File consists of Louisa Breithaupt's address book.

Blurry photograph of an adult in a building, possibly a museum.

Photograph of two adults looking at each other with a fence and vegetation in the background.

Photograph of four adults with a child and a building in the background.

File consists of one hand-written land transaction document regarding the sale of land by Jacob and Margaretha Hailer to Louis Breithaupt and Jacob Wagner, witnessed by Jacob and Mary Burgley[sic], and signed by all parties. This document is not written on an official form.

File consists of a hand-written partnership agreement relating to a tanning business to be carried on in Berlin, Ontario, by Jacob Vogt and Louis Breithaupt, signed by both parties.

File consists of hand-written agreement regarding carpentry work to be done. Jacob Stabler's signature is in German script.

File consists of one hand-written agreement relating to the Louis Breithaupt's continuance of joint business after the death of Jacob Wagner dated May 17, 1858. The document is witnessed by Jacob Hailer and is signed by all parties and sealed. Includes a receipt, and statements of account.

File consists of manuscript agreement signed by A.L. Breithaupt and Catharine Breithaupt outlining the terms and conditions of the A.L. Breithaupt family's residence in Waldeck, home of Catharine Breithaupt.

File consists of land transaction documents relating to property in Berlin, Ontario.

Fonds consists of material relating to the life and activities, both business and personal, of Albert L. Breithaupt from his 18th year on. Includes correspondence in German from his mother, Catharine Hailer Breithaupt. Includes correspondence, diaries, legal and financial documents, ephemera and photographs.

Photograph of three adults and one child standing by a train. Photograph was possibly taken at North-Western College, Naperville, Illinois.

Postcard featuring a photograph of a bird view of a bulding on an island in a lake. According to annotations, building is the Anthes Cottage on Munnohannit Island, Sans Souci Island (The Archipelago, Georgian Bay, Ontario).

Photograph of an arch inside of a church.

Photograph of three men sitting down on a house porch with fishing catch hanging from the porch beams, possibly taken at the family "Bay View Cottage" in Penetanguishene (Ontario).

Photograph of a group of four children sitting down in a hammock, two of the children holding sticks in their hands, taken at the family "Bay View Cottage" in Penetanguishene (Ontario). There is vegetation and a lake in the background.

People in photograph are: John Edward Breithaupt, Frieda Caroline Harris, Carl Louis Breithaupt and Louise Catherine Geil.

Photograph of a group of fifteen adults and seven children on the porch and stairs of a house with a horse and a cart, taken at the Ouse Club (near the Grand River).

According to annotations, and some people in photograph are uncle Fritz Goetze, aunty Goetze, Louis Buhler, aunty Bean. Horse is named Lucy. Also in photograph are: John Edward Breithaupt in a cap seated on the stairs and looking at the camera, child behind him with white lace bonnet is likely Laurine Catherine Augustine, child behind her in the same lace bonnet is likely Grace Melvina Augustine, Carrie Breithaupt is seated on the porch at centre of group and looking at an infant on her lap. Other adults are possibly Albert Benjamin Augustine and Carrie Augustine.

Photograph of a group of fifteen adults and seven children sitting down or standing with a horse and a cart in the background by a shore. Some of the adults are holding croquet mallets. Taken at Riverside Park House Club.

According to annotations, some of the people are Hallie Rou, Millie Rou, uncle Albert, uncle Fritz Goetze of New York, and Carrie Breithaupt seated at centre with infant on lap. Also in photograph are: John Edward Breithaupt standing at back right with cap on, possibly Albert Benjamin Augustine at left of horse, Carrie Augustine second from right in partial profile, and Laurine Catherine Augustine seated at front second from right.

Photograph of three adults and three children by a wooden bridge close to the edge of the water with a one-horse cart exiting the bridge, taken in Penetanguishene on the way to Tiny Beach (Ontario).

Photograph of a group of seven adults sitting down or standing on the bridge over river falls, taken at the Falls in Blackstone Harbor "Where the cow goes over the Moon."

