The collection includes reports of the Department of State from U.S. consular representatives in Montreal. The despatches are replies to consular instructions. It contains reports on a wide range of subjects dealing with economic, political, and social conditions abroad in addition to routine matters. Despatches are sometimes accompanied by enclosures, such as copies of correspondence between consuls and local Government officials, U.S. diplomatic representatives, other consuls, U.S. naval officers commanding naval vessels or squadrons stationed in foreign waters, and U.S. citizens abroad. Despatches also include information on commercial and other regulations, navigation law, exports and imports, duties and tariffs, censuses, cases of U.S. citizens tried abrad and appeals for help, and the reaction of foreign people to U.S. policies.
The collection consists of postcards and photographs showing mines in Timmins and Porcupine, Ontario. The collection includes images of McEnany Mine B, McIntyre Mine, Hollinger Gold Mine, Dome Mine, South Porcupine and Main St. Timmins.
The fonds consists primarily of photographs taken by Robert Bowley of Queen's University, and of various subjects for entry in photograph competitions. Includes aerial views of Queen's, images of Boo Hoo, Alfie, Principal Wallace, Dr. Allie Vibert Douglas, Dr. Frost, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dean Ellis and Raymond Massey. Also includes copies of two books he had written, as well as his diplomas.
Fonds consists of calendars celebrating the history of the Royal Canadian Navy, entitled, "Canada's War at Sea in Honour of the 60th Anniversary, 1939-1945" and "Naval Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Royal Canadian Navy" as well as a DVD copy of "UNTD [University Naval Training Division] Queen's: A Quarter Century of Memories" presented at the UNTD Reunion Weekend, held in Kingston, June 2008. The film is a history of the University Naval Training Division attached to HMCS Cataraqui that officially formed in the Fall of 1943, under the command of Lieutenant William Wolfe, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Queen's University.
Fonds consists of proposals, submitted to the Department of Communications, Ottawa, relating to "The Impact of Telecommunication System Development on Canada's North".
Queen's University. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contains 8 typed pages of copied burial lists. Copied from Mrs. William Horne, Wolfe Island by Elizabeth S. Williams on September 7th, 1963. The Horne family acquired the ownership of the cemetery lands originally acquired by a Mr. Spinning. This property, known as the Point Alexandria Cemetery, was never transferred to the United Church. Later, Mr. Bruce Horne gave land to the United Church known as the United Church Cemetery. The whole area is known as the Horne's Cemetery and officially as Point Alexandria Cemetery. There are a total of 163 sandstone, limestone, and granite gravestones present as of 1973, the earliest dating to a Ms. Aribella Bush, who died on June 13, 1843.
Fonds consists of a copy of the "Draft Proposal for the Development of Professional Graduate Studies in Art Conservation Leading to the Degree of Master of Art Conservation (M.A.C.)" (November 1972); M.A.C program information (1975-1978); and departmental meeting minutes (1996-1998); records relating to the Master of Art Conservation (MAC) programme, including the 'Proceedings' and accompanying sound recordings of the "Art Conservation Training Programs Professional Papers 'First Peoples Art and Artifacts: Heritage and Conservation Issues' presented at the Eighteenth Annual Conference" held at Queen's University (May 1992); and records relating to MAC Professor Henry Hodges.
