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Collection consists 472 slide photographs taken by Meredith Dixon at the Expo '67 World Fair in Montreal. Slides depict numerous pavilions and events, as well as the Expo 67 grounds and infrastructure.

Series consists of dolls and related objects from the 18th through 20th centuries, including those in china, bisque, wax, papier-mâché, wood, cloth, felt, ivory, metal, wire, and other materials. The dolls represent a range of geographic origins, including Germany, France, England, the United States, China, Russia Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Italy, Basque Spain, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bermuda, Canada, and Indigenous peoples of North America. The series includes specific items such as mechanical dolls and theatrical and literary characters. Several dolls depict regional dress and national costumes. Related objects include doll clothing and trunks, doll bedding, doll china plates, a doll’s cradle, a Punch and Judy show set, a Chinese theatre scene with lantern, birchbark quill-decorated furniture, and an envelope of paper doll clothes.

Series consists of pantins, paper puppets which can be cut out from printed paper sheets and assembled. Includes nine sheets of pantins. Files are described individually.

Series consists of theatrical portraits and coloured printed scenes, including some published by J. Redington and Épinal.

Series consists of toy theatres, often with accompanying playbooks, graphic materials, scenery, and characters, as well as toy theatre plays. Files are described individually.

This series consists of a variety of puppets (string puppets, jumping jacks, rod puppets, glove puppets, etc.) and shadow puppets representing many different countries and puppet-making techniques and traditions. It also contains some accompanying materials, including a puppet theatre and accessories for shadow puppet plays.

This portion of the collection contains 2714 books and periodicals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the puppet theatre in various European languages as well as scripts for puppet plays.

This series consists of glass plate negatives and other photographic materials with their original boxes relating to the Feather Book, ornithology, falconry, McGill University Library, and Casey Wood. The majority of the glass plates were produced in Berlin, Germany by Agra, while a few were produced in London, England and Toronto, Canada; which is indicated on the boxes the plates were contained in. On many of these boxes, McGill University librarian Dr. G. R. Lomer’s name appears, indicating these plates and photographic materials were used for library-related activities. Most of the plates, photographs, and photographic negatives (1927, 1930, 1956) show pages from the Feather Book by Dionisio Minaggio. Other glass plate negatives and photographic material depict artwork or images relating to ornithology and falconry, a portrait of Casey Wood (1927), Gronvold’s painting of Wood’s parrot John III (1930?), an ornithological archeological exhibit in the Redpath Library (1924), and library stacks in the Redpath Library (1924).

This series consists of falconry equipment, falconry exhibit labels and cards, a taxidermy young peregrine falcon, and two large burlap envelopes collected by Casey A. Wood from 1920-1937. Also included in this series are two Wolf Envelope Co. (Ohio) allsteel transfer cases manufactured by General Fireproofing Co., Ohio for book binding, found within Wood’s materials (191-?).
The leather falconry equipment and those worn by the young peregrine falcon were made by Otto Kals in Dusseldor-Benrath, Germany approximately in 1930-1937 and the falcon bells were made by Captain Russell Luff Meredith in the United States in 1920. The taxidermy young peregrine falcon in training is mounted on a weathering block and wears a United States Bureau of Biological Survey identification band, indicating that it was acquired legally. The falcon is also wearing a hood, a leash, a swivel, and a jess. A falcon bell is also held with the falcon as well as another leather jess, which is damaged.
Many of the artefacts in this series were purchased by Casey A. Wood due to his interest in falconry during his research with Marjorie Fyfe for the publication “The Art of Falconry,” a translation of Frederick II of Hosenstaufen's “de Arte Vendandi cum Avibus.” The falconry items were gifted to the Redpath Library at McGill University in autumn 1938 by Dr. Casey A. Wood.
The two large burlap envelopes previously held the contents of flat box MSG 1203-2-25, which contains photostats produced by the British Museum of Emperor Frederick II's manuscript “de Arte Venandi cum Avibus,” books I-II. It is evident on one envelope that labels were removed, while the other includes two original labels indicating Persian miniatures and drawings from the "fourteenth to nineteenth century, collected in North India, Bombay, Cairo, and London by Casey A. Wood," were previously contained. These two labels were scratched out and the note "Fred. II" was added.