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"EVERYONE SEEMS TO WANT TO ENTER THE POLE-VAULT"

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Item

Date:

1980-1987.

Reference:

R11524-90-7-E

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3719135

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Ollie Simpkins fonds

"EVERYONE SEEMS TO WANT TO ENTER THE POLE-VAULT"
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1980-1987.

Place:

Ontario:

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1 drawing pen and black ink and wash, over pencil with opaque white on light-weight card.
Support 32.500 x 36.000 cm

Language of material:

English

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One of a group of original cartoon drawings executed for Laurentian Publishing Ltd. publications "Northern Life" and "Northern Ontario Business," ca. 1980-1987. Some were likely produced for the "Sudbury Star." This cartoon depicts two guards talking (from Milhaven), in front of a prisoner who enters his name on a Track Meet list, under Pole Vault.
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Artist: Simpkins, Ollie, 1911-1991

Milhaven Penitentiary
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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed in pen and black ink, u.l.: SIMPKINS ; TRACK MEET.... [on sign-up list on wall] ; l.l.: [on squared caption] MILLHAVEN / PRISONERS / RELIEVING / BOREDOM / WITH TRACK / AND FIELD ; b.: "EVERYONE SEEMS TO WANT TO ENTER / THE POLE-VAULT"
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cartoon

political

social
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Consultation with the assistance of an art archivist. Reproduction or publication requires estate permission.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R11524] 56

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R11524-56
Copyright: Estate of Ollie Simpkins.

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