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  • Isolated manuscripts are small collections - often single items, maps, drawings, individual letters or very small groupings of letters and documents.

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            05-1009 · Fonds · 2003-2004

            Collection consists of 3 compact disks of speeches given at various Smith-Ennismore Historical Society meetings. One of the CDs is of a speech called "Follow the Dream," about millwright Adam Scott, given by Robert Scott Dunford in September 2003. Another CD is of a speech called "Running a Living Mill," about Tyrone Mills, given by Robert Shafer in March 2004. The third is of a speech called "The Roy Collection of Chemong Park," given by Mary Lavery in May 2004.

            Smith-Ennismore Historical Society
            89-1055 · Fonds · 1 July 1879

            This item is the marriage license of Thomas Snarr and Anna Webster of Hastings and East Whitby, Ontario.

            Snarr-Webster family
            South Monaghan postcard
            IMC-101 · Item · 1912

            Item is a postcard depicting a street scene showing the Post Office.

            IMC-103 · Item · 2016

            Item is a brochure for the Spark Photo Festival, a celebration of photography in Peterborough, Ontario.

            69-1004 · Collection · 1833-1933

            This item is carbon copy of a typescript history of St. Andrew's United Church titled "One Hundred Years' History of St. Andrew's Church, Peterborough 1833-1933." It was written and later published by E. Bruce Fowler.

            St. Andrew's Church
            Steam locomotive photograph
            83-1019 · Item · [1865?]

            The photograph is by A.R. Capon of steam engine no. 26, from the Canadian National Railway

            Stephen A. Otto fonds
            96-1004 · Fonds · [ca. 1866], 1975

            This fonds consists of four photographs, two of which are copies of photographs found in the Geale-Rogers Papers (82-022). One of these two is a duplicate of photo #400, Box 14, and is of Calcutt House, Peterborough. A negative is attached. The other is a duplicate of photo #27 of Album #6, Box 15, and is of a cottage on Little Otter Island, Stoney Lake, Ontario. A negative is attached. The other two photographs are of the Canadian General Electric Company building, Peterborough. One is an exterior shot and the other an interior. Also included is a negative of photo #48, Box 1 Folder 4 of The Peterborough City Photograph Collection (83-008), and is of the Salvation Army Barracks, Peterborough. None of the photographs and negatives are dated. Also included is a photocopy of a map of Stoney Lake, with Little Otter Island highlighted.

            Otto, Stephen A.
            IMC-061 · Collection · 2000-2011

            "Included is a CD with various documents relating to the Project:

            • a draft of a chapter by Alsford published in Tom Symons: A Canadian Life, 2011;
            • Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee minutes after 2000;
            • plus several other Project documents

            Also included is a copy of ""Recommendations for a Management Plan for Kodlunarn Island and Related Historical Sites in Outer Frobisher Bay"", 2000."

            Stephen Leacock collection
            IMC-135 · Collection · 1916-1943

            Includes a Christmas card "from Lill and Will Rudge, Christmas 1916."Inside the card is a photo card (NY Herald) of Stephen Leacock, signed by Leacock for Aphra Miller, 1934.

            Also includes sheet music titled "The Junior League of Montreal Presents Aces High, the Musical Revue. By the Writers of Looping the Loop, 1922." Leacock's signature and address, dated May 31, 1938 affixed to the verso of front cover.

            Also includes a photograph of Leacock addressing members of the New York City Cancer Committee at a luncheon at the Plaza Hotel, 15 May 1935 and a signed card, received by the recipient 8 March 1943: "Stephen Leacock / With best wishes / Miss Ethel Smith."

            73-1004 · Fonds · 12 Aug. 1705-Oct. 1705

            This item is a leather-bound sermon book, of notes taken by an unidentified person at Kilbride, Stevenstoune and Kilwinning in Cunningham, Scotland (south-west of Glasgow) from August 12th to October 1705.

            IMC-099 · Collection · 1869-1989

            Original, photocopied, and transcribed materials pertaining to the family of Thomas Alexander Stewart and Frances Stewart. Included are correspondence (1869-1935; 1989); a family tree and genealogical material; paper titled “Selections from “Fragments That Remain”” by Alec Wilson; probate of the will of Thomas Alexander Stewart Brown (1937); conveyance Edward T. Brown to Thomas Alexander Stewart Brown (1880); a typescript list made from a 1789 sale notice of auction items belonging to James Frood; a colour copy of a sketch and map of the original Stewart home and early Douro Township; and typescripts of articles and diaries pertaining to Stewart family history and their settlement in Upper Canada.

            IMC-014 · Collection · 1838-1846

            File includes 8 pencil sketches of people, flowers, & farm animals: 2 unsigned; 3 signed "M.E.R." 1 signed "Bessie"; 1 signed "S.E.R."; 1 signed "F.B." and titled "Kate & Pompey in the stable & the other Pompey mending the first Pompey's collar." "The other Pompey" according to Stewart Brown is his grandfather, T.A. Stewart Brown (1852-1936).

            Also includes 1 ink sketch unsigned. 1 envelope addressed to Bessie Lydia Stewart.

            Also included is a linen-backed map of Ireland "published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." Sir Francis Beaufort, relative of Frances Stewart, is known to have been involved in the preparation of such maps/atlases published by the above Society

            Strickland family genealogy
            83-1021 · Fonds · Photocopied [ca. 1983]

            This item is a genealogy of Samuel Strickland's descendents as compiled by Mr. Angus Baxter

            Strickland family
            83-1003 · Fonds · [between 1847 and 1867], 1905

            This fonds consists of 2, 5 X 7 black and white, photographs of Colonel Samuel Strickland. There is also a newspaper clipping concerning H. Strickland's long-distance swim of 1905.

            Strickland, Samuel
            Sunset of Bon Echo fonds
            94-1000 · Fonds · Mar. 1916-May 1920

            This fonds consists of 6 volumes of "Sunset of Bon Echo" bound into one copy, as well as one additional copy unbound, which were published by Flora Macdonald Denison in honour of Walt Whitman.

            Susan Burnham Greeley fonds
            01-1011 · Fonds · 1895, 1904

            Fonds consists of an undated photograph of Susan Burnham Greeley, and a newspaper article from the [Colborne Express, 22 September 1904] regarding the death of Greeley. Also included is an envelope addressed to E.C. Caddy of Cobourg, Ontario and mailed in 1895, with handwritten notation "from Cousin Susan".

            Greeley, Susan Burnham
            T.D. Johnston scrapbook
            75-1002 · Item · 1923-1924

            This item is a scrapbook of clippings compiled by T. Eversfield (27 Paton Road), on Ontario politics; the United Farmers of Ontario government, hydro, agriculture, public accounts, labor, elections and other items. There is a brief subject index at the beginning of the scrapbook.

            Johnston, T.D.
            82-1000 · Collection · 1924-1974

            This collection consists of original and duplicate photographs of Lake Temagami, Camp Wanapitei, Camp Keewaydin, Camp Temagami and Lady Evelyn Lake.

            Temagami (Ontario)
            89-1019 · Fonds · 1827-1844

            This item is a scrapbook containing assorted clippings from between 1827 and 1844. Many of the clippings are about temperance and religious matters. The scrapbook is made from a copy of the Appendix to the Journal of Assembly, Upper Canada, Session 1839-40, Vol. 1, Part 2.