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Series consists of a scrapbook of textual records and photographs documenting the activities of the Emma Frances Pratt Chapter.

Series consists of scrapbooks containing textual records and photographs pertaining to the activities of the 67th University Battery Chapter. The scrapbook for 1975 includes articles that pertain to the activities of other chapters as well.

Series consists of 4 scrapbooks. The two earlier scrapbooks contain information from when the Club was called the Hamilton Bird Protection Society and include newspaper articles, correspondence, photographs, meeting announcements, and programs for lectures and events. The third scrapbook contains information on the sanctuaries held by the Club, and photographs of the Spooky Hollow and Short Hills Wilderness Sanctuaries. The fourth scrapbook contains mostly newspaper articles of press coverage on the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club.

Series consists of scrapbooks containing articles, letters and photographs, documenting the activities of the Princess Margaret Rose Chapter or pertaining to Princess Margaret Rose.

Series consists of a scrapbook, which includes photographs, newspaper clippings and other material pertaining to the activities of the Dundurn Junior Chapter.

Series consists of two scrapbooks compiled by Elaine Hughes. Scrapbooks contain photographs, publications, personal letters, greeting cards and newspaper clippings.
One scrapbook focuses on material related to the music and career of Elaine and Bernie Hughes, up until his death in 1981. The other scrapbook contains material mainly related to the music and careers of Elaine Hughes and Smiling Bill McCormack.

Series consists of two scrapbooks containing correspondence such as letters and certificates of appreciation, letters of donation, thank you cards and cards of congratulations, newspaper clippings, as well as some photographs, all pertaining to Operation Santa Claus. One of the scrapbooks also contains a ribbon and a button from Branch No. 163 Mt. Hamilton Legion, that Jimmy Lomax had visited.

Series consists of scrapbooks, which include photographs, newspaper clippings and other material, documenting the activities of the St. Elizabeth Chapter and highlighting important events, such as the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the chapter.

Series consists of scrapbooks, which contain photographs, letters, newspaper clippings and other material, documenting the activities of the Paardeburg Chapter. Series includes a scrapbook containing information about parcels sent by the chapter to Hamilton soldiers overseas; a scrapbook dedicated to the history of the chapter; and scrapbooks documenting chapter anniversaries and activities, including a scrapbook from the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin Chapter dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Paardeburg Chapter.

Series consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and photographs that document the activities of the Margaret Gage Burkholder Chapter in the 1920s and 1930s.

Series consists of scrapbooks of textual records and photographs documenting the activities of the Princess Marina Chapter.

Series consists of a scrapbook of photographs and newspaper clippings that document the activities of the Right Honourable Stanley Baldwin Chapter of the IODE. The scrapbook was presented to the Stanley Baldwin Chapter by the Paardeburg Chapter as a memento of their 35th anniversary on February 13th, 1973.

Series consists of scrapbooks, the contents of which include newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, and other material pertaining to the activities of the General Allenby Chapter. The scrapbook for 1935-1948 includes articles from 1919 and 1924, as well as an autographed photograph of Edmund Allenby. The scrapbook for 1949-1960 includes a record of past regents and life members of the chapter. The 25th and 50th anniversaries of the chapter are also documented in the scrapbooks.

Series consists of scrapbooks containing photographs and newspaper clippings which document the activities of the Lucy Morrison Chapter.

Series consists of the records of the convenor of the H.M.C.S. Suderoy VI (1944). The chapter adopted this ship, which was a minesweeper during the war, and sent shipments to the crew during the year. There is a list of crew members with their age, ranking, date of birth and province of origin noted, and a record of what was sent to them.

Series consists of ship registration records pertaining to 34 vessels that sailed through the Port of Hamilton. The documents include builder’s certificates and ship surveys describing the size, type, dimensions and means of propulsion for each vessel, along with ownership and registration papers, bills of sale, mortgage papers, legal papers and correspondence, shipwrecks, strandings and collision reports, telegrams and memorandums, as well as general correspondence written to and from the Registrar of Shipping from various government departments, companies and individuals, regarding transfers of ownership, ship name changes, purchases and sales, as well as inquiries into the fate of particular vessels.

File consists of photographs of the Shoe Clinic Ltd. at 55 King Street East.

Blue flowers with spray of leaves arranged only at the corners. Pencil sketch of leaves appears inside frame work at bottom.

