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            343 Archival description results for United States of America

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            Passport.
            SCA185-GA389-1-7 · File · November 12, 1929
            Part of Harry Byers fonds.

            One United States passport for Harry J. Byers and his wife Violet Byers. In the passport Harry is described as being 6 feet tall, having light brown hair and blue eyes, and a tattoo on his right arm. The passport also includes a photograph of Harry and Violet and visa stamps from countries they visited including Russia, Poland, Germany and the United States.

            SCA251-GA261 · Collection · 1960-2013

            Collection consists of materials created and accumulated by Paul S. Burtness and Warren U. Ober relating to their research on the events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Includes correspondence with prominent members of the U.S. Forces during World War II, as well as published articles that came out of the research.

            Burtness, Paul S.
            SCA440-GA514 · Fonds · 1912

            One photograph album capturing moments of gender expression in the early 20th Century. The album contains family and school photographs, and the images of gender expression centre around a group of students on what appears to be a school trip in Pennsylvania. People who appear to be assigned female at birth are shown wearing typical male clothing of the time, or dressed en homme, and people who appear to be assigned male at birth are shown wearing typical female clothing of the time, or dressed en femme.

            Photograph collection.
            SCA83-GA53 · Collection · [186-?]-[19--?]

            Collection consists of 169 19th century American photographs. Included are 115 carte-de-visites, 40 cabinet portraits, 2 albums, 11 miscellaneous photographs and 1 envelope of miscellaneous business and greeting cards.

            Most are albumen type photographs depicting various people including infants, children, and adults. The photographs come from various studios across the United States though the majority come from studios in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Illinois. The photographs, since rehoused, were originally housed in two albums decorated with an intricate relief on the cover and a metal clasp lock.

            SCA207-GA186-23-1223 · File · [198-]
            Part of Electrohome fonds.

            File consists of photographs and negatives of Electrohome plants and product testing facilities. Includes photographs of the Morristown, TN, plant; the Electrohome (U.S.A.) Inc. branch in Ontario, CA; an aerial photograph of Plant 10 (Cambridge, ON); and photographs of employees testing television and video monitors. One photograph has been mounted on board and retouched.

            Electrohome
            Postcards.
            SCA329-GA373-20 · File · [19--]
            Part of Innis Family fonds.

            File consists of two unused postcards showing Letchworth State Park in New York and the Administration Building of the State University Teacher's College in Geneseo, New York.

            Innis family
            SCA207-GA186-32-1588 · File · [ca 1996]
            Part of Electrohome fonds.

            File consists of photographs, transparencies, and slides depicting Electrohome Projection Systems products and their applications in various corporations and organizations. Applications pictured include: CSX Transportation Control Center (Jacksonville, FL), Canadian Embassy (Tokyo, Japan), Rochester Gas and Electric (Rochester, NY), Thames River Water System (London, UK), National Bowling Stadium (Reno, NV), the Barcelona Stock Exchange (Spain), and others.

            Electrohome

            Weekly intake report on broadcasts in English for North American listeners mainly from the United States of America, Germany, Italy and England. Copy no. 27.

            University of Waterloo. Department of Political Science.

            Weekly intake report on broadcasts in English for North American listeners mainly from the United States of America, Germany, Italy and England. Copy no. 27.

            University of Waterloo. Department of Political Science.

            Weekly intake report on broadcasts in English for North American listeners mainly from the United States of America, Germany, Italy and England. Copy no. 27.

            University of Waterloo. Department of Political Science.

            Weekly intake report on broadcasts in English for North American listeners mainly from the United States of America, Germany, Italy and England. Copy no. 27.

            University of Waterloo. Department of Political Science.
            SCA207-GA186-20-792a · File · 1982-1983
            Part of Electrohome fonds.

            File consists of material relating to public relations activities for the years 1982 and 1983. Includes news releases, memoranda, copies of form letters to employees and dealers from John A. Pollock, product photographs with typed cutlines, typed remarks by John A. Pollock given at the 1982 annual meeting, the first issue of the newsletter Electrohome World, and press kits for Electrohome Electronics, Deilcraft furniture, and the 1982 annual meeting.