Postcard featuring a photograph of a group of seven adults by or on a bench with a building and another group of people by a car in the background, taken in Wilmington, Delaware (U.S.).

People in photograph are: Carrie Breithaupt seated at the far right.

File consists of clippings reporting the death of A.B. Augustine, husband of Caroline Breithaupt.

Two copies of a photograph of five-month-old Louise Catherine Breithaupt lying on a pram in the room of a residential home.

Photograph of a group of nine teenagers sitting down or standing dressed as a basketball team inside a building. The person in the middle of the group is holding a basketball with the number "16."

Photograph of a group of nine adults and children standing or sitting down on the porch of a summer house, one person approaching the group, two children on the balcony above, and a dog on the side, taken at the family "Bay View Cottage" in Penetanguishene (Ontario).

People in photograph are: on the balcony, left to right, Martha Melvina Rieder and Ella Elmina Cook. On the porch are possibly Lydia Catherine Anthes standing on the left, followed by Carrie Breithaupt, and Frank Anthes seated on the right with legs crossed.

Photograph of two people on a horsecart looking at the photographer with a house and a blurry person in the background, taken at the family "Bay View Cottage" in Penetanguishene (Ontario).

People in photograph are: Ella Elmina Cook on the left side of cart.

Photograph of a group of ten adults and two children sitting down or standing for the photograph, taken at the family "Bay View Cottage" in Penetanguishene (Ontario). There is a body of water behind the group.

People in the photograph are: Frank Anthes standing second from left, Carrie Breithaupt standing second from right, Martha Melvina Rieder is sitting down second from left, and Lydia Catherine Anthes and Ella Elmina Cook are seated at the right. Albert Liborious Breithaupt possibly standing second from right.

Three copies of a photograph of a group of five adults and nine children on a house porch.

According to annotations, photograph was taken before John Christian Breithaupt and John Edward Breithaupt went on a trip to South America.

People in photograph are (left to right): John Edward Breithaupt, Lydia Louisa Breithaupt, [Carl?] Breithaupt, Louise Breithaupt, ?, Frieda Breithaupt.

Seated middle: ?, [Esther?] Breithaupt, Caroline (Carrie) Catharine Anthes Breithaupt, [John Christian?] Breithaupt.

Front row: ?, ?, ?, ?

Photograph of factory buildings, possibly the Breithaupt Tannery in Berlin (today Kitchener, Ontario).

Blurry photograph with an unidentified scene.

Materials related to the Breithaupt family, specifically the family branch Breithaupt Anthes, started by John Christian Breithaupt and Carrie Breithaupt. Includes photographs of the family in different locations and participating in various social activities, the family home in Kitchener and their vacation home in Penetanguishene, studio photographs of several members of the family, trips and travels in Canada and Europe, and photographs of later members of the family in different locations. Some of the photographs appear to be from later descendants of John Christian Breithaupt and Carrie Breithaupt.

Also contains textual records related to the political campaign led by Louis Jacob Breithaupt (John Christian Breithaupt's brother) and a metal printing plaque for the wedding of Helen Esther Breithaupt (daughter of John Christian Breithaupt and Carrie Breithaupt).

Accrual consists of a family seal, biographical material about family members and business (clippings and obituaries), records relating to business between and among family members.

Photograph of a group of six women sitting down or standing at different levels on the stairs by a house entrance.This portrait was possibly taken to celebrate Catharine Breithaupt's [nee Hailer] 70th birthday.

People in photograh are, from top to bottom: Carrie Breithaupt, Carrie Augustine, Melvina Emilia Baumann, Emma Alvarene Breithaupt, Lydia Louisa Breithaupt, Martha "Mattie" C. Breithaupt [nee Murphy].

File consists of impression of the Breithaupt seal in red wax on paper, accompanied by text in German.

