- CA MRUASC C0012
- Collection
- 1653-2012
Collection consists of rare books and other publications that are not part of other collections or fonds. Collection contains one series on chapbooks.
Collection consists of rare books and other publications that are not part of other collections or fonds. Collection contains one series on chapbooks.
Collection primarily consists of published books and periodicals as well as souvenir photographs, postcards, offprints, and maps relating to the early history and exploration of western Canada.
Fonds consists of photos, documents, and other items relating to Ronald Smith's time as a student and football player at Mount Royal College.
Ronald Smith
Fonds reflects Steadward's work as the first President of the International Paralympic Committee and his involvement in the development of fitness and competitive sport opportunities for people with disabilities. Fonds is divided into six series: S1 - University of Alberta and the Research and Training Centre for Athletes with Disabilities, S2 - International Paralympic Committee (IPC), S3 - Paralympic Games, S4 - Non-Paralympic disability sporting events and associations, S5 - Speeches, presentations, interviews, and publications, and S6 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Olympic Games.
Fonds contains correspondence, reports, minutes, speeches, presentations, papers, newspapers, agendas, meeting notes, policies, bylaws, newsletters, press releases, competition results, handbooks, budgets, rules, photographs, videos, manuals, and guides.
Robert Steadward
Aveline-Vázquez LGBTQ+ collection
Collection documents LGBTQ+ communities, organizations, activism, oppression, history, cultural events, erotic art, and trends. Collection primarily contains materials collected from Canada and the United States, but also contains resources collected as a result of Aveline’s travels around the world. Collection illustrates changing perspectives on homosexuality and homosexual acceptance from the late 18th century through the early 21st century, with the period from 1960 to 2009 being particularly well documented. Collection has a particular focus on documenting the AIDS crisis, LGBTQ+ liberation, anti-gay perspectives, sexuality and eroticism, religion, and Pride events.
Collection is divided into six series: S1 – Public health, S2 – Religious viewpoints, S3 – Erotica, S4 – Lifestyle, S5 – Political action and anti-oppression, and S6 – Historical and Aveline Research.The collection is primarily made up of publications such as pamphlets, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, academic journal articles, books, and catalogues. However, the collection also includes other ephemera such as posters, matchbooks, buttons, tourist maps, guides, correspondence, recorded radio programs, postcards, surveys, and teaching materials.
Medieval and early modern manuscript collection
Collection consists of manuscript (written by hand) books, book fragments, and documents, predominantly from the medieval and early modern periods. Most items were produced in western and southern Europe (France, England, Flanders, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Spain), while others originated in Asia, northern Africa, the Middle East, and Russia. Many leaves are illuminated and feature decorative initials, borders, line fillers, marginal illustrations, etc.
The collection is arranged in series by manuscript type: books of hours and prayer books, liturgical books (containing leaves from psalters, breviaries, antiphonals, and graduals), charters (legal records), Bibles, and canon law.
Raichman Canadian communist pamphlet collection
Collection contains pamphlets published by the Communist Party of Canada/Labor-Progressive Party, Progress Books, and other Canadian communist and socialist organizations and publishers. Pamphlet subjects include the anti-war movement, political platforms, labour, and economics.
David Raichman
Gassho Dojikun [combined book of children's textbook]
Part of Early print collection
Item is an illustrated textbook for children from Edo Period, created by Suaraya Gensuke and six other authors. The textbook covers a wide range of topics and subjects including moral teachings, historical events, times tables, geography, reading, math, and defines important relationships such as those between a feudal lord and followers, father/son, husband/wife, and parents/children etc.
Collection illustrates the early development of movable type printing in Europe. Collection consists of printed books including a book of hours, leaves from Bibles, hagiographies, liturgical texts, Japanese woodblock prints, and works of history, literature, and canon law.
Fonds reflects Patterson's career as a professor in both the Department of English and the Centre for Communications Studies at Mount Royal University, and as a chronicler of the University's history. Fonds contains course outlines, programs for Conservatory and theatre performances, research on the history of the Conservatory and theatre, presentation notes and photos, meeting minutes, and correspondence.
Diana Patterson
Fonds illustrates the military service of Bennie Emil Ehnisz, a former student of Mount Royal College, in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Fonds contains military medals, correspondence, and objects commemorating Ehnisz's military service and death.
Bennie Emil Ehnisz
Patterson English manuscript collection
Collection consists of 17th to 20th century English manuscript records that were collected by Mount Royal University professor Diana Patterson. The collection contains a wide variety of personal, legal, financial, and religious records including: diaries, travel journals, correspondence, wills, commonplace books, transcriptions of philosophical and literature texts, poetry, and sermons. Patterson intended the collection to be used to teach English and History students about paleography, scholarly editing, primary source research methods, and the history of the book.
Diana Patterson
Early modern Britain collection
Collection mainly consists of books and pamphlets published in England and Scotland between 1500 and 1800. Collection contains three subject-based series: English Civil Wars, witch trials, and the Popish Plot. Collection also contains satirical prints, daily news periodicals, novels and poetry, religious texts, a cookbook, and a herbal.
Fonds mostly consists of propaganda leaflets dropped from Allied and German aircraft during World War II, but also contains leaflets from other conflicts (including the First World War, Vietnam War, Gulf War) and political campaigns. The airborne leaflets targeted enemy combatants, munition workers, and civilians and were designed to undermine morale, persuade their readers to surrender or stop fighting/working, or provide access to censored war news.
