Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Spring 1994 / Key Porter Books
Fall & Winter 2003-2004 / Key Porter Books
Certificate of partnership between William Walter Copp, Henry James Clark and Charles Fuller, 2 February 1870
Locks' Press 1979-96: an exhibition of books, pamphlets and broadsides: Belleville Public Art Gallery 30 IX-1

This site features nearly 100 case studies – short essays written by Canadian scholars – on topics relating to Canadian publishing. The case studies are augmented with letters, photographs, multimedia, and other materials from publishers’ and authors’ archives at McMaster University Library, Queen’s University Archives, and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto).

Peace & War in the 20th Century

Card, December 1917
World Peace Council, Poster, 1987
Parliamentary War Savings Committee, Poster, 1915
Brittain, Vera, Diary, 6-7 August 1914

This interactive, thematic website on Peace and War in the 20th Century has been designed to be informative, educational and engaging. Its major themes have been organized into the opposing paths of Waging Peace and Waging War. Within the themes, case studies provide context and insights. International conflicts are represented by the images and official records available in McMaster University Library’s archives. We invite you to explore Peace and War in the 20th Century.

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection

letter, From: Olszowka, Erwin To: Olszowka, Paul in Konigshütte. - Auschwitz 9 August 1942
letter, From: From the city of Ostrowiec in Poland (?) To: Pieszak (?), Joseph - Sachsenhausen 30 June 1941
letter, From: Szymanski, Franz To: Szymanski, Maria in Wojslawice , district Lublin, in Poland. - Sachsenhausen 12 January 1941
postcard, From: Madame Bernu, Auguste (his wife) To: Bernu, Auguste - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Feb. 04 1943

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection. The collection has correspondences available from these camps: Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dondanen, Dora, Fallersleben, Floßenürg, Groß-Rosen, Gusen, Herzogenbusch, Janowska, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwalk, Kauen, Klooga, Kurtenhof, Lemberg, Lublin, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Niederhagen, Plaszow, Ravenbrück, Riga, Sachsenhausen, Salapils, Sangerhausen, Struthof, Stuttof, Torgau, Vaivara, Vught, Warschau, and Wewelsberg.

Digital Russell

Within the tides : tales / by Joseph Conrad
Prolegomena to analytical geometry : in anisotropic Euclidean space of three dimensions / by Eric Harold Neville
Letters of Edward John Trelawny / edited with a brief introduction and notes by H. Buxton Forman.
The Saturday review treasury : a volume of good reading / selected from the complete files by John Haverstick and the editors of the Saturday review introd. by Joseph Wood Krutch.

McMaster University is home to the scholarly study of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate. The Bertrand Russell Archives came to McMaster Library in 1968, where they are in the Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Russell's library is part of the Russell Archives, along with his correspondence, manuscripts, tapes, films, photographs, medals and permanently displayed writing desk.