There are several other accessions in the Merrilees collection that have not been described at the series level. These accessions contain graphic material (art and photographic), technical drawings, and cartographic material. The following is a list of the accessions, which includes the accession number, and a short description of the accessions contents.
Accession 1968-054:
24 photographs of groups of individuals including; Mr. J. Bruce and his family; members of the Ontario Legislature, Toronto, Ont.; members of the York Pioneer and Historical Society, ca. 1900; photos by Josiah Bruce, Toronto, Ont.
Accession 1971-318:
2,110 photographs, including panoramic group photographs of units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and the Royal Air Force in training at various camps in Ontario. Photos by Blackmore Studio and by the Panoramic Camera Company. These are panoramic negatives from the Panoramic Camera Company, Toronto, Ont.; the owner of this company bought out several other panoramic photographers whose negatives appear in this collection.
Accession 1977-110:
73 photographs, including views of Toronto, ca. 1885-1900, by Josiah Bruce; maritime views, ca. 1920-1939, by the Holloway Studio; staff of Ontario Crown Lands Dept., 1891, by Toronto Photo Co.; officers of Clorita and Oriole III.
Accession 1978-216:
3,365 photographs, dated 1865-1940, of Canadian landscapes; cities and towns; various means of transportation including ships and shipping, railways, locomotives, etc.; industrial scenes; photographs by numerous Canadian photographers and firms.
Accession 1979-295:
536 photographs, dated 1865-1925, of Newfoundland, by Holloway; maple syrup collecting, by Ira Bexted; Trent, Cornwall, and St. Peter's Canals under construction; hydro dam and power project at Cameron Falls, Ont., 1919-1921; stereo views of Toronto, Ottawa, and Muskoka in Ontario and Montreal and Quebec in Quebec; wet plate negatives of Jamaica, ca. 1865; Toronto, Ont., harbour; photos by F.W. Micklethwaite, J.W. Bald, A.E. Young, L.E. Hirtle, J. Esson, McCorquodale Bros., Ellisson & Co., R.R. Sallows, Alex Henderson, J.G. Parks.
Accession 1980-084:
This accession has 178 prints and 1 watercolour, dated 1885-1960, and contains circus posters, mostly dating from the 1930s and printed in an analine process; framed auction sale poster for Chaudiere Mill, Ottawa, 1885; framed watercolour showing the sailing ship Weaver Belle; posters advertising dog food; Northern Navigation Co. posters of 1908.
Accession 1980-093:
Posters depicting Trent Valley Navigation Co. Ltd., tours of the Thousand Islands, Music Hall attractions, and Russian views. Works by unknown artists.
Accession 1985-086:
3 Christmas cards showing the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway No. 40., ca. early 1900's.
Accession 1985-087:
1 print work entitled "Proposed House of Assembly" of York. Work by P.A. Begin after a watercolour by Edward Walsh; 1 print Panoramic views of Montreal. Work by Charles Magnus, ca. 1850.
Accession 1983-037:
1,933 (1909 lithograph prints and 24 reproductions) items from the Andrew Merrilees collection contained in 8 scrapbooks and 2 miscellaneous collections, consisting primarily of trade cards but also including message cards, personality cards, labels, advertisements, greeting cards and posters which document North American social history, all dated ca. 1800-1970.
Accession 1987-024:
Items dating from ca. 1760-1960 relating to, but not solely about, transportation history in North America. Included are drawings, prints and reproductions of a wide variety of subjects, including images of ships, boats, trains, cars and other means of transport; views of cities and portraits of persons; and other subjects, such as landscapes, historical events, and architectural interiors.
Accession 1981-016:
2 lithograph prints in the form of posters; L'Aigle, Bateau en Feu, faisant le service de Paris à Mélun; and Modern Advertising : A Railway Station in 1874.
Accession 1982-102:
Incomplete (p80-110) section of vol. 3 of publication entitled The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World ... illustrated by Bernard Picart Falls of Montmorency by George Heriot. The incomplete section is entitled A Supplement to the preceeding Dissertation in which the Religious Ceremonies of the Americans are explained. Dated ca. 1734-1807.