            File also includes a portfolio from the Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce (Morristown, TN) containing news releases about Electrohome's purchase of a production facility there and 16 photographs of the plant during construction.

            Electrohome
            SCA207-GA186-20-792b · File · 1982-1983
            Part of Electrohome fonds.

            File consists of material relating to public relations activities for the years 1982 and 1983. Includes news releases, memoranda, copies of form letters to employees and dealers from John A. Pollock, product photographs with typed cutlines, typed remarks by John A. Pollock given at the 1982 annual meeting, the first issue of the newsletter Electrohome World, and press kits for Electrohome Electronics, Deilcraft furniture, and the 1982 annual meeting.

            File also includes a portfolio from the Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce (Morristown, TN) containing news releases about Electrohome's purchase of a production facility there and 16 photographs of the plant during construction.

            Electrohome
            Ration coupons and scrip
            SCA43-GA23-3-15 · File · 1920
            Part of John Walter fonds.

            File contains an two envelopes with examples of German ration coupons from the 1920s and examples of scrips from Rochester, New York and Multnomah County in Oregon. The ration coupons include a pencil identification that reads: "Walter Johann".

            Walter, John
            SCA237-GA236-3 · File · October 3, 1825
            Part of Sol Eisen collection.

            File consists of one receipt, in French, for work performed by an enslaved Black female named Maria on a chain gang in New Orleans in 1825. Translation reads "Wages for negress on the chain: The city treasury will pay to Mr. D. Fitch the sum of 11 piastre and 50 cents for forty six days of work by his negress Maria, employed by the public works from August 9 to October 3." The document is signed by David Fitch and Precend Lament [?] and is dated at New Orleans, Oct. 3, 1825.

            Attached to the receipt is what appears to be a clipping from the vendor catalogue which listed the item for sale. It reads:
            "174. NEGRO CHAIN GANG LABOR RECEIPT. Printed document, in French, signed, one page, oblong small quarto. Nouvelle-Orleans, 1825. Interesting if not gruesome document. Receipt for labor in the chain gang performed by a negress."

            Eisen, Sol
            Receipts.
            SCA204-GA529-10-183 · File · 1891
            Part of Breithaupt Hewetson Clark collection.

            File consists of receipts for personal expenditures made by A.L. Breithaupt in New York and England.

            Breithaupt, Albert Liborius
            Rieder, Christian.
            SCA217-GA200-12-238-9 · Item · ca. 1874-1895
            Part of Rieder and Anthes family fonds.

            Head and body studio portrait of Christian Rieder seen looking off camera with right hand on back of arm chair.

            Rieder and Anthes family
            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-4 · Item · [ca. 1870-1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing two women cleaning marble statues with the caption "clean marble with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-2 · Item · [ca. 1870-1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing a woman scrubbing a tub while a baby bathes in a smaller tub with the caption "clean baths with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-5 · Item · [ca. 1870-1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing a woman scrubbing a tin pan while a young girl shows a cat its reflection in another. Caption reads "clean tins with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-1 · Item · [ca. 1870-1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing three women washing dishes with the caption "Wash dishes with Sapolio." Verso reads "There is no one article known that will do so many kinds of work in and about the house and do it so well as Enoch Morgan's Sons Sapolio. (Each cake is wrapped in Tin Foil, and surrounded with Ultramarine Blue-Band, and bears the above device) always note this. A cake of Sapolio, a bowl of water and a brush, cloth or sponge will make house cleaning a quick and easy job, will clean paint and all painted surfaces, will clean marble, mantles, tables and statuary, will clean oil-cloths, floors, shelves, etc., will clear bath tubs, wash basins, etc., will clean crockery, glassware, etc., will clean kitchen utensils, of all kinds, will clean windows without splashing of water, will polish tin, brass and copperware, will polish knives as you wash them, will polish all metal surfaces and will clean all household articles and is better and cheaper than soap, emery, rotten stone, etc. John Wanamaker, Grad Depot, Phila."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-3 · Item · [ca. 1870–1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing three women polishing glassware with the caption "clean glass with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

            SCA185-GA160-2-14-109 · Item · January 3, 1928
            Part of Harry Byers fonds.

