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April 22, 2010
Vol. 10, No.4

Special Collections’ Digital Collections

Visit Special Collections' digital collections page. The first online exhibit is "Views of Berlin and Kitchener: Local Souvenir Albums." This featured collection contains a selection of souvenir booklets depicting Berlin/Kitchener at the turn of the 20th century.

The digitized albums “tell part of the story about how Berlin became the industrial city of Kitchener.”

Souvenir of Berlin, ca. 1895Kitchener: A Canadian Industrial City, ca. 1930sSouvenir of Berlin, ca. 1914

Souvenir albums include:

This collection is an outgrowth of a project to digitize and make available material in the special collections and archives to provide researchers with greater access to this rich content.

This digital collection is just the beginning for Special Collections, so look for more digital collections to come.

For more information, contact:


Archivist, Special Collections
Ext. 35754

, Communications and Liaison Librarian
, Co-ordinator, Library Communications and Web Management
, Assistant, Library Communications and Web Development

April 22, 2010