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 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.
Collection consists of oaths signed by multiple individuals, relating to militia commissions, allegiance to the King and abjuration. Also includes oaths of office for appointment as Justices of the Peace.
Collection consists of two volumes of advertising copy for The Victor Talking Machine Company, later RCA Victor, compiled at the company offices in Montreal, Quebec.
The collection consists of drawings for a farm house on Hickory Island for J.W. Wood by Warren, Wetmore and Morgan Architects of New York, collected as part of the "Ah, Wilderness" exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
The collection consists of correspondence and printed material from William Thompson and family, as well as material related to Freemasonry. Also includes a typescript of “The Storms Below” by Paul Stuewe.
Collection consists of four guest registers (1851-1869) for the Kent and British American Hotels, located in Kingston, Ontario. The registers contain the signatures of a variety of visitors to Kingston including visiting artists, performers and politicians. The proprietors also make note in the pages the times and frequencies of steamboat traffic likely in order to aid their guests in planning their transportation needs.The collection also includes legal documents, donated at a later date, concerning the ownership of the building lots (67 and 88) and a number of financial interests in the hotel.