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Notes and outlines for a course taught by Michael Bird on religious thought in the 19th century.

Paper written by Michael Bird for the course American Literature at the University of Iowa.

Paper written by Michael Bird for his course Western Civilization at the University of Iowa.

Paper written by Michael Bird for his course Theology of the Synoptic Gospels at the University of Iowa.

One seemingly unpublished manuscript by Michael Bird titled “A Holiness Wholly of this Earth: Four Spiritual Journeys in the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman.” Also includes research notes and correspondence between Bird and the publisher.

One notebook with notes by Michael Bird for his book on Canadian country furniture.

One essay by Michael Bird titled “A Spirit of Exuberance: Germanic Decorative arts of Nova Scotia and Ontario.”

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

Notes and research on Adam and Eve in art.

A Germanic folk art primer and activity book.

76 negatives of the works of Albert Geisel.

Materials relating to the creation of the exhibit “All Things Common: Mennonite and Hutterite Decorative Arts in Canada” which was held at Canada House, London, England. Also includes 98 slides showing pieces that were in the exhibit.

Notes and research on angels in art.

Article from Mennonite Life on Waterloo fraktur artist Anna Weber.

A completed mock up, as well as notes, for a seemingly unpublished book by Michael Bird.

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.

Article by Michael Bird from the January-February 1990 issue of Upper Canadian.

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.

Notes and outlines for a talk given by Michael Bird titled “Behind the Face: Interpreting Portraits through their Background Elements” give at the Canadian Antique Dealers Association antiques fair.

Materials relating to the creation of the exhibit “Beyond Time and Circumstance: Art as a Spiritual Vision” held at the Lynnwood Arts Centre.

Photocopies of covers of publications by Michael Bird.

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.”

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

Article by Cory M. Amsler from the April 1998 issue of Antiques magazine.

One article by Michael Bird titled “Bush Garden or Little Paradise: Reconsideration of a Canadian Landscape Image in Waterloo County, Ontario.”

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.”

Article by Michael Bird titled “Cabinetmaker and Weaver Feiedrich K. Ploethner” from the May/June 1980 edition of an unknown publication.

Notes and research on Canadian folk art.

One article by Michael Bird titled “Canadian Folk Art: The Extraordinary Art of Ordinary People.”

Notes, correspondence and research for an article written for the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s exhibit on the 100th centennial of the Doukhobor’s arrival in Canada. Correspondents include Val Burkitt and Koozma Tarasoff.

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.

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

25 negatives of gravemarkers in Blair.

9 negatives of gravemarkers at Breslau Mennonite Church.

54 negatives of gravemarkers at Hagey.

6 negatives of gravemarkers at Hespeler.

18 negatives of gravemarkers at Kinzie-Bean.

6 negatives of gravemarkers at the Martin Meeting House.

42 negatives of gravemarkers at Maryhill.

13 negatives of gravemarkers at New Hamburg.

5 negatives of gravemarkers in St. Agatha.

23 negatives of gravemearkers at St. Clements.

12 negatives of gravemarkers at St. Matthew’s Lutheran.

24 negatives of gravemarkers in Strasburg.

29 negatives of gravemarkers at Unionville and Heise Hill.

18 negatives of gravemarkers at Wilmot Centre.

18 negatives of gravemarkers at Zurich.

Notes and research on the life and passion of Christ in art.

Article by David R. Johnson on fraktur art by Christian Alsdorff from Earl Township, Pennsylvania from Volume 20, no 2 of rthe Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society.

Notes and correspondence relating to a conference on cinema and spirituality organized by Micheal Bird and others at Renison University College.

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

Paper written by Michael Bird for his course Genius of American Protestantism at the University of Iowa.

Correspondence from the University of Toronto Press to Michael Bird with read reviews of his book “Compendium of Folk Artists in Canada.” Also includes two matted slides of folk art.

Notes, slides, and information relating to an exhibit at Schneider Haus on Cookies and Folk Art.

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

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.

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.”

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.

Information on courses that Michael Bird was teaching at University College Cape Breton.

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

Notes and research on the crucifix in art and literature.

One essay by Teruko Kobayashi titled “David B. Horst: St. Jacobs Woodcarver.”

130 negatives of the works of David Horst.

Article by Frederick S. Weiser and Mary Hammond Sullivan on decorated furniture of the Schwaben Creek Valley in Pennsylvania from the Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society.

Notes and outlines for a talk given by Michael Bird titled “Definition, Act, Image: Some Religious Directions in Canadian Folk Art” for the annual conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada.

Article by Michael Bird on the relationship between fraktur art in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Waterloo, Ontario.

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

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

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

Essay by Michael Bird titled “Doukhobor Furnishings: Design, Decoration, and the Transformation of the Ordinary.”

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

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

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.

Article by Michael Bird titled “Early Germanic Pottery of Waterloo County: Jacob Bock (1798-1867). The article was published in the Upper Canadian.

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

Notes for the course ENG201: British Literature from 18th Century to Present. It is unclear if Bird taught or attended the course.

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

Notes by Michael Bird from a course taken at York University on English architecture 1170-1270 taught by Malcolm Thurlby.

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.

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.

Administrative and research materials relating to the course “FINE 109: Canadian Ethnic and Traditional Arts” taught by Michael Bird at the University College of Cape Breton.

Notes for the course FINE 245: Film history taught by Michael Bird at Renison University College.

Course outline and notes for the course FINE 248/255: Film as Social Criticism, taught by Michael Bird at Renison College.

Lecture notes, tests, slides and more created and accumulated by Michael Bird for teaching his course “FINE 318: Canadian Folk Art/Canadian Ethnic and Traditional Art” at Renison University College.

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

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.

Notes and outlines for a talk given by Michael Bird titled “Folk Art and Religious Expression: An Illustrated Lecture” for the Religious Studies Faculty Colloquim of Renison University College.

One essay by Teruko Kobayashi titled “Folk Art in Stone: Pennsylvania German Gravemarkers in Ontario.”

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

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

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

One essay by Gwen Dowsett titled “Folk Housing: The Vernacular Architecture of the Ukrainian People in Manitoba.”

Documents relating to Michael Bird’s rationale for writing a book on folk painting in Canada.

Correspondence between Michael Bird and others primarily relating to the loaning of pieces for the exhibit Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario.

Slides, notes on images and ephemera relating to the exhibit Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario.

351 negatives of fraktur art.

Article by Michael Bird accompanying an exhibit at the Joseph Schneider Haus on fraktur art in show towels.

One article by Michael Bird on Fraktur written for the publication Upper Canada.

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.

Article from The Mennonite Quarterly Review.