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Series consists of various writings by Osborne J. Pierce, including autobiographical prose works, essays, short stories, speeches, notes and outlines.

File contains letters of recommendation for Osborne J. Pierce.

File includes correspondence of Winifred Mabel Pierce, Caroline Little Pierce, Osborne J. Pierce, Annie Louise Taylor, and L.D. Taylor, including several letters between L.D. Taylor and Osborne J. Pierce, and postcards from a trip that L.D. took to Winnipeg, Montreal and New York City. Included also are several postcards from California, Seattle, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Victoria and Vancouver, B.C.

Original file folder was inscribed with the following notes by Ted Taylor: "Pierces to Catalina St., L.A.; Summer '05 - WMP at Catalina St."

File includes various short stories, notes, outlines and other writings, mostly of an autobiographical nature, filed loosely in a portfolio folder.

File consists of the contract between L.D. Taylor and Victor Odlum for money towards the purchase of The World Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd.

Series consists of two photograph albums assembled by Annie Louise Taylor. Includes baby and childhood photographs of Theodore Pierce and Kenneth Osborn Taylor, Taylor family group photographs, individual photographs of Annie and L.D. Taylor and Caroline Little Pierce, and interior and exterior photographs of the Taylor's Fairview home.

File consists of correspondence of Annie Louise Taylor, L.D. Taylor, Osborne J. Pierce, Winifred Mabel Pierce and Caroline Little Pierce, as well as newspaper clippings, two photographs, a notebook, and a report card. File contains material relating to Osborne and Caroline's trip to Vancouver in 1906, including a notebook in which Osborne documents places visited and photographs taken during the trip. File also includes postcards from various places in the United States and Canada, including ones sent to Vancouver by L.D. Taylor during a trip to the United States and central Canada.

Original file folder was inscribed with the following notes by Ted Taylor: "1906, Jan[uary]-Aug[ust]: T[heodore] T[aylor] finish school Vancouver; O[sborne] J. P[ierce] trip north, June to July; J[un]e '06, summer, Pierces O[sborne] J. P[ierce]-C[aroline] L[ittle] P[ierce]-W[inifred] M[abel] P[ierce] at Alberni Street, Vancouver B.C."

File consists of photographs assembled in an album by Annie Louise Taylor. Includes individual and group photographs of Theodore Pierce, Kenneth Osborn, Annie Louise and L.D. Taylor; interior and exterior views of the Taylor family home at the corner of Willow Street and 8th Avenue in Fairview; and one photograph of Caroline Little Pierce.

File consists of drawings and paintings by Theodore (Ted) Taylor, a notice of assignment to school in Los Angeles, and four photographs.

File consists of receipts and cleared cheques.

File consists of a newspaper clipping, a card, Theodore Taylor report cards, and incoming correspondence to Theodore Taylor, including letters from Annie Louise Taylor, Winifred Mabel Pierce and L.D. Taylor.

File includes correspondence of Annie Louise Taylor, L.D. Taylor, Osborne J. Pierce, Caroline Little Pierce, Winifred Mabel Pierce and Theodore Taylor. Includes letters from L.D. to Caroline and Theodore, and letters from Annie to Caroline concerning her move to California. File also contains several postcards from the United States, Canada and England, a map of acreage in Township 4, Jefferson County, Oklahoma, Osborne's chequebook, 1901-1902, and other financial records.

Original file folder was inscribed with the following notes by Ted Taylor: "A[nnie] L[ouise] T[aylor]-K[enneth] T[aylor]-T[heodore] T[aylor] to CA, Nov (1 to 11); 19 Nov '06 - T[heodore] T[aylor] 4th grade Berendo; Sep '06 A[nnie] L[ouise] T[aylor] to C[aroline] L[ittle] P[ierce], while C[aroline] L[ittle] P[ierce] Vancouver and O[sborne] J. P[ierce] Tacoma, till joined C[aroline] L[ittle] P[ierce] to 1317 Catalina St. L.A.; 1 Nov. '06 - rent 1420 from Judson, $22 month; 16 Nov. - A[nnie] L[ouise] T[aylor] [?] to L.A., T[heodore] T[aylor] learns about grape harvest and goes hunting, Berendo [4th] grade, back of Amy, cross from Doris?"

File includes property deeds, related correspondence and other legal documents concerning property owned by Osborne J. and Caroline Little Pierce in River Forest, Illinois, and Los Angeles.
Note by Ted Taylor on original file folder reads "J[un]e to July '08 - selling Chic[ago] to buy H[olly]w[oo]d?"

Series consists of records relating to Osborne J. Pierce's career as an architect and his position as a Superintendent of Drawing for the City of Chicago Department of Public Instruction. Records include correspondence, letters of recommendation, account books, notebooks and journals, a patent, a report, certificates, a book, a directory, business cards and advertisements.
Additional material intermingled with these records includes poetry and prose by Osborne J. Pierce, including autobiographical prose, family history notes, photographs, watercolours and drawings.

File includes correspondence of Annie Louise Taylor, L.D. Taylor, Winifred Mabel Pierce, Caroline Little Pierce, Kenneth Taylor and Theodore Taylor. File also includes financial records, Theodore Taylor's report card, a newspaper clipping and postcards from the United States and Japan.

File consists of cards and pamphlets produced by organizations that the Pierce family was involved with, Annie Louise Taylor financial records and outgoing correspondence, and correspondence from Caroline Little Pierce to Winifred Mabel Pierce.

Original file folder was inscribed with the following notes by Ted Taylor: "May '08 O[sborne] J. P[ierce] and C[aroline] L[ittle] P[ierce] move from Catalina St. to Lexington at Swan"

File consists of a letter to L.D. Taylor from Theodore Taylor.

Series consists of photographs taken by Osborne J. Pierce. Includes some self-portraits and a photograph album containing scenic cyanotype and silver gelatin photographs taken in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Niagara Falls and Chicago, Illinois. Includes photographs of the Pierce family homestead in Albion, Maine.

File includes outgoing correspondence of L.D. Taylor and Osborne J. Pierce and incoming correspondence of Annie Louise Taylor, Kenneth Taylor, Theodore Taylor, Caroline Little Pierce and Osborne J. Pierce, including a letter from L.D. to Osborne. File also includes financial records of Annie Louise Taylor, Theodore Taylor membership cards, and postcards from the United States.

File consists of a photograph, postcard, invitation and newspaper clipping.