File consists of material created and accumulated by Martha Rieder in her volunteer work with the Y.W.C.A., including the Finance Committee. Includes financial reports (April, May, August, September 1934; May 1935; February 1936), agendas for Finance Committee meetings, notices and agendas for some annual meetings (including one for a Y.M.C.A. meeting), programs and invitations for events, fundraising campaign information, Y.W.C.A. policies (1945), manuscript and typescript notes, etc.
Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo
File consists of the last will and testament of Martha Rieder (1934), and two copies each of the last will and testament of Talmon Henry Rieder, one dated 1917 and one dated 1921.
File consists of the wedding album of Talmon Henry Rieder and Martha Anthes. Includes signatures of guests, loose newspaper clippings, photographs, a fabric sample from Martha's dress, and two congratulatory telegrams.
File consists of material received by Martha Rieder relating to the Consumer Branch of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Includes two letters to Kitchener representatives of the Branch regarding the price of potatoes and corn syrup, and issues 19, 21, and 23-25 of the Branch's newsletter, "Consumers' News" (May 25, July 25, Oct. 1, Nov., 1, and Dec.). File also includes a leaflet regarding ration books and a notice from the Department of Munitions and Supply Office of Oil Controller regarding the conservation of fuel oil.
File consists of personalized gift tags sent with flowers and a telegram received by Martha Rieder during Talmon Henry Rieder's illness. File also includes an manuscript list of flowers and telephone calls received, and an manuscript draft of a telegram sent by Martha to H.Milton Cook regarding Talmon.
File consists of a keepsake box and sewing kit received by Martha Rieder for Christmas, 1892, from John and Carrie Breithaupt. Box is red velvet with a painting of two birds on the top (painting cracked and flaking off in some places). Contents of the box include:
2 trinkets (birch bark canoe, souvenir of [?] tower),
small paper fan with painting of matador and bull,
mother of pearl bottle with decorative metal trim and cork stopper (scent flask?),
clam shells attached with metal hinges and painted with flowers (souveinr of Niagara Falls [?]; paint flaking off; containing some type of fragrant material?),
red velvet coin purse with leather interior containing a miniature pocket knife and coins (5 cents Canadian 1902, 5 cents US 1895, 25 cents US 1895).
Box also contains ms. note: "Martha M. Anthes, Christmas 1892, from Carrie and John."
File consists of genealogical information relating to the Anthes family. Includes a chronological chart of Anthes in Germany and a genealogical table of the Anthes family beginning with Martin Anthes. Material probably created by John Isaac Franklin Anthes.
File consists of cards accumulated by Martha Rieder announcing the deaths and funerals of family members and friends. Several empty envelopes are also present.
File consists of material mostly accumulated by Martha Rieder relating to her son Edward Rieder. Includes birthday cards, a school report card and middle school examination results, his high school diploma, a baptism certificate, the commencement program for his graduation from the University of Toronto, letters from his parents and a friend, his obituary, and other material.
File consists of material, most of which was probably accumulated by Martha Rieder, relating to Margaret Rieder Paisley. Includes birthday and greeting cards, letters from Martha, school report cards, a high school diploma, a letter from the Y.M.C.A. regarding a gift from Martha's estate, and other material.
File consists of sundry ephemera. Includes: mounted prints of paintings of women probably from a souvenir booklet (Sistine Madonna by Raphael, etc.), colour illustrations, pamphlets and brochures, flyers from the Ontario Women's Christian Temerance Union, a pin, a pocket calendar, a wedding announcement (Vincent Bennett and Catherine Olive Breithaupt), and other material. Includes pamphlet "Home Secrets," and three issues of "The Little Monthly" (New York: The Little Company): vol. 3 no. 2 (Nov., 1893) and vol. 4, no. 1 and 2 (Jan. and Feb., 1894).
File consists of a travel diary kept by Martha Rieder, detailing trips she took to Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, and Halifax. Diary kept in ink in lined, spiral-bound notebook.
File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from January 6, 1891, to May 18, 1891. Diary was kept in pencil in a printed pocket almanac and diary. Includes an entry dated 1893. Most pages are blank.
File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from January 1, 1914, to July 29, 1914. Diary was kept in ink in a printed pocket diary.
File consists of the diary of Martha Rieder covering the period from March 1, 1895, to April 24, 1898. Diary was kept in ink and pencil in an unlined notebook, and the author has dated the entries and separated them with a horizontal line. Note after last entry: "Finis 1st book, continued in Book No. II."
