Acquisitions

Herbert Berry fonds: A professor of English and Associate in Drama, Berry specialized in the literature of the English Renaissance and particularly, the history of the Elizabethan stage. 

David Carpenter fonds: Additional materials, in particular relating to A Hunter’s Confession; Niceman Cometh; and Welcome to Canada.

Frank Coburn fonds:  Additional materials relating to Coburn’s work as a psychiatrist, as well as records relating to his involvement in community affairs, particularly relating to issues of social welfare, community health, and politics.

Douglas & Novia Cole Collection: Additional materials relating to author Robertson Davies.

Robert Cole Collection: Materials relating to academics, athletics, and entertainment on campus.

Davis Family fonds: Additional materials relating to this well-known PA family.

Keith Ewart fonds:  Additional materials. Two new accruals, both exclusively images of elevators from across the province.

Sergey Federoff fonds: Additional materials, with significant documentation on the history of tissue culture research internationally.

Maria Green fonds: Materials concerning Max Jacob, the French poet, painter and theorist.

Charles Hayter fonds: Research materials relating to cancer control, radiology and radiotherapy, used for An Element of Hope: Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada, 1900-1940.

Samuel Laycock Postcard Album:  post-World War I postcards of France, Belgium and Germany.  Laycock sent several home at a time, using the backs as if they were pages in a single letter.

H.D. “Howdy” McPhail Photograph Collection: for a decade, between 1952 and 1962, Howdy McPhail took aerial photographs of farms and towns throughout the West and extending into BC, Ontario, and the United States.  It is an extraordinary collection, a “Portrait of an Era,” and an exceptional resource.

Isabelle Mills fonds: Additional material. This accrual is primarily Mills’ extensive record collection, gathered over more than 40 years.

Courtney Milne – Emily Carr Country: A beautiful series of framed prints – many of which have, happily, found their way onto wall in our staff work areas where they can be enjoyed daily. Thank you, Courtney and Sherrill!

R.H. D. Phillips fonds: materials created or collected by Phillips, primarily during his tenure with the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. Communications, transportation, the Western Producer, Modern Press, and Western Producer Publishing are topics.

Stewart Raby fonds: A leading authority on First Nations’ land claims, Raby’s fonds contains extensive documentation on Aboriginal issues as well as physical and social geography, his first academic pursuit.

Neil Richards – Professional Wrestling Collection: monographs (over 160 book titles), catalogued wrestling photos (over 900 images), hundreds of fan magazines and event programs, and examples of paper ephemera including posters, pamphlets, fan scrapbooks, trading cards, and comics.  

Marie Elyse Yates St. George fonds: numerous prints and sketches, together with some textual records relating to print-making and writing.

Schwinghammer Family fonds: An interesting collection documenting  credit, debt, farm success (or failure), and legal matters within a small community in central Saskatchewan.

Nik Semenoff fonds: Possibly best known for his research into printmaking processes, Semenoff received an honorary degree from the University of Saskatchewan and the Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

Duff Spafford Collection: An avid collector, Spafford’s donation includes many rare items relating to the University’s history.

Ron Sutherland fonds: Additional materials relating to peace initiatives as well as chemical and biological weaponry.

R.L. (“Dick”) Sweet – Breweriana Collection: research into the history of brewing, including Canadian and western US breweries; beer companies; and beer-related materials, including magazines, newsletters, other published reference material, and collectibles (predominantly, posters, labels and mats).

Bill Waiser fonds: Additional materials, relating to Who Killed Jackie Bates?;  Everett Baker’s Saskatchewan; and Tommy’s Team.

Margaret Weirs fonds: the life and career of an early feminist, social reformer and fierce nationalist, who embarked on a 40-year career in journalism that began with the Regina Leader-Post and ended with the Toronto Star.

Recent Acquisition to the University of Saskatchewan Art Collection: Marcel Barbeau Marcel Barbeau was born in Montreal on February 18th, 1925. Between 1942 and 1947, he studied painting and sculpture with Paul-Emile Borduas at the Ecole du Meuble in Montréal, where he was a student in furniture design. At that time and until 1953, he regularly visited his master’s studio where he met other young artists and intellectuals, all members of the Automatistes. As a member of that major Canadian contemporary art movement, he participated in all exhibitions featuring the group and signed its manifesto,”Le Refus global”. Some art historians consider that he was and remains its most innovative artist. He also was a junior member of Montreal Society of Contemporary Art with which he exhibited between 1945 to 1948.