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Series consists of sketchbooks in which Greg Curnoe recorded visual and verbal observations from his art college years to his later professional life.

Series consists of Greg Curnoe’s collection of regional pop bottles, representing brands Wishing Well, Sport, Snow White, Brunswick, Pepsi-Cola, Pure Spring, Moran, Calgary, Browns, Wilson’s, Twisty Cola, Taylor’s, Pachal’s, and Christin. Most bottles are full and sealed but several are empty. Bottles are contained in original cardboard carry trays and displayed on a wire rack. These bottles represent a selection by the artist from his larger collection of approximately 200 pop bottles that was kept in his studio; see box 52 and folder 2-10 for Curnoe’s inventories of this larger group.

Series consists of items of ephemera and found objects collected by Greg Curnoe for inspirational purposes or for use in his artwork. Series includes two scrapbooks of press clippings, one related to boxing and the other a compilation of “Smokey Stover” comic strips.

Series consists of photographs of artworks; installation views of exhibitions; photographic source material for art work; snapshots of Greg Curnoe, his family and friends; and photographs of Greg Curnoe’s studio.

Series consists of a suit of clothing and other objects of personal significance.

Series consists of published material by and about Greg Curnoe, including catalogues of his group and solo exhibitions. The series listing includes all titles received as part of the fonds. As noted below, items in this series may be physically located in the library collection, or another series in this fonds.

Series consists of posters created by Will Munro for various events at the Beaver Restaurant.

Series comprises various letters to Florence Vale from family, friends, galleries, and various institutions. Also included in the series are draft letters by Florence Vale and Florence Vale’s mailing list.

Series comprises sheets of paper with poems by Florence Vale, by Florence Vale and others, or by other people given to Florence Vale. Some of the poems have handwritten notations marking them.

United States from the mid-19th century to around 1915. These include the work of 132 artists, for which predominant sources were monthly and weekly periodicals featuring fiction with captioned narrative illustrations, including The Century magazine, Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Cornhill magazine, The delineator, Everybody’s magazine, Good words, Harper’s monthly magazine, Harper’s weekly, The leisure hour, London society, McClure’s magazine, Scribner’s magazine and Scribner’s monthly.
Several illustrations come from mid-19th-century books such as those created by Myles Birket Foster for his Beauties of English landscape (London : George Routledge and Sons, 1874), by Thomas Creswick for Poems by Alfred Tennyson (London : E. Moxon & Co., 1866) and by John Dawson Watson for The pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan (London : Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1861).
Other sources were general-interest magazines and fashion magazines, including The bookman, Harper’s bazar, The illustrated London news, Life and Vanity fair, that contained sections featuring the artwork of illustrators. A small number of magazine covers in colour and some pages from U.S. newspapers are included The folder of illustrations by John Tenniel includes an issue of The art journal ([April], 1901, designated “The art annual”) consisting of “The life and works of Sir John Tenniel” by Cosmo Monkhouse.