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AIDS Collection

  • CA OSLER P177
  • Collection
  • 1981-2009

The fonds includes a collection of AIDS activism materials, with an emphasis on its manifestation in Canada's visual art world, through the collections of Mr. John A. Schweitzer and others. Several of the documents have been signed by either John A. Schweitzer or Robert Mapplethorpe. The materials in the collection include posters, press releases, conference programs, exhibition catalogues, exhibition invitations, exhibition ephemera, programs, brochures, tear-sheets, auction catalogues, and reviews.

Schweitzer, John A., 1952-

Agostino Cerretari Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 49
  • Fonds
  • between approximately 1670 and 1699

Fonds consists of a late seventeenth-century manuscript containing a critical commentary on Machiavelli's The Price, created for the use of Agostino Cerretari.

Aerial photograph collection

  • CA HSSL HSSL 001
  • Collection
  • 1930 - 1976

This collection consists chiefly of 1,634 aerial photographs, 162 of which are stereographs, dated from 1938 to 1975. The first six containers consist of Landsat 1:1 000 000 Prints & Negatives. The photographs depict various geographic and geological features including mountains, deserts, volcanoes, farmland, lakes, and rivers. Some photographs depict roads, settlements, and dams. Canada and the United States features prominently in this collection however there are also photographs of the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There are 52 pages of documents most of which are indexes to the photographs. There are also shipping transmittals, survey cards, letters, a purchase order, and diagrams with flight lines and photo set numbers. The 15 maps in this collection are of flight lines (some with film roll numbers added), hand-drawn maps of locations in the photographs, geographic maps, and physiographic maps.

A.E. Walker Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 2051
  • Fonds
  • 1879, 1887

The fonds consists of two letters from A.E. Walker to J.W. Dawson.

Walker, A. E. (Alfred Edmund), 1821-1902

A.E. Sanderson Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4208
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1890

The A.E. Sanderson fonds contains student notebooks which belonged to A.E. Sanderson. They include English literature (poets of the nineteenth century, 1889-90, taught by Professor Charles E. Moyse), History of English literature (January term, 1889) and Botany (1888-1890).
In addition, two exams, unworked from April 9th 1890 (English literature - A midsummer's night's dream, English literature - The leading poets of the nineteenth century) are included in this fonds and were placed in the Printed Collection in 1998.

Sanderson, A. E.

Adolphus Washington Greeley Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 213
  • Fonds
  • 1895

Greeley's papers comprise 15 letters, and the original typescript, with handwritten corrections of Chapters 11-18 of Arctic Discoveries.

Greeley, Adolphus Washington, 1844-1935

Adaline Van Horne Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4113
  • Fonds
  • undated

Description forthcoming.
Please contact McGill University Archives for further information: 514-398-4711 or refdesk.archives@mcgill.ca

Van Horne, Adaline, 1868-1941

Abraham Jacob Livinson Fonds

  • CA MUA MG2094
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1964

Most of the Livinson papers consist of lecture notes taken between 1905 and 1914 for undergraduate courses in philosophy, literature and history, and for courses in the Law Faculty. Two scrapbooks of clippings and photographs reflect Livinson's interest in Wilfred Laurier, approximately 1916-1949, and Abraham Lincoln, 1923-1937; there are also two 'notebooks' of clippings on books on the art of writing, memorable quotations, and speeches, 1936. Livinson's journals, sometimes kept under his own name and sometimes under the pseudonyms 'André Penuel' or 'André Charles' consist primarily of philosophical reflections and aphorisms, 1936-1942, 1947-1948, 1952. A short essay on Barbados, 1936, is accompanied by photographs, and there are also a number of photographs of Montréal scenes. Livinson's autograph collection consists of letters from prominent men, largely Montrealers, in business and government.

Livinson, Abraham Jacob, 1888 or 1889-1966

Abraham de Sola and Evelyn Miller Fonds

  • CA MUA MG2053
  • Fonds
  • 1784-1996

Fonds consists of correspondence, research and genealogical notes, articles produced by Evelyn Miller's activities as a researcher, historian, writer and archivist. There is also a considerable amount of primary source material collected by Evelyn Miller on her family; particularly correspondence, sermons and articles relating predominately to Abraham de Sola but also to David Aaron de Sola (Abraham's father), Aaron David Meldola de Sola, Clarence Isaac de Sola and the Hart family. The fonds have a vast amount of photographs mostly of the de Sola Family, but also the David, Hart and Joseph families. The fonds is composed of the following series:

  1. Original Historical Records (de Sola, Hart, Joseph) Documents
  2. Research and Professional Activities

Although there are two separate series, it must be noted that some information contained in the series files are often relevant to more than that area of activity. This is especially true of correspondence files.

Sola, Abraham de, 1825-1882

Abraham Aaron Roback Papers

  • CA RBD MSG 669
  • Collection
  • 1912-1956

Collection consists of correspondence from J.W.A. Hickson between 1912 and 1956.

Roback, A. A. (Abraham Aaron), 1890-1965

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