E.J. Pratt Library

• In this Collection
• Introduction
• Series
• • 1. Correspondence
  • 2. Literary files
  • 3. Professional files
  • 4. Personal files
  • 5. Material about A.P. Coleman
  • 6. Other material
  • 7. Graphical material

Arthur P. Coleman Fonds

Series 7: Graphical material

Scope and content

Series consists of (pen and pencil) drawings, watercolours, and photographs, including photographs of A.P. Coleman, of his friends, and of his journeys.

Note(s)

Source of supplied title

Title based on contents of series.

Extent

The series is contained in 26 boxes.

Finding aids

File list available (see below).

File List

Box	File	Title	Year & Additional Information
Drawings
19	2	Sketchbooks (4 books containing drawings and paintings of many locales): n.d., 1878, 1892
10A	2	Sketch map of the Canadian Rocky Mountains by J. Norman Collie with changes and additions. By A.P. Coleman
5	15	[Ink portrait]	[Copy?]
19	4	2000 ft. camp
19	4	N. end, Oaxaca
19	4	Syncline, Mt. [?]
19	2	[Untitled]	Mounted.
19	4	[Untitled]	Study, for painting.
19	8	[Untitled]	On cardboard.
19	2	See verso of watercolour paintings	See also: Professional files, field notebooks; Personal files, notebooks.
Paintings
Watercolour:
5	4	Blueberry and Arctostaphylus, autumn, Ontario: n.d.	Mounted on cardboard.
		Canoeing on the Caribbean	See: Photographs.
5	7	Cathedral Rock, Yosemite, 1919	Mounted on cardboard.
5	12	El Misti (19,000 feet), from road near Arequipa, Peru: n.d.	Mounted on cardboard.
5	1	Foot hills, Alberta: n.d.	Mounted on cardboard. [Painting of flowers.]
5	14	[Fortifications, Mombasa?]: n.d.	Not mounted.
5	6	From timberline above Yoho Valley, 1928	Mounted on cardboard.
5	11	Going home from market, Guatemala, 1937	Mounted on cardboard.
5	5	Harbour scene, Cobourg, Sept., 1874	Mounted on paper.
5	8	Illimani from Bolivian highlands: n.d.	Not mounted.
5	9	Illimani from Bolivian highlands: n.d.	Mounted on cardboard.
6	1a	Surprise Rapids, Columbia River	See: Photographs [of Canada-Mt. Robson]
5	2	Tall timber, Brookmere, B.C., 1920	Mounted on cardboard.
5	3	Tide coming in, Bay of Fundy, Joggins, N.S.:	n.d.; Mounted on cardboard.
		[Untitled; sailboat]: oversized.	Framed.
5	13	Victoria Falls from Livingstone Island, Rhodesia: n.d.	Mounted on cardboard.
Watercolour, acquired from Peter Allen:
Untitled:
19	2	Sketchbooks: n.d., 1878, 1892	4 books containing drawings and paintings of many locales
19	3	Photograph of a painting
19	2	16 paintings
19	2	1 painting	Mounted.
19	3	5 paintings	On cardboard.
19	3	19 paintings	On paper; some paintings on verso of others.
19	3	On verso of Durban
19	4	On verso of Quebec
19	4	25 paintings	Some with illegible titles.
19	4	3 paintings	On cardboard.
19	6	8 paintings	Three mounted. [Note: some or all by Helena Coleman?; two initialled “H.C.”]
19	8	1 painting	[Copy?]
Titled:
19	3	Across the canal, Campbellford
19	3	Adirondacks
19	3	The Alahambra from Alemeda Hotel
19	2	Amos	[Copy?]
19	2	Apula
19	4	Arachon
19	2	Arthur’s pass-beech with pale green lichen...
19	8	At Canmore, Bow Pass	On cardboard.
19	4	At Jasper
19	3	Beaver Creek	On cardboard.
19	4	Black Hills
19	2	Bogota
19	4	Bogata
19	2	Bridge over Exe
19	2	Brinkley, Ark.
19	4	Calgary
19	2	Canemel
19	2	Cape Town
19	4	Cataracts
19	2	Chapultapec
19	3	Chicago
19	2	[Chippewa?]
19	2	Clevedon
19	2	Clevedon garden
19	2	Coast near Albany
19	3	Columbia above the Dalles	On cardboard.
19	4	Copenhagen
19	2	Cordoba
19	3	A corner of the Union Bldg., Pretoria
19	2	Darjeeling
19	4	[Darjeeling?]
19	3	The Devil’s Head	On cardboard.
19	3	Durban
19	2	[Escurial?], 6 m. from S.
19	3	Evening sky, Lake Atitlan
19	4	Falls of Montr‚al River
19	2	Farmhouse, n. of Palma
19	2	Flower bed, Clevedon
19	4	From [Castelet?] del Ray
