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Lefty literature collection

This subseries contains copies of leftist literature pertaining to political and social justice movements that Adams was interested in. Some of these themes include: anti-war in Vietnam and amnesty rights for American war resisters; political landscape in Latin and South America; socialist, communist, and Marxist-Leninist publications in Vancouver, Canada, and the United States; labour and working class rights; Indigenous peoples rights; women’s rights; minority rights; and publications related to the political landscape of Vancouver and British Columbia. The publications included newspapers; magazines; periodicals; news bulletins and newsletters; flyers, pamphlets and brochures; booklets; articles and reports; and books.

Some common titles of publications found in this subseries include the following: AMEX (American Exiles); Canadian Dimension magazine; GRAPE; Georgia Straight;; Venceremos; Kinesis; Pacific Tribune; The Guardian: Independent Radical Newsweekly; Vietnam Courier; Ramparts; South Vietnam in Struggle; Newsweek; Black Panther Black Community News Service; El Malcriado; Pedestal: Women's Liberation Newspaper; Last Post magazine; The Realist; GRAMMA newspaper; NACLA; Indochina Focal Point; Southern Exposure; Osawatomie; and others.

Buttons - Part 2 of 3

Box 38 ~827 buttons and pins
File contains buttons grouped into the following categories: Women and Minority Rights; Workers’ Rights, Anti-War sentiment; Miscellaneous Activist Groups; and American and Canadian Politics (Part 1 of 2). Many of the Anti-War buttons relate to draft resistance and amnesty; cruise missiles, and the "No to Trident" campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Buttons in the Miscellaneous Activist Groups collection include pins related to Habitat for Humanity; Anti-Police and Anti-Authority; and Marxism-Leninism. Many of the buttons in the American and Canadian Politics collection are election and campaign buttons.

Buttons - Part 3 of 3

File contains miscellaneous buttons collected by Adams, including 4 buckles, 8 coins, and a key. Also includes buttons (Part 2 of 2) relating to American and Canadian Politics.

Activism collections

In addition to being involved in many political and social justice movements, Adams also avidly collected items related to those causes. This series contains three subseries: the leftist literature collection; the poster collection; and the button collection.

This series contains newspapers; magazines; newsletters, bulletins, and pamphlets; brochures; booklets; books; posters; and buttons.

Small Posters and Banners

The file contains smaller posters, mostly sized 30 cm x 40 cm. Items included in this file are 7 small cloth banners, a Buster's Patrol Parking plate, a copy of the October 1976 Rolling Stone paper, and 1 wooden sign: "Philosophy."

Darryl Adams fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1753
  • Fonds
  • 1936 - 1999

This fonds consists of records related to Darryl Adams' activities as a political and social justice activist as well as his personal life. The fonds consists of three series: personal life and administrative records; activism involvement series; and activism collections series.

Records relating to the first series, Adams' personal life and administrative files include: personal correspondence received by Adams; photographs collected, taken of or by Adams'; school records and club memberships memorabilia; news clippings and other articles; and work related records such as research materials and correspondence.

Records relating to the second series, the activism involvement series, include material created or used by groups that Adams was involved in such as the Vancouver American Exiles Association (VAEA), as well as the Galindo Madrid Case of the 1970s. These records include meeting minutes; correspondence; conference, seminar, and workshop materials; materials by or about other communist, socialist, or leftist organizations; papers, articles, speeches, critiques, letters, and reports on related topics; ephemera and publications, such as newsletters, journals, and clippings; and sound recordings such as interviews Adams' gave on behalf of VAEA.

The last series consists of three major collections that Adams obtained over his lifetime. The first collection is the lefty literature collection that consists of newspapers, magazines, periodicals, booklets and bulletins, and other publications related to leftist themes. The second collection is a poster collection and the last collection is a button collection.

Adams, Darryl

Buttons - Part 1 of 3

File contains buttons and pins generally related to the following themes: Communist China and Chairman Mao; Anti-Racism, Black Panther, and Black Liberation Movements; Latin America Anti-War; the Vietnam War; Vancouver and British Columbia; Conservation and the Environment; and Pop Culture.

The file also contains buttons pinned onto 4 felt mats, 3 of which are University banners: Cornell, Columbia, and Michigan.

Medium Posters

The file contains numerous posters mostly sized 50 cm x 60 cm, and 1 painting of Elfin Lake at Diamond Head.

Poster collection

Poster collection

The subseries contains various prints related to Adams' interest in political and social justice movements. The publications include posters, pamphlets, flyers, newsletters, banners, signs, brochures, and magazine pages. These prints relate to the political landscape in Vancouver in the 1960s and 1970s; Vancouver benefits, fundraisers, and community events; anti-Vietnam War activism; draft resistance and amnesty movements in Canada and the United States, Anti-Nazi publications; women, refugee, and minority rights; the Latin American political landscape; and Marxist-Leninist publications. Also included are some musical band posters, protest signage, and replica drawings and prints.

Button collection

The subseries contains buttons, pins, and other small objects that Adams collected related to numerous political and social justice movements he was interested in. Themes that the buttons and pins generally relate to include: Vancouver and British Columbia; Pop Culture; Conservation and the Environment; Communist China and Chairman Mao; Women and Minority Rights; Anti-Racism, Black Panther, and Black Liberation Movements; Workers' Rights; Latin America Anti-War and Resistance; Anti-War and Nuclear Power; the Vietnam War; American and Canadian Politics; Miscellaneous Activist Groups; and Miscellaneous buttons.

Also included are badges from Adams' time as a boy scout, ribbons from his high school years, buttons pinned onto felt mats, 4 buckles, 8 coins, and 1 key.

Personal and administrative

This series contains records pertaining to Adam's personal life, including records related to his education and his work. His educational records consist of his school files including report cards; certificates and awards; reports and articles; newsclippings about Adams' or related to his interests; and correspondence dating from kindergarten to Adams' first year of university. Other records dating from this period of Adams' life include records related to some of Adams' interests as a child and teenager, such as: badges, certificates; memorabilia from Adams time as a Boy Scout; and journals and items that Adams collected such as postcards and rock minerals.

The series also contains records related to the various positions Adams had over the course of his working career. Adams worked mainly as a researcher and consultant, and, as a result, he amassed and kept much of his research related to the projects he did for Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Public Library, the Legal Services Commission, the Coast Foundation Society, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and the Asbestos Monitoring Project. These records include: articles written or collected by Adams; newspaper clippings and journal articles; news bulletins, letters, and pamphlets; and photographs related to or about the projects being researched by Adams. Other records related to Adams' work include correspondence and CV files.

The series also contains records related to Adams' personal life and interests as an adult. These records include correspondence to and from Adams from his family and friends back in the United States; his post card collection; diaries and journals; photographs of Adams and his family; flyers and newsletters of political and other events around Vancouver; and newspaper and journal clippings related to Adams' interests.

Finally, the series also contains copies of eulogies given at Adams' funeral in 1999, as well a copy of the guestbook.

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