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MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C 1 Includes Archival Material Related MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Includes archival material related to Red Robin Press and the life and work of Mark and Marion Frank. Research files regarding: VANA (Veterans Against Nuclear Arms); Paul Robeson 100th birthday celebration; The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion; the ‘fallen’ arches of Niagara; historical plaques research; Senior’s activism and other material are included. Gift of David Frank 2017 Extent: 13 boxes and items (4 metres) Box 1 Paul Robeson research, 100th birthday 24 folders celebrations Talks Mackenzie-Papineau book Folder 1 Mackenzie-Papineau book 1 micro-cassette taped to folder of unveiling Folders 2-7 Mackenzie-Papineau book Research and various Folders 8-10 Paul Robeson research Folders 11-15 Paul Robeson 100th birthday celebrations Folders 16-17 “Nov. 11 and W.W. 2 talks” Folder 18 Bibliography – radical movements Folders 19-20 “Frank Park” Folder 21 Possible reprint Folders 22-24 Margaret Fairley research Box 2 Anthologies – copies of manuscripts 25 folders Folder 1 “Makers of History” Folders 2-4 Margaret Atwood Folder 5 Anthologie: New Frontiers Sampler Folders 6-7 Anthology 1 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folders 8-10 Anthologies: Hidden Heritage Folders 11-18 Anthology – Social Protest Folders 19-25 “Land of Aurora’s Fire” Jefferson Hurley Copy of manuscript Box 3 Research on historical plaques 66 folders Folder 1 Windsor: Fugitive Slaves Folder 2 Windsor: Ford Strike 1945 Folder 3 Windsor: Peace Fountain Folder 4 Windsor: Tower of Freedom Folder 5 Woodbridge Workers Monument Folder 6 Woodstock: St. Paul’s Church Folder 7 Underground Railroad at Black Creek Folder 8 Toronto: Armstrong Folder 9 Toronto: Bethune Mural Folder 10 Toronto: Bishop’s Palace 1878 Folder 11 Toronto: Blacks and Indians in the War of 1812 Folder 12 Toronto: The Black Bull 1822 Folder 13 Toronto: Bolivar, Simon Folder 14 Toronto: Beckie Buhay Folder 15 Toronto: Annie Buller Folder 16 Toronto: Robert Burns Folder 17 Toronto: Canadian Labour Hall of Fame 2 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folder 18 Toronto Chinese Railroad Workers Folder 19 Toronto: Francis Collins Folder 20 Toronto: John Cook Folder 21 Toronto: Fairley Parkette Folder 22 Toronto: Gibson House Folder 23 Toronto: Golden Lion Folder 24 Toronto: Robert Gourlay Folder 25 Toronto: Hoggs Hollow Disaster Folder 26 Toronto: William Peyton Hubbard Folder 27 Toronto: Irish Famine Memorial Folder 28 Toronto: C.W. Jefferys Folder 29 Toronto: Jesse Ketchum Folder 30 Toronto: Labour Temple Folder 31 Toronto: Lount & Matthews Execution Site Folder 32 Toronto: Lount & Matthews tombstone Folder 33 Toronto: Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion Folder 34 Toronto: Mackenzie House – The Arch Folder 35 Toronto: Mackenzie’s Press (Mackenzie House) Folder 36 Toronto: Medallions Folder 37 Toronto: Montgomery’s Tavern Folder 38 Toronto: Old City Hall Folder 39 Toronto: Ontario’s First Mechanics Institute 3 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folder 40 Toronto: Peace Garden Memorial Folder 41 Toronto: Pillory, Stocks and water well Folder 42 Toronto: Printer’s Strike Folder 43 Queen’s Park/ Former Bandshell Folder 44 Toronto: Dr. Jose Rizal Folder 45 Toronto: Dr. John Rolph Folder 46 Toronto: Joseph Sheard Folder 47 Toronto: St. Lawrence Hall Folder 48 Toronto: St. Michael’s College