Inspired by a twitter post by the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) we've pulled a few historical pieces of election propaganda from federal and provincial elections of the nineteenth century.
All of these items have been digitized by the Internet Archive and be found by browsing through our holdings here: http://bit.ly/lYPpqH.
These pamphlets are part of the [...]
The Archives & Special Collections are always on the look out for historical or scarce items that may be of interest to our teach faculty or students. Here are a few items we've picked up this year that relate to city life in the 19th and 20th centuries, which may be of particular interest to [...]
The Archives & Special Collections recently acquired a lovely edition of Shakespeare's poems produced by the Kelmscott Press. One of 500 copies, this 1893 edition features original vellum bindings. The Kelmscott Press was founded by William Morris, the Pre-Raphaelite printer, designer and architect who was associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris founded the [...]
The Dworin Collection consists of over 800 items acquired from Ruth Dworin, a local women's activist and owner of women's music production company Womanly Way Productions. An associate of York University's Canadian Women’s Studies journal office, Dworin began collecting in the early 1970s. The collection was acquired by the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections [...]
Recently library staff from the archives and Scott Library's Bibliographic Services set about selecting items for digitization by the Internet Archives. Although many of the pamphlets were printed on cheap and highly acidic paper, many were of a format that made digitization quite straightforward. The Canadian Pamphlet Collection is a special collection based on format rather [...]
Items highlighted to celebrate International Day of the Midwife, 5 May 2010.
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