This series is comprised of prints acquired separately, from Yousuf Karsh and other sources, between 1953 and 1993.
The prints include portraits of the following persons: Wasyl Elyniak (early Ukranian settler); Daniel Makokis (from Saddle Lake Reserve); Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King, Sir Winston Churchill, Louis St. Laurent, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Joe Clark, and Brian Mulroney; National Archivists W.K. Lamb, Dr. W.I. Smith, and Jean-Pierre Wallot (1 album of 12 prints, and 18 loose prints). Also included are portraits of: Konrad Adenauer, Apollo XI crew, Jean-Louis Barrault, Robert Borden, President George Bush, Georges Bracque, Leonard Brockington, Alexander Calder, Pablo Casals, Marc Chagall, President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Cortot, John Diefenbaker, Christian Dior, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Enesco, Jacob Epstein, Eva & Ava, Sir Alexander Fleming, Robert Frost, Alberto Giacometti, Col. John Glenn, Glen Gould, Martha Graham, Emilio Greco, Dag Hammarskjöld, Ernest Hemingway, Bruce Hutchison, Augustus John, C.G. (Carl Gustave) Jung, Claude Jutra, Karen Kain, Yasunari Kawabata, Helen Keller & Polly Thompson, John F. Kennedy, Alexei Kosygin, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Stephen Leacock, Sherman E. Lee, Jacques Lipchitz, David Low, Vincent Massey, Anna Magnani, Andre Malraux, Giacomo Manzu, Marcel Marceau, W. Somerset Maugham, François Mauriac, Norman McLaren, Marshall McLuhan, Andrew McNaughton, Roland Michener, Joan Miro, B.L. Montgomery, Henry Moore, Jawaharlal Nehru, President Richard Nixon, Georgia O'Keeffe, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Robert Oppenheimer, Yukio Ozaki, Lester B. Pearson, Wilder Penfield, Pablo Picasso, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope Pius XII, Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Albert Schweitzer, Barbara Ann Scott, Duncan Campbell Scott, Ben Shahn, Ravi Shankar, George Bernard Shaw, Jean Sibelius, Captain Edward Steichen, Igor Stravinsky, Shinichiro Tomonaga, Harold Town, Arnold Toynbee, Viscount Alexander of Tunis, Lord Tweedsmuir, John Walker, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Tennessee Williams, James Woodsworth, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
The prints tend to be large format (up to 29.5in X 40in), and some are mounted.
Additionally, there are Unidentified children in a display folder made for Mrs. Douglas Carroll, a photo of Sheila Bramark, and a low angle, high-key toned silver print of white or golden collie dog outlined against the sky, standing on a sandy stretch of land (1937).