The material in the fonds consists of four volumes of administrative records pertaining to the Hamilton Branch of the Soldiers' Aid Commission. Two of the volumes are attendance books, including an undated book listing all the soldiers who attended dinners hosted by the Soldiers Aid Commission upon returning from overseas, as well as a meeting attendance book. There are also two volumes of meeting minutes for the Ontario Minutes Soldiers' Aid Commission, Hamilton Branch, dated December 1916 to October 1921, and November 1921 to November 1928.

Series consists of a report by the special committee established to study the future of the IODE Hamilton headquarters.

Photograph by Jacques Tessier

Material consists of one coloured photograph entitled, "Spring in Twiss Woods," featuring Club members Art Runnells and Ron Hepworth. Photograph taken by Club member Phyllis Morrow, May 1981.

Subfonds consists of minute books for meetings of the St. Cecilia Chapter of the IODE.

This subfonds consists of minute books and scrapbooks pertaining to the activities of the St. Elizabeth Chapter, as well as records of military service, some of which include photographs, for relatives of members of the St. Elizabeth Chapter.

Photograph by Jacques Tessier

Straight line border with small curves inward, two in the middle of the border line and one at the bottom margin. Line curves outward at top with swirls of blue leaves and two red flowers on either side. Two gold semi-circles on the inside at the bottom on each corner of the border.

Screw (propeller) steel freighter steamer measuring 249 x 42 x 21, 1,882 tonnage, built in 1900 in Dundee, Scotland by Caledonia Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. The ship carried cargo such as grain, rails and ore. The file contains a certificate of British Registry, a transcript of register for transmission to Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton, Ontario, as well as correspondence from the Inland Navigation Company Limited, and the Customs House, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, to the Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton, Ontario.

Series consist of documentation pertaining to student fees and payments.

The collection consists of approximately 10,000 photographic negatives of varying sizes, the majority of which are small format, as well as a selection of approximately 800 photographic prints produced by the Hamilton Public Library Local History and Archives from Superior Engravers negatives. This collection documents commerce and industry in Hamilton, and elsewhere in Ontario, from the 1930s-1950s, particularly during the years of World War II and immediately afterwards. The collection is comprised primarily of images of employees, products, facilities, and activities of Hamilton and surrounding-area businesses, including the Hamilton Bridge Works Company; Adam's Furniture Company; Wright Fruit Company; Dundas Clay Products Limited; Thomson Motors in Burlington; Steel Company of Canada (Stelco); and City Chevrolet Sales Limited. Many images document wartime activity in the various industrial plants, such as the Miss War Worker Contest of 1942. The collection also contains aerial photographs of Hamilton, as well as images of local churches and schools. In the 1980s, approximately 600 nitrate negatives were discovered and subsequently removed from the collection. Prints of many of the nitrate negatives were made and added to the Black Mount collection.

Files consists of a photograph from Superior Engravers used in the production of etchings for printing posters, or newspaper and magazine advertisements.

Photograph by Bill Barrett, London.

Material consists of 1 black and white photograph entitled, "Take Off," featuring the Lomax family (Jimmy, Susan and Ryan), packing for their trip to Disney World. Photograph taken by the Hamilton Spectator, January 9, 1981.

Photograph by Bill Barrett, London.

Dragon upper right side, flowers down the side across the bottom and top. Two gold lines for a frame. Versal blue “O” with gold background. Carolingian hand.

Material consists of 7 black and white photographs of Jimmy Lomax as a teenager playing Santa for various individuals, 1957-1958.

Material consists of 1 black and white photograph of Jimmy Lomax as a teenager playing Santa Claus for two unidentified women, 1959.

The material consists of 1 coloured photograph of Jimmy Lomax as Santa Claus posing with Santa's elf and a small child, 1967.

Material consists of 1 black and white photograph of Jimmy Lomax dressed as Santa Claus with two unidentified individuals, 1969.

The material consists of 1 coloured photograph of Jimmy Lomax as a teenager playing Santa Claus for a few children, 1961.

The material consists of 3 black and white photographs of Jimmy Lomax as Santa Claus holding a baby, 1965.

Material consists of 4 coloured photographs of Jimmy Lomax dressed as Santa Claus and making a Santa visit, 1967.

Material consists of 2 black and white photographs of Jimmy Lomax as Santa Claus, with Harold Alkerton (also dressed as Santa), who played Santa Claus and visited Jimmy in the hospital when he was a boy, 1968.

Material consists of 3 coloured photographs of Jimmy Lomax as Santa Claus visiting children, 1968.

Material consists of 2 black and white photographs of Jimmy Lomax in his early twenties playing Santa Claus for a few children, 1964.