19	4	Golf links, Clevedon
19	3	Helsingfors
19	2	Jasper Park
19	3	Kootenay Plains, looking S.
19	3	Lake Atitlan
19	4	Lake in park	[Los Angeles?]
19	4	Lewis R. above 5 fingers, Sept. 11
19	4	Looking across Fowey Bay
19	4	Looking s., canal, Campbellford
19	2	Marsh haystack, Landon’s bay
19	2	Mill near Baie St. Paul
19	3	Mission near San Diego
19	2	[Montherm‚?]
19	3	Mountain, River Meuse, [Montherm‚?]
19	4	The mountain, Trenton
19	4	Mouth, Fowey
19	4	Mt. Field
19	3	[Mt. Lefroi?]
19	3	Mt., N.W. of Cranbrook
19	2	Mt. Orford from S.E.; and Owl’s Head and Elephantus
19	3	Mt. Rundle
19	2	Mt., S. side of Clearwater R.
19	3	Near [?]
19	3	Near [Hootalinqua?], Lewis R.
19	3	Near [Tetuan?]
19	4	Near Sunshine [Camp?]
19	4	The Needles
19	2	Old Stockholm
19	5	On Moira River, 1932
19	2	On roof, Ontario Hotel, Mexico
19	2	Owl’s Head and Elephantus	On verso of Mt. Orford from S.E.
19	3	Pinehurst Island	On cardboard.
19	4	Placentia
19	3	Polensa
19	4	Quebec
19	4	Quetzaltenango
19	2	Red Canyon
19	4	S. of [Laguna Beach?]
19	4	San Antonio
19	2	[Sandbank?]
19	4	Santa Marta
19	4	Shore, Fogo
19	2	Singapore
19	4	Spruces, Sunshine [Camp?]
19	3	St. Jerome
19	3	Sunset near Mt. [?]
19	2	Surprize Mt. showing [Thalkessel?], left side in shadow
19	2	[Taku?] Glacier
19	4	Tetuan
19	3	Top of Misty Mt.	On cardboard.
19	2	Townsville, Queensland
19	3	The trail	On cardboard.
19	3	A trio, Bow Pass	On cardboard.
19	8	Tromso Harbor, July ’81
19	2	[Truro?]
19	4	Up Mt. Louis Valley
19	2	Wangaruni Bay, New Zealand Coast, E. side, [N. end?]
19	8	Well-to-do Bauer’s house, in a mountain village, Silesia, 1881
19	4	Yellow birches on hill sides, looking s. from Dawson Dome
Watercolours, acquired from Peter E. Odell:
22		6 paintings	Landscapes, various countries; mounted on cardboard.
Photographs
Portraits of A.P. Coleman:
7	b.5	N.d. [taken in Cobourg];
7	b.5	N.d. [in academic gown; taken in Berlin];	See enlargement, Box 8, File b.2.
8	b.2	N.d. [in academic gown; taken in Berlin];	Framed; stored separately. See smaller print, Box 7, File b.5.
7	b.5	N.d. [holding a pick];
7	b.5	N.d. [wearing a Parka];
8	b.3	N.d. (2 portraits; by Violet Keene); 4 copies and 1 enlargement, mounted.	Stored separately.
8	b.4	Plaster portrait of A.P. Coleman b y Arthur J. Tracey, 1929
Group photographs including A.P. Coleman:
7	b.2	[In a geological laboratory?]: n.d.	Mounted.
7	b.3	[Of geological expedition?, at a shore]: n.d.	Framed.
7	b.2	[Of geologists?]: n.d.	Mounted.
8	b.1	[Group of men on a porch]: n.d.	Two copies, both mounted, oversized.
7	b.2	Organizing Committee of the Twelfth International Geological Congress, 1913
Photographs of friends:
7	b.4	Edith Lyttleton, A.M. Maclear, Marjorie Pickthall and Ethelwyn Wetherald, taken at “Pinehurst”	For other copies, see Helena Coleman papers.
7	b.1	Barber, F.L., Mrs. Barber [and Currelly?]: 1 photograph; n.d.
	7, b.6	Unidentified man: n.d.
19	8	Unidentified persons at “Pinehurst”
Photographs by A.P. Coleman, general:
8	a.4	Of groundcover plants: 2 photographs
8	a.5	Of mountains, unidentified: 3 photographs
7	a.8	Of a sailboat: 1 photograph
5	10	Of a painting: Canoeing on the Caribbean: n.d. Black-and-white	Photograph of a painting by A.P. Coleman.
19	3	[Untitled]	Black-and-white print.
19	8	[Untitled; cabins on mountainside]	Black-and-white print.
19	8	[Untitled; flowers]	Negative; black- and-white print; colour print.
Photographs by A.P. Coleman, of a residence:
19	8	Negative	[Of Coleman residence?]
Photographs by A.P. Coleman, of places:
See also: Photographs by A.P. Coleman transferred from Victoria University Archives, below.
7	a.1	Africa: 20 photographs	Mounted.
7	a.2	Algiers: 2 photographs	Mounted.
7	a.3	Bavaria: 1 photograph	Mounted.
Canada:
8	a.3	The Tower of Castle Mt.: n.d.
