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Series consists of Barbara Astman’s address books and notebooks, including three sets of pages removed from a three-ring bound daybook. Many address books contain memoranda; the earliest volumes have covers decorated with transfer prints by the artist. Accrual consists of Astman’s address books, business card books and daily agendas, with related notebooks.

Accrual consists of source materials and collage components relating to Barbara Astman’s works.

Series comprises recordings of Barbara Astman’s artistic activity and other recordings made between 1990 and 2006.

Fonds consists of records of the artistic and academic career of Barbara Astman, chiefly in Toronto from the 1960s to the second decade of the 21st century, including photographs of her projects and exhibitions, correspondence and textual documentation of projects, personal and other photos and journals, and some audiovisual materials.

Series comprises test prints, experiments with processes and media, and other experimental work by Barbara Astman from throughout her career. Many items in this series are intimately related to finished work by the artist, but are not considered actual works of art.

Accrual consists of xerox (electrophotographic) prints created by Barbara Astman and photographic and print components of those works.

Series consists of annual income tax returns and related receipts for art-related expenses arising from Barbara Astman’s art practice.

Series comprises photos of Barbara Astman’s art projects and exhibitions in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s. Accrual to series consists of installation photographs of three exhibitions of Barbara Astman’s work: “Untitled, I was thinking about you” (Sable-Castelli?), Personal/Persona (AGH), and Clementine Part I, II & III (Yukon Arts Centre).

Series comprises Barbara Astman’s journals and journal / notebooks from 1974 to 2003. The contents of these volumes vary; sometimes the artist makes a narrative record of the events of daily life, sometimes she makes notes about artistic inspiration or more mundane memoranda. Often, she fills pages with found images, ephemera and Polaroid snapshots. There are numerous connections between the pages of these volumes and the artist’s finished works. All volumes contain some element of journal writing, which distinguishes them from the notebooks in Series 9. Accrual to series consists of two journals and one journal fragment from diverse periods in Astman’s life: a diary from her teen years, a baby journal documenting the infancy of her daughter Amy Astman Baker, and pages from a journal with collage elements from the early 2000s.

File consists of art projects completed by Barbara Astman while she was in high school.

Accrual consists of personal correspondence with Barbara Astman’s friends and family.