            Group portrait of Harry Byers (front row, centre) with and what appears to be his Kansas Sweeney Tractor Machine Company class. There is a banner above the class that says "SAS Kansas City" [Sweeney Automobile School], and Harry Byers is holding a sign that says "Plate 1157 Jan. 3, 1928."

            Byers, Harry J.
            Schantz family.
            SCA118-GA252-4-9 · File · July 1944
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            A snapshot of members of the Schantz and Hamilton families and a dog standing outside and smiling at camera. From left to right: Charles C. Hamilton, Ruth Schantz, Ruth Hamilton, Elizabeth Joan Schantz (back), Sally Schantz, and Worth Flagler Schantz.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz family.
            SCA118-GA252-4-8 · File · January 31, 1897
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Photograph of members of the Schantz family and friends seen seated together in a residential home.

            Back row: Etta Schantz, [Kathryn Ellis]
            Middle row: H. Goodwal Dickerman, Charlotte Hayes Moyer, Harry Rollin Moyer, Orpheus Moyer
            Front row: Carrie Flagler Schantz, Ruth Schantz, Mary Emma Moyer.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Austin : Colorado.
            SCA118-GA215-7-113 · File · [before 1942]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Snapshots taken between 1917 and 1942 of Austin Schantz and his life in Colorado. The photographs are largely unidentified, although some identifications are present. Includes images of Denver, Colorado during a snowstorm ; Colorado mountains and landscapes ; mining operations ; Christmas and New Years decorations ; animals ; buildings, ; Arthur Schantz at his cabin and holding fish ; as well as unidentified others.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Etta.
            SCA118-GA215-7-130 · File · 1892
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Hand coloured head and shoulders studio portrait of Etta Schantz seen looking off camera.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Orpheus Moyer.
            SCA118-GA252-4-18 · File · 1898
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Upper body studio portrait of Orpheus Moyer Schantz seen looking off camera, possibly given by Orpheus to his sister Sophie Emma Schantz.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Orpheus Moyer.
            SCA118-GA232-4-101 · File · [ca. 1890]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Upper body studio portrait of Orpheus Moyer Schantz seen looking off camera and wearing a Cedar Falls Drum Corps uniform and cap.

            Schantz Russell Family
            SCA118-GA215-7-164 · File · [19--]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Photograph of Orpheus Moyer Schantz's home at 4215 West 24th St., Cicero, Illinois. An unidentified individual is visible lying in a hammock on the front porch.

            Schantz Russell Family
            SCA118-GA215-7-165 · File · [19--]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Hand coloured photograph of Orpheus Moyer Schantz's home at 4215 West 24th St., Cicero, Illinois. Carrie Flagler Schantz and Ruth Schantz are shown on the porch while Worth Schantz plays on the lawn.

            Schantz Russell Family
            SCA118-GA215-7-166 · File · September 9, 1892
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Photograph of the home of Orpheus Moyer Schantz and family at Morton Park. Two unidentified children, possibly Ruth and Worth, are visible standing on the porch. The photograph has been mounted on a board and with a decorative handwritten caption that reads "Residence of Mr. & Mrs. O.M. Schantz, Morton Park, Ills., Sept. 9, 1892."

            Schantz Russell Family
            SCA118-GA91-8-282 · File · March 6, 1898
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            One informal group portrait of the Schantz/Flagler family and friends. The group is seen sitting on the front porch of Orpheus' home at Morton Park.

            Back row: Arthur Schantz, Melvina Dorthula Flagler, Samuel A. Flagler.

            Middle Row: Sophie Schantz, Carrie Flagler Schantz, William Brown Flagler, Nell Johnston Flagler.

