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Light-blue t-shirt with pink image and "Fighting Racism and Sexism Together! - International Women's Day 1987" written in white text.

The banner is composed of black fabric with white letters sewn on with white thread. The banner For Every Woman Raped in Every War has been produced by the Political Action Committee of the Women’s Centre of Ottawa and used with the poem of the same…

Leathers and parchments could be dyed so as to add colour to their external covers; they could also be painted. This third edition of the works of Olympia Morata, humanist, poet and linguist, of Italian origin, is an example of a parchment that has…

Rectangular button with white text on blue and grey background with a white dove.

Correspondence with NAC, pertaining to the installation of Jeanne Sauvé Day as Governor General of Canada.

This photograph shows a group of women holding [voting ballot] cards, in the air, likely at a NAC meeting or assembly.

This group photograph, from the Joseph Staško Fonds, contains men, women, children and artists participating and attending the Milán R. Štefánik Award given to Emanuel T. Böhm at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York (New York), 26 April…

Round blue pale button with black lettering and flower

The item consists of a blue poster with details on groups and services for immigrant women. The poster includes the location and map of Working Women Community Centre.

This first example is that of what is termed an “armorial binding”, where the coat of arms of an aristocratic family will serve to indicate ownership on a book’s binding. Such bindings are executed with exquisite care and a family’s arms are tooled…