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Colour slide showing the Audio Visual Library room nearing completion during the Welland Public Library building extension construction, June 13, 1975.

The slide is part of a photographic record of 600 images to document the construction work…

With the new space added by the extension, the Audio-Visual Department was able to house 8- & 16-mm films, records , 8 track music and videos tapes! During the 80's, Laser discs and sheet music were added to the collection, as well grow our Video…

Two colour slides showing the new Audio-Visual room during the Welland Public Library building extension construction, July 1975.

The slides are part of a photographic record of 600 images to document the construction work undertaken to expand the…

Black and white photographic print of the Australian convict ship "Success" which was built in Burma in 1790 as a merchant ship, later fitted as a prison ship to sail between England and Australia. Was for many years used for trade on the Great…

Black and white photograph of the Auto Mechanics shop interior in the new Vocational School building at Welland High, c. 1930.

Colour slide of a view of the auto-mechanics class at Welland High & Vocational School, August 1976. The picture is unfortunately very blurry.

Typewritten pages of an autobiography by L.D. Raymond. The text would have been handwritten sometime between 1880-1890, and was copied with a typewriter at an unknown date.

Lorenzo Dulmage Raymond was the first Crown Attorney, Clerk of the Peace,…

Two colour slides showing the automatic typesetting machine at Welland Tribune, November 11, 1963.

From the Orline Clements Memorial Collection. There are slides 13-14 of 55 of what would have been a slideshow to demonstrate the steps taken to…

Early 1990's


Opacs replaced the Card Catalogue as a new way of searching for material.
Books were now circulated in and out using the new automated system.

Two black and white photos showing famous jockey Avelino Gomez reminding us of the Fort Erie Race Track opening date on April 8, January 26, 1961. The gathering was the annual Sports Celebrities dinner in Toronto and he visited the Welland party…