Archival Collections Catalogue

Bookstore Showcase

CA RBD MSG 1234-8-3B.52
Item
1967

Part of Expo 67 Collection

Interior view photograph. Display collage outside the German Pavilion bookstore.

Electric Passenger Locomotive

CA RBD MSG 1234-8-3B.49
Item
1967

Part of Expo 67 Collection

Interior view photograph. Model of the first electric passenger locomotive. It was first revealed in 1897 at the Berlin Industrial Exhibition.

German Hostess

CA RBD MSG 1234-8-3B.48
Item
1967

Part of Expo 67 Collection

Interior view photograph. German hostesses talking amongst themselves. The two storey German Pavilion (lot C-454) was both highly sophisticated in it's architectural and structural design and extremely cost efficient. Architecturally striking, it appeared to be a modernist take on a circus tent. The German Pavilion contained exhibition areas emphasizing German industry and technology with historical and cultural displays sprinkled throughout.Also included was a restaurant serving traditional German cuisine, an auditorium and several elevated viewing platforms. Mutli-peaked tent structure. Steel tubes and net, reinforced concrete and timber. Glazed windscreens and walls in wood framing; exposed concrete; built up wood. Translucent polyester membrane. (S: 300' x 340' --- A: 136,000 sq. ft. --- H: 120' (top of highest mast))

Germany – Mediaeval

CA CAC 45-3-G-c1f12
File

Part of Ramsay Traquair fonds

Household Items

CA RBD MSG 1234-8-3B.53
Item
1967

Part of Expo 67 Collection

Interior view photograph. Display cases contain traditional German houseware.

James Forbes Fonds

CA RBD MSG 276
Fonds
1788, 1796-1799, 1834

The fonds consists of manuscript travel journals, engravings, and letters of naturalist, artist, and author James Forbes. The fonds containsa five-volume fair copy of a manuscript travel journal prepared by Forbes describing his travels and stays in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland during 1796 and 1797. Entries describe the climates, cultures, art, monuments, and historical sites of the places he visited. Some entries also reflect current events, such as the French Revolution, and comparison between the places he visited and his native England. The journals were prepared by Forbes ostensibly for his daughter, to whom the first volume contains a dedication. The fifth volume contains an addendum dated 1799. The The fonds also contains two letters, one a letter to Forbes from his grandson, the Count of Montalembert, and one a letter from Forbes to his sister, Eliza Fothergill, dated 1788. The final materials in the fonds are two hand-coloured engravings of illustrations created by Forbes in 1771 and 1783, and published by Richard Bentley (London, 1834).

Forbes, James, 1749-1819