Fonds consists of subject files relating to planning for new residence buildings, renovations to existing spaces, policies, Residence Dining Advisory Council minutes, International House steering committee meeting minutes, etc, and pamphlets produced by Residence Services. Fonds includes a series for Residences (Pamphlets).
University of Calgary. Residence Services
Fonds consists of correspondence, poetry, newsclippings, advertisements and Poetry Book Society Bulletins.
White, Eric Walter
Collection consists of scene and costume design for operas, operettas, stage plays, films, revues and ballets, as well as for many unidentified productions. Many designs are undated. Design media include watercolour, gouache, pencil, charcoal and tempera. Designers represented include Percy Anderson (1851-1928), Georges Barbier (1882-1932), Alexandre Benois (1870-1960), Charles Betout (active ca. 1900-1939), Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), Boris Bilinsky (1900-1948), Serge Soudeikine (1882-1946) and C. Wilhelm (1856-1925). Collection also includes Vanity Fair lithographs of actors and managers (ca. 1874-1912) and a series of engraved dramatic portraits.
The collection consists of manuscripts, books, sound recordings and videotapes by the distinguished writers resident at The University of Calgary.
Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme
Collection consists of British manuscript documents collected by E. Osborne relating to a variety of topics. Includes ballads, letters, play, parliamentary documents, speeches, petitions and applications for letters patent. Also includes 6 items (200?-2005) relating to MsC 132.27, unpublished play, variantly titled Marriage upon marriage, or As I told you before and The Humorous Magistrate. Also included are 10 copies of microfilm reels and transcriptions of images of an earlier version of The Humorous Magistrate and Osborne's annotations which are held at Arbury Hall in Warwickshire, UK. These micro films reels were acquired and transcribed as part of a SSHRC funded research project in 2008, led by Dr. Mary Polito, English Department University of Calgary. They were formally added to this collection in 2020.
Osborne, Edgar
Fonds consists of letters and postcards to F. K.Ginzkey, newsclippings about Ginzkey, dust jackets and promotional material. Also includes poems by Adolphine Reh(?) and Hubert von Beyer-Gerwald.
Ginzkey, Franz Karl
Fonds consists of records created in pursuit of the Senate's responsibility to "enhance the usefulness" of the University. The fonds has been arranged into seven series, including: (1) Minutes; (2) Ceremonies and visitors; (3) Chancellor's club dinners; (4) Distinguished lecturers; (5) Task forces; (6) Subject files; and (7) Graphic and audio-visual materials. Includes minutes of the Senate and its various commitees and ad hoc committees; convocation planning files, video recordings of convocations, honorary degree recipient nominations and citations, planning files for luncheons, receptions and various ceremonies; chancellor's club dinner planning files; Distinguished Lecturers Series case files and sound recordings; task force reports and research materials; various subject files including Senate seminar planning records, minutes of committees on which Senate representatives sat; and photographs and video recordings of Senate members and their activities.
Cheque requisitions, hotel booking confimations, inter-departmental billing records and other such "housekeeping records" have been culled from the files.
Fonds includes series for Pamphlets, and Pamphlets, Special Convocations.
University of Calgary. Senate
Fonds consists of correspondence and minutes of meetings from the 25th Anniversary Committee; Place of Vision book; records, reports and publications from various campus units documenting how they celebrated the 25th Anniversay events with open houses, awards, projects, concerts, tours, displays, performances and demonstrations. Also includes photographs of the October, 1991 Open House and photograph contact sheets of displays from the Archives and Special Collections.
University of Calgary. 25th Anniversary Committee
Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts of novels, poems, poetry collections, short stories, screenplays, opera libretto, music scores, translations, speeches, essays and proposal for an unwritten biography; material relating to conferences, writers festivals and workshops; works about G. Gunn and published works.
An accrual received in 2016 (Acc 2016.016) with a date range of 1983-2014, includes the complete drafts of novel Solitaria (boxes 1-5), and some drafts of other works including Tracing Iris, several short stories, Tracing Iris film script, reviews, correspondence with writers and editors, including Carolyn Swayze, correspondence with translators for Tracing Iris and Solitaria into other languages including Italian and Dutch, interviews given in magazines, records of workshops and conferences attended and papers given, records on awards adjudications, reading lists and reference materials.