This collection, donated to the University of Waterloo in 1988 by the family of the late Rosa Breithaupt Hewetson Clark and Spencer Clark, includes family papers from three families, the Breithaupt family, the Hewetson family, and the Clark family; records from the Guild of All Arts in Scarborough, Ontario, founded by Rosa Breithaupt Hewetson Clark and Spencer Clark; and several smaller collections acquired by the Breithaupt family and by Spencer Clark. The personal library of Spencer Clark, which includes many books, periodicals, government documents, and ephemeral items, was donated together with the archival collections, and is particularly strong in the fields of urban planning, architecture, and Canadian art.

Materials include family papers from three families, the Breithaupt family, the Hewetson family, and the Clark family; records from the Guild of All Arts in Scarborough, Ontario, founded by Rosa Breithaupt Hewetson Clark and Spencer Clark; and several smaller collections acquired by the Breithaupt family and by Spencer Clark. The personal library of Spencer Clark, which includes many books, periodicals, government documents, and ephemeral items, was donated together with the archival collections, and is particularly strong in the fields of urban planning, architecture, and Canadian art.

The accrual consists of records related to various members of the Breithaupt family including business activities, correspondence and biographical information.

File consists of financial statements accompanied by a letter from the auditor, H.J. Lane.

File consists of agreement (carbon), signed by Louis J. Breithaupt, J.C. Breithaupt, Albert L. Breithaupt, Melvina Bauman and Catherine Breithaupt, dated 1909.

File consists of a clipping of the article "Landmark stood about 90 years" from the last week of July 1970 edition of the Georgian Times reporting the demolition of the Breithaupt Leather Tannery chimney in Penetanguishene.

Promotional materials created by Louis Jacob Breithaupt's political campaign to ask for the vote of his constituents during the election for the North Waterloo Local Legislature on May 23, 1899. Includes a letter in English and German, a leaflet with a drawing of the Premier of Ontario (Hon. A. S. Hardy), and the envelope in which everything was enclosed.
Envelope is addressed to Conrad [Haerle?] Esquire, from Wellesley, Ontario.

File consists of Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Co. receipt to L. Breithaupt for insurance payment on dwelling on Seneca St., Buffalo, May 12, 1864.

File consists of material relating to the purchase of and payment for property in Buffalo, N.Y. Includes two land title search documents, one dated 1849 (for Reuben B. Heacock) and the other dated 1865. Includes the original mortgage document from R.B. Heacock, signed by Liborius Breithaupt, April 7, 1848, annotated with a list of payments made. Includes receipts for payments made from 1849 to 1856.

File consists of agreement (typescript, carbon) concerning A.L. Breithaupt's debt repayment and transfer of equity in L. Breithaupt Estate as security.

File consists of agreement (typescript, carbon) signed by A.L. Breithaupt and J.C. Breithaupt.

File consists of one notebook used by A.L. Breithaupt to record "rentals for various localities owned by the trustees of the estate of Louis Breithaupt." The title page is dated September 1897 and the notebook is divided alphabetically by renter.

File consists of typescript list of rooms at Waldeck?

File consists of manuscript calulations relating to Breithaupt properties.

Series consists of records related to Catharine Hailer Breithaupt including 91 pieces of correspondence received by Catharine Hailer Breithaupt between 1852-1863 and 1880-1910 and two diaries. The diary documents the first part of Catharine's first trip to Germany in 1888. The early correspondence provides further documentation of the establishment of Louis Breithaupt's tanning business in Berlin, Ontario; the later correspondence is primarily from her children, including her nephew Louis Henry Wagner.

Accrual consist of a certificate of citizenship.

File consists of issues of local newspapers from January 27 to 30, 1897 reporting on the Gas Works explosion and the death of E. Carl Breithaupt.

File consists of one portrait of Fred Breithaupt's family. Seen left to right are wife Frances and children Robert and Mary Ann.

File consists of a head and shoulders studio portrait of Fred Breithaupt seen wearing glasses and looking off camera.

File consists of two copies of the Daily News, June 22, 1883, containing a notice of the death of Frederick Adolph Breithaupt, youngest son of Mrs. Louis Breithaupt, in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 8 years.

