Series consists of graphic art and other graphic material. Material includes cards collected by and sent to Joan Murray, greeting cards, mostly Christmas and New Year greetings, advertising cards and funeral announcements. Works by Jack Hamilton Bush, Geoffrey Butler, Dennis Burton, John L. Byrne, Frank Erichsen-Brown, George Adolphus Broomfield, and unknown. Work also done by Anita Aarons, Peter Alan Bell, Woodruff Kerr Aykroyd, Léon Bellefleur, John William Beatty, George Franklin Arbuckle, Frederick Grant Banting, Eric Aldwinckle, Robert Ayre. Cards also by John Snow, Barry Smylie, Ruth Read, Hugh Michaelson, Alex Cameron, Elizabeth Wilkes, Louis de Niverville, Emerak and Okheena from arctic Cooperatives Ltd., Tom Roberts, Scott Carter, Donna Ibing, Stanley Turner, Nora Collyer, Bruno Bobak, Molly Lamb Bobak, Letti Thomas, Alma Duncan, Joan Murray, unidentified artists from Rous & Mann and from Canadian Artists Series. Works by Clare Bice, André Chalres Bieler, Marcel Blanchard, Henri Van Bentum, Ireme Blogg, Wim Blom, Bertram Charles Binning, Susan Boone, Dick Bonnycastle, Fritz Brandtner, Bruno Bobak, Moly Lamb Bobak. Works by Mary Evelyn Wrinch, Fritz Brandtner, Eric Aldwinckle, Leonard Hutchinson, Thomas Keith Roberts, Alexander Young Jackson, Thoreau MacDonald, James Edward Hervey Macdonald. Most of the cards are inscribed and signed by the artists, some contain short notes to Joan Murray, one contains a letter (Carol Kapucinsky). The cards sent by Hugh Michaelson are in the form of small booklets printed on his private press and each tesll a story connected with Christmas: Christmas at Mr. Wardles from the Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1992), Charlie the Department Store Mouse (1993), Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (1994) and Dancing Dan's Christmas by Damon Runyon (1995).
Series include further greeting cards. Works by the following artists: Irene Anderson, Dennis Burton, Frances Dorsey, Joanne Van Dewall, Alma Mary Duncan, Robert Wayne Eastcott, Louise Emond-Bourkis, Evergon, Polly Faminow, Pat Fleisher, Suzanne Gauthier, Charles Goldhamer, Richard Gorman, Toby Graser, David Hlynsky, Goldie Holmes, Donna Ibing, Sarah Jackson, J. Carl Heywood, Jeannie Kamins, Ralf Kelman, Peter Henry Kolisnyk, N. Lebrecht, Gary Lee Nova, Donald Cameron MacKay, Robert F.M. McInnies, Joanne Arseneault-May, Ray John Mead, Barbara Mercer, David Newkirk, Charles Pachter, George Raab, Mary E. Rawlyk, Felicity Redgrave, Leslie Reid, Lupe Rodriguez, William Smith Ronald, Paul Slogett, Andrew James Smith, John Ivor Smith, Barry Douglas Smylie, Richard Sturm, George Campbell Tinning, Sally Wildman, Doreen Wilson, Dik Zander, Bodgen Zarski.
Series includes additional greeting and Christmas cards with works by the follwing artists: Edward Alex, Paul Alfred, Sabina Anaittuq, Wayne Barrett, John William Beatty, H. Eric Bergman, Bruno Bobak, William Bounsall, Bertram Richard Brooker, Susanna Bush, Paul Archibald Caron, A.J. Casson, Ben Clark, Isabel E. Cleland, Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer, Charles Fraser Comfort, Rody Kenny Courtice, Adrian Dingle, Marjory Rogers Donaldson, Andy Donato, Langley Thomas Donges, Ann McIntosh Duff, Alma Mary Duncan, Arthur John Ensor, Polly Faminow, Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald, Pat Fleisher, Albert Jacques Franck, Frances Gage, Clarence A. Gagnon, Charles Goldhamer, James Edward Gordaneer, Kathleen M. Graham, Stella Evelyn Grier, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Frederick Stanley Haines, Bobs Cogill Haworth, Cleeve Horne, Yvonne McKague Housser, Donna Ibing, Mrilyn McAvoy, Doris Jean McCarthy, Harold Wellington McCrea, Mary Muriel McKay, Laurence Hyde, Ann Clarke Darrah, Grace McCrea, Claudia Cabri, Desmond