Item is a pen and ink sketch by Innes of small houses and forest with a cityscape in the background. The sketch is mounted on paper with an attached overleaf.
Item is a pencil sketch by Innes of a figure sitting next to 2 totem poles with a cityscape in the background. There are notes in the margin about the composition from Innes as well as “George.”
Item is a Christmas card illustrated with an image of a cowboy riding in the snow, inscribed “To Douglas & Mrs. Lane & the boys. Every happiness, this Christmas season of 1937. John & Ida Innes.” There is a metal emblem attached to the card.
Item is a photograph of Innes walking on a sidewalk next to another man. Inscribed on the back by Innes’ wife Ida is “Look how they starved John Innes - bowed his head and broke his heart.”
Item is a Christmas card inscribed “And may we, all working together, find a worthy place for John Innes’ Great Work, portraying in 21 pictorial chapters the historic conquest, by The Pioneers, of Canada’s Vast Spaces!” This likely relates to the “From Trail to Rail” collection of Innes’ paintings.
File consists of 2 advertisements for Shelly’s Bread which include instalments of a serialized story, accompanied by the illustrations “Mackenzie’s party descending the Bella Coola River in spoon canoes” and “Indians attacking the Hudson’s Bay fort at Camousun,” by Innes.
Item is a program for an exhibit of Innes’ paintings in Vancouver, sponsored by Hudson’s Bay Company. The program is inscribed “C.H. French Esq. With the Compliments of John Innes.”
File consists of an illustrated pamphlet describing a collection of 8 Innes paintings on loan to the University of British Columbia, as well as an affidavit by Innes regarding the status of these paintings.
Item is a sketch for a painting, showing an early settlement in Vancouver with First Nations canoes in the water. The sketch is gridded for scaling and appears to be for a mural.
Item is a photograph of Innes’ painting “The Builders,” inscribed on the back “To dear Hoppie from Daddy, being a print of the First City Council of Vancouver - with the Civic officials - meeting in June 1886. With love of Ida May Innes my dear wife. John Innes.”