Fonds consist of office files; by-laws; general reports; correspondence, including the John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir collection and fonds; correspondence from the Office of the Associate University Librarian, Ms. Lin Good (1975-1985); records and photographs relating to the installation of the GEAC automated cataloguing system (1979-1980); visitor's book; logbooks; minutes and reports; budgets; operation and administration of the Special Collections Unit; task forces; committees; the Library Council; 35 mm slides and photographs depicting the facilities of the Douglas Library (1968-1975), the opening of the May Ball Library (April 1989), renovations undertaken at the Douglas Library, retirement gatherings for various Libraries staff including William Morley (September 1985), Miss Elizabeth Skeith (December 1991), and Reginald Morrison; photographs of Library staff; blueprints of proposed functional changes, with further revisions, to areas of Douglas Library (1980); a video of a presentation given at an All Staff Meeting pertaining to acquisitions, monogaphs, and serials (1989); lists of partially and uncatalogued holdings (insurance back-ups) at the W.D. Jordan Special Collections Library. Also includes the shelf list of Douglas (Stauffer) library in 1969 on microfilm.
Letters from family to Francis Sainsbury who migrated from England to Northumberland County, Ontario. Letters transcribed and edited by Prof. M. Estall.
Photographs of Queen's and Kingston football teams, bands and sports teams. Also includes photographs of Grant Hall Clock Tower, Fleming Hall and Richardson Stadium as well as Faculty of Medicine Class of 1932. Mr. Ede was equipment manager for Queen's University teams.
This collection contains material pertinent to the Fort as museum and consists of thirty-three scrapbooks of printed clippings covering Fort Henry and local activities from opening of Fort as museum in 1936, ( v.1) to 1982 (v.33).
Item is a book of lecture notes and medical recipes seemingly created by Dickson while attending Medical Schoolin New York (according to the inscription).
This fonds consists of correspondence, reports, research notes, drawings, plans, sketches, photographs and slides, and clippings relating to the the restoration and interpretation, under the Directorship of Reginald R. Dixon, of the National Historic Site known as Bellevue House, Sir John A. Macdonald's home located in Kingston, Ontario; files relating to his time as a senior bureaucrat in the National Historic Sites Service of Parks Canada; a section of his autobiography entitled, 'I was Forged on the Anvil of War, Chapter 9 - The Bellevue Years' (1998); and 'Bellevue House: An extract from the autobiography of R.R. Dixon' (2000).
The fonds consists of correspondence of A.T. Drummond, 1861-1923, and of members of his family. The correspondence deals primarily with Drummond's carreer as railroad entrepreneur and his time at Queen's though there is a fair amount of material which pertains to botanical matters and interests.
