Fonds consists of records created and compiled by Dr. Margaret Doxey in her capacity as a professor in the Department of Political Studies at Trent University (1967-1991), as well as family photographs, poetry, and fiction. Publications written by Dr. Doxey following her retirement from Trent University are also included. Files documenting her professional life include publications for and about the United Nations (1996-1997 and 2007), professional correspondence, and collected publications. Fonds also includes creative writing associated with her professional life, poetry, stories, and records relating to Dr. Doxey’s family and childhood, including a list of her encounters with royalty and a small selection of family photographs. The oversized box contains a tribute scrapbook album from Dr. Doxey’s retirement from Trent University in 1991.

File contains a 1895-1912
ledger that was used as a scrapbook in the 1910s and 1920s. Some of original entries not covered over by clippings include minutes of trustees’ meetings (1906-1907) and accounts (1895-1900, 1906-1910). The newspaper clippings relate to bridal showers, weddings, Halloween, Christmas, New Years, Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, recipes, entertainment, readings and songs.

The fonds consists of records from the Kawartha Artists Gallery and Studio, including administrative files and meeting minutes, artist biographies, newspaper articles, material from art shows and events, correspondence, newsletters, and photographs and scrapbooks. Events include the Kawartha Artists Gallery and Studio 20th anniversary show, general studio workshops, and the best of high school art annual show.

The fonds is organized into 6 series: Administrative files and meeting minutes; Member artists’ files; Shows, Events and studios; Photo albums; and Scrapbooks.

This item is a scrapbook containing Victorian magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, receipts from a trip to Europe in 1885, clippings regarding John Miller's student days at Queen's University from 1882 to 1886, concert and theatre programs from Lindsay, Kingston, Peterborough (including ventriloquist and mind reading events), London, England theatre programs and newspaper clippings regarding a murder trial heard in Woodstock, Ontario, 1890.

This fonds consists of letters to John Erskine from Robert Black, aboard USS Susquehanna, and at Key West, Florida, from between 1860 and 1861, and from US Naval and Treasury Departments, 1864, regarding Black's death. It also contains a scrapbook of miscellaneous clippings, dated 1878, but obviously compiled from the 1850's and 1860's.

Item includes a collection of signatures, notes, and documents pasted into a copy of the "Annual Report on Normal, Model, Grammar and Common Schools...," 1857. Materials relate, for the most part, to the Bell and Canniff families of Thurlow Township, Hastings County. Other items of note include a document certifying parents' satisfaction with teacher Robert Laing, Big Island, 1817; a document relating to the building of a bridge across a creek in Thurlow Township, 1832; a notice regarding a meeting to elect officers for the formation of an agricultural society in Hastings County [Midland District Agricultural Society], 1830; and a declaration regarding Stephen Ferguson Bell who saw "a greate shooting of the stars... a continual shooting from the center of the Heavens in every direction," 1833.

Series documents the lives and activities Gzowski family in Canada between 1800-2003, including Peter John Gzowski, Vera (McCarthy Morgan) Gzowski, Harold Northey Gzowski, Harold Edward (Bundy) Gzowski, Brenda Raikes, Vera Elizabeth (Beth) Gzowski, Hope (Minnie) Morgan, Fawnie Morgan, MacGregor (Mac) Young, Margaret MacGregor Young, and Wanda Casimira Gzowski. Records include correspondence, photographs, postcards, clippings, research materials, genealogies, and other materials. The series is arranged into four sub-series: Correspondence of Peter Gzowski's mother, father and paternal grandparents; Material relating to Gzowski's paternal grandmother and other family; Hope Morgan press clippings and other material; Gzowski family research materials.

Subseries documents the Gzowski family in Canada from 1800-2002, predominant 1964-1998, including research material compiled by Peter Gzowski in the late 1990s, relating to Sir Casimir Gzowski. Records consist of correspondence, photographs, genealogies, objects, an indenture, a will, and a library science degree. Nineteenth century materials appear to be reproductions created later in the twentieth century. There are several editions of the Gzowski family tree, compiled by Peter Gzowski's cousin, Mary Frances Maria Gzowski between 1964-1978. Subseries also contains the 1923 diary of Margaret McGregor Young, Peter Gzowski's mother.

This collection is a series of 25 scrapbooks. Twenty-three of the books chronicle the history of Arbor theatre and 2 relate to the youth theatre company Acorn. The collection was amassed by Ms. Elaine Goselin, longtime volunteer with Arbor. Goselin collected all play bills, donor and membership material, newspaper clippings, play reviews, biographies of performers and so forth. Arbor theatre Company was started in Peterborough Ontario in 1976. John Plank was the first Artistic director.

This item is a photocopy of scrapbook clippings which follow the inquest into the deaths of the "Black Donnellys" in Biddulph Township in early 1880, and clippings from the hearings held thereafter. The dates of the clippings range from February 1880 to March 1880.

Microfilm copy of portions of R.G. 27, volumes 55-61, in the Library and Archives Canada. It includes scrapbooks of clippings on the Winnipeg General Strike and the sedition trials which followed from 1919 to 1920.

The item is a microfilm copy of a scrapbook compiled by D.S. Cruther's grandmother containing obituaries and pictures of all kinds of events, from such journals as the Illustrated London News, Harper's Weekly, etc. The scrapbook is a good study of the social, architectural, art and other interests of a Mid-Victorian Canadian woman.