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One image of a poorly laid rubble foundation at a miller's house near German Mills.

Unlabelled binder: containing "master copy" of John Rempel's A Primer on the Construction and Preservation of Early Buildings . Consists of a typed document (ca. 225 leaves, photocopies and some originals), extensively annotated and corrected. Includes correspondence & additional papers relating to publication of this work, intended as a companion volume to Building with wood. Possibly not published. Content may have been used to produce the revised edition of Building with wood in 1980.

One image of Abram Weber's barn, built in 1966 near Heidelberg, Ontario.

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by John Rempel relating to his professional and personal activities. Includes materials relating to LACAC and historic preservation and restoration as well as teaching materials created by Rempel while at Danforth Technical School.

One image of the architectural elements on an unidentified garage.

Nine images of various architectural elements on six different unidentified buildings.

One image of August Ernest's log cabin in Barrhead, Alberta, ca. 1930, with two unidentified women standing in front of it.

One image of the exterior decorative woodwork on a house in Aurora.

One image of an unidentified barn.

One image of a barn, identified on the verso as from Cooperstown, New York.

One image of a barn at Cap à l'Aigle, built ca. 1900.

Eleven images from the revised edition of the book (pages 218-222) of a barn raising at the Martin farm near St. Jacobs, and twenty-seven images not contained in the book, of the same barn raising.

One image of the barn raising of Abram Weber's barn, near Heidelberg, Ontario. The image is the same as the one in the first edition, but is different from those used in the second edtion of Rempel's book. A caption on the verso of the print reads: "Erected July 1966. Abram Weber's farm, near Heidelberg."

Three images of three different barns (photographs of the originals), with several unidentified individuals standing in front of them. Two images have identifications written on the original print, one says "Jack Quinlin's Barn in North E. Hope" and the other says "Jack Cardwell's or Jim Green's".

Three images of barns from the Stratford area. One image is of the loft of a barn, while the other two images are of the raising of two different barns. Includes one piece of correspondence from The Stratford Beacon Herald regarding the prints. One of the images is titled "Alec Mackenzie's Barn".

Two images of Barnum house, near Grafton Ont. Includes one image of a detail of the pediment, and one image of the entire house from a front view.

One image of the brickwork on a Baysville house.

One image of a brick house located in Bellville, with a large two story porch with decorative fretwork.

Ten images of the Benjamin Fish Mill. Six are images that were included in Rempel's first edition of his book, two appear only in the second edition of the book, and two are images that were not included in either editions of the book.

Two images from Upper Canada Village. One image is of an unidentified blacksmith at work, and the other image is of a wall of tools.

One image of a stone blacksmith shop near Guelph, Ont.

One image of an unidentified man working in a blacksmith shop.

One image of an unidentified native woman on a mule [?] pulling a travois. The caption also reads: "From a Geological Survey of Canada photograph in the Public Archives of Canada."

One image of board lath from an unidentified location.

Five images of the Bolton Mill. Three images are from the book, and the other two images are variations that are not in the book.

One image of gable window fretwork on a house at Bond Head.

Three images of a Bowmanville, Ontario house. Includes one image of the front of the house (in the book), one image of a detail of the gable fretwork (in the book), and one image of the entire house from a further distance (not in the book).

One image of the Brew House in Guelph.

One image of an unidentified brick building, identified on the verso as in "Aylmer, Ont.".

One image of a brick house near Newcastle, Ontario.

One image of an unidentified frame house with a brick veneer on it.

One image of four bricks lined up against a ruler. Two of the bricks are from Sharon, and two of them are from near Sutton.

One image of brickwork on a house near Carrying Place, Ont.

One image of what is identified on the verso as "probably" an "old school", from Brougham, Ont.

One image of a detail of a log wall and door frame, identified on the verso as from the "Brougham museum, Pickering" [Pickering Museum?].

Material relating to the publication of John I. Rempel's book, Building with wood. Includes correspondence to and from John Rempel, the University of Toronto Press and others, memorandum of agreement. Also includes a typescript (original, ca. 340 leaves in various paginations) with extensive annotations and corrections.

Material relating to the publication of John I. Rempel's book, Building with wood. Includes correspondence to and from John Rempel, the University of Toronto Press and others, memorandum of agreement. Also includes a typescript (original, ca. 340 leaves in various paginations) with extensive annotations and corrections.

One image of a Cambridge house, identified on the verso as "Guelph". Rempel uses it as an example of rubble work disguised by artifically rased bead joints.

One image of the Carmichael house (a variation of the image that is in the book), built in 1880, which stood on the corner of Markham Road and Lawrence Avenue, Scarborough, Ontario.

One image of "Castle Grange", built ca. 1860-1866, near Belfountain and identified on the verso as "near Erindale" as well.

Binder

One image of an unidentified church.

Two images of a church at Dalhousie Mills, Ontario.

One image of the doorway of a church in Sharon, Ont.

One image of a church identified as "near Rockton ?" on the verso of one print, and as "near Shakespeare" on the verso of the other.

