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Voyageur contract for Basile Beaulieu
Contract between Basile Beaulieu and outfitter Jean-Marie Boucher (agent) for McTavish, Frobisher & Co. Voyageur has received 90 livres on account Contract duration is two years. Payment is for 700 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" milieu. Destination of the Northern Limits.
Part of Joseph Frobisher Collection
File contains a cartographic survey of the land holdings of the Frobisher estate in Montreal created 7 June 1817.
Part of McTavish, Frobisher & Company, and McTavish, McGillivrays & Company Collection
File contains 18 pages of the articles of agreement for the creation of the House of McTavish Frobisher & Company.
Part of Joseph Frobisher Collection
File contains a diary outlining the daily activities of Joseph Frobisher from January 1806 to November 1810. Most entries are extremely brief (no more than one line), but others go into more detail. Catalogues when he left and came back from business trips and where he ate dinner and with whom.
Puppet from the South of France depicting an African man with a beard. Of the simpler kind of string puppet.
Illustrated letters and one Christmas card
File includes 5 illustrated letters and one Christmas card addressed to Harvey Glemby and his wife, from Paris.
Collection consists of one bound manuscript notebook softbound in a piece of brown leather. The notebook dates chiefly from 1841 and was produced in St. Armand by Philip Luke. The notebook contains a title page that has been lettered, illustrated, and coloured by hand: A Latin Translation / by Philip Luke. St. Armand. 1841. Commenced April 4th. The text within this first portion of the notebook is Aesop's Fables in English and Latin on facing pages. The first part of the manuscript ends with "13. Horse and Ass" (Latin is incomplete) and "32. Widow and Servants" (Latin text missing). The following leaf contains two medical recipes: "A cure for a felon or whitlow," refering to an abscess or infection of the fingertip and consisting of a paste made from egg yolk, honey, turpentine spirits, camphor, and flour, and "A reciet for the inflammatory rheumatism," involving a wine-based tonic containing three types of bark, horseradish, brandy, and tar water. Following another blank leaf, a partial letter is found dated 1839. Philip Luke's text begins again in the latter part of the manuscript with a second coloured title page: "Dialogues and Declamations." There is also one loose note laid in dated 1809, a receipt for 100$.
Luke, Philip
Part of Gwillim Collection
Painting showing a side view of red fish with black detailing on fins, with scales rendered individually and a blue wash near fins and tail. Pencil inscriptions on mat read, "Myripristis murdjan" and "Kākājī."
Symonds, Mary
Characters from the Miller and his Men
Full printed colour toy theatre characters. Characters have been cut out.
Webb's Characters and Scenes in the Miller and his Men
Full printed colour title sheet and toy theatre characters. Characters have been cut out, and the title sheet has had characters cut out of it. The full title reads, "Webb's Characters & Scenes in the Miller and his Men, In 9 Plates of Characters, 11 Scenes, 1 Plate of Set Pieces, 1 Water Pieces and 4 Plates of Wings nos 1, 5, 29 & 30, With a book adapted only to the above."