Items · My Star Predominant: Essex County’s Raymond Knister

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Windsor Streets Map

Browning Family

BME Member Roll - 1935

Boyd Family

BME Member Roll - 1935

Allen Family

BME Member Roll - 1935

Alexander Family

BME Member Roll - 1935

Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

Free Methodist Church

North American Masonic Lodge No. 11

Northstar Masonic Lodge No. 7

1029 McDougall Street

Harrison Memorial

810 Mercer Street

Perry Family (also location of Verandah Inn)

BME Member Roll - 1935

Dr. Roy Perry & Dr. Henry Taylor's Office

Fellowship of Coloured Churches Credit Union

Later located at 188 Erie Street East

Mercer Street School

No longer operated as a school after 1946

Frontier Social Club / Landrum Hall

452-454 McDougall Street

Walker House Hotel

309-325 McDougall Street

First Baptist Church

Tanner African Methodist Church Parsonage

Tanner African Methodist Church

British Methodist Episcopal Church

The Hawk panel

The panel from the original exhibit for "The Hawk," with a photo of a red-tailed hawk as a background.

Side of a large rectangular red brick building with a grey roof. There is a curved room protruding from the building face, and a wooden porch at the back. The lawn is brown and the tree beside the curved wall has no leaves.

Stevenson Schoolhouse 3

The side profile of the building, formerly a schoolhouse from the 1920s, has now been converted into a family dwelling.

Photo of a red brick building, with an angled grey roof and a small white bell tower without the bell. There is a wooden porch visible on the left side, at the back of the building. There are 4-5 trees on the sides of the building and lawn, with their leaves missing for winter. The sign at the top of the building's front facade reads "Union School Section No 9 Romney-Tilbury East 1920," and was an original part of the structure when it was a schoolhouse.

Stevenson Schoolhouse 2

The building, formerly a schoolhouse from the 1920s, has now been converted into a family dwelling.

Photo of a red brick building, with an angled grey roof and a small white bell tower without the bell. There are trees on the sides of the building and lawn, with their leaves missing for winter. The sign at the top of the building's front facade reads "Union School Section No 9 Romney-Tilbury East 1920," and was an original part of the structure when it was a schoolhouse.

Stevenson Schoolhouse

The building, formerly a schoolhouse from the 1920s, has now been converted into a family dwelling.

A typewritten ledger with the title: "Accounts of money received for writing." The first section is for 1923. From left to write there are columns for the date, the kind of work, and the amount earned. In 1923 he earned $314 with 17 different sources of income. The bottom section is for 1924, and is a lot more sparse; has no dates and only three entries, but one of them "J. T. F," standing for John T. Frederick, has earnings of $120. In 1924 he earned $177.50. The 1924 section looks incomplete because it's lacking the dates and final sum that is present in the 1923 section.

Raymond Knister's personal account ledger 2

A ledger of Raymond Knister's earnings from his writing work for 1923 and 1924.

Messy handwritten ledger of earnings. The top section is December 1920-March 1921. There is a column for the date, the source of the work, pay, and times written for that publication. In this period he earned $481.30. The bottom sections covers December 1921-January 1923. He earns $1189 in this period when adding everything he's listed. However he's written his total sum as $1109.

Raymond Knister's personal account ledger

A ledger of Raymond Knister's earnings from his writing work for Dec 1920-Mar 1921, and Dec 1921-Jan 1923.

Cover of The Buccaneer, Winter Edition, 1926

Cover of the Winter 1926 issue of "The Buccaneer: A Journal of Poetry" from Dallas, Texas, where Raymond Knister's poem "The Plowman's Song" was published.

Sketch of Raymond Knister

Raymond Knister

Essays on Canadian Writing Magazine, Winter 1979-80, table of contents

Table of contents from Essays on Canadian Writing Magazine, Winter 1979-80, with annotation from Imogen Knister Givens.

"Raymond Knister—Man or Myth?", page 18

Page 18 of "Raymond Knister—Man or Myth?" with annotations by Imogen Knister Givens

"Raymond Knister—Man or Myth?", page 10

Page 10 of "Raymond Knister—Man or Myth?", with annotations by Imogen Knister Givens.

"Raymond Knister—Man or Myth?", page 07

Page 07 of "Raymond Knister—Man or Myth?", with annotations by Imogen Knister Givens.

"Raymond Knister—Man or Myth?", page 05

First page of "Raymond Knister—Man or Myth?", with Imogen Knister Givens' name handwritten by her at top of page.

First page of "The Fate of Mrs. Lucier" by Raymond Knister

First page of Elaine by Raymond Knister

Title page of This Quarter, No. 3

Title page of This Quarter, No. 3 edited by Ethel Moorhead.

Dedication to Ezra Pound

Handwritten dedication to Ezra Pound by Ernest Walsh, in issue 1 of the 1st volume of This Quarter.

Itinerant Workers on Cart During Hop Growing Season

Faded black and white photograph of itinerant workers during hop growing season at Hiram Walker Farms in Sandwich East Township; there are a large number of men, women and children in the photograph; in the foreground are two carts full of people in dark coats and hats; each cart is being pulled by two horses; in front of the first cart, in the bottom right corner of the photograph, is a little boy in a white jacket; in the background there are several more carts filled with people, several farm buildings and a number of people standing on a stack of filled bags; there are also some people standing in a tree in the background, centre, of the photograph