Graduate Open House Special issue—September 2012

Unsolicited archival advice (In 140 characters or less) Recent Acquisitions  Archival research will always take  There may be restrictions on how  It may be faster to transcribe a longer than you expect. Start ear- you can use archival material. passage rather than wait for a pho- By The ly, call ahead and do preparatory Always ask about potential re- tocopy. Copies are $0.30/page and strictions on copying and publica- Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections research. You won’t regret it! are dependent on staff availability. tion.  Archival research starts with record  Every archive is unique and will col- creators, not subjects. Start with a  Archivists can help guide you in lect different stuff. If you’re not The Clara Thomas Archives & Special arts and social reform, generational list of not only what you’re looking your research, but cannot conduct finding what you want, ask us! We Collections of Libraries change in faculty has opened new for but also who. it on your behalf. Besides, the can recommend other repositories. collects primary source material to horizons in our acquisition activities. thrill of discovery is half the fun!  Be aware that access to some  Citation is extra important when support research materials will be restricted for a  It may be efficient to photograph a conducting archival research. Your and learning by the Recent acquisitions period of time because of legisla- document, rather than copy it. Ask reader (and you!) should be able to university’s faculty pertain to a wide tion, donor request, or to protect first! You may be able to see retrace your steps back to an item. and students, and a diversity of disci- privacy. something but not be able to copy community of inter- plines and topics

it. FEATURED national scholars. including broadcast FONDS

communications, New materials are John Warkentin 2 environmental his- acquired from a tory, sexual diversi- wide variety of ty, social and consti- Lou Wise 2 sources, including tutional reform, film antiquarian book dealers, researchers and theatre production, and the CLARA THOMAS Image credits: PCHP | GCHP 2 working in the field and the general multicultural experience.

ARCHIVES public. p.1 : Photograph of reading room of the Desmond Neill 3 & Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections. | While York University has always spe- Visit our website, email us or drop SPECIAL Promotional photographs of Dini Petty for Refus global 3 cialized in research collections relating by during our research hours to CKEY and CityTV and screen capture of Petty to , politics, fine explore our rich collections! COLLECTIONS interviewing Kermit The Frog (episode 16

1619, broadcast September 14, 1998). Varpu Lindström 3

Hours : Monday—Friday, 10:00 am — 4:30 pm. p. 2: Selection of digitized photographs from Dini Petty the John Warkentin fonds, including cemetery Unsolicited advice 4 Telephone: 416-736-5442 near Ladywood, MB and Metis home on the Seine River, MB ASC15564, ASC15985. | Aerial Email: [email protected] Dini Petty is a Canadian broadcaster, The longest running Canadian program of photograph of Bond, Wilcox, St. George Lake television personality and talk show its kind, The Dini Petty Show hosted local, area from the Lou Wise fonds, ASC23946. | Homepage : host. national and international celebrities, Photograph of Greek-Portuguese soccer http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/archivesspecialcollections/ As a traffic reporter for CKEY, Petty actors, authors, artists, musicians, broad- match in , 1967. Toronto Telegram Follow us on twitter at: fonds, ASC12881. was known as “The Girl in the Pink casters, politicians and community lead- @ASCYorkU or @deantiquate Helicopter” as the radio station built a ers, and included regular features on pop p. 3: Selection of items from the Desmond marketing strategy around the fact culture, fashion and home decorating. Keep up to date with new acquisitions with our blog: Neill Collection | Dust jacket of Refus global | that there were few female helicopter http://deantiquate.blog.yorku.ca/ Cover art for Varpu Lindström’s Letters from an immigrant teenager, call number pilots in the industry and even fewer The archives has received broadcast tapes York University Archives is named in honour of Dr. Clara VLC 0990. female traffic reporters in the 1960s. from almost every episode of the program Thomas, Professor of English at York University from 1961 to She went on to work for CityTV as a as well as Petty’s own personal papers. p.4 : host and reporter and in 1989 hosted The textual material in now open for re- 1984. The Clara Thomas Archives has been a beneficiary of Dr. Detail from bookplate of Thomas Perry. | Por- Thomas' extensive literary connections, moral and financial trait of Clara Thomas, York University Librar- her own talk show, The Dini Petty search, and as resources permit, episodes Show on CFTO (now CTV). will be digitized to facilitate access. support, and good will for many years. ies fonds, F0066. ASC00502.