Accrual consists of correspondence, postcards, ephemera and photographs. The bulk of this accrual consists of 187 postcards received by Fred as a child, from his parents and grandmother Catharine, some written in German.

File consists of clipping reporting the marriage of John C. Breithaupt to Caroline Anthes.

File consists of three copies of the Saturday, July 3, 1880 edition of the Daily News containing an account of the death of Louis Breithaupt.

Accrual consists of an address book and correspondence received by Louisa Breithaupt.

Series consists of business records, correspondence and ephemera related to the life and activities of Louis Breithaupt and his family, first in Buffalo, N.Y. and then in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario from 1848-1881. The majority relate to the operation of his tanning business, and include account books, agreements, correspondence with family, friends, employees and business contacts, freight receipts, invoices, legal and tax documents. Included are records relating to Louis Breithaupt's tannery businesses in Buffalo and Berlin including documentation of his partnership and work with Jacob F. Schoellkopf. It also documents the sale of land by Jacob Hailer to Louis Breithaupt and Jacob Wagner and the subsequent legal documents necessary after Jacob Wagner's death. Includes financial records, agreements and records relating to property.

Also in the series are business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt including business and personal correspondence, statements of accounts, freight receipts, notes payable, ephemera, etc. The correspondence is in both English and German and it is evident that Louis was comfortable using either language. Correspondents include relatives and friends, like his mother Catharina, and friends and business contacts like Charles A. Ahrens in Berlin, Ontario, and from from Jacob Hailer.

Photograph of Harvey J. Gruber, chair of the Public Utilities Commission; W.R. Bricker, representative of Victory Loan; Kitchener Mayor Joseph Ignatino Meinzinger; and John Christian Breithaupt, chair of the H.W. Commission. Gruber, Meinzinger, and Breithaupt are seated at a table while Meinzinger signs a document. Bricker is standing behind them. There are city maps and certificates hung on the wall behind them.

Photograph of a camp on a board scow on a body of water by a shore with trees in the background and foreground and a Union Jack flag by the camp. There is a person on a canoe leaving the camp.

Photograph of a campground with a group of five people (possibly workers) by two camp tents with a table with cooking items. There is a body of water in the background.

Photograph of a canoe by a shore with a cabin in the foreground.

Postcard featuring a photograph of a car by a building.

Photograph of a person looking at the camera while repairing the right front wheel of a car.

Studio portrait of Carrie Breithaupt seen looking off-camera.

Studio portrait of Carrie Breithaupt, seen looking off-camera.

Studio portrait of Carrie Breithaupt seen looking at camera.

One document issued by A.J. Peterson, Notary Public, for the purposes of travel outside of Canada, certifying Ezra Carl Breithaupt to be a "natural born British subject." Attached to the document is a photograph of Ezra Carl taken in Naperville, Ill. by Kendig.

Photograph of a child seating down on a log by a lakeshore with buildings and vegetation in the background.

Photograph of a child standing on a field with vegetation in the background.

Photograph of a child in the snow with vegetation in the background.

Photograph of two children and one adult at the entrance of a house, likely 172 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener (Ontario). One of the children is standing behind the railing of a porch and the other child is standing next to a flowery shrub as the adult looks on from the lawn.

Photograph of two children standing at the sides of a shrub in bloom and by the side of a house.

Photograph of a group of seven children (some holding hands) standing by a lake and posing for the photograph.

Photograph of three children in a greenhouse surrounded by plants and flowers.

Photograph of four children in the snow posing for the camera with buildings in the backgroung.

Photograph of a group of four children in swimsuits in a lake.

Photograph of two children looking off-camera and standing by a baby in a crib.

Photograph of two children tying ice skates by the entrance of a house.

Two copies of a photograph of a group of eighteen adults (some of which are holding cups of tea in their hands) and six children posing for the photograph while one of the adults is serving tea. Photograph appears to have been taken in a campground, there is a camp tent in the background and tables behind the group.

