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Box consists of research for Family Energy book. Includes transcripts of interviews with the Brawn's and their grandchildren.

Box consists of typescript drafts and clippings of published interviews conducted and written by Brian Brennan for the Calgary Herald and compiled into his book Brief Encounters. Interviewees include: Randy Bachman and Robbie Bachman, Long John Baldry, Mario Bernardi, Chuck Berry, Len Cariou, Ann Casson, Nicola Cavendish, Chubby Checker, David Clayton-Thomas, Judy Collins, Robertson Davies, Chris de Burgh, Roy Dotrice, Glenn Ford, John Frankenheimer, Richard Harris, Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, John Hirsch, Keith Johnstone, Milt Kamen, Debbie Lori Kaye, B.B. King, Cleo Laine, Frankie Laine, Tom Lehrer, Shari Lewis, Sophia Loren, Vera Lynn, Norman Maen, Tommy Maken and Liam Clancy, Al Martino, Paddy Moloney, Brian Moore, Barry Morse, John Mortimer, Anne Murray, Burt Mustin, Michael Nesmith, John Neville, Bob Newhart, Mary O'Hara, Colleen Peterson, Sharon Pollock, Johnnie Ray, Cliff Richard, Mordecai Richler, Kenny Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Elizabeth Taylor, Sylvia Tyson, Leon Uris, Bob Welch, Nancy White, Andy Williams, Emlyn Williams, Tennessee Williams, L.R. (Bunny) Wright, Tammy Wynette. Includes interviews featured in the book and a file of "interviews considered but not featured in book"; interviewees include: Jake Thackray, Barry Manilow, Art Ferrante and Luigi Teicher, George Shearing, Fats Domino, Kenneth Welsh, Louise Page, Don Messer, Shelley Thompson, Gary Burghoff, Stan Rogers, Patrick Crean, Tom Patterson, Laura Vinson, Lisa Dal Bello, Moe Koffman, James Cotton, Erika Ritter, Tony Hancock and Henry Woolf, Ward Cole, Wayne Cochran, Dick Damron, Bob Wills, Alfie Zappacosta, Brian Macdonald, Diane Stapley, Patricia Collins, Martha Reeves and Johnny Paycheck, Al Wilson, Robin Williamson, Bob McBride, Will Millar, Irish Rovers.

Box consists of typescript drafts of various speeches and talks presented by Brennan. Includes copies of speeches and other materials from Historic Calgary Weekly Fundraiser: Fort Calgary, Historic Calgary Week: Memorial Park Library, Calgary Public Library: Centennial VIP Book Launch, History Day at Heritage Park: "Alberta Scoundrels".

Box consists of typescript draft (2003), research materials, correspondence and copies of articles by Brennan used for his book of historically significant biographies: Boondoggles, Bonanzas and Other Alberta Stories. Includes chapters on Lonely Bachelors of "Dinosaur Valley", Sarah Bernhardt, AIDS virus, Waterton Lakes Oil Boom, Flying Manure Bomber, Tower Rises in Calgary, Chautauqua in Western Canada, Canmore Woman Conquers Everest, Alberta's Aviation Pioneers, Eagle of the Winter Olympics, In the Eye of the Tornado, Stampeding Circus Elephants, Jack the Ripper in Calgary, Folk Festival Fever, Gretzky Goes to Hollywood, Calgary Wins First Grey Cup, Warships of Ice.

Box consists of drafts, research materials, correspondence and copies of articles by Brennan used for his book of historically significant biographies: Boondoggles, Bonanzas and Other Alberta Stories. Includes chapters on Rainmaker of Medicine Hat (Charles Hatfield), All Hell for a Basement (Rudyard Kipling), Alberta Acquires Unusual Art, Coal mining (Union Strike Blairmore), Father Lacombe, Last Chance Well (Leduc), Watchdog Ousts Edmonton Mayor (Leger), Goldmine in the Rockies, Compensation for Sterilization (Leilani Muir), Notley Plane Crash, Calgarians Flee Mock Bomb Attack, Principal Group Collapse, Black Oil Mined From Grit, the Mountain that Walked (Frank Slide), Klein Becomes Mayor.

Consists of 15 reprographic copies of drawings of the Calgary Normal School from between 1908 and 1915 by architect A. M. Jeffers for the province of Alberta department of public works. The original drawings are held at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. The Calgary Normal School was among the first major public works built in the province. It was later renamed McDougall School in 1922. Also included are 8 reprographic copies of as built drawings of McDougall School by provincial department of public works architect Max Kattenburg for a renovation project in 1981. In 1981 the school was decommissioned and renovated into a provincial government office and meeting space.

One perspective drawing by Fred Wade of the old Colonel Walker School which served as the the Calgary Retraining Centre for a time after the first world war. Fred Wade took the course in carpentry at the Soldier's Retraining Centre in the Colonel Walker School in 1919.

Consists of 114 photographs and 4 drawings compiled by Ron Henderson of the Samuel Atlantic Skead residence at 712 12 Avenue SW, Calgary. The house was designed in 1906 and demolished in 1983 or 1984. The photographs document the house, interior and exterior, prior to and during the demolition. The drawings were created in 1983 showing plans and elevations of the house as it was in 1906 and 1983.

Photographs of gargoyles removed from Southam Building and a brief history. The images and text were used in an unknown exhibition, perhaps in 1972 when the gargoyles were purchased by the University of Calgary. The Southam Building was located at 130 7th Avenue SW in Calgary. It was also known as the Herald Building while it was the home of the Calgary Daily Herald and then the Greyhound Building when it housed the bus terminal for Greyhound. The gargoyles that adorned the building were believed to have been created by Mark Marshall of Royal Doulton.