Accession BAN-2003-00010-0:
52 glass plate negatives; c. 6000 photographs prints, 1 album containing 194 prints, c. 2000 nitrate negatives, 1 film reel (28 min) 16 mm, 4 paintings oil on board, mixed media on board, 32 prints letterpress, etching, engraving, lithograph, 16 reproductions offset lithograph, photomechanical reproduction (postcards).
Many of the photographs in this accrual are of American railroads and, to a lesser extent, other foreign railroads and railways. The majority of the photographs of American railroads, locomotives, equipment and rolling stock are from those lines that also had branches into Canada. Their equipment therefore had a good chance of being used on Canadian railways; either by the US-based railroad companies or as parts of consists of Canadian railway companies such as the CNR and CPR.
The earliest photographs appear to date to the 1880s, but there are relatively few 19th century images. The latest images seem to have been taken in the late 1960s or early 1970s as there a number from the CPR which show equipment in the livery that was newly adopted at this time. The negatives generally appear to date to prior to the 1950s, as most of them are nitrate.
There are two groups of negatives: glass plate negatives; and plastic negatives, of which most are celluloid nitrate. The nitrate material dates prior to about 1950.
The contents of the prints run the gamut, although the greatest numbers of them are directly concerned with railways: equipment, locomotives, buildings, rail-lines, bridges, etc. rather than directly with the part that railways played in the economy and society. Various aspects of railways and work on the railways are portrayed; but photographically the treatment runs from publicity photography distributed by the railways themselves to snapshots taken by railways "buffs", to impressionistic views taken and printed by amateur photographers in the style of the 1920s and 1930s.
Also included are a number of prints relating to marine subjects: harbours, shipping (including some tall ships).
Notman Album:
This album, of 194 prints, was purchased by Mr. Merrilees at an unknown time. It was evidently made up for a specific but unknown purchaser who may have chosen the images that he wished to have included. The album is set up geographically, commencing on the east coast at Halifax, and continuing across the provinces to British Columbia, however the majority of the photographs are centred on Quebec and Ontario. While the photographs have been captioned, no dates are supplied; but from internal evidence and on the basis of some known copies of certain images, as well as the inclusion of the B.C. images which were taken by Benjamin Baltzly for the Notman firm, it seems certain that the album was not created before 1872. The photographs appear to fall in the period of roughly 1868 to 1871.
Artwork in this accession consists primarily of works relating to transportation in particular the railroad, and also works collected by Andrew Merrilees reflecting a penchant for advertising images relating to travel, vacationing and cultural events. Included is a painting by Albert Sheldon Pennoyer (1888-1957) entitled "A Good Measure for Speed"; two paintings by Ewart Melbourne Brindle (1904-after 1948) entitled: "Welcome to our Home" and "Loading Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Cars, Train-yard;" and one rendition of the Coat of Arms of Canada by an unknown artist. The prints include a rare group of colour lithographs of the Famous Canadian Jubilee Singers [ca. 1901-1902], many published by the Duncan Litho. Co. Hamilton; an exemplary group of miniature vignettes for steel engravings produced by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New York (forerunner of the American Bank Note Co.); a group of letterpress prints advertising Steamer Excursions and Regattas at Sturgeon Point and Stony Lake, [1905-1908]; a large colour lithograph after Seth Arca Whipple (1855-1901) entitled: "The Tug 'Champion' towing a fleet of Schooners from Lake Huron into the St. Claire River;" and individual divers prints including "The 34th Annual Exhibition Western Fair, London, Sept. 5 to 14, 1901;" reproductions include posters reproducing paintings of railroad subjects by American artists such as Walter L. Greene (1870-1956), Howard Fogg (1917-1996), and E. Teller (?); calendars including "The Travellers Currier & Ives Calendar," [1978] and several versions of "The Steam Locomotive Calendar," [1961]; a work by Joe Barros; one by Barbara M. Carson; and thirty-two postcards of locomotive and water transportation subjects.
