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Collection consists of prints and photographs depicting people, places and events (primarily Canadian and British).

Electro-steel engraved image of Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester, born 1663 and died 1732. Engraved by Kneller Pinx.

Newspaper print of Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet, born 1710 and died 1797. He was a Church of England clergyman. Accurately drawn and engraved from an an original picture taken from the Life. Published by Alexander Hogg, no. 16 Paternost Row.

The "Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts" collection provides a wealth of source material on a range of major writers. John Forster owned the largest collection of Samuel Richardson manuscripts in existence. Forty-seven poems, including odes, sonnets, dramatic prologues and epilogues are included, along with the major archive of his correspondence. Eight-hundred and fifty letters are reproduced, many relating to his work on the major novels "Pamela," "Clarissa" and "Sir Charles Grandison." A vast collection of literary manuscripts, letters and papers of Jonathan Swift are also included in Part Two. Among them is Swift's private diary, that dates from 1727, many personal accounts, correspondence, verses, riddles, a problematic first edition of "Gulliver's Travels" with manuscript alterations that may be autograph and the Dublin Inquisition's Commission of Lunacy on Swift of 1742. Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson include the proof sheets of his "Lives of the English Poets," along with varied correspondence. Correspondence of major authors of the period include that of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Mrs. (Elizabeth) Inchbald, Robert Burns, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, Horace Walpole and David Hume. Some early letters of William Wordsworth date from 1797 and there is a large volume of verse by James Thomson.

Item is an indenture between Jurgh Docksteder and Elizabeth his wife and Johannis Miller.

Item is a back-matted electro-steel engraved standing portrait of Eugene Francois de Savoie; celebrated general, (b.1663-d.1736). botom two corners of the image are unattached.

Item is an banck-matted top- half, electro-steel engraved portrait of Louis Alexandre de Burbon, Comte de Toluse; French admiral on November 1683 + 1737 (b.1678-d.1737).

File consists of images of Fort Frontenac.

Item is a photograph of the "Plan du Fort Frontenac ou Cataracouy' ca.1740. The original was pen & ink with watercolour. Surveyor unknown.

Item is an window-and-back-matted albumen phorograph top-half portrait of Thomas Douglas; Earl of Selkirk, Established the Red River Colony, (b.1771-d.1820). back of matte has in pencil source and decription. Source is "from a small water color." Information includes "Founder of Selkirk settelment in North West 1820. member of th Hudson Bay Co.." on top of back writing is visible but hard to read.