An online finding aid can be found at : http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000575.pdf Graduate Open House Page 2 Graduate Open House Page 3

John Warkentin Photographs of Coming Soon: Desmond Neill Collection

Funded by a 2012 change and settlement Manitoba, can be Desmond Neill (1924-2012), lection he donated to York Uni- lar focus on Victorian Young Canada Works patterns in Manitoba, On- browsed online through arrived at the University of To- versity. The broad ranging col- studies, women's life (YCW) grant, the ar- tario and Greenland. York University’s online ronto from the Bodleian Library lection explores a multitude of writing, queer and chives have been digit- in 1975, to take up an appoint- facets of book history and print gendered history. Items The photographs were digital repository, York- izing a selection of pho- ment as Librarian and Senior culture. will be available in late taken by Prof. Warkentin Space at : tographic slides and Fellow at Massey College. Fol- 2013. from the early 1950s to http://bit.ly/OlrOFY field notes created by lowing his retirement, Neill The collection covers such areas 2009, and document fea- York University profes- remained active as a book as book history, typography, tures of the physical land- The metadata assistant sor emeritus, geogra- collector. paper making, publisher scape as well as human hired for the summer pher John Warkentin. histories, literary histories, gen- habitations and agricultur- contract has also devel- These images will be Neill’s bibliophilic tendencies re studies, 19th and 20th cen- al practices. oped an online exhibit useful to instructors and and deep interest in antiquari- tury memoirs, autobiographies featuring a selection of researchers investigat- The first batch of scanned anism are reflected in the col- and biographies, with a particu- the images. ing environmental images, primarily of rural

Exhibit can be viewed at: http://archives.library.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/warkentin New Acquisition: Refus Global Aerial Photographs of Watersheds York Libraries is pleased to an- Arguably the most important the Duplessis govern- Lou Wise is a pilot and es will be of interest to These sites are located nounce our recent acquisition manifesto to be published in ment, while arguing of artist Paul-Émile Borduas’ Canada during the 20th centu- for freedom of artistic Archival Research environmental activist researchers and activists in south-western Ontar- Tutorial personal copy of the important ry, Refus global is recognized expression. who has taken low- working on water io and, in particular, the manifesto Refus global (Total as helping to trigger the Quiet Oak Ridges Moraine. Refusal). This acquisition will The Archival Research level oblique aerial pho- rights, development Revolution in Quebèc. A “cri de Link to catalogue rec- complement the CTASC’s Tutorial has been re- tographs of endangered issues, urban planning cœur” of a frustrated genera- ord can be accessed strengths in materials relevant tion, the manifesto argued freshed and updated wetlands and water- and agricultural devel- here: https:// to the Canadian avant-garde against the stifling control of as a new resource sheds of Ontario since opment in Ontario. and Canadian history. the clergy, right-wing nation- www.library.yorku.ca/ guide. the 1980s. These imag- alism, and the corruption of find/Record/860955 If you have never visit- ed an archive before, Portuguese & Greek History final Accession to Varpu Lindström or if you want to fa- Projects miliarize yourself with fonds York’s holdings, go to : The Portuguese Cana- tion of graduate stu- Earlier this summer, Prof. 1890-1930, Lindström pub- home as she was adjusting dian History Project dents studying the http://bit.ly/NIVw8H (PCHP) continues to Greek community in Varpu Lindström passed away lished on many aspects of the to life in Canada. from brain cancer. Finnish experience. Our guide is also a build momentum, Canada. As a result, The donation also includes great introduction to with new oral histo- the Greek Canadian ries and archival do- History Project (GCHP) A member of York’s faculty Her last donation to the ar- the original copies of the archival research for nations generated by has been established since 1984, Lindström was a chives includes drafts of her letters. undergraduate graduate students and will aim to leading scholar on Finnish final book Letters from an Im- students in your tutori- working in the Portu- identify and acquire immigration to North Ameri- migrant Teenager, which docu- Lindström’s archives and als. guese community in archival material from ca. Establishing her reputation ments an often neglected sec- research library will carry Toronto. organizations, with her work Defiant Sisters: tor of immigrant history. It con- The project has also families and individu- on her scholarly legacy a Social History of Finnish Im- sists of a selection of her corre- attracted the atten- als in Ontario. and provide insight into the migrant Women in Canada spondence with a friend back Finnish immigrant experience. For more information see: http://archives.library.yorku.ca/pchp/ and http://archives.library.yorku.ca/gchp/ An online finding aid can be found at : http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000558.htm