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Exhibits

Every three months a new exhibit is put on display at our Reading Room in Mills Library.

New Treasures: Highlights from Recent Acquisitions (March 2012-August 2012) is currently being curated and will be on display later this month.

Upcoming Exhibit: TBA.

Previous Exhibits can be viewed here. (Scroll down)

Donations and Recent Acquisitions

We plan on updating the information in these two categories of What's New on an annual basis. The most recent update was March 2011. For updates on what is arriving during the year click on the link at the top of this page.

Donations

  • Anonymous donor. The archives of James Albert Swackhamer, a local film director and script writer, including two photographs of Marilyn Monroe circa 1952.

  • Louise Bennett estate (Judge Pamela Appelt and Fabian Coverley). Affectionately known as Miss Lou, Bennett was a poet, entertainer, and champion of Jamaican language and culture. Her archives extend to 8.9 m of textual records and other materials, pertaining primarily to the later period of her life.

  • Kathy and Norm Brown. Six letters written by E. Pauline Johnson and a letter and two postcards from Walter MacRaye, addressed to Jean Deane.

  • Katherine Clarke. Her archives, dubbed "The Peace House Papers" when she worked for the Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and travelled to Cuba in 1963-64.

  • Antonio D'Alfonso. Writer, independent filmmaker, and publisher. His archives consists of 4.85 m of textual records and other materials.

  • Diane Debenham. The archives of Guy Debenham, an engraver and surgeon, and a book collection about engraving, lettering, printing, and typography.

  • Terry Fallis. Novelist, political satirist, distinguished McMaster alumnus, and winner of the 2011 CBC Canada Reads. His archives, consisting of 1 m of textual records.

  • Robin Farr. Archival material related to his career in publishing at the Ryerson Press and the McGill University Press.

  • Janice Haluszka, Edward Williams, and Dennis Gerencserames. 19 inkjet prints and 2 silver gelatin prints of the Hamilton-born photographer James Williams. The photographs contrast industry and labour in Dubai, western New York, Slovakia, southern Ontario and Sydney, Nova Scotia.

  • David Haslam and Alexandra Lenhoff(Marquee Magazine). One box of archival material related to the Star Trek movies: slides, sketches, logos, and press kit.

  • Elmar Hodsoll. Antiquarian Canadian maps and a copy of Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages from Montreal... (1801).

  • Patsy Hudson. Letters written between 1925 and 1975 by Lady Constance Malleson to Carrie Webster.

  • Tom Kennedy. The archives of Gordon Griffith (1914-2000) who served as the navigator of a bomber crew during World War II. His air force uniform is also included.

  • Mark Krakowski. Textual records associated with the Public Service Alliance of Canada, measuring 1.43 m.

  • Rosamund McClenahan. Two volumes of English sheet music composed in the first decades of the nineteenth century.

  • Anthony MacFarlane. Antiquarian books about the West Indies, including The Natural History of Barbados (1750) by Griffith Hughes and Herman Moll's A Map of the West Indies or the Islands of America [1920?].

  • Pirate Group Inc. 193 m of textual records, moving images and sound recordings concerning advertising. Includes 19,283 sound recordings, 84 video recordings, and 3 films.

  • Gordon Russell. Drawings, medals, and a Canadian Navy black double breasted "Undress Coat" from two brothers in Huntsville, Ont., Eric Harry Hutcheson and Robert Bazett Hutcheson, who served in the Armed Forces in World War II.

  • Edward E. Seymour. Labour organizer and educator. His archives consist of 12.8 m of textual records and other material, including photographs and audio-visual materials, documenting certification drives and strikes. Includes Bell Canada, Eaton's, Gainers, and CIBC.

  • Les Shemilt. A book collection of Arthur Conon Doyle, including editions of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

  • Jessica Shields. A ballooning collection consisting of a variety of artifacts, illustrations, books, and ephemera from the late 18th century to circa 1920. Two cartoons by Aislin (Terry Mosher), circa 1970: the Quebec nationalist; Pierre Trudeau as a monkey. A framed series of photographs of the Bluenose in its first international race in 1921.

  • Doug Smith. The WWI archives of Edwin Howard Stephenson (his great uncle who served in the Canadian Siberian Expedition) and Roy Stephenson (his grandfather).

  • Carl Spadoni. A collection of Mosher Press imprints, an American literary and fine press, circa 1893-1929.

  • Harold Tropert. 45 audio cassettes and 1 microfilm of interviews conducted by Professor Troper and others for his book, co-authored with Irving Abella, None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 (1982).

  • David Watt. A collection of French WWII underground leaflets, many featuring Sir Winston Churchill; and editions of Galileo, Samuel Johnson, and T.E. Lawrence.

  • Gerd Westermann. A small collection of mathematical and geological books, including Gauss's Disquisitiones arithmeticae (1801) and Euler's Vollständige Anleitung zur Algebra (1771).

Recent Acquisitions

  • Holocaust and Resistance collections. A photograph album and a composite diary (Tagebuch) in German written by several young women of the Hitler Youth between 6 April and 19 June 1938. A diary and personal narrative in mimeograph form of Christopher Portway entitled "My Adventures and Travels Whilst a Prisoner-of-War" (10 July 1944 to 12 May 1945) being an account of his capture by the Nazis, escapes, and imprisonment. A Nazi anti-Semitic poster from Krakow, Poland. Four other documents (a death certificate, proof of ancestry, papers for a Polish child, and SS police registration of a Jewish woman). Two collections of propaganda leaflets (one of the collections documents Operation Barbarossa, the failed Nazi invasion of the USSR).

  • Bertrand Russell. Seven letters written between 1915 and 1931 from Russell to James H. Woods, the Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. A philosophy primer written in 1934 by the Whig politician John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley (Russell's great grandfather on his mother's side).