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The Clean Body: A Modern History subseries

Subseries consists of research and materials relating to Ward's book The Clean Body: A Modern History published by McGill-Queen's University Press in November 2019. This book represents a synthesis of scholarship on the history and development of personal hygiene in Canada, Europe, and the U.S. Types of records in the sub-series include journal article photocopies, research notes, correspondence, publicity materials, manuscript copies, and chapter drafts of the book. Photocopied documents retained by the archivist include some sort of annotations by Ward. This project included some digital-born materials saved by Ward on a USB removable memory drive. Records saved as files on the drive included various journal articles or chapters in addition to a master bibliography for the project created in the software EndNote. Other *file formats included are Microsoft Word Documents (.docx and .doc), Microsoft Excel Documents (.xlsx and .xls) and PDFs.

Some of the records in this subseries are in Italian, French, and German.

Please ask archives staff regarding access to digital-born materials. To access EndNote files, users need to run the EndNote software on their devices.

Pieces by Schlesinger subseries

Sub-series consists of written work by Schlesinger, in the form of clippings, periodicals, website printouts, and manuscripts.
Includes a print-out copy of Schlesinger’s Globe & Mail obituary for his wife, Myra Eileen (Mike) Schlesinger.

Drama subseries

Subseries include manuscripts/typescripts, correspondence, notes, and research materials, including interviews, photographs, press clippings and ephemera related to Hunter’s various produced and unproduced television projects.

Projects subseries

Subseries includes screenplays, drafts, correspondence, contract agreements, publications, interviews, reviews, press articles, films, and other ephemera associated with produced and un-produced feature film projects. Some projects were co-written with others, and others were written under a pseudonym.

Chinese Head Tax Project subseries

Subseries consists of research notes and digital data assembled by Ward and Dr. Henry Yu for the Chinese Head Tax Project. This comprehensive project involved digitizing more than 96,000 entries to the Chinese Head Tax Register.

Lectures & debates subseries

Lecture materials relating to Dr. Grace’s talks on Thompson. Includes: correspondence, lecture notes, overhead transparencies, clippings, and ephemera.

Human Solidarity subseries

Subseries consists of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to the Human Solidarity conference at Habitat II in Istanbul, Turkey in 1996 and the 1998 Global Meetings on Community Economic Development in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Records relating to the Habitat II conference are also found in the United Nations Works and Activities subseries.

Various Professional Associations subseries

Subseries consists of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to H. Peter Oberlander’s professional contribution to various unrelated professional associations.

Community Planning Consultants Ltd. subseries

Subseries consists of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, maps, and development plans relating to H. Peter Oberlander’s professional work with Community Planning Consultants Ltd. Included with this sub-series are 15 architectural drawings of an apartment house layout drawn by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander for Peter Oberlander Consultancy, 1953.

United Nations Works and Activities subseries

Subseries consists of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to H. Peter Oberlander’s professional work with the United Nations, including the Habitat I and Habitat II conferences. Records relating to the Habitat II conference are also found in the Human Solidarity subseries.

Born-digital Materials subseries

Materials on digital media are currently being reviewed, and further information is pending. Subseries include both documents and photographs. Four floppy discs may also be found in the Lectures, Conferences and Writings subseries.

Personal collection subseries

Provenance information, detailed inventories, conservation histories, sales and acquisition records, donation documentation and correspondence regarding exhibition and research of Sawyer's personal collection.

Thompson, Berwick, Pratt and Partners subseries

Subseries consists of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to H. Peter Oberlander’s professional work with Thompson, Berwick and Partners.

Research material & notes subseries

Research notes, press clippings, printouts of referential (encyclopedic) web pages, traditional and email correspondence, journal articles, and ephemera (playbills, theatre brochures etc.). It also includes some maps from Grace’s research trips. Material is grouped into sections: bibliographic references, biographical/genealogical, research notes by archival institutions, notes by theatre, and notes by-product. [Some material identified as the property of other archival repositories has been removed].

Publishing & permissions subseries

Correspondence regarding permission to publish material in her book and other material regarding the publication of Grace’s work on Pollock. Includes photographs in physical (prints, negatives) and digital records.

Interviews subseries

Mostly research notes, correspondence and bibliographic press clippings regarding interviewees. Includes a few consent forms and research from the City of Vancouver Archives.

Pollock materials subseries

Production posters, audio and video recordings of broadcast and live performances of Pollock’s work and programs regarding Pollock, along with digital images and DVDs from a symposium.

Lowry material subseries

Photographic material from Lowry-related events and images from the production of Grace’s volumes of Lowry’s letters. Digital copies of the Lowry letters and Grace’s works are included on floppy disk .

General NGO subseries

Subseries based on an arrangement by the creator; as such, there is some overlap with other sub-series in this series. Materials include correspondence, reports, minutes, and publications from various organizations.

Centre for Human Settlements subseries

Subseries consists of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to H. Peter Oberlander’s professional contribution to the Centre for Human Settlements at UBC.

World Urban Forum subseries

Subseries consist of drafts, essays, notes, clippings, correspondence, memos, invitations, minutes, memorandum, newspapers, agendas, pamphlets, note cards, reports, plans, and maps, relating to the World Urban Forum in Barcelona, Spain and Vancouver, Canada.

British Columbia focus subseries

Subseries contains original research/data, correspondence and annotated reference materials related to various projects focused in BC. Topics include representation of First Nations in BC and the National Film Board, recreation facilities on the North Shore, restaurants in Greater Vancouver, and transit.

Centre for Human Settlements – Conferences, Seminars, and Response subseries

Subseries consists of records related to the speaking arrangements for speakers at CHS’s bi-weekly seminars that were either directly or loosely related to the UN’s Habitat Conferences and the related Human Settlements Programme, the subsequent publications resulting from their visits, and publications that were directly influenced by Habitat. It also consists of similar activities for other conferences in Canada and worldwide. Also included in this series are projects created directly because of Habitat and the Programme.

Jean Coulthard subseries

Subseries consists of notes, articles, correspondence, drafts, papers and miscellaneous research materials relating to Jean Coulthard.

Research material & notes subseries

Correspondence, press clippings, copies of Lowry’s writings and letters, research notes and some lecture notes. Includes some overhead projector slides, photocopied images and photographs.

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