Fonds consists of correspondence, brochures, clippings from newspapers and magazines, curriculum vitae, reports, original artwork, photographs (black and white prints and colour transparencies), financial records, speeches, exhibit catalogues, typographical research files, audio recordings, appointment diaries, awards, and design objects created or accumulated by Allan Fleming during his career as a graphic designer, teacher, and administrator. Topics of these records include: previous generations of his family in Scotland; his secondary school education; his years in England working with English typographers; his marriage to Nancy Chisholm; their relationship with Richard Outram and Barbara Howard; work at Cooper & Beatty Ltd., MacLaren Advertising, University of Toronto Press and other firms; the work of typographers such as Eric Gill and Carl Dair; Fleming's work for a wide variety of corporate clients (including Ontario Hydro, Trent University, the Hudson's Bay Company, Gray Coach, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian National Railway, Massey College, and the City of Toronto); television scripts; book and stamp design; his involvement in design juries; exhibitions of his work; book collecting; his declining health after a heart attack in 1971; and his death in 1978.
Fonds consists of the records of the Director's Office (1959-1967), including correspondence, development planning materials, plans, and reports concerning the early planning and development of the university.
UntitledThe fonds consists of research notes and typescripts for Tyrwhitt's books "The mill," "Bartlett's Canada," "How the Depression hit the West," "The exodus of the Japanese," and "The sinking of the I'm alone"; typescripts, research and correspondence regarding for articles published in Maclean's, Reader's digest, Saturday night, The Star weekly, Canadian living, the Old farmer's almanac, and other magazines; typescripts, research, and correspondence for chapters published in "Alberta in the 20th century"; editorial appraisals for Pierre Berton's manuscripts; notes made as a researcher for "The Pierre Berton show"; reports on manuscripts for Macmillan's, McClelland and Stewart, Longman's, Oberon Press, and other Canadian book publishers; notes as an editor for the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; correspondence with writers (including Pierre Berton, Ernest Buckler, Mark Gayn, Robert Kroetsch, Yves Theriault, Adele Wiseman, Sean O'Faolain, George Ronald, and others), editors, and others.
UntitledThe fonds consists of material related to John Smith's personal life and to his professional career as a writer, producer and director. It includes screenplays, draft notes for works in progress, shot lists, story boards, call lists and shooting schedules, casting and contact lists, correspondence, research files, press clippings, financial records, and selected printing elements for 16mm and 35mm productions, rough assemblies, rushes and outs on VHS and Beta videocassettes and DVDs.
The fonds is organized into the following series:
UntitledFile consists of technical drawings of a 500 Series storage wall with details of cupboard doors and filing drawers.
File consists of sketches showing five designs for space heaters, with four versions running from floor to ceiling.
File consists of tags used with Models K45 and K50.
File consists of a photograph of Canadian General Electric's K 60 kettle, accompanied by a description of the product by the Canadian Design Index.
File consists of photographs of various models of electric kettles designed by Fred Moffatt, and an article by Charles Whipp, "Whatever happened to the electric kettle?," Bruce County "Marketplace," July 1993, 52.
File consists of Fred Moffatt's design for a display and a photograph of the final product.
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.
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.
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.
File consists of drawings showing oblique aerial views of Canadian General Electric's buildings in Lachine, Peterborough, and Toronto.
File consists of a drawing featuring a battered metal cup that was prepared for the Public Health Engineering Division of the Department of National Health & Welfare.
File consists of a drawing of figures in costumes holding hands around a Christmas tree decorated with candles.
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.
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.
File consists of an advertisement for free Community China when purchasing Community Plate cutlery. The advertisement was published in "Chatelaine."
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.
- Cut-Ups (straight version); 2. Cut-Ups (echo effects); 3. w/Barbara Ann
The fonds documents Andrew Tomcik's career as a professor, graphics designer and consultant. It includes correspondence, writings, design examples, design work and posters created by Tomcik for corporate clients and York University, such as silkscreen and lithographic pieces. Also included are prints, notes, clippings, conference material, student projects, slides, teaching files for his history of design course, design books and magazines.
UntitledFile consists of slides of modern architecture, keyed to two books, included. Photos were taken by Tomcik on a trip to Columbus, Louisville, Kentucky & Pleasant Hill, Shaker community in the summer of 1989.