People in photograph are: Carrie Breithaupt seated at the right with a child on her lap and John Edward Breithaupt is possibly the person standing to her right.

Christmas card for the year 1945 showing a photograph of three children sitting down on a bench with a building and vegetation in the background.

According to annotations, children in photograph may be Carl Louis and Alice (Kranz) Breithaupt's children in 1945.

Photograph of a school group of 42 children and an adult by the entrance of Margaret Avenue School.

According to annotations, one of the persons in photograph is Frieda Caroline Harris, and the class was Class Senior 3D with teacher Teacher J.F. Carmichael.

Photograph of cliffs by a body of water.

Photograph of a cloister with a steeple in the background.

Photograph of a cloister with people looking at the building in the foreground.

Photograph of the entrance arch to a cloister.

Photograph of a cliff with trees on top by a body of water with logs along shoreline at left.

Photograph of a group of eight adults and four children standing or sitting down by the entrance of a summer house surrounded by trees, possibly taken at the family "Bay View Cottage" in Penetanguishene (Ontario).

People in photograph are: Louisa Breithaupt standing and second from left, Lydia Anthes seated in a chair on the lawn with an infant on her lap, and Carrie Breithaupt standing next to them.

File consists of correspondence, one small account book 1851-1856, individual statements of accounts, correspondence to and from L. Breithaupt and J.F. Schellkopf, a letter to Liborius Breithaupt from a nephew in Allendorf Germany.

File consists of a copybook containing copies of five letters written by L. Breithaupt in 1854 concerning tannery business.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt including business correspondence, statements, rail road freight receipts, an ephemera. Includes documents relating to the tannery in Berlin, correspondence from Charles A. Ahrens, correspondence with Jacob J. Vogt, Niagara Falls (who is a relative and who has invested in the Berlin tannery), Hoffman & Weaver, J.F. Schoellkopf. Also in the file are letters in German from Jacob Hailer, A. Klein, F.A. Goetze, W. Brill. A letter from W. Mentz addresses L.B. as "Esteemed Brother" and comments on the dissolution of co-partnership with J. Vogt.

Also of note are business cards: "L. Breithaupt, manufacturer and dealer in leather, findings, hides, wool, oil, &c., Berlin, C.W.", a doctor's bill for 19 visits in June 1859 to visit child, and one one letter written on one side to L. Breithaupt from Jacob Burgley [i.e. Burckle], Utica, August 15, 1859, and on the other side to "Dear Sister", from M.A. Burgley.

File consists of two letters in German. One letter, intricately folded and dated July 11, 1853, is from [Margaret Wagner?]. The second letter, dated November 19, 1853, is from Jacob Wagner.

File consists of one letter in German from Jacob and Margaret Wagner in Grove __, N.Y., December 16, 1857.

File consists of three letters in German. Includes one letter from Jacob and Margaret Wagner in Grove [?], [New York], dated January 18, 1858, and a joint letter dated Berlin, August 29, 1858 with page 1 signed by Margaret Wagner and the overleaf signed by Jacob Hailer. This was probably written after the death of Jacob Wagner in Berlin that spring. A third letter, dated 1858, is written in an unknown hand.

File consists of contains two documents in German. The first is a letter dated July 3, 1858[?] written from Buffalo in three separate hands. The first is possibly that of Catharina Goetz Breithaupt, widow of Liborius, and is signed Catharina Breithaupt. The second is two lines by Catharine Hailer Breithaupt, signed by her. The page overleaf is written and signed by Margaret Wagner. The second document is an undated note signed by Catharina Breithaupt.

File consists of four letters in German to Catharine Breithaupt from her sons William Henry (2) and Louis Jacob (1), as well as from Louis Henry Wagner(1).

File consists of two letters in German, one from Rev. Lauer and one from [_] Racquet.

File consists of three letters in German: one letter from an unidentified correspondent; two letters from A.L.B. (in German) to his mother, with enclosure (from Fr. Breithaupt in Cassel?).