Library sculptures Folder 49 Toronto: A. E. Smith Folder 50 Toronto: Subway Workers’ Memorial Folder 51 Toronto: Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Folder 52 Thimble and Buttons: Garment trade Folder 53 Toronto: The Types Riot Folder 54 Toronto: Mackenzie Memorial (Queen’s Park) Folder 55 Toronto: Mackenzie Mural (Queen St. Subway) Folder 56 Toronto: Mackenzie Plaque (Old City Hall) Folder 57 Toronto: Mackenzie Portrait (Queen’s Park) Folder 58 Toronto: William Lyon Mackenzie tombstone Folder 59 Toronto: Joseph Shepard tombstone Folder 60 Toronto: Bird in the Hand Tavern Folder 61 Guelph farmhouse/founding CPC (Canadian Communist Party) 4 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folder 62 Mural, 44 King Street West, Toronto Folder 63 Plaques: Northwest Rebellion Folders 64-66 Quebec Stones Box 4 Quebec Stones (plaques) continued 15 folders Miscellaneous plaques/memorials Folders 1-7 Quebec Stones – research Folders 8-15 “Stones – miscellaneous pix” Box 5 Mackenzie Panels 25 folders 1837 Rebellion Folder 1 Arch Project: “The Mackenzie Panels” book Folders 2-3 Arch Project: correspondence and research 1980s Folders 4-5 Arch Project: McQuesten and King Correspondence and research Folder 6 Arch pictures Folders 7-8 Mackenzie House: plaques/The Arch photographs and images Folder 9 Mackenzie House: plaques/The Arch photographs not used Folders 10-17 Mackenzie House: plaques/The Arch photographs and images Folders 18-22 1837 Tour Promotional Folder 23 1837-1987 Folders 24-25 1837 Lount/Matthews Box 6 1837 Rebellion continued 21 folders Red Robin Press (Marion) TTU historical [Toronto Typographical Union] 5 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folders 1-3 1837 Patriotes Folders 4-5 Masters/Publicity Letterhead for Red Robin Press Folder 6 Red Robin Press – business Folders 7-9 Red Robin Press ‘Nice Things’ and reviews Folders 10-14 Toronto Typographical Union – historical Folders 15-16 Toronto Typographical Union 1994 plaque Folder 17 Plaque history and Toronto Typographical Union history: negatives Folders 18-19 Toronto Typographical Union 1994 plaque Folders 20-21 Labour History Walking Tour – notes Box 7 The Mackenzie Panel proofs 14 folders Various other Folder 1 Copy of photograph mounted on cardboard World War 2 rally, Salute to Soviet Allies Maple Leaf Gardens, 1940s Folder 2 Various clippings Folder 3 Niagara Falls Photo on placemat Folder 4 Re: 1837 Patriotes – maps Folders 5-8 The Mackenzie Panels Proofs Folder 9 Paul Robeson 100th birthday celebration Folder 10 Thornhill: Holy Trinity Burying Ground Folders 11-12 Trade union research Folder 13 Communist Party of Canada Early history 6 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folder 14 Tony McEwen - historical Box 8 VANA [Veterans Against Nuclear Arms] 21 folders Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service Progress Books Other files Folders 1-2 VANA briefs and reports Folders 3-6 Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service Folders 7-9 Progress Books Folder 10 Progress Books submission Folder 11 Foreign Investment and books Folder 12 U. of T. printings in U.S. Folders 13-14 Progress Books Folders 15-21 Progress Books – economics proposal Box 9 VANA [Veterans Against Nuclear Arms] 20 folders Various other files Folder 1 André Durovecz Folder 2 Senior’s Activism Folder 3 Portuguese Archives Folders 4-6 “Persons” Folders 7-17 VANA [Veterans Against Nuclear Arms] Folder 18 ‘The Canadian Women’s Budget’ 1993 Folders 19-20 VANA briefs and reports Box 10 Amherstburg