Clancy, Alan McLeod, Gordon Couling, Aileen Cowan, Lynden Cowan, Pearl Crighton, George Douglas Pepper, Betty Davidson, Joan Marie Dean, Amy Constance Despard, Robert Wayne Eastcott, George Wayne Eastcott, Elizabeth M. Eastman, Bill Fitches, Bill Dobson, Malvern Dollack, Douglas Elliott, Kenneth Keith Forbes, Cyril Fox, Madeline Francis, David Fry, Suzanne Gauthier, Eric Goldberg, Lawrence Arthur Colley Panton, Geoffrey Goss, Elizabeth Gourlay, Babara Ensor, Toby Graser, Kenneth Green, Mildred C. Green, Roy Greenaway, Emanuel Hahn, John Alexander Hall, Ruth Beatrice Henshaw, Alvin Hilts, Albert Mead Pattison, McGregor Hone, Morus Hummel, Mona Barry, William Laing, Istvan Landvay, Dorothy Lees, Peggy Leitch, Rita Letendre, Arthur Lismer, Joan Marion Edy Bradley, Elizabeth Hoey, D. Slater, Orval Clinton Medden, Wilson MacDonald, Nancy McLeod, William R. Smith, Daniel Izzard, William Jamieson, Leon Katz, Arthur Keelor, Dawson Kennedy, Illingworth Kerr, Irja Ketola, Allie Mackenzie, Kenneth Kidd, Hilary Kilbourn, Lila Caroline McGillivray Knowles, Jon Kraemer, Ronald Lambert, Andreas Christian Gottfried Lapine, Mabel Irene Lockerby, Evan Weekes Macdonald, Thoreau MacDonald, David Hurron MacFarlane, Donald Cameron Mackay, Stephen Murray Haigh, Beatrice Harding, Richard Walter Major, Isabel McLaughlin.
Series includes additional artistic material, Greeting cards, mostly Christmas and New Year, collected by and sent to Joan Murray. Works by Bruno Bobak, James Patrick Meechan, Barbara Mercer, Rozsa Mezei, Janet Holly B. Middleton, Kenneth Charles Saltmarche, SBL (sent by Harry McCurry), Anne-Marie Schmid-Esler, Kathleen Moir Morris, Louis Muhlstock, Rowley Walter Murphy, Kazuo Nakamura, Eric Anderson Nasmith, Frank Newfeld, Neil Newton, Louis de Niverville, William Abernathy Oglivie, Christopher Ondaatje, Lawrence Arthur Colley Panton, Dora De Pedery-Hunt, Narcisse Pelletier, Margaret Peter, Robert Wakeham Pilot, Dolly Proctor, Gordon Rayner, Thomas Keith Roberts, Albert Henry Robinson, Rous & Mann, Dorothy Rovey, Anne Sanders, Tutzi Haspell-Seguin, Peeter Sepp, Gordon Appelby Smith, Barry Douglas Smylie, John Harold Thomas Snow, Amy and Claire Stewart, Studio PM, Ann K. Suzuki, Jocelyn Taylor, George Campbell Tinning, Stanley Frances Turner, Gordon McKinley Webber, Peter Whyte, John Will, Beverley Williams, James D. Williamson, York Wilson, William Arthur Winter.
In addition, the series includes greeting cards from Joan M. Attersley, Ron and Donna Baird, Jane Burns, Warren Collins, Louis de Niverville and Tom Miller, Jane Dixon, Ken and Marilyn Thomson, Jean Florence Hart, Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Donna Ibing, Virginia Kieran, Ron Lambert, Sheila Maki, Julius Marosan, Barbara McGivern, Barbara Mercer, Hugh Michaelson, Margaret Rogers, Katya Rudzik, Peeter Sepp, Barry Smylie, Ursulina McPhee Stepan, Chesley Taylor, Jane Taylor-Prebble, Lottie Thomas, Richard Stevens Architects, Joyce Voyce, Linda Ward-Selbie, Jim Wilkes and Jack Winn.
Series also consists of photographs of artists and artwork. Photographs depict artist Florence McGillivray (1864-1938). Photos by Raphail Goldchain, Kazuo Nakamura, Bill Eakin, Jean Trudel, Mark Prent and Susie Real, Douglas John James Stratford. Photographs depict artwork by artists Morus Hummel, Jim Kraemer, John MacGregor, Clark McDougall.
Series also includes photographic material Christmas cards sent to Joan Murray. Cards from and /or by: John Steele, Gordon McMara, Kazuo Nakamura, John E. Porter, Mark Prent and Susie Real, Charlotte Rosshandler, Sarah, Kendra and David Newkirk.
The series also includes portraits of Joan Murray created by artists Donna Ibing, Robert McGinnis, Barry Smylie, and John Scott.
Finally, there are three volumes of clippings and photo albums.
