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IMC-123 · File · 1923
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File includes 17 photographs of archaeological sites in Greece, some identified as Monemvasia, believed to have been taken by Blake while accompanying archaeologist Gilbert Bagnani on a dig in 1923. Also included are 21 photographs of medieval and 16th-17th century French streets and houses; it is probable that these relate to Blake’s own research or to that of Gilbert Bagnani.

IMC-117 · File · 1930-2007
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File includes the following material:

  • Sybil Fairbairn (Campbell): Ontario Department of Education certificate (1930)
  • "2nd Lieut (Nursing Sister) Sybil Fairbairn, Royal Army Medical Corps, Canadian Army" certificate (1943)
  • Canadian Bible Society certificate (1991)
  • Kenneth Frederick Campbell: certificate installing Mr. Campbell as "Clan Chieftain" at 2nd family reunion, Manitoba (1990)
  • 90th birthday certificate issued by Jeff Leal, MPP, Peterborough (2013)
  • photographs, unidentified (4)
  • Trent University "Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics" poster and related Peterborough Examiner clippings (2007). Note: Kenneth Frederick Campbell was a friend of Kenneth Mark Drain and was Trent University's special guest at the first Endowed Chair lecture by Dr. Kathryn Norlock, 3 November 2010
IMC-112 · File · 1853-1953
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of two copies of Katherine E. Wallis: Canadian Sculptor by A. Roger Collins. One copy is inscribed "Dear Aunt Elise with much love from 'Alas!' and 'Alack!,' Happy Memories, 1949". Elise may refer to Elise Roux (1853-1953), wife of Thomas Alexander Stewart Hay (son of Dr. Thomas Hay and Anna Maria Stewart). Loosely inserted is an unidentified photograph of a woman.
The second copy is inscribed "Helen Dear for the new house, Love from Alice, 1953". Helen may refer to the donor's aunt, Helen Frances Mathias who married Rod Stuart; Alice may refer to the author, Alice Roger Collins.

File also includes two removable flash memory devices containing Dr. Mathias' PhD dissertation as well as digital images, slides, and photographs linked to archaeology work conducted by Mathias in Newfoundland, Qatar and Afghanistan. The dissertation provides context for the images.

IMC-048 · File · 1918-1979
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Drawings of Jim Lauder, a Canadian soldier, from a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1944. Also, added in 2019, a copy of Hard Tears & Soft Laughter by James William Lauder (Tellwell Talent, 2018); the manuscript for this book was written by James William Lauder and published posthumously by Lauder's son, Jimmie Arthur Lauder, in 2018.

Lauder, James William
IMC-121 · File · 1896-1979
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File includes 9 black and white photographs and 2 negatives of archaeological sites taken by Verschoyle Blake during a trip in Greece with Gilbert Bagnani and his mother in the Spring of 1923. Also included is a letter from Constance Marani to her friend Hester Thom dated 1 March 1926. Also, two typed pages of notes compiled by the donor and titled “Letter, March 1 1926 from (Ethel) Constance Marani née Blake, 1896-1979” with a genealogical focus, and “Verschoyle Benson Blake 1899-1971”, also with a genealogical focus. Verschoyle Blake helped the Bagnanis, Gilbert and Stewart, whose papers are located in Trent University Archives, with the architectural design of a library in their Port Hope, Ontario house, Vogrie.

IMC-057 · File · 1941
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

A reproduction (34 cm x 121 cm) of an original two-piece mural painted in 1941 by artist Frederick Hagan (1918-2003). The mural depicts various camp activities; reproductions were made in recognition of the camp's 100th anniversary celebrated in 2010.

Hibakusha collection
IMC-031 · File · 1982
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of letters, pamphlets, testimonies and petitions pertaining to 80 Hibakusha who wanted to make a presentation to the U.N. in June 1982 opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons but were denied entry to the United States. "Hibakusha" are victims of the atomic bombs which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945.

Hon. Leslie Frost materials
IMC-072 · File · 1921-1933
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File includes a composite photograph, Osgood Hall Law School Final Year, 1921 and a Province of Ontario certificate appointing Leslie Frost ""to be one of Our Counsel learned in the Law for Our Province of Ontario," 1933.