The fonds consists of records produced by and about Pnina Granirer throughout her career as an artist and a writer. Ephemeral material include posters, cards, pamphlets, and brochures of exhibition invitations and advertisements of Granirer’s work. Granirer also accumulated published materials, such as magazines and books where her work was featured. Photographic and film records relate to Granirer’s exhibition openings and interviews. Textual records include interviews, artist statements, texts, and lectures, as well as guestbooks with exhibition visitors’ comments and letters. The fonds includes 18 notebooks with Granirer’s diaries and sketches. Correspondence records include financial documents and letters relating to exhibition donations, transactions, and sales. Entire published works about and by Granirer can be found at the University of Victoria Libraries catalogue. A flash drive of 2.58GB of materials includes biographical information, as well as PowerPoint slideshows of samples of Granirer’s artworks.
The fonds consists of research notes and interviews relating to Diane Pinch's book: "Passion & Persistence: Fifty Years of the Sierra Club in British Columbia".
The fonds is comprised of correspondence and manuscripts relating to Eve Joseph's writing, including publications "Quarrels", "In the Slender Margin", "The Secret Signature of Things", "The Startled Heart", in addition to essays, unpublished poetry, and materials relating to literary awards and festivals.
Born digital files are comprised of textual records, photographs, and audio files. The text file (.doc) "entries & observations" is working notes and other textual files (.doc) relate to Joseph's speech and reading delivered at the Griffin Poetry Prize event. A folder "photos" includes photographs (.jpg) from the Griffin Poetry Prize and a folder "book launch" includes photographs (.jpg) of various launches and events for "The Startled Heart" and "Quarrels." Audio recordings (.m4a, .mp3.) relate to the Griffin Poetry Prize as well as Ian Brown introducing Joseph at a reading (.wav).
The fonds consists of a video file (MP4) of an interview of Robert Samuel Bawlf by Professor Martin Segger re Bawlf's career and life. Includes three discs with recordings of interviews with Sam Bawlf produced by Shaw Cable and broadcast in 2018-2019. Co-produced by Martin Seggers and Chris Gower.
The fonds consists of WWII military oral history interviews on clandestine operations i.e. spying. Nine interviews of both men and women. The fonds also consists of research materials and correspondence used in the writing of "Camp X: Canada's School for Secret Agents, 1941-1945" by David Stafford (Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1986).
The fonds consists of six interviews of uneven quality offering interesting details of battle experiences particularly of the difficult in the trenches. The fonds also consists of 30 colour photographs of World War One veterans interviewed by Elizabeth Hazlitte between 1983-1984. The interviews are included in the Military Oral History collection. Photo credits listed as Jill Schwartz.
The fonds consists of the raw videotape footage produced by Special Collections. The interviewees are as follows: tape 1, Tom Hudson; tape 2, George Woodcock with Howard Gerwing; tape 3, Julia Welbourne and George Steggles; tape 4, Robin Skelton with Howard Gerwing.
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library. Special Collections