Blaine Canadian sports history collection
Collection documents the history of professional, amateur, and varsity/collegiate sport in Canada, particularly hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo. The collection illustrates the development of these sports in the 20th and early 21st centuries (the period from the 1940s to the 1990s is particularly well-documented), and focuses on Canadian leagues as well as international leagues in which Canadian teams participated. Most of the collection relates to Canadian teams and athletes (although American teams are also well-represented), with a particular focus on Alberta and Western Canada.
The collection largely consists of publications, ephemera, and promotional objects including: game and tournament programs, photographs, magazines, media guides, yearbooks, schedules, calendars, trading cards, game tickets, pins and buttons, pennants, patches, and decals.
The collection is arranged into 5 series by sport: hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo (devoted to the Calgary Stampede). The collection was meticulously organized and documented by the donor Bob Blaine, with most of the collection housed in binders that are arranged by level of competition (professional, amateur, varsity/collegiate), league, date range, and type of material. The contents of each binder are further arranged, typically by material type and date, and many items are accompanied by detailed supplementary contextual information provided by Blaine.
Fonds documents Emory Jackson's attendance at Mount Royal College, and consists of a photograph, an autograph book with illustrations, and a digitized photo album.
Emory Jackson
Fonds consists of materials from Dr. Linda Many Guns' research project, "The Ten Grandmothers Project" (initially called "The Ten Old Ladies Project"), based on Many Guns' interviews with traditional Blackfoot elders in southern Alberta and the United States. The research project was focused on the elders' teachings about the role of women in Blackfoot society and was carried out while Many Guns was Executive Director of the Nii Touii Knowledge and Learning Centre.
The fonds consists of one series containing audio recordings of the interviews, as well as transcripts, release forms, notes, correspondence, a draft manuscript of a book Many Guns intended to publish, drawings, fabric samples, and photographs. Also included are other audio recordings of Blackfoot language lessons, songs, and dances.
Linda Many Guns
Part of Early print collection
Item is a double-sided wooden printing block from Tibet likely containing the text of a Buddhist sutra.
Vestigii delle Terme di Constantino...
Part of Early print collection
Item is an etching by the artist Etienne Duperac, depicting the south-west side of the Baths of Constantine. The Baths of Constantine were destroyed and replaced with the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.
Part of Early print collection
Item is a single leaf etched print created by French artist, Jacques Callot, a master printmaker of the Baroque period. The engraving depicts St. Anthony being tempted and tortured in the Egyptian dessert by the devil and a host of demons. The devil, in the form of a monstrous dragon directs the chaos, while St. Anthony cowers near the mouth of a cave in the bottom left corner. Originally created in 1635, this version of the print is Callot's second attempt at capturing the temptation of St. Anthony.
Nuclear disarmament movement collection
Collection consists of pamphlets published by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and other organizations in the British anti-nuclear movement during the Cold War. The pamphlets were published to encourage activism related to nuclear disarmament, and to inform the public on related issues including the arms race, civil defence, government policy, and the threat and effects of nuclear war. The collection contains one series of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament publications, and also contains other pamphlets published by the Communist Party of Great Britain, Scientists Against Nuclear Arms, and others.
Mount Royal University. Cougars Athletics and Recreation fonds
Fonds documents the development and achievements of the athletics program at Mount Royal University. Fonds largely consists of photographs (of athletes, coaches, and teams), as well as score sheets, posters, athletics magazines, newspaper clippings, and audio and video recordings. The fonds is arranged into the following five series: photographs, publications, audiovisual materials, score sheets, and media clippings.
Cougars Athletics and Recreation (Mount Royal University)
Fonds documents Paterson's career as a teacher of speech and drama at Mount Royal College, her adjudication work at festivals across Canada, her involvement with Knox United Church, and her work as director of the Mount Royal College Conservatory.
The fonds contains: scrapbooks, daily date books, speech arts theory exams, scripts, travel diaries, programs for speech and drama festivals, photographs of Mount Royal faculty and Paterson's friends and family, Knox United Church records, speeches, toasts, poems and scripts collected by Theresa M. Siegel, audio reels of performances, interviews with Leona Paterson, and original poetry by her husband Harold "Pat" Paterson. The fonds is arranged into the following series: scrapbooks, professional activities, teaching, Harold Paterson, Theresa M. Siegel, personal records, and audiovisual materials.
Leona Paterson
Canadian Cold War pamphlet collection
Collection consists of pamphlets published by the Canadian government and other organizations during the Cold War, mostly concerning the threat of nuclear war. Pamphlets were published by the Government of Canada, Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and others. The collection is arranged into five series, and subjects include civil defence, the anti-nuclear movement, nuclear war, survival planning, communist threats, and Canadian Army training. Other items discuss radioactive fallout, rescue operations, and first aid.
Fonds documents Hunter's career as a novelist, poet, and writer of short stories. Fonds consists of correspondence, books, poems, short stories, manuscript drafts, research notes, contracts and agreements, posters, articles, reviews, interviews, photographs, and diaries. Fonds is arranged into 4 series: letters; writing and publications; family history; and articles and reviews.
Bruce Hunter
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