The material consists of 1 coloured photograph of Jimmy Lomax in his early twenties dressed as Santa Claus and visiting children, 1964.

The material consists of 1 coloured photograph of Jimmy Lomax as Santa Claus holding a baby, 1966.

The material consists of 2 coloured photographs of Jimmy Lomax lounging on a sleigh with a cigarette in his hand, 1967.

Material consists of 1 coloured photograph of Jimmy Lomax dressed as Santa Claus, 1960s.

Material consists of Jimmy Lomax as a teenager sitting with Santa Claus and possibly his parents, 1958.

The material consists of 1 coloured photograph of Jimmy Lomax dressed as Santa, 1967.

Material consists of 1 black and white photograph of Jimmy Lomax in the hospital as a young child being visited by Santa Claus, Harold Alkerton. Photograph taken by Gordon Hampson, Hamilton Spectator Photographer, 1950.

The fonds consists of hand-written notes for a speech on "Hints on how to see Pictures in Nature", given by Thomas Harrison Wilkinson that was read before the Photographic Section on November 25, 1892.

The material consists of one photograph of Thomas Lewis.

Material consists of one coloured photograph entitled, "To the Woodlands Near Grassie in the Fall," featuring a group hike lead by Club member George Meyers. Photograph taken by Club member Phyllis Morrow, October 1981.

Series consists of status reports submitted by volunteers who walked different sections of the Bruce Trail recording the trail conditions such as garbage, vandalism, broken and fallen trees, exposed roots, and bridges and stairways in need of repairs. Conditions were recorded on a log sheet along with suggestions for improvements to the trail.

6 handwritten pages transcribing an article entitled “Criticism of Blair Bruce’s work at his Stockholm Exhibition.” Transcription is incomplete.

The is an undated photocopy of a typed transcription of an article that was published in the Hamilton Spectator titled “A Successful Hamilton Artist.”

Series consists of a treasurer's book for the house committee, and treasurer's reports, which document the financial transactions of the Municipal Chapter.

File consists of photographs of trucks, equipment and buildings of businesses in the Hamilton area.

Twin screw (propeller) turbine-engine steamer measuring 250 x 33.2 x 12.6 feet, 1,064 tonnage, built in 1904 in Hebburn-on-Tyne, England by R.W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company. The ship was built as a passenger ferry service between Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario. The ship could accommodate 2000 passengers and was the most luxurious and fastest pleasure steamer to ply the waters of the lower great lakes. The vessel was used overseas during the First World War and returned to the waters of Western Lake Ontario in 1924. By 1927, its days as a Hamilton area cruise ship came to an end as fewer people travelled by boat or took pleasure cruises. It was then sold and used for service between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec. The file contains a surveyor’s report on crew space, a builder’s certificate, receipts, memorandums, mortgage documents, registration and ownership documents, legal correspondence, as well as correspondence from the Turbine Steamship Company, the Department of Marine and Fisheries, Canada Steamship Lines Limited, the Department of Transport, and Marine Industries Limited, to and from the Registrar of Shipping, Hamilton.

Written in the lower right corner “Preliminary sketches by W. Blair Bruce for the Battle of Stoney Creek before he went to study in Paris and on that account he never finished the picture after designing it. W Bruce”

Upper half is of trees and water; lower half is a landscape scene. Dated August 5, 1884.

The left image is titled by artist “Original sketch in Indian Red” dated 1883 and the image on the right is titled “Original sketch in Hookers Green.”

The one on the left is titled by the artist “Original sketch in Lamp Black of Burlington Bay” and has an artist note “time 15 minutes” and the image on the right is titled “Original sketch in Bistre, Burlington Bay” and is dated 1883.

The image on the left is titled by the artist “Original sketch in burnt umber on the Marsh” (presumably the Dundas Marsh) and is dated 1883. The image on the right is titled “Original sketch on the St. Lawrence near Brockville in Indigo” dated 1882.

Bottom right corner states “By Black”.

The material consists of one photograph of an unidentified individual.

Material consists of one photograph of unidentified individuals. The writing on the reverse is difficult to decipher.

Bauslaugh, Brantford, Ontario.

Note on back “if reproduced, please credit Donald V. Monk”.

Studio portrait by G. F. Crawford, Hamilton.

Back of the picture states “Must be returned to Grafton and Co Ltd Dundas Ont”. Picture prepared for lithography by Superior Engravers.

Photograph prepared for lithography. The back of the photo states “Mrs. Grafton’s Office”. Photograph by Rapid Grip and Batten Limited, Toronto.