In honour of Remembrance Day, the archives has installed a new online exhibit. Letters home is based on a previous physical exhibit installed in Scott Library in 2009. The current exhibit features a selection of correspondence and photographs exchanged between soldiers and their families during the First and Second World Wars.
The exhibit features letters from [...]
A recent purchase for York University's Special Collections is an example of a livre de peinture published by the American Limited Editions Club in 1935. This edition of James Joyce's Ulysses is accompanied by twenty six reproduced illustrations by the French artists Henri Matisse. George Macy, who designed the publication, commissioned Matisse to provide the [...]
Staff from the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections have added new historical photographs of the Canadian National Exhibition.
Photographed by staff of the Toronto Telegram, this selection of about 100 images document activities, performances and attendants of the annual fair founded in 1897 as a showcase for developments in manufacturing, agriculture, industry and the arts.
A [...]
The Dworin Collection consists of over 800 items acquired from Ruth Dworin, a local women's activist and owner of women's music production company Womanly Way Productions. An associate of York University's Canadian Women’s Studies journal office, Dworin began collecting in the early 1970s. The collection was acquired by the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections [...]
This week's favourite fonds is the Margaret Laurence fonds, in celebration of what would have been the writer's eighty-fourth birthday. Born 18 July 1926 in Neepawa Manitoba, Laurence is perhaps best know for her novels, The Diviners and The Stone Angel.
The Margaret Laurence fonds consists of the manuscripts, research notes, short story drafts, children's stories, [...]
Bright and early this morning, the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections' latest online exhibit was featured on CBC's Metro Morning. Host Matt Galloway interviewed the founder of the Mariposa Folk Festival and promoted our online exhibit of historical programs, images and sound recordings.
Monday 5 July 2010 is the official launch of the online exhibit [...]
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