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Fonds includes an album (disbound) containing 45 photographs of paintings and prints restored by Rawbon, with a typed description of the "Rawbon Process" signed and dated, 1921. Collectors and collections mentioned include: Elliott W. Atkins, Toronto; Hôtel Dieu, Kingston; Major Kenneth C. Macpherson, Ottawa; Col. W. O’Brien, Shanty Bay; D.A. Story, Halifax; R.E. Cooper, Victoria; A.J. Gough, Toronto; C.S. Gzowski, Toronto; Mrs. John Small, Toronto; Henry O’Brien, K.C., Toronto; Walker House, Toronto. Fonds also includes a notebook containing a list of “Canadian Artists: Members of the Royal Canadian Academy and The Ontario Society of Artists”, September 1922. The back pages of the notebook contain records of sales of “Oxford” and “Lusterize” polish formulas, and of free sample canvas stretchers sent out to clients. Fonds also includes 14 prizes and diplomas won in art and photography competitions at fairs in southern Ontario (1874-1887); 2 photographs of J. Loxton Rawbon; notes on art restoration methods; correspondence and testimonials; and press clippings related to Rawbon’s career.

Collection consists of an album of photographs of Florence Wyle’s sculptures; photos of Wyle, Illy Gepe, Frances Loring, and others; unattached photos and postcards of sculptures; a sketchbook; newspaper articles about Loring & Wyle; and other material.

Records group contains records relating to the restoration and operation of the Grange House in the Art Gallery of Ontario. Includes records of programs, exhibitions, research about inhabitants of the house, and day-to-day operation as a historic house.

The Grange served as the first exhibition space for the Art Gallery of Ontario (then known as the Art Museum of Toronto) since the Gallery took ownership of this historic landmark in 1913. It continued to house the administrative staff of the Art Gallery from 1918, when the first adjacent gallery spaces were built, until the early 1970s. At that time, the Art Gallery underwent the first of three major renovations, commonly referred to as Stage I.

Concurrent with this Stage I expansion, the Grange was restored as a gentlemen’s house in Upper Canada circa the 1800s. As administrative offices and the library were incorporated into the new footprint of the Gallery, the Grange became an exhibition site and period piece, with volunteers often dressing in costume, conducting tours and hosting events and 19th century themed exhibitions.

The first staff person to manage the Grange as an historical house was appointed in 1970 under the title Custodian/Keeper of the Grange. Initially hired to oversee the Grange restoration, Margaret Machell served as Custodian/Keeper of the Grange until 1981. During that time, the Grange was administered by a department of up to 17 staff, most of whom were historical interpreters. Initially reporting to the Director, this department became part of the Curatorial Division in 1977.

In the early 1980s, during a time of financial hardship, gallery director William Withrow laid off paid staff and asked volunteers to maintain the operations of the Grange. Two full-time staff under the Volunteer Activity Division of the Gallery a secretary/coordinator (Peggy Eades) and an historic housekeeper/interpreter (Ruth Keene) supervised.

In 1997, Jennifer Rieger was hired as a curatorial assistant to oversee the Grange and the extensive collection of original furnishings, artworks and objects inherited by the Gallery as part of the original bequest from Harriet Smith (nee Dixon). She reported to the Curator, Canadian Art until 2012 when her position title changed to Historical Site Coordinator of the Grange and she reported to the Associate Director of Visitor Services.

The Grange closed briefly during the Transformation renovations under architect Frank Gehry in the mid to late 2000s and reopened with the rest of the Art Gallery in 2008, housing the members’ lounge. In 2014, the second floor of the Grange was also converted back into administrative space for staff offices. The lower floor of the Grange House now houses the Norma Ridley Members’ Lounge.

Collection consists of ornamented and illustrated bookplates accumulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) Library and Archives beginning in 1969. In that year, AGO librarian Sybille Pantazzi acquired the first group of items now included in the collection, and added to it in 1975 and 1978. The Library and Archives continues to augment the collection.
The bookplates in the collection were chiefly designed for Canadian book collectors, libraries and associations by Canadian, American and other artists from the 19th century to the present day. The collection includes armorial, presentation and other bookplates and 1 leaflet, and comprises various forms of prints such as engravings, etchings and woodcuts. Most of the bookplates have not been used.

Fonds consists of personal and professional records created by Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani and their families, chiefly in Europe, North Africa, and Canada, for the most part between ca. 1910 and 1955, comprising photographs of Gilbert Bagnani's travels and archaeological work in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Libya and Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s; a motion picture of his activities in and around Tebtunis in Egypt in 1934; correspondence between the Bagnanis themselves, Gilbert Bagnani's mother Florence Bagnani and other family members; photos of the families of Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani, including 19th-century photo portraits of their Dewar, Houston, and Robinson relatives; a collection of copy prints and glass slides of art and antiquities used by Dr. Bagnani in his university teaching; audio recordings of Dr. Bagnani lecturing; albums of clippings and memorabilia of family and social events; miscellaneous printed, typescript and manuscript items; photos of the Bagnanis at Trent University in the 1980s; an album of postage stamps; and other material.

Contains series:

1. Correspondence
2. Family photographs
3. Archaeological and travel photographs
4. Art history images
5. Albums and scrapbooks
6. Miscellaneous records

Collection contains photographs of the Art Gallery of Ontario and its programs, exhibitions, building, staff, volunteers, and donors. Contents include photographs of exhibitions (called installation photographs) and exhibition openings, programs at the gallery school, staff photographs, and photographs of the building and grounds.

Coverage is most complete after the establishment of the Photographic Services department in 1973.

Collection consists of illustrations clipped from fashion magazines, general-interest periodicals, children’s
picture books and other illustrated books, bringing together the work of over 275 illustrators published
between the 1860s and the 1920s, chiefly in the United States, Britain and Canada.
Fashion magazine covers in series 1 featuring imaginative and extravagant costumes are full colour
lithographs, as are most of the sheets in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children). Illustrations
in series 2 (Book and magazine illustrations) are largely achromatic images depicting events in fictional
and poetic works, and include printed black-and-white wood engravings. Many folders contain a single
sheet of illustration by one artist, while series 3 (Gustave Doré illustrations) consists of more than two
hundred published wood engravings by prolific French artist Gustave Doré. The collection of over 3000
items offers a perspective on the era of illustration by graphic artists before it was largely superseded
(except in children’s literature) by photography.

The fonds consists chiefly of correspondence (professional and personal); diaries and address books, inventories; financial records; photographs of artworks and family; and miscellaneous papers.

Fonds consists of scrapbooks assembled by Canadian artist and author Edmund Morris (1871-1913) of autograph manuscripts of Wyatt Eaton, chiefly on art (especially Italian Renaissance art), and literature. Also included are correspondence of Edmund Morris, Charlotte Eaton and others regarding Wyatt Eaton, and material related to the Society of American Artists.

Fonds consists of drawings, watercolours and designs of A. H. Howard produced in Toronto between 1880 and 1914, especially in the sketchbooks in which Howard drew Ontario landscapes and towns, flowers, trees, human figures, factory interiors and other subjects. Similar drawings and watercolours are contained in two albums and a portfolio. Also included are examples of his decorative and calligraphic work from illuminated presentation addresses, certificates, bookplates and other materials.
Contains series:

1. Portfolio and albums
2. Sketchbooks
3. Decorative designs and drawings