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Image references

Images shown at the top of this page from left to right include:

  1. Act II - Madame Laurent: "You kiss me, or I'll scream." Miss Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle in Only a Farmer's Daughter
  2. Cottage for E.J. Trow, Esquire in Muskoka Architectural drawing
  3. Portrait of unidentified Black family, Alvin D. McCurdy fonds
  4. Hon. James K. Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
  5. The international railway guide : giving the time-tables of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada and of all railways connecting Canada and the United States, August 1867
  6. Memoir of the distinguished [Mohawk chief], sachem and warrior, Capt. Joseph Brant
  7. Mother and children, Fort Severn
  8. Flower Pot Island, Department of Travel and Publicity