Fonds consist of correspondence, subject files, photographs, clippings, and an audio cassette relating to the development of early childhood education in Kingston, Ontario.
Fonds consists of correspondence, including several members of the Group of Seven - A.Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, and A.J. Casson; diaries, including a detailed inventory of the Putnam's art collection; subject files; clippings; photographs; sound and vidoe recordings consisting of an interview with A.Y. Jackson detailing the early years of the Group of Seven, and interviews with Joyce Putnam by CBC Radio's 'Ontario Morning' and local Kingston television (COGECO) programme, 'Senior Scope'; material relating to the publishing of Joyce Putnam's manuscript, "Seven Years with the Group of Seven"; files relating to the theft of a number of Group of Seven paintings from the Putnam's personal collection; scrapbook of her one-woman art show; a copy of her personal reminiscences entitled, "75 Cents a Week".
Manuscripts, articles, research notes, interview tapes and transcripts on British immigrant children, studies of history of childhood, labour history especially in textile industry, women and work.
Item is a photocopy of a journal, outlining a plan by an Irish-American group to invade Upper Canada through Kingston. Also includes letters surrounding the acquisition of the material.
Journal of a trip, by an unknown writer, on the "Herald" to Denmark, the West Indies and Quebec and on the "Britannia" to Greece. The journal imparts stories of the Emporer's inspection of his fleet at Cronstadt, the port of St. Petersburg, meeting the "Queen of Hurons" in Quebec, a journey up Mount Ida in Turkey, and various other adventures.
Correspondence and photographs pertaining to the design of the new University library as submitted by the competition winners Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB) Architects, Toronto, Ontario.
