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The fonds contains correspondence (1891-1899) for Ontario Agricultural College Professor William Richard Graham (1875-1958) and his wife, Kathleen Faul. Several of Professor Graham’s calendar diaries, from 1928, 1932, 1939-1948, 1950-1953, and 1955-1957, are also included.

Title taken from contents of the collection. The collection consists of landscape architectural drawings, working papers, master plans and files for various commercial and residential projects, both local and regional. Some of these also include conservation areas and provincial parks, various sand and gravel companies, and construction companies. Guelph projects include the University of Guelph Arboretum and College/Gordon St., Centennial area, McCrae Legion sports fields, Homewood Sanitarium, Woodlawn Towers, Bullfrog Mall, various other street, residence and business projects.

Collection contains the diaries of William E. Ricker. Handwritten. Photocopies Includes daily diaries, bird notes and journals, trip logs and notes, and reminiscences. Books 1 and 2 also contain his bird journals, Dec. 1923-June 1924; book 26 also has reminiscences written in the early 1990's on selected topics. Biography and obituary of W.E. Ricker (in "FishBytes", Sept./Oct. 2001) in box 1.

The collection contains photographs, posters, brochures, and other materials related to William “Bill” Ernest Hamilton, Ontario Agricultural College graduate (1924-1928) and Member of Provincial Parliament for Wellington South. A small booklet entitled "Guelph, Ontario: The Royal City", issued for the Mayor and Council of the City of Guelph by Heaton's Agency, Toronto (1919), is also included.

The collection consists of original drawings by William Henry Barlett and other material collected by George Henry Virtue of Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., Barlett's publisher. The collection consists of forty-nine wash drawings and pencil sketches, as well as books, primarily on religion and travel which are illustrated. The four books illustrated in the hard-cover album are: Footsteps of our Lord and his Apostles in Syria, Greece, and Italy, 1851; Pictures from Sicily, early 1853; The Pilgrim Fathers or The Founders of New England, in the Reign of James the first, late 1853; and Jerusalem Revisited, 1855. All were published in London by Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co.

The collection also includes several articles about Bartlett and Virtue by Eugene C. Worman, 1987-1993, chiefly published in AB Bookman and article about the collection published in the American Historical Print Collectors Society Newsletter, v.19, no. 2, Fall 1994.

Fonds consist of materials created and collected by William Hutt in his personal life and professional career. Approximately half the material includes correspondence, reviews and articles, Hutt’s diary from the Second World War and scripts. Published plays served as Hutt’s rehearsal scripts and feature his annotations.

Fonds contains "Send out the army and the navy: the diary of Lieutenant William Joseph O'Brien (#89078) of the Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force, March 17, 1915 to May 9, 1919" by W. H. O'Brien, editor. File includes a biography and picture of W. J. O'Brien (Appendix A and B), and an article entitled "Trial by fire: CFA in W.W.I.", which mentions Colonel George Drew, reprinted from the Royal Military College newspaper "The Arch" (Appendix C); handwritten notes by the donor regarding the above addenda

The William Macenery Brown collection contains an original typescript of Brown’s book, “The Queen's Bush: A Tale Of The Early Days Of Bruce County”, published in 1932. A portrait of Brown (b&w, 25 x 33 cm.) as well as original pen and ink sketches done by Roy Fisher, featured in “The Queen’s Bush,” from 1922.

The collection contains resource material including various submissions relating to William Malcolm Drummond (1897-1965) as a member of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects and Milk Industry (1944-1956). Material related to OAC’s Feed Industry Business Management Course (1959-1963) and the Stewart H. Lane Commemorative Fund (1955), is also included.