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Work by other illustrators
2024-006/002(09) · File · 1948
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a portrait of a woman drawn by Pullis Panseff, and a Christmas scene by an unidentified artist used as promotional material at Christmas 1948 by J.A. Haugh Manufacturing Company Limited and Haugh's Products Limited of Toronto.

Wartime posters
2024-006/006(02) · File · [194-]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of 4 posters: "Coal fights on all fronts : Pitch in -- Help win, Increase production," designed by Sid Bersudsky and issued on suggestion of Mine Labour-Management Production committees; "Give part of your time to W.V.S. Women's Voluntary Services," designed by Sid Bersudsky for the Department of National War Services, Ottawa; "How about you? Buy Victory Bonds," designed by A.L. MacLaren; and "Exhibition of great paintings lent in aid of the Canadian Red Cross, Art Gallery of Ontario, November 15th to December 15th-1940." The last two posters are mounted on cardboard for display.

Wall finishes
2024-006/004(03) · File · [194-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a graphic design showing children leaving hand prints on walls with text stating that the wall finishes are "easily cleaned with soap and water. Even ink stains wash off!!" The design is printed as a negative.

Victory Bonds advertisements
2024-006/004(04) · File · [194-]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of original designs by Fred Moffatt for store window advertisements promoting the purchase of Victory Bonds, and for a certificate to be given by the Department of Finance to purchasers. The file also includes flyers from Canadian Postage Meters Limited promoting the use of Victory loan slogans in postage meter machines.

Venereal disease posters
2024-006/006(03) · File · [194-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of two posters designed by Sid Bersudsky: "Take no chances : learn the facts about syphilis and gonorrhea," issued by the Nova Scotia Department of Public Health; and "V.D. destroys family life," issued by the Division of Venereal Disease Control, Saskatchewan Department of Public Health, Regina.

Vacuum design
2024-006/010(20) · File · June-July 1980
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of design drawings by Fred Moffatt for the Turbo Head vacuum cleaner manufactured by Canadian General Electric Company Limited, accompanied by a letter from Murray Locke, Product Manager, Home Care Products and a photocopied typescript brochure showing three other models of CGE vacuum cleaners.

2024-006/002(02) · File · 1934
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of two copies of an advertisement featuring a photograph of the Toronto Maple Leafs' Charlie Conacher, the National Hockey League's leading scorer. The ad was produced by Campbell-Ewald Limited. One copy bears the list of publications in which the ad appeared in Nov. 1934. The second copy is the ad as it appeared in "Liberty," 10 Nov. 1934.

2024-006/010(01) · File · [195-]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a complete set of 25 booklets researched by the Junior League of Toronto. Fred Moffatt designed the booklets (layout, lettering, and artwork) and arranged to have them printed in the late 1950s. The booklets were given to the Toronto Board of Education for distribution to school children.

S01090 · Series · 1926-1933
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

Series consists of 56 drawings, prints, and paintings created by Fred Moffatt while a student at Central Technical School (1926-1930) and the Ontario College of Art (1930-1933). The artwork shows Moffatt's work with lino prints, gouache painting, life drawing, lettering and ornamentation, and the design of catalogues and posters. The series also includes six certificates presented to Moffatt for proficiency in life and costume drawing while at the Ontario College of Art.

Storage wall
2024-006/007(02) · File · 1971-1977
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of technical drawings of a 500 Series storage wall with details of cupboard doors and filing drawers.

Space heaters
2024-006/007(01) · File · Nov.-Dec. 1973
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of sketches showing five designs for space heaters, with four versions running from floor to ceiling.

2024-006/002(03) · File · 1935-[194-]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of artwork advertising products such as Carnation Milk (including an advertisement featuring the Dionne quintuplets), General Electric washers and irons, General Food's Grape-Nuts Flakes, Superphalt roof coating, General Electric conduit products, automobile dealerships, Bluebird jewellery, Post cereals, Jell-o, Frigidaire, Shell oil products, Kodak Verichrome film, Victory bonds, La France bluing, and General Electric Radiotrons.

Rachel : dust jacket
2024-006/009(09) · File · [1938]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a dust jacket for the novel "Rachel" written by Agnes Scott Kent and published in Toronto by Evangelical Publishers.

2024-006/009(32) · File · 1941-1942
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of small countertop displays printed on cardboard for Duesberry-Jarrett Printing House Limited and Gorman Engineering Co. Limited. Several of the displays promote the purchase of Victory Bonds.

2024-006/010(21) · File · 1980
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a brochure advertising hair dryers, curling irons, illuminated make-up mirrors, hairsetter, dual-motion toothbrush, and "Zonar" intrusion alarm manufactured by Canadian General Electric Company Limited.

2024-006/006(07) · File · [198-]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of printer's proof sheets of the box art for: General Electric Table-serve Frypan, model SK280; General Electric ElectroTil multi-purpose garden tool; and Black & Decker Lightn' Easy kettle, model KE920WH. The text is in English and French. The kettle packaging provides the six colour separations used for printing.

2024-006/001(11) · File · 1930-1933
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of certificates given to Fred Moffatt for proficiency in life and costume drawing. The certificates are hand-lettered with ornamental capitals, and are signed by the Chairman of the Ontario College of Art.

Medication cup
2024-006/010(09) · File · [196-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of sketches by Fred Moffatt for a device possibly intended to dispense medication. The design bears the logo for the Canadian General Electric Company Limited.

