Correspondence concerning his resignation from Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., over his views on Annexation of Canada to the United States. Also contains copies of letters/essays Allen wrote on annexation for the newspapers.
Scrapbooks contains news clippings relating to events and people in Bowmanville, photographs and minutes of the Bowmanville Mechanic Association and Library Association.
Collection consists of architectural and construction drawings of Kingston buildings designed by local architects including Power and Son, Robert Gage, William Newlands, Jr., and Arthur Ellis.
The collection consists of a number of tintypes and other photographs collected by Herman Balesic over the years. The hand-tinted tintype portraits were mainly taken by J.D. Wallis, melainotype artist, who had an office on Market Square in Kingston, Ontario. The other portraits are examples of the work of other local photographers such as Spohn, Bell, Abbott and Sheldon and Davis.
The collection consists of various documents from Kingston, including receipts, permits and handwritten histories of the area, as well as a map of Port Arthur and a stock certificate for Meridian Gold Mining Company in Nova Scotia. Also includes a permit for privy cleaning, and an overdue notice for library books.
The drawings represent heritage buildings in many towns and regions in southern Ontario such as Adolphustown, Bath, Claireville, Cobourg, Cornwall, Grafton, Islington, Kingston, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Perth, Port Hope and Toronto. Two northern towns are represented by North Bay and Penetanguishene. The drawings represent a variety of structures from churches, clubs and rectories to commerical buildings, factories and mills. The material is organized alphabetically according to town or region.
This collection consists of copies of a number of albumen prints, possibly taken by Thomas Bartley Tracy, a member of the International Boundary Commission, durings its survey of the 49th parallel west of Lake of the Woods. Includes many images of Red River and the surrounding district (ca.1872-1873); correspondence from the Boundary Commission and other sources relating to the photographs (ca.1900-1940); genealogical material pertaining to the Tracy and Boyd families.
This collection consists of an album comprising an assortment of post cards from Eastern Ontario, the United States, and Europe, 1905-1911; an accounts ledger from a general store located in Newington, Ontario, 1872-1878.
This collection consists of indices referencing Queen's University publications. The indices were originally on index cards (Faculty Index and Queen's Alumni Review index), and in print (Queen's Quarterly and Queen's Gazette).