William Tutte's manuscript notebook from his time as a student at Trinity College Cambridge. Manuscript includes graphs and formulas regarding the Four colour theorem or the Four colour map theorem (considered the central problem in graph theory). Notebook includes a folder with annotations made by Tutte referring to the content and pages with his annotations divided into twelve sections.

Manuscript poem entitled, "On Parting from My Sister and Her Children." Also included are two pencil drawings, one of which depicts a church and graveyard scene in a village located three miles from Dublin. The poem and drawings have been bound into a book. In the front cover of the book is a newspaper clipping of an obituary for Isabella Jane and Caroline Olivia Clare.

File consists of one small paper covered tete beche account book. One end is farm work and rent and the other appears to be store purchases.

A travel log written by Dorothy Russell detailing her and Helena Welch's trip to England, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria in 1972.

Trip diary, notes, sketches, and tourist ephemera relating to a trip taken by Hervey Bowman and George Wiegand in 1929, to Pennsylvania, on the 150th anniversary of the death of Christian Meyer. Hervey and his brothers Frank and Arthur tracked down family gravestones and re-erected Christian Meyer's stone in 1929. Blueprints of gravestones, actual size, were made by Arthur Bowman.

File consists of one trip diary kept by Florence Bray. The diary details trips to Europe (1926), California (1938 & 1939), New York and Atlantic City (1932), Virginia (1950), Florida (1930 & 1938), Scotland (1892), Gaspe (1946), Muskoka (1946). Also included in the diary are addresses of people met while on trips, a list of hotels stayed in and a fold out map of the United States and Mexico. The 1926 trip to Europe is of particular interest, with descriptions of major European cities and First World War battlefields.

Contents: file consists of one account of a trip kept by Charles Warren Hunt detailing his six month long world trip in 1952-1953. The account is typewritten and broken into sections for each leg of the trip. Also included is a photograph of Charles in 1952.

One travel diary written by an unknown person. The diary recounts a trip to France and Switzerland, with a particular emphasis on mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps. An accompanying item of correspondence addressed to George from Vivian de Sola Pinto of Nottingham University indicates that the traveler saw a woman he presumed to by Mary Shelley in Berne, possibly dating the diary to when Shelley was living in Geneva.

One scrapbook kept by an unknown theatre goer. The book is specially made for theatre performances and features in index of the plays, and a two page spread devoted to each play. The left hand side of the page allows for written comments on the title, date and location of the play as well as impressions, and criticisms of the actors and performance. The right hand side of the page is intended to be used to paste in the playbill. In many entries newspaper clippings about the performance are also present. All of the productions were held at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston by the Boston Stage Society in 1904 and 1905. There are records for 80 plays. Some of the playbills also include advertisements.

The Kitchener, Waterloo & Bridgeport Coal Dealers Association was organized April 20, 1919 to bring dealers together at regular intervals "to discuss matters of importance to the coal trade." This minute book contains records of meetings from the founding in 1919 to 1927. The minutes record decisions made about the conduct of business, retail prices, dicounts and terms, in the K-W area.

Insertions: ephemera and loose items found in this volume include: price list for coal, coke and wood, 1915; clippings, 1920-1937, correspondence, invoices. Two items of correspondence from 1933 deal with coal prices for the Family Relief Board and for the Kitchener Public Schools. The earliest document entitled "Coal Memo" is a copy of an agreement, signed by three parties, A.A. Pipe, J. Fennell, Kloepfer & Co., re prices and suppliers for public buildings including the Post Office and Poor House.

File consists of time books for the factory office and industrial engineering department kept by Gordon Good while he was an employee at Kaufman Rubber. Includes time books for the years 1931-1971.

Materials related to James Walker’s paper “The Indian in Canadian historical writing” which he wrote during his Master’s degree for the course History 600 “Historiography” in 1967, and later presented during the 1971 Canadian Historical Association (CHA) Annual General Meeting in St. John's, Newfoundland. Includes correspondence congratulating him on the paper and presentation, a travel application and claim form from Dalhousie University, a printout of paper and bibliography, notes and notebook for the paper, the paper he wrote and presented for History 600, and the paper for the CHA presentation.

