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Collection consists of photographs of geologic formations and topographic features; native peoples; northern communities; logging, mining, fishing and whaling activities; survey field parties; and miscellaneous subjects including some of U.S. Geologic Survey offices and staff. Most photographs were taken in Alaska, but also represented are the Yukon, Virginia, Maryland and Texas. Texas photographs are of oil fields and refineries, ca. 1917. Most photographs are dated and include descriptive captions. Photographs received in albums but removed for conservation purposes.

Collection consists of materials that reflect Morley’s life-long passion for comic art and includes an extensive compilation of comic strips from both comic books and newspapers. Morley was also interested in the history of comic art and maintained a series of reference files on artists and comic art subject matters. The collection also consists of ephemera acquired by Morley that celebrates both comic art and popular culture including posters, fabric, and a calendar.

Collection consists of records donated to or acquired by Special Collections that do not belong to other fonds or collections, and that have a focus on mountain culture or exploration.

Collection consists of letters from Sir Winston Churchill and Clementine Spenser Churchill; medals; published material relating to Churchill; portraits of Churchill; and photographs, moving images, sound recordings of and addresses by various individuals to the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Calgary.

Just over one hundred Interviews were conducted on the history of oil companies during the early 1970s to the early 1980s to determine their effect on communities and the environment in the Arctic. Subjects include Canadian petroleum and natural gas exploration and the offshore oil and gas industry and its effects on the Beaufort Sea Region. This collection includes original cassettes and duplicate copies of the interviews.

Consists of a bound book of original letters and telegrams solicited by the Vancouver Sun on the occasion of the Sun presenting a painting of President Warren G. Harding in Stanley Park, Vancouver on July 26th, 1923. Harding's visit was the first visit of an American President to Canada. The letters and telegrams are expressions of goodwill between the two countries for friendship and peace.

The letters and telegrams received by the Vancouver Sun are from the Prime Minister of Canada (William Lyon Mackenzie King), governors of states, premiers of provinces, American and Canadian newspapers and universities.

Consists of various objects including moccasins, headbands, evening bags, mukluks, necklaces, pictures and game bags created with traditional work methods and decorated with moose or caribou hair, quills, and fur.

Collection has been artificially created by combining four bookplate accessions.

Fonds consists of the following series: correspondence; notebook; manuscript; columns; scrapbook; sound recording; works by other authors; works on Michael Cook; photograph and miscellaneous. Fonds also includes one small appendix, MsC 156, consisting of promotional, production and review material for the Globe Theatre's production of The head, guts and soundbone dance, November 15 - December 4, 1977, in Regina, Saskatchewan. A later accession, MsC 312, consists of a letter (May 20, 1986) from Michael Cook to Malcolm Page.

Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts of poetry, novels, short stories, speeches, essays and reviews; notebooks; audio visual material; awards and honours; teaching materials; works on R. Kroetsch; published work; and works by others. MsC 42, the speech given by R. Kroetsch on the occasion of the presentation of the Robert Kroetsch papers to the University of Calgary, is an appendix to MsC 27.