files 68 folders Other historical plaque research Folder 1 “Stones” 7 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folder 2 Amherstburg: Capture of the Anne Photographs Folder 3 Amherstburg: Flag of the Republic Folder 4 Amherstburg: The Tecumseth Stone Folder 5 Amherstburg: Underground Railway Folder 6 Chatham: John Brown’s Convention 1858 Folders 7-8 Chatham: The British Methodist Episcopal Church Folder 9 Chatham: Mary Ann Shadd Cary House Folder 10 East Gwillimbury: Samuel Lount Folder 11 East Gwillimbury: Sharon Temple Folder 12 East Gwillimbury: David Willson gravestone Notes on location Folder 13 Goderich: Thomas MacQueen Folder 14 Gravenhurst: Norman Bethune Folder 15 Guelph: La Guayra settlers Folder 16 Hamilton: Day of Mourning monument Folder 17 Hamilton: Worker’s Heritage Centre Folder 18 Ingersoll: Town Hall Folder 19 Kapuskasing: Reesor’s Siding Folder 20 Kingston: Fort Henry Folder 21 Kingston: The Great Hunger Celtic Cross Folder 22 Kingston: Immigrants Burying Ground Folder 23 Kingston: Montgomery’s Escape Folder 24 Kingston: Rideau Canal Fountain Workers 8 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folder 25 Kingston: Von Schoultz tombstone Folder 26 Kirkland Lake: Mines Sculpture Folder 27 Lloydtown: Jesse Lloyd Folder 28 London: Middlesex Courthouse Folder 29 London: Tolpuddle Martyrs Folder 30 Markham: Ludwig Wideman Folder 31 Newboro: Rideau Canal Worker Presbyterian Cemetery Folder 32 Newmarket: Heart of the Rebellion Folder 33 Niagara Falls: José Maria de Heredia Folder 34 Niagara Falls: Batlle of Lundy’s Lane Folder 35 Niagara Falls: Black Volunteers Folder 36 Niagara Falls: Navy Island Folder 37 Niagara Falls: arch Folder 38 Niagara-on-the-Lake: Courthouse and Gaol Folder 39 Niagara-on-the-Lake: Fort George Folder 40 Niagara-on-the-Lake: Negro Burial Ground Folder 41 Oakville/Palermo: Taras Shevchenko Folder 42 Oshawa: Fallen Worker Memorial Folder 43 Ottawa: Rideau Canal Workers Folder 44 Ottawa: Mackenzie-Papineau monument Folder 45 Pickering: Peter Matthews Plaque Folder 46 Owen Sound: Underground Railway Museum 9 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Folder 47 Phillipsville: James Philips plaque Folder 48 Port Dover: Fishers Monument Folder 49 Prescott: Battle of the Windmill Folder 50 Prescott: Fort Wellington Folder 51 Queenston: Mackenzie heritage Folder 52 Queenston Heights: Indians in the War of 1812 Folder 53 Queenston Heights: Brock Monument Folder 54 Queenston Heights: Coloured Corps Folder 55 Richmond Hill: Mahatma Gandhi Folder 56 Sarnia: Canada’s First Commune Folder 57 Scotland: Duncombe’s Uprising Folder 58 Seaforth: Van Egmond Museum Tombstone Folder 59 Sparta: Joshua Doan marker Folder 60 Sudbury: 999 Miners Folder 61 St. Catharines: Harriet Ross Tubman Folder 62 St. Thomas: Charles Duncombe plaque Folder 63 Thornhill: Colonel Moodie tombstone Folder 64 Thunder Bay: Rosvall and Voutilainen Folder 65 Thornhill: Milvern Tavern plaque Folder 66 Timmins: Hollingworth Mine Disaster Folder 67 Uxbridge: Joseph Gould tombstone Folder 68 Windsor: Battle of Windsor, 1838 10 MS FRANK, David Papers Coll. 131C Box 11 Research files 19 folders Folder 1 “Art” Folders 2-4 “Artists” Folders 5-6 Canadian Labour History Folders 7-8 Labour history Folder 9 NAC Ottawa Archives Folders 10-11 Art Evans Folders 12-15 Other historical labour material Folder 16 Abella and the HBC Folders 17-19 Documents – SBR Box 12 Audiovisual material: Items in box 1. VHS “Matthews/Lount Ceremony, June 1993” 2.
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