Daily entries by Isaac Lucius Bowman in which he records his and his family's work and leisure activities. Isaac would appear to have been very busy man in 1885, as he records many surveying contracts, deeds registered, plans drawn up, etc., as well as his work as treasurer of the Town Council, a post to which he was appointed on January 9 of that year. His cash accounts for the Council are to be found in a notebook later used by his son, Hervey Bowman, now in SCA274-GA417-3-30. He also records (on Feb. 4) that he performed a marriage. Although the entries are fairly straightforward accounts of activities, they cast light on some little-explored aspects of life in nineteenth-century Berlin, as in this entry from Saturday, July 18, 1885: "Attended Love feast, it was a precious sacrament, Receiving of Members in forenoon Baptism in the afternoon at 2 o'clock P.M. in Grand River. 7 immersed and 2 sprinkled. Sunday School Children's meeting at 3 p.m. 6 speakers took part. It was an interesting time ..."

File consists of one lined volume used as a scrapbook, notebook and diary by Luella Creighton while at Victoria College. Contains only a few written entries with much ephemeral material inserted, illustrative of university life of the time. Ephemera includes dance cards, programmes, menus, tickets, announcements, invitations, news clippings, etc. Of special note is the menu and programme for the Graduating Class Dinner, March 26, 1926, autographed by E.J. Pratt with "(good luck)" and at which Henri Lassere was the soloist.

Includes attendance records.

A manuscript notebook that records the details of séances held by a group of individuals in Weston-super-Mare, England between April 16, 1924 and February 27, 1925. The handwritten entries in the notebook describe the manner in which a circle was opened to begin the séance, any images seen or sensed, whether or not a spirit appeared, all questions and answers made by sitters and spirits, and often include a general summation of the séance. An index featuring a list of topics raised during the séances and the name of the spirit who discussed the topic is available at the back of the notebook. Inserted between page 250 and 251 is a poem handwritten on a blue card dated February 17, 1945 and addressed to Dora written by J. & A.P. In addition, the notebook contains a photograph pasted onto the verso of the flyleaf. The photograph shows four men and eight women, possibly the members of the Spiritualist circle in Weston-super-Mare, England.

One notebook kept by Sol Eisen listing books he purchased, names of contacts, historical notes such as lists of philosopher and poets, names of people who attended Sunday School at his synagogue, timetables, definitions and more.

File consists of a sketchbook belonging to Virgil Burnett. On flyleaf: Stratford, 2 February 1995. Includes sketches, manuscript notes.

File consists of a sketchbook belonging to Virgil Burnett. On flyleaf : Wellesley, 17 January 1987, a birthday gift from Jane; Flavigny, 7 August 1993; Stratford 2002. Includes sketches, manuscript notes, insertions tipped-in.

File consists of a sketchbook belonging to Virgil Burnett. On flyleaf: Toronto, June 1994. Includes sketches, manuscript notes.

Diary kept by Kenneth Sims from May 19, 1924 to the end of August of that year chronicling his activities while travelling with and without his parents and the Canadian lawn bowlers who were competing in Great Britain.

One school notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes and labs from the course Pharmacy.

One school notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes and labs from the course Pharmaceutical Chemistry 32.

One school notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes from the course Pharmaceutical Chemistry 31.

One duotang notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes and labs from the course Pharmaceutical Chemistry 22.

One school notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes and labs from the course Pharmaceutical Chemistry 21.

One duotang notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes and labs from the courses Organic Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biochemistry III, and Haematology. Also includes one copy of the Code of Ethics of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association.

One school notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes from the course Dispensing.

One notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The binder contains class notes, handouts, and exams from the course Botany.

