This item is an account book which is bound in pigskin. Some of the accounts are related to the sale of clocks. Also included are notes with the following headings "To lay gild on glass", "To gild wood or stone", "To gild any metal", "To writ with silver letters", "To soften metal", "Numbers of an 8 day clocke", "To make yellow varnish", etc. It is possible that the owner of this account book was a clock-maker.
File consists of an address to the Orangemen of Cavan and Perth, by James Fitzgibbon (York, ON), regarding an upcoming Orangemen parade that Fitzgibbon says is unnecessary and will only stoke anger amongst the Catholic residents.
Fitzgibbon, JamesThis item is a large broadside advertising the first annual Agricultural Show, in Bridgenorth, for the Smith Branch Agricultural Society on October 6, 1855. It lists exhibit and competition categories and prizes as well.
Smith Branch Agricultural SocietyThis item is an account book of Alvin Bee, Concession 1, Lots 26, 27, 28 of Hope Township, relating to expenditures for his farm. Also included is a 1907 tax notice.
Bee, AlvinThis item is an ambrotype of an unidentified woman.
