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Aaloka.

Two essays and ephemera relating to the dance Aaloka: The Eternal Dance of Spring.

Bird, Michael

Angels.

Notes and research on angels in art.

Bird, Michael

Art on the Road to Santiago.

Notes for a course taken by Michael Bird on Art on the Road to Santiago through University of Toronto continuing education taught by Susan Marcus.

Bird, Michael

Baseball as Spiritual Metaphor.

Speech, notes, ephemera, and correspondence relating to Michael Bird’s lecture “In the Big Inning: Baseball as a Spiritual Metaphor” given as part of Renison College’s St. Bede Series of lectures.

Bird, Michael

Book covers.

Photocopies of covers of publications by Michael Bird.

Bird, Michael

Book notices and reviews.

Advertising ephemera, correspondence, research, and articles relating to the publication and review of books written by Michael Bird. These books include “Canadian Country Furniture,” “Hallowed Timbers,” “Art and Interreligious Dialogue,” “Fraktur and Spirituality in Pennsylvania Folk Art,” “Canadian Folk Art: Old Ways in a New Land,” “A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists,” “Ontario Fraktur: A Pennsylvania-German Folk Tradition in Early Ontario,” “A Splendid Harvest: Germanic Folk and Decorative Art in Canada,” “Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario,” and “Out of the Mainstream: Folk Art in Canada.” There are also reviews by Michael Bird of “The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis,” “Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of Exchange,” “The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture,” “Waterloo Portfolio: Woldemar Neufeld’s Painting and Block-Prints of Waterloo, Ontario,” “Early Ontario Potters: Their Craft and Trade,” “The Stations of the Cross: A Calculated Trap?” and “A Reflection on Fleming’s Painted Furniture of French Canada.”

Bird, Michael

Bucks County fraktur.

Research on fraktur, including images, correspondence and notes, with a particular emphasis on the stylistic relationship between Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Ontario.

Bird, Michael

Bush Garden research.

Clippings and notes created and collected by Michael Bird in preparation for his article “Bush Garden or Little Paradise: Reconsideration of a Canadian Landscape Image in Waterloo County, Ontario.”

Bird, Michael

Canadian Studies 101.

Notes and outlines for a course taught by Michael Bird in the Canadian Studies programme at the University of Waterloo on the theme of landforms and mindscapes.

Bird, Michael

Career history.

CVs, departmental review updates, teaching reviews, information on promotions and tenure, and a report titled “Some Reflections on My Areas of Exploration, Writing, Teaching.”

Bird, Michael

Clippings.

Clippings relating to Michael Bird’s work, as well as to topics that he was interested in.

Bird, Michael

Corrections to Hallowed Timbers.

Proofs from the editor with corrections for Michael Bird and Susan Hyde’s book “Hallowed Timbers: the Wooden Churches of Cape Breton.”

Bird, Michael

Correspondence.

Correspondence between Michael Bird and others. Correspondents include Stan K. Johanneson; Nany-Lou Patterson; Rt. Rev. Gerald O’Keefe, Bishop, Diocese of Davenport; Rt. Rev. Monseigneur M.J. Dingman; Monseigneur Meinberg; Rev. Mather; Robert F. Kennedy; Dr. Roberts (Parsons College); Julian Blackwell (Blackwells Booksellers); Selective Services Board; Institute for Freedom in the Church; Sister Mary Barbara (Mount Mercy College); Wyn Rees (Renison University College); Senator Jack Miller. Topics of correspondence include interfaith prayer services; Vietnam War peace; ecumenical questions; Indigenous poverty; the civil rights movement; establishing a college in Tama-Toledo; teaching requests; and and anti-ballistic missiles.

Bird, Michael

Correspondence: Country Furniture.

Correspondence between Michael Bird and others including publishers, colleagues, museums and more relating to the research, writing, and publication of his work “Canadian Country Furniture.”

Bird, Michael

Correspondence with Mihailo Markovic.

Correspondence between Michael Bird and Mihailo Markovic, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Michigan. The correspondence pertains to thoughts on Marxism.

Bird, Michael

Cross County Canada.

Article by Michael Bird in the October 1994 issue of Century Home titled “Cross Country Canada” on his book Canadian Country Furniture.

Bird, Michael

Crucifixes.

Notes and research on the crucifix in art and literature.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor.

217 negatives of Doukhobor art, architecture, artefacts and textiles.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor essay.

One essay plus notes and photographs on Doukhobor furnishings as well as correspondence from Koozma Tarasoff.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor folk art.

Clippings relating to Doukhobor and more generally Western Canadian folk art and furniture.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor photos.

Slides and photographs of Doukhobor furniture, arts, textiles and architecture.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor research.

Notes, correspondence and photographs all relating to Bird’s research on Doukhobor art and furniture. Correspondents include Jim McLeod and Mary Zuhenkoff.

Bird, Michael

Doukhobor research.

Research on Doukhobor arts and furniture making. Includes correspondence between Bird and Jim Mcleod, Koozma Tarasoff and Mark Mealing. Also includes research notes, images of furniture, and essays on Doukhobor decorative arts and the folk artist Wasyl Evanovich Zubenkoff.

Bird, Michael

Elizabeth Warren visit.

Notes and correspondence relating to a visit by Elizabeth Warren, curator of the Museum of American Folk Art, to Waterloo.

Bird, Michael

ENGL: 308H.

Lecture notes from a course taken by Michael Bird on Arthurian Legends taught by Dr. Warren Ober at the University of Waterloo.

Bird, Michael

Exhibits.

Clippings, brochures and ephemera relating to museum and art gallery exhibits either curated by Michael Bird or that he had an interest in. Includes exhibits of religious art, folk art, handschriften, Abraham Latschaw, John Gemeinhardt, the painting of Anu Banerji, works by Nancy-Lou Patterson, fraktur, love spoons, quilts, wine, pottery, and more.

Bird, Michael

Film as Hierophany.

Article by Michael Bird titled “Film as Hierophany” by Michael Bird. Also accompanied by an item of correspondence indicating that the article was accepted for publication in the Journal of the College Theology Society.

Bird, Michael

Folk art.

Article by Michael Bird accompanying an exhibit at the Gallery & Library, Cambridge.

Bird, Michael

Folk art.

Photographs of folk art by artists including Eli Whiteway; Joe Norris; Gordon Lux; Fred Moulding; P. Boutilier; Don Boudreau; Pierre Corriveau; Mereille Corriveau; Sid Howard; George Cockayne; C. Eisenhauer; Gladys Johnston; Jahan Maka; Don Manzer; Edward Mondaggio; Emery Nowlan; Eugene Poulin; Randall Smith; Charles Tanner; John Sharpe; D. Stryjek; Joseph Sleep.

Bird, Michael

Folk Art in Wood.

One essay by Teruko Kobayashi titled “Folk Art in Wood” on the life of David B. Horst.

Kobayashi, Teruko

Folk Art of Nova Scotia.

Master copy of the catalogue for Folk Art of Nova Scotia: A Traveling Exhibition of 20th Century Folk Art of Nova Scotia.

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Folk Art on Walls.

Article by Michael Bird on painted interiors from the July-August 1984 issue of The Upper Canadian.

Bird, Michael

Fraktur in Markham Township.

Research and an article on Fraktur in Markham Township by Michael Bird. The article was printed in the July/August 1977 issue of an unknown publication.

Bird, Michael

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