One school notebook kept by Gordon Schaefer while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes on practical chemistry. The book is divided with tabs into different categories reflecting the main teaching areas of the course.

One school notebook kept by Gordon Schaefer while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes on physics.

One school notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes and labs from the course Pharmacy 26.

One school notebook kept by Gordon Schaefer while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes on Latin and toxicology courses. The toxicology section includes antidotes for common poisons.

One school notebook kept by Gordon Schaefer while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes on botany.

Six scribblers or exercise books, most with pictorial covers, owned by Florence Annie Catherine Schantz.

Four scribblers or exercise books, most with pictorial covers, owned by Florence Annie Catherine Schantz.

Six scribblers or exercise books, most with pictorial covers, owned by Florence Annie Catherine Schantz.

Five writing books, including three numbers of the Harpers Writing Books.

One Knights Chemistry notebook owned by Hervey Bowman.

One copybook owned by Herbert Cecil Palmer Schantz.

One exercise book owned by Dorothy Etta Russell (nee White).

Four exercise and copybooks owned by Austin Tobias Schantz.

Two copybooks and one exercise book from Franklin Abram Schantz's school days.

Diary kept by Norman C. Schneider of a trip taken October 12-November 1, 1934.

Diary kept by Norman C. Schneider of a trip, June 9-July 7, 1931, to the Rotary International Convention in Vienna, Austria.

The register of visitors for the funeral of Mary Schantz (nee Moyer) who died January 28, 1935 in Kitchener, Ontario at the age of 94. Mary Schantz's funeral was held at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home in Kitchener, Ontario.

Day books maintained by Samuel Franklin French. Includes five account books and one book listing missionary and religious activities.

Fonds consists of one daybook from The Standard Life Assurance Company, believed to have been kept by Samuel Daniel Buckberrough. Also includes a clipping about the January 21, 1904 snow storm in Kitchener.

A flying log book issued to Cameron Hill by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. The log book contains multiple entries written by Cameron recording details of flights and operations he participated in between May and September 1942.

A hardcover notebook titled, Research November 23, 1990 #1, that includes handwritten notes by Donald Cowan about meetings and discussions with several people and organizations including WATCOM and IBM, workshops, conferences and presentations as well as various research topics including user interfaces, the design of an ADV for a menu, the design of the shell, application frameworks, and much more.

File consists of one ms. recipe book with inscription "begun by Kate Neyle about 1880" on the flyleaf. Pastedown on front board gives a partial table of contents. Most recipes have been written directly into the book, but some have been written on pieces of paper and glued in at a later date and some are clippings. Manuscript has a homemade dust jacket into which are inserted loose recipes in the back flap.

File consists of one ms. recipe book with inscription "Melora Neyle 1854" on the flyleaf. The first page lists a partial table of contents. Includes primarily ms. entries written into the book, but also includes some ms. recipes pasted in at a later date, and some pasted in clippings. Includes primarly recipes for food, but also some for health remedies and home care products. Also inset into the manuscript are pressed flowers.

Excerpt from a diary that may have belonged to Henry Ratz, son of Valentine Ratz. It is assumed that Henry Ratz is the author of the diary page based on the contents of the excerpt.

This letter book contains copies of business letters from R. Boehmer & Co. dating from 1900-1908, with 824 leaves filled in. Some pages contain more than one letter. The correspondence deals primarily with orders for coal.
Insertions: several pieces of ephemera are present, including a blank bank draft from Merchant's Bank of Canada, Berlin, some ms. draft advertisements, notes, and a statement April 4, 1916.

Thirteen planning diaries containing notes written by Andrew Telegdi likely relating to activities in both his personal life and professional career. The planning diaries include notes scheduling meetings and appointments as well as general reminders.

A notebook containing drawings, writing, and mathematical equations created by Peg Forbes.

One register book kept by the Ontario Association of Architects for the years 1890-1899. The book lists dues paid by each member of the association as well as money received for exam fees, filing articles, student fees and more. Also includes one item of correspondence from Mills & Hutton, architects asking the secretary for information on rates for architectural work. The register was kept by William R. Gregg.

