Series consists of chronologically arranged clippings and magazines about Carl Schaefer, including reviews of his exhibitions. Series also includes clippings on general subjects and other artists (vols. 10, 16-18).
Series consists of groups of clippings and other material organized by Schaefer for reference purposes; included in this material are mechanically reproduced works of art published in calendars, as postcards, greetings cards, exhibition invitations, and other material (some of the cards were sent to Schaefer as correspondence and bear messages from friends). The clippings come from such American serials as "Life", "Saturday Evening Post", "Country Gentleman", "National Geographic", "Vanity Fair", "Ladies Home Journal", from the "Illustrated London News", and from various other magazines, journals and newspapers.
The first group contains general clippings filed chronologically by decade by Schaefer in envelopes; inter-filed are miscellaneous loose clippings found throughout the records transferred in 1996 (vols. 23-24). The second group contains reference clippings and other material arranged by subject by Schaefer in various envelopes and file folders. Among the file titles are the following: architecture and decoration 1920s-1930s; A.J. Casson 1992; "Grip" (misc. issues 1879-1893 collected by Schaefer); photography (1920s-1930s); wood engravings (comprising proofs); American art; birds, animals, flowers; pre-historic painting (arranged alphabetically in vols. 24-25).
The third group contains reference clippings and other material arranged in alphabetical sections of an accordion file folder. Among the subjects represented are the following: African art; American art (including manuscript notes by Schaefer and a typescript relating to sculpture at the Art Gallery of Toronto); Canadian art (including cards from Reva and Leonard Brooks, H.O. and Dorothy McCurry, Edwin and Frances Holgate, Henri Masson, Louis Muhlstock and exhibition notices from the Picture Loan Society, The Gallery, The Little Gallery, Eaton's Fine Art Galleries, Roberts Art Gallery, New Laing Galleries, Canadian Group of Painters); Chinese art (cards from Caven Atkins, George and Kay Pepper); Egyptian art (cards from Emanuel Hahn and Elizabeth Wood); English art (card from Will Ogilvie); Flemish art (cards from André Bieler, Caven Atkins); French art (cards from Eric Freifeld, Jock Macdonald, Philip and Paraskeva Clark, Henri Masson;postcards from the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow 1934); German art (card from Lawren and Bess Harris); Greek art; Indian art; Italian art (cards from Georg and Kay Pepper, Charles Comfort, George Johnston, Andrew Bell, Miller Brittain, Douglas Duncan); Japanese art (reproduction from J.Y. Sekido inscribed to J.E.H. MacDonald 1927); and Latin American, Modern, Persian, Russian and Spanish art. Arranged alphabetically (vols. 25-30).
The fourth group contains reference clippings and other material arranged by subject by Schaefer in seven numbered envelopes or file folders. The subjects include the following: winter and summer sports and styles, snow flake design, horses, historical costumes (includes a McLaughlin-Buick advertizing brochure "Compared with the Horse" 1931); animals, birds, northern Canada, Indians, fishing and canoes; ships, early Canadian and historical buildings, maps, heraldry, ecclesiastical, zodiac (includes publicity material for Hart House Theatre 1931-1932); illustrations and layout (includes Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers booklet "The Charm of the Etching" 1923, T. Eaton Co. booklet "The House of Today" introducing Rene Cera, advertizing literature from Rous and Mann, Lake Simcoe Ice and Fuel Ltd., Hanover Iron Works and Goodyear Tires, and a brochure "Music in all its Glory" (printed Southam Press, Toronto) from De Forest Crosley Radio); interior decoration, flowers; farm implements, barns, horses (includes advertizing literature from Massey Harris and publicity material for Hart House Theatre 1936-1937); and woodcuts and black and white drawings. Arranged in Schaefer's numbered sequence (vols. 30-32).
