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"Water" postcard album

Correspondence postcards and photographs of international watermills. The other postcards were removed from the album and placed in the Watlington Postcard and Art Collection.

"Virginia & U.S.A. Canals"

Material relating to canals in Virginia and Ontario, Canada. The file includes leaflets on the James River and Kanawha Canal, Virginia, canal parks in old Virginia, and the Trent-Severn Waterway, Ontario.Other items include "The Tiller" volume 3 issue 2 by the Virginia Canals & Navigations Society, Inc., a calendar showing pictures of covered bridges, and a photocopy article entitled " Power Plants of the Morris & Essex Canal" by Hugh Boutell.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

"U.S. & Canada Windmills"

File contains photocopies of articles, and research notes relating windmills in California, Cape Cod, Illinois, Kansas, Long Island, New Jersey, South Dakota, and other States and Provinces in the U.S.A. and Canada.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

Research notes

Bundle of research notes on:

  • a draft address/paper relating to the Newcomen Society and the emergence of the term, 'Industrial Archaeology' (pre 1970);
  • Thaxted Mill (30 November 1964);
  • Broxted Mill (24 July 1938);
  • an unidentified author's 'list of Post Mills In Essex that I know' addressed to 'Mr Wailes';
  • brief typed notes on mills at South Ockenden, Stock and Southminster (undated);
  • 8 pages of notes taken from the 'Historic Monuments Commission of the Province of Quebec' (Proulx, 1928) and from the 'Legal Archives of Quebec'. The focus is on historic 'Banal' and 'Seignorial' mills of Canada, including those listed at 'Place access points' below as well as notes about several unindexed mills (a 'First known mill on the Island of Orleans', 'Windmill [or Banal Mill] Saint Famille','The Mill Pointe aux Trembles', 'Fleming Mill, Ville La Salle', 'The Banal Mill, Vinceloth Signeur, Cap Saint Ignace', 'The Banal Mill, Grondines', 'old windmills at Fort Erie, Niagara and Windmill Point, Prescott' and the 'Old Windmill Sandwich'. An unidentified mill at 'Saint Plerve' is also noted;
  • a brief note on the depiction of mills in art, 'This is not place to illustrate derelicts but mills when in their glory...' (undated);
  • labels for plates in a paper or book, most of the items depicted being described as, 'in the possession of the author', for example, 'Puzzle jug inscribed, 'The Miller, the house & the mill but where is the Donkey'.

Photographs of windmills in USA, Canada and Yemen

Photograph wallet containing 13 photographs and six negative strips The photographs appear to have been taken by Jon Sass of Rex Wailes' photographs. The negatives have more images than there are photographs. Windmills shown are: South Brewster Mill, Massachusetts; brine pumping mills, Aden; tower mill, Detroit, Michigan; Verchères, Quebec; pumping mill, Mont Joli, Quebec; Trois-Rivières Mill, Quebec; five unidentified smock mills, Rhode Island.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

North American mills and milling industries files

Files containing correspondence, photographs, notes, and ephemera on various wind and water mills and related industries in the United States of America, Canada, and the Caribbean. Industries include sugar mills; salt mills; cider mills; dye mills; flax, hemp and textile mills; paper mills; colour mills; whiting mills; rice mills; ironworks; bridges; canals; hydroelectric power; saw mills; tide mills.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

Miscellaneous North American mill material

The box contains the "Final Report on the Preliminary Examination of the Equipment at the Wakefield Grist Mill [Canada]" (1980); a list of USA Wind energy information sources (1977); a list of wind generator manufacturers and dealers (1978); a checklist of combined wind/watermills around the world; a copy of SPOOM Research "Old Mill Powertrains" by Clark Männ (2004); a box of slides labelled "Making 'tub' wheel N.C. USA - from Foxfire Magazine"; photograph of Experimental Wind Turbine, Howard's Knob, North Carolina.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

Kerr Canning Collection

  • KERR
  • Collection
  • 2012-2015

Digital images of the remains of Apple River saw mill, Canada.

Canning, Kerr

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