            Front Row: G.H. Bowers with banjo, H. Goodwal Dickerman with Ruth Schantz and guitar, Orpheus Schantz.

            Schantz Russell Family
            SCA118-GA215-7-161 · File · [ca. 1900]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Cyanotype photograph of Orpheus Moyer Schantz and Ruth Schantz. Orpheus is seated on a swing out front of their home at Morton Park with arm around Ruth who is standing at his side.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth.
            SCA118-GA215-7-187 · File · March 1911
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Three quarter length studio portrait of Ruth Schantz seen seated, with arm resting on chair arm, and looking at camera. The bottom of the image has been intentionally faded out.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth.
            SCA118-GA391-1-17 · File · 1899
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Head and shoulders studio portrait of Ruth Schantz seen in profile with a ribbon in hair.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth.
            SCA118-GA232-4-108 · File · October 1, 1894
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Full length studio portrait of Ruth Schantz at two years of age seen standing in a long white gown and holding a bough of flowers.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth.
            SCA118-GA232-4-110 · File · 1893-1894
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Full length studio portrait of Ruth Schantz, age 15 months, seen standing on a wicker chair in a long black dress and looking off camera.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth.
            SCA118-GA215-7-185 · File · January 1899
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Upper body studio portrait of Ruth Schantz, seen from the left side with a ribbon in her hair.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth.
            SCA118-GA215-7-186 · File · [18--]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Three photographs that have been hole punched and tied together. The first shows Ruth Schantz sitting in a wheelbarrow with Carrie Flagler Schantz in front of the home at Morton Park. The second shows Ruth Schantz and Orpheus Moyer Schantz on the steps of the home at Morton Park. The third shows Ruth standing in a garden holding flowers.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth.
            SCA118-GA232-4-107 · File · December 3, 1895
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Upper body studio portrait of Ruth Schantz, age three, seen dressed in a lace trimmed top and looking off camera.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth.
            SCA118-GA232-4-109 · File · 1893-1894
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Full length studio portrait of Ruth Schantz, age 15 months, seen standing on a wicker chair in a long black dress and looking off camera.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth and Worth.
            SCA118-GA215-7-177 · File · 1903
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Studio portrait of a seated Ruth Schantz, age ten years and six months, holding Worth Schantz, age seven months, who is propped on the arm's chair.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Ruth and Worth.
            SCA118-GA215-7-179 · File · 1904
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Full body studio portrait of Ruth (age 12) and Worth (age 2) Schantz seen looking off camera. Ruth is seated with Worth standing at her side, his left arm resting on her lap.

            Schantz Russell Family
            SCA118-GA215-7-191 · File · [ca. 1899]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Photograph of Sophie Schantz standing with her kindergarten class and two other adults, likely teachers, in Chicago. The teachers are all white but the children are racially diverse including Black, Brown and white students. Several of the children have shaved heads.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz, Worth.
            SCA118-GA215-7-198 · File · 1903
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Full length studio portrait of Worth Schantz, ages seven months, shown sitting on a chair and wearing a long white gown.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schantz/Flagler family.
            SCA118-GA215-7-141 · File · [1898-1900]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Photograph of Carrie Flagler Schantz (at left) standing outdoors with daughter Ruth Schantz and sister-in-law Nell Johnston Flagler. The three are shown standing on the lawn of the Schantz home at Morton Park.

            Schantz Russell Family
            Schneider, Herbert.
            SCA161-GA134-14-14.7-111 · File · [194-]
            Part of Schneider family collection.

            One snapshot of an unidentified group standing on a bridge in a Japanese garden. Take on a trip with Fred H., Ella and Fred P. Schneider to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

            Schneider, Norman Christoph
            SCA161-GA134-10-24 · File · 1974-1990
            Part of Schneider family collection.

            Snapshots of Herb and Betty: skiing, fishing, hiking and sailing in New Zealand, Alaska, Austria, Switzerland and Georgian Bay. Includes two postcards, one to Herb from Carl Holman, head brewer for Carlsberg Beer.