One image of the coach house and stable, belonging to the Clarke home in Prescott, Ontario.

One letter to John Rempel re final layout of his book.

One image of a cottage near Baysville with imitation brickwork carved into the planks of the front wall.

One image of the Danforth Technical School.

Binder containing materials for a course "The History of Architecture" at Danforth Technical School, Toronto, taught by John Rempel. Includes notes and assignments.

One image of John Galt's log house, ca. 1814, that stood on Dawes Road (now Victoria park) and Ellesmere, in Toronto.

One image of a decorative bracket (also called a console) with fretwork.

One image of the clock and decorative woodwork on an unidentified building with an "Andrews Jeweller" sign on it, and the decorative woodwork on another unidentified building.

One image of the fretwork on the porch and overhang of an unidentified house.

One image of fretwork on the porch of an unidentified house.

One image of an unidentified house, with fretwork on the back porch.

Three images of the decorative fretwork on three unidentified houses.

Two images of a house with decorative woodwork on the gables and porch, identified as from "Thornburry [sic], ca. 1880".

Three images of the decorative woodwork, moulding, and fretwork on three unidentified houses. One house has a decorative frieze running below the cornices, and one house has two sets of Doric columns at its front entrance.

One image of an unidentified frame house, with decorative woodwork on the Ionic-like porch columns.

One image of the decorative woodwork on an unidentified church and one image of the decorative woodwork on a house called "Lindsay Lodge".

One image of the decorative woodwork on an unidentified house.

Two images of the woodwork on an unidentified house, one image is from a distance and the other is a close up of the moulding details.

One image of the decorative woodwork on an unidentified house.

One image of the decorative woodwork on an unidentified house.

One image of the decorative woodwork on an unidentified house.

Three images of the decorative woodwork and fretwork on three unidentified houses.

One image of the decorative woodwork on one unidentified house, and three images of the decorative woodwork on a second unidentified house.

Three images of decorative woodwork on three unidentified houses.

Four images of the decorative woodwork on unidentified houses.

Six images of the decorative woodwork on six different unidentified houses.

Three images of the gable, porch, and overhang fretwork on three unidentified houses.

Two images of the decorative woodwork on two unidentified houses.

Three images of the decorative woodwork and fretwork on three different unidentified houses.

Three images of the decorative woodwork on three different unidentified houses.

Five images of the decorative woodwork on 4 different unidentified houses, and decorative woodwork on a hotel with the sign "Historic Stage Coach Inn" hanging out front.

Two images of the woodwork on the roof of one unidentified house, two images of woodwork on two other unidentified houses, and one image of the cornices of an unidentified church.

Three images of decorative woodwork, moulding and fretwork, on two unidentified houses and an unidentified church.

Eight images of decorative woodwork on the exterior and interior of unidentified houses.

Three mounted collages of images of decorative woodwork from the books.

One image of a building from Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Two images of details from two barns at Upper Canada Village (from the book), 5 images of variations of the two images that are in the book, and 12 images that appear to be from the same two barns.

Two images of the dismantling of a barn near Stratford, Ontario. One image has the caption "Oist Sat 4ish w-story" written on the verso. Both images have The Beacon Herald of Stratford copyright stamp on the verso.

One image of a cabinetmaker's joint framing the trimmer into the header of a stairwell in Dr. John Scott's summer home near Bond Head.

One photocopy of a drawing of the residence of Orson S. Fowler, Fishkill, New York [also called "Fowler's Folly].

One image of a drawing labelled "various methods of eave construction" with sketches of the eaves of several different houses.

One image of three types of drills.

One image of a log with dry rot, from a portion of the wall plate of a house in Sharon, built c. 1828.

Two images of the drooped gable, porch, and overhang fretwork on the Duncan home on York Mills Road in Toronto.

Two images of the early buildings at "Burnside" in Brockville, Ont.

One image of the Evan McIlraith house, built ca. 1820-1840 near Hopetown, Lanark County, north of Brockville.

One image of the façade of an unidentified building that appears to be located in the downtown of a city.

One image of Fort Chimo, as seen from accross the water of Ungava Bay in Labrador, Newfoundland.

One image of Fort Pelly, Saskatchewan, built in 1824, rebuilt in 1842-1843, moved in 1856-1857 and included in the book to demonstrate French log construction. Includes two unidentified individuals in the the photograph.

One image of log buildings and sleeping dogs at Fort Providence on the Mackenzie River (in the Northwest Territories), 1901.

One image of Fort Saskatchewan from the north side of the Saskatchewan River. Caption also reads: "From a Geological Survey of Canada photograph in the Public Archives of Canada."

One image of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta (formerly the Northwest Territories). Part of the caption reads "from a Geological Survey of Canada photograph in the Public Archives of Canada".

Two images of Ruth Keene baking bread in the officers' quarters kitchen at Fort York. Includes identification pasted on the verso of the photographs, one of the sheets of paper has come unglued.

Unidentified frame building in a field.

One image of an unidentified frame building. Identified on the verso as "near Malton".