This item is a cream-coloured ceramic and metal humidor jar with McGill coat of arms and motto, with trim painted in gold. The jar is broken into three pieces, plus the lid.

This collection is an artificial collection containing archival material related to McGill University. The material in this collection was created over time by McGill administration, staff, faculty, and students, between roughly 1800 and 2019. The subject of the material varies, but the collection generally documents the activities of the university and its staff, and the experiences of McGill students, both during their studies and after graduation.

The collection is arranged by form/genre into 7 series: 01 Documents, 02 Ephemera, 03 Scrapbooks and notebooks, 04 Graphic materials, 05 Audiovisual materials, 06 Textiles, 07 Artifacts. This arrangement was chosen because of the collection’s size, and because it was artificially created by the University’s archives by combining many smaller collections and fonds.

Information about the university bodies, student groups, or people represented in the collection is found in the statement of responsibility and scope and content fields at the file or item level.

This series contains artifacts created by McGill University or created by commercial manufacturers for McGill between roughly 1800 and 2015. Many items in this series are undated.

This series is described at the item level. Includes medals, pins, tobacco tins and humidors, trophies, bottles and mugs, commemorative spoons, matchbooks, and other objects.

This series contains McGill publications, student publications, published material about McGill, and some unpublished material, representing the activities of McGill’s students and staff between 1838 and 2019.

This series is described at the file level. McGill publications include calendars, reports, handbooks, directories, newsletters, promotional materials, texts of speeches, academic publications, and other similar material. Student publications include yearbooks, newspapers, handbooks, songbooks, literary journals, magazines and newsletters, biographies, histories, and other documents. Published material about McGill consists of clippings from newspapers and magazines. Unpublished material includes correspondence and some fliers.

This file contains a handwritten letter from A.M. Browne (Quebec architect) to Rev. Dr. Bethune (Principal of McGill College), September 24, 1838, about plans for McGill College buildings; letter found in Christ Church Cathedral amongst old sheet music by a member of the choir. Also includes notes about letter.

This file contains typewritten copies of documents related to the administration of McGill

This file contains vol. ii, no. 6 of the New York Lancet. Includes article "Diagnosis of Phthisis Pulmonalis" by Dr. Archibald Hall, Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, University of McGill College, Montreal.

This file contains a photocopy of a book dedication from William R. Wright to his brother and handwritten tally of words entitled, "Ophthalmic & aural words," divided into categories.