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Fonds consists of Nettie Lorinda McNaughton Jones’ correspondence during the First World War. Material primarily consists of correspondence from Oliver McNaughton, Jack McNaughton, Dave Radcliffe, and Ione Martin.

This collection contains archival material related to the Vidal and Nisbet families of Sarnia. Graphic material (photographs, photographic plates, silhouettes, albums, artwork), newspaper materials, correspondence (letters, letter books, postcards), personal records (military, legal, marriage, wills, financial), diaries and biographical histories are included. Family members with a prominent presence in the collection include Charlotte Vidal Nisbet, Alexander Vidal, and Richard Emeric Vidal.

The Hellmuth Colleges Collection contains materials relating to the Hellmuth family (Isaac and Isidore), Hellmuth Boys' College, and Hellmuth Ladies' College. There are materials relating to the colleges, produced by the colleges, as well as materials created by students attending the colleges. Included in the collection are photographs (students, college grounds, Hellmuth family), promotional materials, notebooks, financial documents, academic documents, scrapbooks, newspaper materials, correspondence, a minute book, a visitors book, certificates, HBC lots for sale advertisement, and materials relating to the Hellmuth 70 year reunion.

The Ontario Postcard Collection comprises over four thousand images of Ontario places, with a particular emphasis on southwestern Ontario. Approximately 2000 postcards are of London, Ontario only. Also there are few hundred photographic postcards catalogued amongst the Postcard Collection.

The postcards depict the following aspects of urban and rural life: street scenes: aerial views, business districts, city squares; buildings : town halls, churches, residences, businesses; railways: trains, stations, bridges;harbour scenes: beaches, fishing, ships;sports and recreation: parks, team pictures, action shots, motoring; disasters: storms, fires, accidents; rural life: farm scenes, harvesting, market day; industrial scenes: factories, oil gushers, mining.

Fonds contains the account books of the Baldwin family from 1932-1997. The 27 volumes document all cash expenditures of the family over 65 years.

Fonds consists of architectural drawings created by Watt and Crane Architects during the tenure of their firm. The architectural drawings are primarily of private residences, commercial projects, building alterations, and apartment buildings in Southwestern Ontario or the Greater Detroit Area. Architectural drawings include floor plans, architectural elevations, and section details, among others. In addition, this fonds contains drawings done by C. Howard Crane Architect that were physically retained by Watt and Crane, and its successive iterations, after the dissolution of the firm.

Fonds consists of the administrative records of the O-Pee-Chee Company. These records document the activities of the company from 1886-1993. These include corporate records, Board of Director meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, information about products, building records, shareholder records, legal records, union and employee records, contracts and other business records, Somerville Paper Box Co. records, and documents relating to the war effort.

Fonds consists of architectural drawings created by John M. Watt, Architect during the tenure of the firm. The architectural drawings are primarily of additions or alterations to commercial projects, in addition to private residences, churches, and apartment buildings. The majority of the plans are for buildings in Windsor or London, though the firm had clients throughout Southwestern Ontario. Architectural drawings include floor plans, architectural elevations, presentation drawings, section details, and heating and electrical layouts, among others. In addition, some series also include specification files, which detail the construction materials and requirements for the building designs.

This fonds is comprised of b&w photographs scanned for the Western Archives from photograph albums loaned to us by Westland descendants in 2006. The photographs were selected from the albums based on their local interest in the topics photographed. There are scanned copies of pictures of London and Middlesex County (including areas now part of London including Lambeth and Byron), Port Stanley, Sarnia and other surrounding villages and rural areas in southwestern Ontario. Westland took the photographs between ca. 1905-12. There are many local landmarks, events and views that were of interest to Leonard Westland.