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Dora Hood's Book Room Limited fonds [textual record (microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1925-1982.

Reference:

R3437-0-2-E, MG28-III58

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105662

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Dora Hood's Book Room Limited fonds
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Fonds includes:

15 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1925-1982.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

31 m. of textual records.
145 microfilm reels.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence; subscription correspondence; telephone orders; purchasing, general; purchasing, Queen's Printer; cash book; accounts receivable; purchaser; accounts payable; subscription accounts receivable; subscription accounts payable; minutes and general corporate records; miscellaneous; catalogues; and catalogue cards.

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Dora Hood's Book Room

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Dora Hood's Book Room : Dora Hood (Mrs. F.C. Hood) started her Book Room in 1928 in a room in her home on Spadina Avenue, in Toronto. It began as a mail order and second hand book store, selling and trading current and rare Canadiana. Mrs. Hood retained control of the Book Room until she retired in 1953 and sold it to W. Stewart Wallace, the recently retired Librarian of the University of Toronto.

In 1958, Julia Jarvis bought it from Wallace and remained the owner until the business was incorporated in 1961, at which time she assumed the position of President of the new company. In the same year, the Book Room moved from Dora Hood's home to 34 Ross Street. Miss Jarvis was succeeded as President in 1968 by Mrs. Jean Tweed, who held the position until 1982. Mrs. Tweed retired from active participation in the firm in 1979, and from 1979 to 1982, Chief Executive functions were filled by Lawrence Cooper. The Book Room closed in 1982.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid list all the files in volumes 1 to 159. MSS1088 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001785.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1974 and 1981 from Dora Hood's Book Room Limited, and in 1982 from the estate of Jean Tweed of Toronto, Ontario.
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Toronto (Ont.) - Business enterprises, 1925-1982 Canada. Queen's Printer, 1967-1969

Booksellers and bookselling - Ontario, 1925-1982 Stewart Wallace, 1951-1965

Toronto (Ont.) - Booksellers and bookselling, 1925-1982

Dora Hood's Book Room Limited - Accounting, [1925-1982]

Canadian periodicals, 1965-1980

Toronto (Ont.) - Periodical vendors, [1925-1982]

Booksellers and bookselling - Colportage, subscription trade, etc., [1925-1982]

Toronto (Ont.) - Bookstores, 1925-1982

Catalogs, Booksellers' - Ontario, 1947-1981

Booksellers and bookselling - Inventory control, ca. 1954-1981
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Private

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MG28-III58
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