This series is comprised of portraits of Roloff Beny throughout his life and career from his early days as an aspiring young artist to later successes as a photographer of world reknown. It includes drawings and watercolours from his early artistic career and works by other artists which he collected including Paul Swan, Gertrude Hutchinson, Richard Lacroix and Franco Costa, posters Charles Pachter and many posters of Beny's own photographic work. There are many interior and exterior views of Beny's homes in Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Florence and the Tiber Terrace apartment in Rome. Also included are portraits of Beny's friends and acquaintances including Peggy Guggenheim and portraits of Beny's beloved pets. "Sallie's Box" is a composition of images that were conceived as material for a future scrapbook about Roloff Beny. The textual material is comprised of address books and telephone numbers incuding an address book from Paris in 1953; correspondence re entrance requirements, essays, exams, projects, notes and thesis from Beny's education at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Correspondence School, The University of Toronto, Trinity College, the State University of Iowa, New York University Institute of Fine Art; high school newsletter En Avant illustrated by Beny; Trinity University Review with contributions from Beny as assistant editor; passports; personally designed christmas cards; biographical material often composed from press releases and publicity compiled around exhibitions; business cards; camera information; mailing lists; guest lists; documentation relating to Beny's personal art collection, including correspondence and various evaluations undertaken by appraisers such as Christie's; description of Beny's photographic archive; will and related documents, including correspondence. University of Lethbridge Honorary Doctor of Laws. The textual material is arranged aphabetically and chronologically. Vols. 109 and 169 contain oversize material.
