New exhibit : Trips, tours, and voyages

If you have not made any summer travel plans, you should visit the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room and travel around the world alongside some early adventurers! Special Collections & Archives is pleased to announce the launch of a new travel exhibit, “Trips, tours, and voyages”.

We’re highlighting trip diaries, scrapbooks, early postcards, images, and published chronicles from our archival collections and rare books. Of special note is film footage from the 1936 Berlin Olympics taken by Norman C. Schneider of Kitchener, who reported on the Olympics for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. This exhibit runs until the end of August.

Front cover of Travel first class : free guide 1949-50, published in 1949 by Quality Courts United Inc. Donated as part of the Breithaupt Hewetson Clark collection. Call number: E1655.

Front cover of Ontario, for a refreshing vacation, published in the 1950s. Donated as part of the Breithaupt Hewetson Clark collection. Call number: H2506.