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Automatic sprinklers, Fire Insurance, and Air Bolter

The first two cuttings deal with an automatic sprinkler used in the Shawmut wood pulp mill, New England, USA. The third cutting discusses the sprinklers and insurance for Resolution Mill, Tyldesley, and the last three cuttings are on a discussion in the Canadian Miller about Air Bolters.

Canadian Miller

"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.

Kerr Canning Collection

  • KERR
  • Collection
  • 2012-2015

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

Canning, Kerr

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'.

"Canada"

Information on Keremeos Mill, British Colombia, Canada including photographs, notes, a report on the mill machinery by Charles Howell. Ephemera on other British Colbia mills.

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

"Canadian Windmills"

Notes, correspondence, photographs and photocopies of articles, publications relating to Canadian windmills including: "A History of Windmills and their place in Canadian life"; copies of letter to Rex Wailes from Edmonton Parks relating to Fort Edmonton windmill; photocopy of "The Toronto Star, June 14 1975 titled "Distillery replaced windmill"; copy of volume 3, no. 3 1976 of "Windmill Whispers", newsletter of the Windmill Study Unit o the American Topical Association; photocopy of "The Mills of Old Quebec"; photocopy of "The Windsor Border Region" by Ernest Lajeunese (1960); envelope containing the Mennonite Village Museum guidebook, a letter to Jon Sass declining his application for a windmill trainee at the museum, magazine produced by the museum about the Steinbach windmill; photocopied list of 14 photographs of French-Canadian windmills; photographs of Steinbach windmill and a tower mill at Ile aux Coudres, Quebec.

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

"Early Virginia Ironworks inc. Falling Creek"

Various correspondence, ephemera and photocopies of articles and publications relating to ironworks and iron making in Virginia, including: "The First American Blast Furnace" in The Virginia Magazine, volume 70 (July 1962); "Blast Furnace Technoogy in the Mid-19th Century: A Case Study of the Adirondack Iron and Steel Company" by Bruce Seely; three leaflets relating to Hopwell Village, Pennsylvania, Marmora Pioneer Iron Town, Canada, and Eagle Iron Works, Pennsylvania; printout of "Exploratory Excavations at the First Ironworks in America" by Howard MacCord (September 1964); "Raw Materials Supply and Technological Change in the American Charcoal Iron Industry" by R. Schallenberg and D. Ault; photocopy pages from Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, Local History Bulletin No. 54 relating to Virginia ironworks.

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

"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

"Canadian Mills Grain, Textile, Saw"

Material relating to flour, textile and saw mills in Quebec and Ontario, Canada. The file contains leaflets on Upper Canada Village; Watson's Mill, Manotick; Peterborough Lift Lock. Other items include a photocopy article entitled "Historic Mills of Quebec" by Fred Bruemmer; clipping showing "Canada's oldest operating mill" in Ontario; newspaper cutting about Charles Howell, millwright.

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

"Canada - Ottawa"

Material relating to mills and canals in Canada. The file includes a booklet on the Rideau Canal, and mentions mills along the waterway; three books by the National Capital Commission on "Parliament Hill", "The Mile of History", and "Bytown A guide to Lowertown Ottawa", and non-mill photographs of Toronto.

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

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