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Eaton's Farm News Service

Item is a loose-leaf publication of prairie agricultural information on a variety of topics such as crops, farm animals, farming equipment and buildings, home furnishings, food preparations and more.

Tabernacle hymns no. 2

Item is a signed book by Leona Paterson titled "Tabernacle Hymns No. 2" published in New York by Christian Alliance Publishing.

The schoolgirls' own annual

Item is an issue of an annual periodical aimed at young girls. Item contains short stories, poems, songs, and illustrations.

Two centuries of fur-trading, 1723-1923 : romance of the Revillon family

Item is a translation of Histoire d'une famille & d'une industrie pendant deux siècles, 1723-1923. The book contains the following chapters:
To Mr. Marcel Sexě -- Fur and fashion -- Revillon goes to Rue de Rivoli -- Beginning and developments in London -- Beginning and developments in London -- On the North American Continent- The story of New York -- Fur collecting hazards in Canada -- The North West Canadian posts -- The Edmonton depot -- Nanook, an Eskimo hunter -- Revillon Frères in Russia and the Far East -- The secret of smooth working.

University of Toronto diploma

Item is a diploma in piano issued to Leacock by the University of Toronto which entitled him to be styled as an associate of the Toronto Conservatory of Music.

The conquest of Mount Logan

Item is an individually bound journal article that was originally published in volume LXVIII no. 1 of The Geographical Journal, bound in a custom binding.

Girls basketball team 1927

Item is a framed photograph of a basketball team, consisting of 14 uniformed female students and a coach, in front of a brick and sandstone building, likely the original Mount Royal College building. First student is holding a ball with "MRC 1927" written on it.

Autograph book

Item is an autograph book written, illustrated, and signed by Emory Jackson's classmates.

The story of the press

Item is a collection of accounts told by early pioneers prior to 1890. Chapters focus on the early press in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, containing information on The Nor'-Wester, The Saskatchewan Herald, The Prince Albert Times, The Macleod Gazette, The Calgary Herald, The Regina Leader, The Medicine Hat Times, and The Lethbridge News.

Compendium maleficarum

Item is a collection of writing on witchcraft by Ambrosian monk Francesco Maria Guazzo, which was originally published in 1608. Contents of the work includes:

Preface to the reader -- Editor's introduction -- Foreword -- The first book. The nature and extent of the force of imagination ; Of artificial magic ; Whether this magic can produce true effects ; That witches effect their marvels with the help of the devil ; The men of old accredited witches with marvelous deeds ; Of the witches' pact with the devil ; By their terrible deeds and imprecations witches produce rain and hail, etc. ; The power of witches over external things ; Whether the devil and truly enrich his subjects ; Whether witches can by their art create any living thing ; Whether there truly are incubus and succubus devils; and whether children can be generated by copulation with them ; Whether witches are really transported from place to place to their nightly assemblies ; Whether witches can transmute bodies from one form to another ; Whether witches have power to make beasts talk ; Whether the devil can make men insensible to torture ; Whether by witchcraft and devil's work the sexes can be interchanged ; Whether the spirits of the dead can appear to men ; Of apparitions of demons, or spectres ; That cacodemons exercise their magic powers of their own will.

The second book. Dealing with the various kinds of witchcraft, and certain other matters which should be known. Of soporific spells ; Witches use human corpses for the murder of men ; Of Witches' Poisons ; Of tying the points ; Of incendiary witchcraft ; The devil wishes to perpetuate the race of witches ; Of the various ways by which witches vent their spite upon the human race ; Of the different diseases brought by demons ; Why God permits the devil so to busy himself with witchcraft ; The laws observed by witches in causing and in curing sickness ; Witches use something of religion in healing sickness ; Threatening or beating witches is the best method of removing the spells cast by them ; After the many blasphemies committed by witches, the demon at last tries to induce them to kill themselves with their own hands ; Upon those who have once fallen into his power the devil keeps a tenacious grip, even when they stand tortured before their judges, or in holy places, or wherever they may be ; A summary in a few words of all the crimes of witches ; The devil deceives and seduces by means of false revelations or apparitions ; Of the appeal to God ; Of the trial by single combat ; Of vulgar purgation by fire ; Of superstitious folk.

The third book. Treating of the divine remedies for those who are bewitched, and of other certain matters. Whether it is lawful to remove a spell in order to heal one that is bewitched ; How to distinguish demoniacs and those who are simply bewitched ; Recent examples of the mercy of God and tyrrany of the devil ; Of divine and supernatural remedies.

Mountain painting

Item is a painting of a snowy mountain with the dedication: "painted for Leonard June 1930". Item was painted by Hahn.

Der Anti-Nazi : Redner und Pressematerial uber die N.S.D.A.P.

Item is a collection of loose-leaf pages of facts and counter-arguments refuting Nazi claims and anti-Semitic propaganda, produced by a secret organisation of German Jews. The loose-leaf format allowed for the easy and covert distribution of information during public meetings.

