The portion of Albert Schwenger's collection housed at Queen's University Archives is divided into two manuscript series. The first series consists of documents related to the Milne and MacKay families. The papers originate with Captain William Milne who settled in Ancaster where his daughter Anna Maria married into the MacKay family in the 1820's. His correspondence comments of trade conditions, relations in the native community after the Treaty of Greenville and European wars. Of particular note is a letter of introduction for Captain Milne written in Turkish from 1799. The second series consists of unrelated historical documents primarily from the Niagara area, but includes one British document.
Records of the Bibliographical Society, records related to Marie Tremaine Medal, correspondence, photographs, certificates, offprints and bibliographies.
Letter to Professor Goldwin Smith (Oxford) from George P. Putnam (publisher) requesting permission to send him a collection of books which the Union League Club of New York had compiled and purchased for distribution to "influential gentleman and a few of the public libraries of Europe" in order to convey the views and accurate information on the struggle in which America found itself engaged. Also includes a small broadside relating to the collection of books selected by the Club to be sent to Europe called the "Rebellion Record for Europe" indicating who was to receive a complete set of the "Record".
The fonds consists of papers that cover Griffiths career in radio and television. The is no personal material. The subject files, 1970-1982 (one metre) were assembled, arranged and described by Mrs. Nancy Griffiths, his wife. The arrangement is chronological. The CRTC material contains reports, speeches, press releases, position papers etc. of both the Canadian Radio and Television Commission and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Griffiths kept material on his interests and numerous items have routing slips with comments by colleagues, especially Roy Faibish, a fellow radio and television executive, who served also in the C.R.T.C. Some of the material is annotated. Annual government reports that were unannotated, were listed and transferred (with some books) to the Queen's Library. Work Mr. Griffiths did on British and Foreign Broadcasting resulted in an unpublished report. Publications of organizations in the radio and television fields have been arranged by organization, not subject. The clipping files (.5 metres) from 1960 to 1985 are a rich source. Where Mrs. Griffiths identified and labelled them, the listings have been kept. The sound recordings mostly pertain to licensing matters.
