henry) and the "Professor". They encounter a Dr. Norris who is known to the family. When they arrive in Montreal they stay at the Windsor Hotel, which is greatly admired.

There is an additional three page entry at the end of the diary describing a trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire in September of 1885.