19	8	Upper Fall, Yellowstone: n.d.
19	8	Near Rome; n.d.;
19	8	[Of B.C.?]: n.d.
19	8	[Of Rocky Mountain expedition?]: 5 photographs, black-and-white, n.d.
19	8	[Of a sailboat; by A.P.C.?]: n.d.
19	9	Cobal–looking east: n.d.
19	9	Hollinger: 2 photographs; n.d.
19	9	Jessopville–north of Orangeville a few miles east of Shelburne: n.d.
19	9	Omemee: n.d.
6	1	243 photographs. File titles: Buckingham, Quebec: n.d.; File 1.i. Mines, landscapes (including Quebec City, Wolf’s Cove; plus Huntington Beach, California), people. File includes two postcards (United States). Gasp‚ and eastern mountains: 1938; File 1.e. Landscapes, people. Imperial Valley: 1936; File 1.b. Landscapes. Miscellaneous, mostly Western Canada: [“various dates”]; File 1.j. Landscapes, people (including A.P. Coleman and Captain Crawford). Prints of old Rocky Mt. pictures: n.d.; File 1.f. People and horses, including horses swimming up a river. Mt. Robson: 1907; File 1.a. Landscapes, people, and a photograph of a painting by A.P. Coleman, “Surprise Rapids, Columbia River.” Trip to the Rockies and Surprise Rapids: 1937; File 1.d. Landscapes, including: Columbia River, Big Bend, Takkakaw Falls. Western trip: 1936; File 1.c. Landscapes, including: [Rocky Mountains?], Athabasca Falls, Fryatt Valley, [Active Pass (Gulf Islands, B.C.)?], Butchart Gardens [Victoria, B.C.], Vancouver Harbour.
6	2	Colombia: 203 photographs; File titles: Apulo, Colombia: n.d.; File 2.j Barranquilla: n.d.; Box 6, File 2.f Barranquilla and Cartagena: n.d.; File 2.h Bogota and Paramo, near Usme: n.d.; File 2.g [Colombia]: n.d.; File 2.k Colombia: n.d.; File 2.i Colombia: n.d.; File 2.l Colombia: 1934; File 2.a Colombia: 1934–35; File 2.b Market, Three Rivers: 1935; File 2.c
	2.e	Panama and Cartagena: 1935
	2.d	Santa Maria and Deboulla: 1935
6	3	Cuba: 4 photographs. File title: Havana: n.d. File 3.a
6	4.	Denmark: 16 photographs. File title: Jutland: 1931; File 4. a
6	5.	Finland: 21 photographs. File title: Lapland and Oulu: 1931; File 5.a
19	9	France: n.d.
6	6	Guatemala: 39 photographs; File titles: At or near Lake Atitlan: 1937; File 6.b Guatemala: 1937; File 6.a Market, and at sea: 1937; File 6.d Porcupine steamer on Caribbean: 1937; File 6.c. [No photographs of steamer in file.] Porto Barrios: 1937; File 6.e
7	a.5	Italy: 27 photographs; n.d.	Mounted.
6	7	Mexico: 1 photograph. File title: Mazatlan: n.d.; File 7.a
7	a.6	Spain: 3 photographs; n.d.	Mounted.
7	a.7	Switzerland: 5 photographs; n.d.
6	8	United States (southern region). 67 photographs; File titles: Laguna Beach: 1936; File 8.d Motor trip south, pass to Ashville and Stone Mountain: 1925; File 8.a San Diego and Red Canyon: 1934; File 8.b Southern States: 1935; File 8.c Yellowstone Park: 1937; File 8.e
6	9.	Zululand: 18 photographs; File title: Zululand: 1929; File 9.a
Photographs by A.P. Coleman transferred from Victoria University Archives:
(Of landscapes, people, paintings, sculpture), n.d., including some photographs produced by A.P. Coleman (on which watercolour painting has sometimes been added) and some produced commercially:
21, plus oversized storage		Landscapes, houses
13–17, 20, 21		Various countries: Egypt, [North Africa?], unidentified: 7 photographs, mounted; Box 13 Egypt, Israel, Greece, Sicily, Italy, France, Luxembourg, England, Bermuda, unidentified: 90 photographs, mounted on album pages; Box 14. Egypt, [North Africa?], Natal, Victoria Falls, [Bermuda?], [Jamaica?], unidentified: 27 photographs, mounted; Box 15 Pretoria: 18 photographs, unmounted; Box 15 Italy, France, Germany, England, unidentified: 32 photographs, 30 mounted; Box 16 Jamaica, [West Indies?], unidentified: 37 photographs, mounted; Box 17

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