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We see here not one but two ex-libris on the front endpaper. The second owner (or another person entirely) has scraped out the name of his predecessor, which was located below a coat of arms surrounded by the following motto: “Mallem Mori Quam…

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White button with black lettering and design: woman's face in the centre, "Rosemary Brown / NDP leader" around the border.

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This poster announces the International Women’s Day activities in Toronto for 1984. The poster shows a crowd of female figures at the bottom, holding letter placards to form the words “RISE UP”. The theme of this year was Rise up for issues including…

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The file contains the first report of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund.

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Published by Fleury Mesplet (1734-1794), this physically tiny work would be the first work printed by Mesplet after his arrival in Montréal in 1776. After leaving Lyon for Avignon, London and Philadelphia, Mesplet settled in Montréal on the…

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This document consists of a song sheet from the Toronto group "Red Berets". This song sheet was used at the Toronto International Women's Day in 1983.

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In this work and in others, we see very fine lines in red that delineate different spaces on the page for the printed text. This work carries over the medieval practice used by manuscript copyists, that is, the ruling of spaces in the text in…

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This manuscript has a relatively simple outer binding, but its interior is decorated with paper embossed in gold, probably dating to the 20th century.
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