            Schneider family
            SCA161-GA134-Accrual2003-13-11 · File · [1930?]
            Part of Schneider family collection.

            Portrait of (left to right) Louise Ahrens, Helena Schneider, J.M. Schneider taken in an outdoors courtyard, possibly of a hotel. Helena is seen seated in a chair with an [orange] in her left hand with Louise and J.M. standing at her sides. The group is posed next to a table with a large bowl of [oranges] on top. File also includes photocopies and identifications of a postcard of the same individuals with Charles and Emma Ahrens taken at the Mexican border.

            Schneider family
            Shantz, Abraham and Mary.
            SCA118-GA215-7-108 · File · 1865
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Three-quarter length studio portrait of Abraham Shantz, seated, with Mary Shantz standing at left. Both are seen looking at camera.

            Schantz Russell Family
            S.K. Johannesen fonds.
            SCA250-GA258 · Accession · [195-?]-2010
            Part of S.K. Johannesen fonds.

            Fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by Stan Johannesen over the course of his education, teaching career, and pursuit of personal interests. Includes correspondence, course materials created as a professor at the University of Waterloo and continuing education lecturer at Laurier University, juvenilia, and a variety of published and unpublished fiction and non-fiction works.

            Johannesen, S.K.
            SCA180-GA155-36 · File · 1973
            Part of Herbert Odd fonds.

            One sketchbook (25 pages). Includes ms. notes, equations, sketches of boats and harbours, seascapes, landscapes, plans for paintings, still life studies, figures, and landscapes in watercolour.

            Odd, Herbert
            Snow loaded trees, Mt. Hood.
            SCA161-GA134-14-14.7c-6 · File · [1953?]
            Part of Schneider family collection.

            Print of a photograph of snow covered trees on Mount Hood taken by Ackroyd Photography Inc. and published in a Portland, Oregon newspaper.

            Schneider, Norman Christoph
            Soapine advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-2-1 · Item · [ca. 1878-1884]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Soapine by Kendall Manufacturing Company of Providence Rhode Island and illustrated by Charlotte Perkins Gilman showing a woman from behind dusting figurines that spell out Soapine on a mantel piece. Verso reads "Cleanliness in the house, laundry, kitchen and workshop is best secured by the use of Soapine. All wise people continue to use it after one trial. Kendall Mfg. Co. Established 1827. Providence, R.I."

            Soapine advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-3-9 · Item · [ca. 1878-1884]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Soapine advertisement illustrated by Charlotte Perkins Gilman showing a woman hanging laundry out from a wash basket. The laundry on the line spells out "Soapine." Verso reads "Soapine the great dirt killer, will remove dirt of all descriptions! Without injury to hands or fabric. Kendall Mfg. Co. established 1827 Providence, R.I."

            Soapona advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-3-16 · Item · [ca. 1870-1890]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Soapona trade card advertisement featuring an elephant looking on while two women hang laundry on a line. Verso reads "Saves times, expense and labor. Makes hard water soft. Does not injure the hands or clothes. Makes linen perfectly white. Is a great disinfectant. Each package contains a set of handsome picture cards. Manufactured only by R.W. Bell & Co. 77 to 89 Washington St., and 8 to 20 Beaver St., Buffalo, N.Y."

            Sol Eisen collection.
            SCA237-GA236 · Accession · 1810-1925
            Part of Sol Eisen collection.

            Collection consists of four files donated as part of the Sol Eisen collection of Canadiana. These items include a ms. of Mexican plays, a music manuscript, a receipt for work completed by a slave on chain gang, and materials related to the life of Frederic William Wile.

            Eisen, Sol
            Spelman children.
            SCA118-GA252-4-23 · File · 1922
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Snapshot of (left to right) Dorothy, Margery Ruth and Walter Bishop Spelmen as children standing on the running boards of a Cole 8 car.

            Schantz Russell Family
            SCA362-GA415 · Collection · 1919-1921

            Materials published by Stark Brothers Nurseries for the purposes of advertising and selling their fruit trees, particularly apple trees.

            Stark Brothers Nurseries