File consists of one notebook used as a diary by Albert L. Breithaupt from June 10 to August 29, 1896, while on a trip to England, Scotland and Germany, with family members. The first entries are written in Berlin, Ontario. Of note is the entry for June 10, 1894 that gives an account of the last Sabbath in the "old church". Albert paraphrases the speech given by his mother, Catharine, with her recollections of the Sunday School in Berlin.

A small bound volume printed in 1868 by Dan'l Hoffman & Co., Wholesale Dealers in Hats ..., New York. It contains two leaves of advertising and two leaves of notes, including the following: a list of names and birth dates of parents and siblings of Mary Schantz (nee Moyer), notes made by Mary Schantz on journey with her sister Sophia Emma Schantz and Sophia's new husband, John Book, with comments and notes added later by one of the Schantz children.

File consists of a notebook kept by Minnie O'Hara Maines with minutes from meetings with the Executive Committee, the Education Committee, the Committee for English-speaking classes at the YWCA, and the Canadian Affairs Group. Also included are two reports from 1957 and 1958 summarizing the activities of the Council's Service, Education, and Social committees; brochures from 1966 and 1967 outlining the general responsibilities and scope of the council; as well as a 1960 letter from Victoria Ullman to Maines, in which Ullman is thanking Maines for the bursary she received, are also included in the file.

A notebook containing entries by more than one person including the following: "Construction Notes: Wahnapitae Bridge C.P.R., Pratt Truss (Iron), by F.M. Bowman, Wahnapitae, Nippissing, Sept. 22nd, 1888, consisting of 17 p. of plans and elevations. The t.p. is also signed "Hervey Bowman, Steelton, Pennsylvania", and contains his personal accounts and expenses for a trip taken in May-July 1891, as well as inserted notes and ephemera. This notebook also contains lists of survey crews (which included H.M., F.M. and A.M. Bowman) for areas of Northern Ontario: Township of Hess Algoma District (Summer, 1888), Townships 24 and 28, Manitoba (Aug-Sept.1890), Township of Gladman, Nippissing (Fall 1890), Township of Ware, Thunder Bay (Aug.-Sept. 1891).

A spiral-bound notebook that includes handwritten notes by Donald Cowan about meetings, conferences and lectures he attended as well as various research topics including local area networks, LANs, databases, cartesian products and joins, and much more. Also includes loose papers with handwritten notes, a pamphlet for WATCAT (University of Waterloo Library's online catalogue), and two floppy disks (5¼-inch format) that were tucked inside the front cover of the notebook. It is unclear what information may be available on the floppy disks.

File consists of one small printed notebook for March 1900. Also contains notes dated September 1901 about mileages, expenses, and equipment required.

File consists of one notebook used by A.L. Breithaupt. Contains business and personal notes. Business seems to be leather at this point.

Notebook with annotations and drafts of poems by Julia McCarthy. Also contains newspaper clippings about Astronomy.

Notebook with annotations and drafts of poems by Julia McCarthy. Also contains addresses and contact information for events she attended and people she met.

Notebook with annotations and drafts of poems by Julia McCarthy. Also contains addresses and contact information for events she attended and people she met.

One unlined notebook belonging to Fred J.T. Maines, containing manuscript notes on birds and insects. Material inserted and tipped-in includes manuscript notes, notes, clippings etc.

Untitled "Meritton Schools" notebook containing manuscript notes, some on dreams, and poems [by Jenny Pincock?]. Only a few pages filled in. One poem inserted.

Contents: file consists of one notebook belonging to Anne Innis Dagg.

A notebook listing séances held at 362 Frederick St. in Kitchener, Ontario under the guidance of medium Thomas Lacey.

A small notebook containing Hervey's notes, timetables, expenses, calculations, as well as transcription and explanation of humorous German anecdotes, and what appear to be transcriptions of headstones of Weaver and Bowman family members, with comments on the stone and condition.

