Gordon Johnston collection [graphic material]

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Gordon Johnston collection [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Accession

Date:

1979-1981.

Reference:

1993-334 DAP, 121-080179-5

Former BAN no.:

121-080179-5

Local class no.:

WMB RM 0254 001201 & 001202

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

19585

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Record Information – Details

Date(s):

1979-1981.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

200 drawings pen and brush and black ink

Language of material:

English

Provenance:

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Johnston, Gorde

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Graphic (art): (Electronic) description item-level on-line

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General Note:

Works published in a collection of books based on the theme "It Happened in Canada" which were intended to inform readers of the strange and the unique persons and events which have occurred in Canada. Works by Gorde Johnston. The collection consists of drawings illustrating obscure facts about famous and unknown personnages which include Macdonald, Diefenbaker, Mackenzie King, R.B. Bennett, Alexander Mackenzie, Jacques Cartier, Vincent Massey and Frances Ann Hopkins; word sources, plant and animal life anomalies and general facts of interest, such as early power sources and the earliest railway, are documented..

Physical description note:

Graphic (art): wove and coated wove paper

Arrangement note:

chronological .

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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R5741-0-4-E

Former registration no.:

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93-058

Other accession no.:

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1993-334 DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
\\ Start date: 1993-03-30. Documents must be consulted under close supervision for conservation reasons. ; Physical access to be given through an art archivist \\ Start date: 1993-03-30.

Box [1993-334] 1201

[Consultation 90 Open]

001201 Item no. assigned by LAC 17

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Reproduction or use, for other than research or archival reasons, requires permission of the artist's estate
Copyright: Estate of Gorde Johnston
Credit: National Archives of Canada
Graphic (art): Reproduction or use, for other than research or archival reasons, requires permission of the artist's estate
Graphic (art): Copyright: Estate of Gorde Johnston
Graphic (art): Credit: National Archives of Canada

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Gordon Johnston collection [graphic material]

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