The collection consists of blueprints, drawings, sketches, specifications, correspondence, and invoices for Kingston and area buildings, including Tete du Pont Barracks; Kingston General Hospital Nurses' Home; Carruthers, Nicol, Fleming, and Ontario Halls on the Queen's University at Kingston campus; private residences including Fettercarin, Bermingham, Spragg, the Eastbourne Summer Home; and commercial buildings including Kingston Auto Sales. Architects include William Newlands, Power and Son, Gillen & Gillen, and Frank T. Lent.
The collection consists of approximately 128 posters that were created by Larry Rossignol during his time at Queen's University. A large majority of the posters were produced through his company Teddy Tin Can Graphics. The subject matter of the posters pertains to Queen's University events, such as concerts, theatrical productions, academic issues and public lectures.
Fonds consists of team photos of various Kingston and area baseball and hockey champions; includes photographs of the Kingston Ponies, the Red Indian Hockey Club, one action photo of Queen's football team, ca. 1928, and three miscellaneous photographs of a Kingston barbershop and the Grocers' and Butchers' Parade (1934).
The collection consists of sound recordings produced by or at Queen's University, previously collected by the Library or otherwise lacking provenance. Includes recordings of convocations, lectures and addresses, installations of Principals, and oral history interviews.
The collection is comprised of letters written to Howard and Daisy Gerring by Alan and Ruth Collier during their summer sketching trips from 1956 to 1987. The letters are very detailed and were often created in a diary-type format with each letter containing daily accounts of the Colliers' travels. The letters reference people met on the journey, issues pertaining to the maintence of the their vehicle, and events that happened along the way. The material was arranged chronologically in binders by the Gerrings.
