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Anthony Adamson and Marion MacRae fonds. Second and third accruals.

Please note: Material now appearing in Box 6 from the second and third accruals was originally unboxed or indentified as being in Box 27. In November 2013 this material was relocated to Box 6 for preservation purposes. Keep this in mind when referring to old notes.

Second Accrual (27-1996)
Dundurn Castle, 9 plans (rolled) prepared by Anthony Adamson for the restoration of Dundurn Castle, dated 19 September 1965. Box 6. Note: This material was flattened and boxed in November 2013. It was previously listed as "rolled, not boxed".

Third Accrual (26-1997). – 1969-1976. – 31 cm of textual records and graphic material.

Box 26
Drawings and floor-plans of churches and public buildings. Also includes a list of completed drawings of court houses, gaols, town halls, and Osgoode Hall; map of “The Districts of Upper Canada 1825”; and a lists of points to consider, written by AA to MM, on a drawing of various church styles.

Box 6 [formerly Box 27]
Ancestral Roof:
F.1
27 b&w photographs of various homes, landscapes. Some of the photographs are copies from archival collections.

Hallowed Walls:
F.2-3   Illustration lists and details sheets
Proposed illustrations by chapter; drawings required; letter from AA to Page Toles, 30 Oct. 1972 re photographs; detail sheets which list information about the buildings as well as the type of photographs required. Also 2 b&w photographs: Mennonite Meeting House, Markham (archival) and Quaker Meeting House, Pine Orchard (MM collection), pasted on Clarke, Irwin letterhead

Photographs by Philip Shackelton
F.4      23 b&w photographs of church exteriors and interiors
F.5      33 b&w photographs of grave markers made of iron in 3 Roman Catholic Waterloo cemeteries, all taken during the first snow of 1969
F.6      6 b&w photographs of United Church cemetery in Elgin, Ont.

Photographs by Page Toles:
F.7      3 b&w photographs: religious painting, church interior, Old Methodist Cemetery at Beaver Dams
F.8      Contact prints cut and stapled on 14 sheets:

Governor General’s Award (1976)
F.9      MM: Invitation, correspondence concerning the award, Canada Council News Release; 1 b&w photograph.

Correspondence:
F.10    Incoming correspondence, 1975-1976: letters of congratulations re the book and the award, also letters from Clarke, Irwin; list of invitees to the Clarke Irwin party in celebration of the book and a news clipping by Zena Cherry. Most of the correspondence is addressed to MM but there is one letter to AA. There is one letter from AA to MM.

F.11    Reviews

Cornerstones
Box 28
Typescript of the book, some chapters with working title “Peace Order and Good Government”
First draft, corrected:
F.1      Chapter 1, 23 pp.
F.2      Chapter 2, 32 pp.
F.3      Chapter 3, 48 pp; also photocopy of “Map of Upper Canada 1825 Showing Districts”
F.4      Chapter 4, 44 pp.; also photocopy of “Map of Upper Canada 1825 Showing Districts”
F.5      Chapter 5, 45 pp.

F.6      Chapter 6, 53 pp. +3 pp. of inserts; letter from AA to Julia Bennett, 31 March
F.7      Chapter 7, 46 pp.; revised twice
F.8      Chapter 8, 28 pp.; an early draft as it was then Chapter 9 with the title “Grass Roots”
F.9      Chapter 9, 36 pp.; final, edited

F.10    Research notes; also photocopy of a letter from Clarke, Irwin to Peter Oliver, Osgoode Society, 10 June 1981

Photographs; follows original arrangement which is by type, and then photographer.
F.10    Courts and Municipal – E.S. Erkan – 10 b&w photographs, contact sheets with 99 numbered photographs. Only 2 of the photographs are identified: Toledo and Brockville, Ont.
F.11-2 Courts – Miro Klement – 77 b&w photographs with locations noted on versos.
F.13    Courts – Philip Shackleton – 5 b&w photographs; 4 contact sheets with locations noted on verso.
F.14    Courts – various photographers –12 b&w photographs, locations not noted for some of them

Box 29
F.1-2   Municipal – Miro Klement – 54 b&w photographs with locations noted on verso
F.3      Municipal – Miro Klement – 52 contact sheets, order list
F.4      Municipal – Philip Shackleton – 27 b&w photographs with locations noted on verso; 24 col. slides, not identified
F.5      Municipal – various photographers – 11 b&w photographs with locations noted on verso for only some of the photographs.


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