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.”
Item is a large Vancouver Daily Province layout sheet with a pencil sketch on one side and blueline tracing of it on the other. The drawing shows three cowboys on horseback with a wagon train in the background.
Item is a sheet with 3 small pencil sketches. One shows oxen and the other two are rough layout sketches showing trees and mountains with oxen or horses in the foreground.