Burmese black parabaik leaf

File contains a leaf from a Burmese black parabaik, or folding-book manuscript, that contains tattoo designs, including: birds, tigers (one eating a person), flags, and an elaborate hti (a Burmese umbrella, an important religious symbol and marker of high social status). Tattooing was a traditional practice of several ethnic groups (including the Shan people) in Burma / Myanmar until the 20th century, and had cultural, religious, and magical significance. The accompanying text is likely in Burmese or Shan.

Parabaik are made of thick paper from the bark of the paper mulberry tree that is sometimes blackened with charcoal like this one, and then written on with a white steatite (soapstone) pencil. The paper is then folded accordion-style and bound with protective covers.

Demonolatry

"Drawn from the capital trials of 900 persons, more or less, who within the last fifteen years have in Lorraine paid the penalty of death for the crime of witchcraft." Translated by E. A. Ashwin. Edited with introduction and notes by the Rev. Montague Summers. Reprinted from the original French which was published in Lyon in 1595.

Diploma

Item is a diploma certifying that Francis Turner completed the secretarial program at Mount Royal College.

Children’s books in England : five centuries of social life

Item is a book analyzing the evolution of children’s literature through historical contexts. The work also reflects on the history of English social life, documenting the English people in their capacity as parents, guardians and educators of children.

The USSR in Construction.

Item is twelve issues of the Soviet propagandist magazine The USSR in Construction bound in a single volume. Each issue is devoted to a specific theme designed to broadcast the success and progress of the Soviet Union. Issues were designed by photojournalists Es Lissitzky and El Lissitzky and features dynamic graphic layouts and photographs from the Soviet Union's most prominent artist.

German banknote

Item is a German 1000 Mark banknote originally issued in 1922, and later over-printed for use as a leaflet to encourage recruitment for the Nazi Party.

The reverse of this banknote has been overprinted with an anti-semitic cartoon titled "Eine Überraschung" (A Revelation) which depicts a stereotyped Jewish man being surprised by a large, dazzling swastika with the text "Hitler" above, and "Nationalsozialismus" (National Socialism, aka Nazism) below. The man is exclaiming (in what appears to be a sort of racist Yiddish-German pidgin):

Godd der Gerachte! Scho / wieder ä naier kometh! /
(God the just! So again a [new one?] comes!)

Underneath is the text:
Volksgenossen! / Kommt zu Hitler, /
werdet Nationalsozialisten!
(Compatriots! [literally "people's comrades"] Come to Hitler, become National Socialists!

After the First World War, Germany struggled to pay war reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, resulting in hyperinflation that decimated the value of the Mark. Currency like this became valueless, and so was used by the Nazis as a cheap and plentiful material for propaganda leaflets.

The Great War as I saw it

Item is a firsthand account of the Frederick George Scott's experiences as a chaplain with the 1st Canadian Division in World War I. Scott was an Anglican priest and a well-known Canadian poet. Item was published by The Clarke & Stuart Co. Limited.

Leona's first scrapbook

Item is a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, programs, cards, event notices, and photographs documenting Paterson's childhood and growing involvement in speech arts.

Dreamland

Item is a copy of the story "Dreamland" by Clarence Budington Kelland.

MRC student album

Item is a digitized photo album/scrapbook that illustrates Jackson's school life at MRC. The album contains Jackson's 1929 report card and photos of Jackson's classmates, Dr. George Kerby, and other MRC teachers and staff. Photographs also document the Mount Royal College building, the Calgary Normal School, Mewata Armouries, Capitol Hill, Bowness Park, Mewata Park, and the MRC Cadet Corps.

Performer's certificate

Item is performer's certificate issued to Leacock after passing his examination in pianoforte. The certificate admitted him a licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music, London as a performer.

Maß und Gewicht aller Staaten der Erde

Item is a clandestine publication, sometimes referred to as 'camouflage literature', containing news coverage of the Spanish Civil War which was strictly censored in Nazi Germany.

Canadian mosaic : the making of a northern nation

Item is an account of the traditions and cultures of European nationalities that immigrated to Canada. Book includes chapters on the United States, France, England, Scotland, Germany, Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Hungry, Russia, and Italy among others.

Das sind eure Fuehrer!

Leaflet (title translated as "This is your Fuehrer!") contains information from a report published by the American press about Nazi corruption, enumerating how much money the Nazi leaders, including Goering and Goebbels, have stolen for themselves.

No matter how thin you slice it-- : 63 cartoons

Item is a collection of political cartoons by Stewart Cameron, reprinted from the Calgary Herald. Cartoons detail the early administration of Alberta's Social Credit Party, which governed from 1935-197, and the party's leader William Aberhart.

The Stakhanov movement explained

Item is a booklet about the Stakhanovite movement, a Stalinist campaign to increase worker productivity initiated by the Communist Party in 1935, authored by the movement's model, coal miner Alexey Stakhanov. Published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House.

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