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Skating Collection. 2^nd accrual. 1923-1981.
The accrual consists of additions to three series: skating programs; sheet music; and archives and ephemera.

Series 2. Skating Programs
Canada
Box 16
Hamilton. ISU Champions Series Final, Copps Coliseum. 28 February-2 March 1997.Niagara Falls. Ice

Box 18
F.1          Niagara Falls. Revue of ’56. Niagara Falls Skating Club. 1956.
F.2          St. Catharines. Rhythm on Ice. 7^th Annual Carnival. Winter Club of St. Catharines. Barbara Ann Scott featured. 1946.
F.3          Sarnia. Ice Frolics. The Sarnia Figure Skating Club. 1958.
F.4          Tillsonburg. Flashing Blades for 1955. Tillsonburg Figure Skating Club. Alice in Wonderland. Maria and Otto Jelinek, Canadian Juniors Pairs Champions, featured on p. 35. 1955.
F.5          Toronto. The Granite Club. (9^th annual). 1937.
F.6          Toronto Skating Club, annual carnival, 36^th edition, flyer, 15-9 March 1948.
F.7          Winnipeg. Ice Club of Greater Winnipeg. 1st annual carnival; 17-9 January 1946.

USA
Box 18
F.8          Boston. Ice Chips. The Skating Club of Boston. 1951, 1971, 1981.
F.9          Boston. Eastern Figure Skating Championships, 8-10 January 1971.
F.10        Lake Placid. Lake Placid Club Winter Sports Program 1925-6, includes a leaflet for a mid-summer skating operetta, “The Carnival Merry-Go-Round”, 4-6 August 1926. 1925-26.
F.11        Philadelphia. National Figure Skating Championships. 14-7 March 1956 at Philadelphia; 1-4 February 1962 at Boston.
F.12        Rochester. North American Figure Skating Championships Finals, 10 February 1957 at Rochester, NY.
F.13        Holiday on Ice Programs. Three programs. 1967/8, 1970/1, 1971/2].
F.14        Ice Capades. 1949, 1952-4. 5 programs. With ephemera.
F.15        Ice Follies. 14^th annual, 1950. 1953.
F.16        Ice Vogues (Holiday on Ice Shows, Inc.). 1949-53, 1955-6


Series 3. Sheet Music
Box 18
F.17        Wilson, Samuel B. Skating in the Moonlight. Boston: The Boston Music Co., 1955.

Series 8. Archives and ephemera
Box 18
F.18        Two b&w photos, skaters at Columbia Height. [192-].
F.19        Four b&w of Tenley Albright, the 1956 Olympic skating gold medallist with her daughter, Lilla Rys and first husband, Tudor Gardiner, copyright Felix J. Nessikian. [c.1960]
F.20        American Club Skate (Bought of Edward Spaeth) invoice. To E.G. Konig. 21 April 1886.
F.21        Skating album (Students MSS Book), gray covers, belonging to Mary Jane Halsted. Approximately 80 pp. of news clippings of photos and news stories of skaters, mainly Canadian, 1930-2. Much of the album concerns Constance Wilson-Samuel (1908–1953), the 1932 World bronze medalist, a four-time North American champion, and a nine-time Canadian national champion. Includes signatures of Wilson-Samuel, Cecil Eustace Smith (silver medallist, World’s Figure Skating Championship, 1930), Melville Rogers (men’s Canadian singles champion, 1923, 1925-8), Louise Bertram (Canadian pair skater), Frances Claudet (Canadian pair skater), Evelyn Chandler (Canadian pair skater), and Osborne Colson (men’s Canadian singles champion, 1936-7 and skating coach, including Patrick Chan). Includes a photo of Claudet at the Seigniory Club, October 1931. Loosely inserted is a Toronto Skating Club card with the names of skaters performing various waltzes and dances. At the back of the album is biographical information about Wilson-Samuel with a poem about her, “Ice Flower” written by Marie Lussi.
F.22        German skating ephemera. 1931-36.
F.23        Ephemera from the World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame. [200?].

Box 16
The Christmas Citizen 1889-90. Issued from the Office of the Daily Citizen 48 & 50 Queen St. Ottawa. Mortimer & Co. Lith. Broadside, colour lithograph of winter scenes (sleighing, curling, tobogganing, snow shoeing, and skating).

Inside Edge: An Inside Look at the Eaton's Skate the Nation Tour. Starring Kurt Browning, Brian Order, Josée Chouinard, and more. VHS tape. Aquila BKW Film & Video Productions, 18 November 1992, 90 minutes.

E.1          “Souvenir Ice Show” button.