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The collection consists of non-photographic, panoramic maps of various Canadian cities and urban centres including Halifax, Lunenburg, Moncton, Montreal, Sherbrooke, Sorel, Brantford, Kingston, London, Ottawa, Port Arthur, Simcoe, St. Catharines, Tillsonburg, Toronto, Morris, Winnipeg, Victoria, and Yukon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, major Canadian cities and urban centres followed a North American trend in having panoramic maps - more commonly called bird's-eye views - prepared. These non-photographic illustrations viewed cities from above at an oblique angle - a remarkable achievement in the days before aerial photography. They showed street patterns, major landscapes, and a variety of structures including churches, mansions, single dwellings, industrial plants, office blocks, retail and wholesale businesses, and government buildings.

Contains selected copy books from Frontenac County, City of Kingston, Kingston Township, Pittsburgh Township and Wolfe Island.

Item is a portrait of [J. M. Macbeath?] and other taken by an unknown photographer. Item was located and retrieved from WD Jordan Special Collections - Buchan, under call number PR8561 .M11.

Item is a handwritten letter signed by the hand of the author. Located in scrapbook on page 57.

The collection consists of two bank statement books, a number of signature cards, a bank ledger for June 1907 to October 1907 tallying deposits for a number of banks in the City of Kingston, as well as a "Borrowing Book", 1893-1903, detailling the rental of dinner and glass ware to a variety of citizens and organizations in the Kingston.

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.

Unbound copybook with approximately 150 pages. The copybook contains detailed sets of instructions and specifications for all of the various building trades for a number of different buildings in the Kingston and Ottawa area. Includes spcifications for the Bell Telephone building and Cooks Presbyterian Church in Kingston and a number of residences on O'Connor Street in Ottawa.

Ontario's first macadamized road. This album is comprised of photographs taken in the 1910's of work being done on Highway #2, also known as Kingston Road or York Road.

Scrapbook contains clippings and photographs of many Canadian scenes(including Kingston), well-known individuals and miscellaneous subjects.

The album consists of Dominion Day celebrations, family gatherings, a farm team, and church interior at Maple Hill, Ontario; scenes along the Madawaska River, and the bridge crossing it, at Stewartville, Ontario; scenes at Glasgow Station, Wolf Lake Wolverine Camp, and Beaver Meadow, Ontario; scenes on Brule Lake, Ontario, including a cottage and lumbering; and scenes at, and around, 'The Knolls', Mount Vernon, New York.