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Series comprises material such as files, master copies and dummy copies pertaining to the print publications which Michael Bidner produced or co-produced. These publications include Adz magazine, Rude magazine, Rag magazine booklet, and the London District Union newspaper. In 1976, Bidner launched Adz, which he described as “the magazine as art” and was put out under AMSDAS Publishing (Adz Magazine Subscription Deposit Account Service). Adz was designed to be a magazine with up to 1,000 issues each with print runs of varying size. Bidner created his own issues or invited other artists to compose an issue. Issues were typically named with a single word followed by a number, for example “Bus 24” (numbers did not indicate a unified sequence). The envisioned run of 1,000 issues was never completed. Bidner went on to produce Rude magazine, co-founded with printmaker and owner of Acme Print & Litho, Joe Thomas. The magazine ran from 1977-1983 and operated out of two facilities located in London and Stratford. It was largely printed on found paper acquired by Bidner from various sources. Nine issues of Rude magazine were published. Also during this time, Bidner created Rag magazine (1979-198?) in partnership with Don Gaul and Gary Jack. Rag magazine is a half-sized zine booklet, or a “streetwise chapbook”; six issues were produced. The London District Union (1979-1980) was an arts-based local paper for London, Ontario which published only four issues as a market trial before folding. Carol Off, the television and radio journalist, was an editor for the London District Union.

Series comprises materials related to various projects of Michael Bidner, organized by particular art pieces, projects, exhibitions, events, or other artists or collaborators. These records were either organized by Bidner in labelled folders or mixed together as loose files. Subject matter pertains to Artario ’72, Video Water Works art piece, Say Cheese, Trajectory exhibition, Centre for Experimental Art and Communication exhibition, Ian Hutton manuscript materials, and miscellaneous records. Records of the Colour Xerox Papers, Artistamp, Rude, Rag, Adz magazines are also amongst these files. Materials include collage work, copy art, correspondence, sample prints, catalogs, posters, flyers, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, as well as photographs, slides, negatives, and contact prints.

Series consists of scrapbooks and photo albums created by K.M. Graham between 1967 and 1990 that document her career. The majority of scrapbooks in this series are organized chronologically and by exhibition. Series also comprises additional publicity material related to K.M. Graham, including further newspaper clippings, magazine articles, exhibition invitations, interview transcripts, photographs, CVs, and her published works.

Series comprises of published material such as various journals, magazine articles and newspaper clippings, exhibition invitations, sale catalogues, sales index, photographs, correspondence, ticket stubs, gala and theatre show programs, various pamphlets and a Trinity College Diploma in Latin.

Series comprises records related to the Arctic, including correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, Inuit Art Conference notes, book proposal documentation, willow herb specimens, artwork documentation, landscape sketches, and drawings by Inuit and of Inuit at Toonik Time, Cape Dorset 1973.

Series consists of documents relating to John Boyle’s involvement with the Niagara Artists’ Company (NAC), including minutes of meetings, financial statements, mailing lists, information circulars, correspondence, notes, and drafts of speeches. Files are arranged in approximate chronological order. Series also includes three pencil sketches by John Boyle.

Series consists of drafts and manuscripts for John Boyle’s novels The Gergovnians, No Angel Came [a.k.a. The Provincial Wanderer], and The Peregrinations and Permutations of a Young Artist in Canada. Series also contains a draft of a short essay on Canada as a colony.

Series consists of computer printout lists of art works with descriptive data, compiled by Gretchen McCulloch and curator Barry Lord for exhibition “John Boyle: A Retrospective” at the London Regional Art and Historical Museum (now Museum London).

Series consists of drawings in black ink, marker and graphite studies that document John Boyle’s earliest work as an artist, as well as a photograph and 5 watercolours. The ink/marker drawings were executed on finger-painting paper, material at hand from his job as an elementary teacher.

Series consists of undated drawings that appear to be contemporary with the notebooks in Series 1 and are consistent with the usual output of an art student. Figure studies predominate, probably originating in life drawing classes with a few drawings of specific individuals and places. A number of published plates of models and statuary are included. Four experiments with print-making are also included in this series, possibly dating from 1930 when Munn attended printmaking classes at the Art Students’ League. A file of decorative patterns and one cut stencil are also included in this series. One pattern contains a draft letter to the artist’s mother on the verso, remarking on a proposed visit to Elbert Hubbard’s Roycroft studio in East Aurora, NY (Hubbard died in 1915). A money-making scheme is mentioned in the letter, perhaps revolving around the production of these stencils. Photocopies of letters written to Kathleen Munn around this time are included (originals remain in the family). Series also contains a hand-lettered sign for a sale at Munn’s Jewelry store, undated and unsigned.