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The Impossible Museum fonds

  • Fonds
  • 2018-2020

Fonds contains a selection of documents, drawings, material samples, and images collected by D'Arcy Wilson and Lisa Bouraly during a two-year research project focused on Thomas McCulloch and Andrew Downs. The fonds is part of an exhibition, the "Impossible Museum," curated by Lisa Bouraly and featuring works by D'Arcy Wilson and Amy Malbeuf. The exhibition is presented by Eyelevel Gallery in the Thomas McCulloch Museum in the Dalhousie University Life Sciences Centre from March 5 to April 30, 2020.

Material includes a selection of texts and notes tracing Bouraly's research while preparing the exhibition. These documents were selected by Wilson from Bouraly's collection. Fonds also includes an encapsulated drawing of Thomas McCulloch, material swatches linked to one of the works in the exhibition, scraps and drawings left over from a collage, photographs of works in progress, a copy of the exhibition essay, and other material related to the exhibition. Fonds also includes photocopies of several nineteenth century texts reviewed by Bouraly during her research.

The file box includes a pair of white gloves and a list of materials in the box.

Wilson, D'Arcy

Ronald Justin Inness fonds

  • MS-2-600
  • Fonds
  • [19--]
Fonds consists of materials collected by Ronald Justin Inness about ships and shipping companies, including pamphlets, manuscripts, clippings, and correspondence. Fonds also contains manuscripts written by Ronald Justin Inness about the Innes' genealogy.

Inness, Ronald Justin

Cassandra's driftwood : cover

File contains a photograph of the illustration for the front cover of "Cassandra's Driftwood" (illustrate by Terry Roscoe), a photocopy of the proposed front cover, and an envelope addressed to Lesley Choyce.

A fiddle for Angus : drafts

File contains annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's book "A Fiddle For Angus," originally titled "A Fiddle for Luther." The file also contains four slides with illustrations for the book.

Pages Out of Canada's Past

File consists of a folio of sketches with accompanying text titled 'Pages Out of Canada's Past', from the International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited. The artwork is signed Taber.

Public Health Clinic

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design and construction of the Public Health Clinic, variously called the Public Health Centre and the Dalhousie Medical Clinic. The building was designed by Halifax architect Andrew Randall Cobb, built between 1922 and 1924. and renamed the Clinical Research Centre ca. 1967.

Dalhousie University's Medical Science Building

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to the Medical Science Building (renamed the Burbidge Building in 1970), designed by Halifax architect Andrew Randall Cobb and built between 1922-and 1924. Cobb's plans allowed for a third floor addition, which was built in 1978.

Artwork from children

File contains drawings and paintings by students from various schools depicting scenes from stories by Budge Wilson.

Cassandra's driftwood : drawings

File contains copies of Terry Roscoe's rough sketches and final illustrations for "Cassandra's Driftwood" by Budge Wilson.

Science Building

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to the Science Building, now the Chemistry Building, the first building constructed on Studley Campus, started in 1912 and completed in 1915.

Cassandra's driftwood : final drafts

File contains two typed and annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's book "Cassandra's Driftwood," and black and white copies of illustrations for the book.

Cassandra's driftwood : drawings

File contains copies of Terry Roscoe's rough sketches for "Cassandra's Driftwood" by Budge Wilson and two pages of Wilson's handwritten notes on the illustrations.

Harold and Harold : illustrations

File contains copies of the sketches and proofs for the illustrations for Budge Wilson's book "Harold and Harold," with comments from the illustrator, Terry Roscoe.

The Christmas that almost wasn't : drafts

File contains various drafts of Budge Wilson's book "The Christmas that Almost Wasn't," previously titled "The Christmas of the Big Blow." File includes copies of illustrations for the book.

Macdonald Memorial Library

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to the Macdonald Memorial Library, now known as the Macdonald Building.

History of Assakio village : [sketches]

File consists of a notebook of drawings created by James H. Morrison, and three maps of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria. One map was created in 1903 and is a visualization of the settlements on the Jos Plateau; one map is a visualization of Nigeria with a focus on Jos Plateau; one map is entitled "The Fulani Jihad and those Settlements on the Jos Plateau Affected by the Emirates and/or their Allies" and displays the attack strategy of Jemaa, Zaria, Ningi, and Bauchi groups. The notebook contains colour pencil crayon drawings of styles of dress in Assakio Village with descriptive titles.
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