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[Photograph of “The Builders” painting]

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.”

Innes, John Clarke

Cowboy Race

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting, addressed to Mrs. M. Akiyama from Mrs. Innes.

Innes, John Clarke

[Pencil sketch for painting]

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.

Innes, John Clarke

Bull Train

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting.

Innes, John Clarke

Shooting up the Town

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting.

Innes, John Clarke

Stage Coach

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting.

Innes, John Clarke

[Pen sketch]

Item is an unfinished pen sketch showing a totem pole near water, with a holly leaf in one corner.

Innes, John Clarke

“Bringing home the bacon”

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing Sir Joe Flavelle walking a pig labelled “$3,000,000.00 profits on bacon” into a bank with the caption “Sir Joseph: Come into your nice sty, piggy. The kind [?]-Keeper will look after you while I am away doing lots more patriotic work.”

Innes, John Clarke

“Thanksgiving 1914”

Item is a colour cartoon by Innes showing a First Nations woman “British Columbia” with a feast.

Innes, John Clarke

“The slacker’s return”

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing “A. Slacker” crossing the U.S. border into Canada, away from a sign stating “U.S. at war. Selective conscription,” to find a sign stating “Canada rejects voluntary enlistment and adopts selective conscription.”

Innes, John Clarke

“The practical view of it”

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing a soldier confronting a man labelled “Bagdad” with the caption “Tommy Atkins (& Harim el Raschid, Bagdad): “‘Arim, old sport. You’re bloomin well pinched!”

Innes, John Clarke

[Christmas card illustrated by Innes]

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.

Innes, John Clarke

“Half a Century of Progress” [pencil sketch]

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.”

Innes, John Clarke

Our Fifty Years

Item is a booklet about the history of Vancouver, published by The Pacific Coast Fire Insurance Company to commemorate its fiftieth anniversary. The cover illustration is by Innes.

Innes, John Clarke

[“The Pathfinders” Christmas card]

Item is a Christmas card with an image of Innes’ painting “The Pathfinders” on the front. The card is inscribed “To the Lane family From the Innes family, 1940.”

Innes, John Clarke

[Christmas illustration]

File consists of an original ink drawing of a bright star over a landscape, with a border of holly, as well as a newspaper clipping including the illustration.

Innes, John Clarke

“Militants attention”

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing a sign stating “Militants attention. The tyrants have again resorted to forcible feeding,” likely referring to the treatment of hunger-striking suffragettes in Britain. A character named “Indigent Arnold” stands next to the sign and the caption reads “I wish the bloomin’ tyrants would get a’old of me.”

Innes, John Clarke

“The hold-up season”

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing children aiming toy guns and swords at a man with pockets full of candy and packages.

Innes, John Clarke

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