This notebook was used by Isaac L. Bowman, and may also contain items written by Hervey Bowman. It contains notes and calculations regarding deeds and descriptions done, a list of medicines and clothes to pack to take to Port Arthur for survey work (1892), list of books (1892), several pages of cash accounts, receipts and disbursements, for Council, of which Isaac L. Bowman was Treasurer (1889).

File consists of one notebook used by A.L. Breithaupt. Contains business and personal notes. Includes lists of presents purchased on a trip to Europe in 1908, and observations of fashions seen in Europe on two trips, in 1908 and 1910. Also includes sketches of clothing details [for the Star Whitewear Co.].

One handwritten notebook with select passages and mathematical diagrams from Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. A note in the text indicates that this was likely copied from an 1826 edition of the work.

File consists of school work created by John Edward Motz. Includes school notebooks, essays, speaches and a short story titled "The Red Claw."

File consists of one "diary of important events" recorded by John Edward Motz. The diary lists large events and firsts in his life such as communion, learning to ride a bike, etc.

Includes Club Roster and attendance records.

Includes Club Roster and attendance records.

Includes Club Rosters, inserted correspondence, financial statements, etc.

Materials related to the course “Minorities” taught by James Walker at the University of Waterloo (1971 onwards). Includes table of contents for the course “Minorities” with themes of lectures, handwritten and types notes for the lectures and maps for:

• 1. Nova Scotia Black Loyalists (TYP).
• 2. Mimacs pre-contact society.
• 3. Mimacs – French period.
• 4. Mimacs – English period.
• 5. Course intro to History 227, 1971 to 1979.
• 6. Course Intro to History 204, 1981.
• 7. Canadian slavery.
• 8. Canadian slavery.
• 9. Blacks in the American Revolution.
• 10. Nova Scotia Black Loyalists – settlement and society.
• 11. Nova Scotia Black Loyalists economic conditions.
• 12. Black Loyalists settlement.
• 13. Black Loyalists economic conditions.
• 14. Black Loyalists society and culture.
• 15. Nova Scotia Exodus and impact / Refugees to 1840.
• 16. Nova Scotia Blacks.
• 18. Canada Fugitives in Ontario.
• 21. Canada. Nova Scotia since 1840.
• 22. Canada, patterns of prejudice since Confederation.
• 23. Canada. Patterns of prejudice & black response / revitalization of 1960s.
• 24. Canada. Black immigration.
• 25. Canada. Nova Scotia since 1968.
• 26. Black America summary overview.
• 27. American Slavery.
• 28. American Slavery fragment.
• 29. Black America. Free Blacks before the Civil War.
• 30. Free Blacks inc. UGRR.
• 31. Canada & the Civil War / Civil War / Reconstruction / Canada and Reconstruction.
• 32. Black America 1877-1903.
• 33. Black America 1903-1955.
• 34. Contemporary Black America.
• 35. Blacks in Canada.
• 36. West Indians.

Ninety-two memo books containing notes written by Andrew Telegdi likely relating to activities in both his personal life and professional career.

Notebook containing handwritten mathematical problems, solutions, and diagrams. Also inset are mathematical problems and solutions clipped from a newspaper and a report card from Alexandria Boarding School in Alexandria, Virginia.

One duotang notebook kept by Michael Fritsch while he was a student at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. The notebook contains class notes from the course Materia Medica 31: Physiology.

Nine notebooks with the handwritten chapters for James Walker’s Master’s thesis titled "The Black loyalists of Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone," submitted to the University of Waterloo.

Fonds contains a record book belonging to Mary Augusta Fiske. The book contains recipes for cakes, sauces, and puddings. Also contains household accounts and several diary entries dating between 1876 and 1887. Attached to the inside of the front cover is a sepia toned photograph of an unidentified child. Next to it is a newspaper clipping regarding the death of Fiske titled "Death of Mrs. Gen. William O. Fiske".