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Nan Cheney Photographs

The photographs, negatives, and slides (the slides are duplicate images of the photos, with one or two exceptions) BC1849/1-86 are primarily images of Emily Carr and her artwork.

The slides BC1849/90-158 are primarily informal images taken by Cheney of her numerous Canadian artist friends, as well as slides portraying various U.B.C. dignitaries and other well-known Canadians. These date from 1951-1969 and include a section (numbered BC1849/149(a-f)-158) that is devoted to Dr.’s Ethel and Wallace Wilson.

Photographs numbered BC1849/159-200 are mainly photographs of Nan Cheney’s many friends and acquaintances, as well as photographs of art work, including her own. Also there is a series of photographs which record a sculpture show at U.B.C. in 1956 (BC1849/196a-1).

Medical Illustration

UBC, 1951-62, 37 items.
1958? – Vaginal hysterectomy [Dr. J. Harrison] [notes & sketches]
1960? – Apparatus [Dr. A. Mackenzie]
1961 – [Untitled] [Dr. K. K. Parnell]

Subject file Max Brodel, Works with Brodel Illustrations, 1912-1941.
1912 – Banquet of the American Gynecological Society, 28 May. Menu. [Cover art by Brodel] [1 folded card, 2 mounted enlargements of the design]
1914 ? – Cullen, Thomas S. “Unusual Cases Illustrating Points in Diagnosis and Treatment.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, n.d., 1-6. [Reprint]
1917 – Cullen, Thomas S. “The Surgical Methods of Dealing with Pelvic Infections.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Aug., 134-46. [Reprint]
1921 – Cullen, Thomas S. “Three cases of Subperitoneal, Pedunculated Adenomyoma.” Archives of Surgery 2 (May 1921): 443-454. [Reprint]
1921 – Cullen, Thoman S. “Early Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Cervix.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, Aug., 134-44. [Reprint]
1921? – Cullen, Thomas S. “Further Notes on Diseases of the Umbilicus.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, n.d., 1-27. [Reprint]
1922 – Cullen, Thomas S. “The Uses of Sutures as Tractors in the Vaginal Operation for Prolapsus.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 4 (Nov. 1922): 1-8. [Reprint]
1923 – Darner, H. Lauran. “The End-Results in Nearly Three Hundered Cases in which the Gall Bladder was Drained – Not Removed.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, Nov., 579-98. [Reprint]

Emily Carr

Series consists of letters and items by or about Emily Carr and letters exchanged between Cheney and Carr. Series includes memorabilia, unpublished manuscripts about Carr, exhibition catalogues, prints, slides, and clippings.

Medical Illustration

Johns Hopkins, 1921-22, 14 items.
1921 - Vocal Cords [sic] of a pig [col. sketch]
1921 - Problem set by Prof. Brodel [Abdominal cavity]
1921 - To demonstrate Ross board technique [on board]
1921 - [Serratus Anterior] [on board]
1922 - Pig’s vocal chords [col. sketch]
1922 - Negro Male [cranial section]
1922 - White Female [cranial section]
1922 - Negro [facial muscles]
1922 - Art. and veins … dissected down to intestine [col. sketch on board]
1922 - [Brain sections]
1922 - [Untitled] [on board]

Publication, 1921, 1 item.
Byers, W. Gordon M. “A Case of Intermittent Exophthalmos.” Archives of Opthamology 1, no. 6, 569-573. Offprint. [presentation copy; 1 plate by Cheney]

Medical Illustration

Johns Hopkins, 1921-22, 2 items.
1921 – [Bone fragment], inscribed “1st Medicla Drawing by Nan Cheney” [on board] (oversize)
1922 – [Untitled] [on board] (oversize)

UBC, 1951-62, 30 items
Undated – [Sketches for a crest for the UBC Medical School] [some col.] (oversize)
Undated – [Earthworm studies] (oversize)
Undated – [Brain views] [overlays] (oversize)
Undated – Cardiac Arrest [on board] (oversize)

McGill

1923 – [Chest cavity] [photographic print]
1923 – Cancer of Kidney [photographic print, on board]
1923? – [Abdominal studies] [on board]
1924 – Aplastic Kidney [photographic print] (2 copies)
1924 – Infectious Granuloma (left) [Dr. Mackenzie] [photographic print] (2 copies)
1924 – Hydronephrosis - - Anterior View [photographic print] (2 copies)
1924 – Hydronephrosis - - Posterior View [photographic print] (2 copies)

Subject file Max Brodel

Works with Brodel Illustrations and other items, 1924-1941.
1924 – Cullen, Thomas S. “A Progressively Enlarging Ulcer of the Abdominal Wall Involving the Skin and Fat, Following Drainage of an Abdominal Abcess Apparently of Appendiceal Origin.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics May 1924, 579-82.
1939 – [Ear Channel] [1 leaf]
1941 – [Inner ear] [1 leaf; obverse has: Inner ear, by P.D. Malone, 1945, “Based in large part on the preliminary sketches and studies of Max Brodel”]

Caricature of Brodel and Menchen at the piano, 1921-22, [mounted on board], 1 item.

Articles on Brodel’s work:
Brodel, Max. “Medical Illustration.” [typescript] 16 p.
Cullen, Thomas S. “Max Brodel, 1870-1941: Director of the First Department of Art as Applied to Medicine in the World.” [photocopy] 29 p.

Notes

Sub-series contains notes taken by Nan Cheney on articles and lectures.

Printed Material

Sub-series consists of catalogues, bulletins, and brochures relating to art exhibitions. Sub-series also contains biographical information on Nan Cheney.

Nan Cheney

Series contains material collected by Cheney about Canadian art and artists other than Emily Carr. It also contains records relating to her medical drawings and the publication of her letters with Humphrey Toms and Emily Carr. Series includes clippings, bulletins, brochures relating to art exhibitions in Vancouver, photographs, letters, memorabilia, drawings, and gallery catalogues.

Nan Cheney fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1121
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1991

The fonds consists of 71 holograph letters from Ethel Wilson to Cheney, as well as correspondence from Wallace Wilson, Mary [Dodds] and Dorothy McNair. There is also correspondence between Nan Cheney and various artists, including Emily Carr, between the years 1938 and 1984. Cheney's subject files on Canadian artists are included in the fonds, along with newspaper and periodical clippings, memorabilia, photographs and manuscripts.

Cheney, Nan

Photographs

Sub-series consists of prints and slides of artists, paintings, Cheney’s work, and her friends.

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