Newly Digitized Items

We have updated this collection to add four newly digitized handwritten diaries kept by Lucy Harris from 1883-1886.

Five beautifully illustrated issues from the special Christmas edition of a local newspaper, the London Echo, from 1914-1920.

Manuscripts from our Special Collections including Persian poetry, a responsorial manuscript, and Canon Grandel's prayer book.

Selected items from the Wawanosh, Sands, Mern Family fonds. The Wawanosh family were prominent members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. The collection include selected Chippewas of Sarnia records and Wawanosh family correspondence.

Photographs taken in and around Muncey, Ontario in the 1940s. The collection of photographs were initially named “Peter Family Photographs and Muncey [Munsee] Reserve.” We are hoping the public can help us name the people in the photographs.

The Medical Scrapbooks contain clippings focused on Western’s Medical School and medicine in London, southwestern Ontario, and the world. The scrapbooks were created by Western’s medical school and are a great resource for local medical history.

This collection contains a letter book kept by John Brant while serving as resident superintendent of the Six Nations of the Grand River (from 1828-1832), and four loose letters found in the letter book dating after Brant’s death.

Folio was a literary magazine run by students at the University of Western Ontario. It began in 1947 and published in the fall and spring terms until 1972. Folio includes creative works by UWO students such as poetry, short stories, artwork, photography, and more.

This is a selection of volumes from our special collections and archives pertaining to medicinal and food recipes, dating from the 1600s to early 1900s. The collection contains handwritten volumes, scrapbooks, and published books, many created or compiled in Canada.