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This exquisite example of a mark of ownership is not even that of a book owner but that of a bookseller in Glasgow, Scotland, who had this item for sale in their shop. This practice ensured that this item could be traced back to its original point of…

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…

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.

Round blue pale button with black lettering and flower

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…