Lotte lamps
2024-006/010(11) · File · [196-]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a booklet listing the models produced by a company located in Oak Ridges, Ontario, as well as information about the company's founders and design principles.

Langley's cleaners
2024-006/009(46) · File · [194-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a drawing prepared by Fred Moffatt showing a woman speaking on a telephone, a man and woman holding up garments back from the cleaners, and a folded dress shirt.

Kettles : design drawings
2024-006/009(17) · File · [19--]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of sketches by Fred Moffatt of several models of electric kettles, including one with a built-in sole plate that would allow a person to pour a cup of instant coffee and iron a shirt at the same time, another with a built-in asbestos mitt-handle, and another with a plexiglass shield with a steam-operated wiper.

Kettles
2024-006/005(08) · File · 1986-1989
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a technical drawing for a revised appearance prototype of auto-off kettle switch button and escutcheon, 2 Feb. 1986, and a design drawing for a kettle, 3 Nov. 1989.

Kettles
2024-006/005(09) · File · 1996-2000
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of 22 design drawings and 34 technical drawings for various models of electric kettles including the CGE Auto II Boil'n Simmer kettle, model KE880, as well as correspondence by Glenn Moffatt regarding assembly instructions for an attachment system for a new handle assembly and a method to retain the handle and spout. File also includes reference catalogues for kettles by various manufacturers, and sketches by Harold Shifman.

2024-006/010(02) · File · [1964}
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a vinyl recording by Louis Armstrong and The All Stars with "Hello Dolly!" on one side and "A lot of livin' to do" on the other. The recording's dust sleeve features a cap worn by a member of a marching band and the text, "Manufactured in Canada by Phonodisc."

Immigration poster
2024-006/006(04) · File · [194-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a poster designed by Sid Bersudsky for the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Ottawa: "Why Canada? Because you will ... Be Welcome, Feel at Home, Find Rewarding Opportunities."

2024-006/010(03) · File · Jan. 1966
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a booklet that was prepared by Canadian General Electric Company Limited as a supplement to the home furnishings daily advertisement, 10 Jan. 1966. The booklet contains "6 good packaging reasons why you should go with General Electric," and features illustrations of the packaging for its small appliances.

2024-006/010(42) · File · 1982-1987
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a summary of the design services provided by Glenn Moffatt with illustrations of his work, accompanied by photographs of Black & Decker kettles and packaging designs, a portable heater, a vacuum cleaner, and slow cookers.

2024-006/002(08) · File · [194-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of original artwork prepared by Fred Moffatt with comments on cropping and tinting written in the margins in pencil, as well as a proof sheet of the printed advertisement.

2024-006/010(17) · File · [197-]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a photograph showing the components of a food processor manufactured by Canadian General Electric Company Limited, and an image of its box art in English and French.

2024-006/009(48) · File · [1949]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of photographs of the floor polisher and an advertisement promoting its purchase, and a brochure produced by the Canadian General Electric Company Limited for model CS-11. File also includes a description of the product from the Canadian Design Index.

GE slow cooker
2024-006/010(24) · File · [1982]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of photographs of a slow cooker manufactured by Canadian General Electric Company Limited. The images were used for marketing the product.

2024-006/010(04) · File · 1966-1969
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of sketches by Fred Moffatt for packaging Canadian General Electric Company Limited's small appliances, as well as a memorandum from C.F. Colvin regarding new copy on the cartons for the K50 and K60 kettle models, 19 May 1967.

GE electric slicing knife
2024-006/009(59) · File · [1958?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of two tags for the cordless rechargeable knife manufactured by the Canadian General Electric Company Limited. The text on both tags is written in English and French.

GE Downsview Works
2024-006/009(55) · File · 24 Sep. 1952
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of a programme for the official opening of the building constructed for the Canadian General Electric Company Limited, including a history of the project.

GE automatic blanket
2024-006/009(61) · File · [195-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of three copies of the design for a label for a product manufactured by the Canadian General Electric Company Limited. The design is produced on clear plastic.

Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds
F0810 · Fonds · 1922-2001

Fonds consists of drawings, photographs, posters, and textual documents created by or for Fred and Glenn Moffatt in the course of their careers as industrial designers. The holdings include: Fred Moffatt’s artwork created for his courses at Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto between 1926 and 1933; graphic material and textual records used in the development of product literature, packaging, and advertising material for print media and point-of-purchase displays for various clients but especially for household electrical appliances manufactured by the Canadian General Electric Company Limited and Black & Decker Canada Incorporated, 1933 to 1998; and drawings that track the development of appliances, in particular electric kettles, from conceptual designs to the technical drawings required for manufacturing from the late 1930s to 2001. The fonds also includes award certificates, a small amount of correspondence regarding design projects, and information about F.E. Moffatt Limited.

Moffatt, Fred
Force multi-heat hotplate
2024-006/002(07) · File · [194-?]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of printer's colour separations for an advertisement featuring a drawing of the hotplate and its burner/switch configurations. The prints were produced by Reliance Engravers Limited.

2024-006/003(01) · File · [195-]
Part of Fred and Glenn Moffatt fonds

File consists of sketches, designs, and two photographic negatives, printer's proof sheets, and printed album covers for the Federation of Ontario Naturalists' recording series, "Sounds of Nature," featuring bird songs. The file also includes the masthead for "Park News," and an invitation to a private showing of sketches in oils by Tom Thomson, J.E.H. MacDonald, Lawren Harris, and A.Y. Jackson, 20 Jan. 1959.