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Andrew Merrilees collection [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Accession

Date:

1800-1960.

Reference:

2007-00446-1

BAN no.:

2007-00446-1

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material, Maps and cartographic material, Architectural and technical drawings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3632472

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Date(s):

1800-1960.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

85 cm of textual records.
6561 photographs.
1 maps.
1818 technical drawings.
3 architectural drawings.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Photography -- includes negatives (the first thing I took out of box 1 was a handful of 5 x 7 nitrate negatives; several glass plates were found in another box), prints (apparently printed by Merrilees), albums (an album of prints created by Merrilees from his own and others' negatives, all relating to the history of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo rwy.)

Mss. materials -- many typescripts by Merrilees and others, often annotated in his hand, relating to many railway matters, but including material from the Grand Trunk, Canadian Government Railways, CPR, Reid-Newfoundland Corporation, Newfoundland Railway and others. Some material (typewritten annual reports and statements) relates directly to the Andrew Merrilees Company, which rebuilt railway cars and locos, harvested and resold rails, and generally traded in railway goods.

Drawings and plans -- numerous drawings of railway rolling stock, some blueprints (for example, of the CPR yards in Montreal, 1910)

Books -- including both material relating directly to railways (in Canada, US. and North America generally), marine, and general -- including some unusual materials such as a vade mecum for Magistrates and vestreymen for Bermuda, ca. 1820, or Pastor Chiniquy's "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome". There are numerous railway histories, some trade literature, schedules, material relating to shipping, bound volumes of serials such as the Canada Lumberman, and the Railway Master Mechanics Association (US)

Provenance:

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Merrilees, Andrew, 1919-1979

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Custodial history:

Found in the house Andrew Merrilees maintained at Frankford, Ontario, when Mrs. Stauder inherited it after Mr. Merrilees' death in 1980.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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79002/5206 CA
84503/19 CA
85603/2 CA
MG31-A10
R5500-0-6-E
R5500-374-3-E
R5500-375-5-E
R5500-76-6-E
R5500-925-3-E
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Graphic (photo)

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Textual records

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Cartographic material

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Architectural: technical drawings

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