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Ed Franklin fonds [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1887, 1973-1988.

Reference:

R14174-0-7-E

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4386245

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Ed Franklin fonds
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Fonds includes:

2684 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1887, 1973-1988.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

2648 drawings : brush, pen and ink on board and paper
20 watercolours
2 reproductions

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of editorial cartoons drawn by Franklin for the Globe and Mail and The Financial Post between 1973 and 1988. The works depict provincial, national and international political figures, as well as personnalities from the financial and cultural arenas, such as Pierre Trudeau, Michael Wilson, Kim Campbell, Joe Clark, Don Mazenkowski, John Turner, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, René Lévesque, David Peterson, Bill Davis, Bob Rae, Brian Peckford, John Crow, Robert Campeau, Floyd Laughren, Edgar Bronfman, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Brezhnev, Ferdinand Marcos, Menachem Begin, Helmut Kohl and Henry Kissinger.

A wide range of national and international political and financial issues are covered, including NAFTA, the crash of Olympia and York, various corporate mergers, the Canadian constitution, the Canada Post automation, health care, apartheid, the nuclear arms race, the Iran-Contra affair, and the crises in South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, the Middle East, Libya and Iran. Provincial political issues include Great Lakes pollution, Ontario gas pricing, Ontario Censor Board, and the billing practices of the Ontario Medical Association.

The fonds also includes a Christmas 1887 copy of "Grip" with a cover featuring Charles Tupper, Grover Cleveland and the fishery commission; an original cartoon strip of "Beetle Bailey" by Mort Walker; and an original cartoon strip of "Boner's Ark" by Addison (a.k.a. Mort Walker).
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Artist: Franklin, Ed, 1921-2006

Artist: Walker, Mort
Biography/Administrative history:

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Franklin, Ed, 1921-2006 : Ed Franklin was editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail from 1968 to 1988 and since the early 1980s has done cartoons for the Financial Post

Source:

Private

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052-89
080-89
081-89
122-080171-2
123-040448-1
1989-383 DAP
1994-442 DAP
1995-225 DAP
94-117
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Some works may require protective supervision during consultation.

Box [1989-383]

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20021--20049;

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30141--30143;

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Box [1994-442]

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20223--20232;

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0013-03;

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Box [1995-225]

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313;

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10532--10534;

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20396--20405;

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40115--40116;

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0313 Item no. assigned by LAC 663

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010532 Item no. assigned by LAC 118--172; 188--193; 270--291

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010533 Item no. assigned by LAC 292--309; 311; 313--319

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010534 Item no. assigned by LAC 470--491

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020396 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--19

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020397 Item no. assigned by LAC 21--73

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020398 Item no. assigned by LAC 74--117

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020399 Item no. assigned by LAC 173--187; 194--210; 310; 312

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020400 Item no. assigned by LAC 211--261; 263--269; 320--326

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020401 Item no. assigned by LAC 492--515

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020403 Item no. assigned by LAC 552--573

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020404 Item no. assigned by LAC 574--597

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020405 Item no. assigned by LAC 598--662

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040115 Item no. assigned by LAC 20; 262; 327--400

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040116 Item no. assigned by LAC 401--469

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Credit: Franklin / Library and Archives Canada / [ecopy number]
Copyright: Estate of Ed Franklin.
Copyright (for Mort Walker and Addison cartoons) : Mort Walker
Copyright (for "Grip") : Expired

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