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The fonds consists of records relating primarily to Innes’ drawing, painting, and writing. Records include original cartoons, publications containing Innes’ work, a chapbook, exhibit programs and reviews, and images of Innes’ paintings, as well as photographs of Innes, biographical material, and a patent agreement.

The fonds has been arranged into six series: Records relating to Innes’ paintings ([190-?]-1943); Illustrations and cartoons ([between 1880 and 1941]); Publications (1900-[ca. 1934]); Photographs of Innes ([192-?-193-?]); Patent (1 Feb. 1919); and Records relating to Innes created after his death ([1941]-1945).

Series consists of postcards of images of Innes’ paintings, programs and reviews from exhibits of his work in Vancouver, articles and pamphlets about his work, photographs of paintings, and sketches.

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

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

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

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

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting, addressed to Mr. Donald Allen.

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting, addressed to Mr. Donald Allen.

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting, addressed to Mr. E.D. Allen.

Item is a pamphlet describing Innes’ life and painting career, by “W.H.K.”

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.

File consists of newspaper clippings relating to Innes’ paintings.

Item is a newspaper clipping from The Vancouver Sun featuring a photograph of John Innes and a description of his painting “Harding in Canada.”

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

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 pamphlet describing a series of murals painted by John Innes for David Spencer department store.

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 book containing reproductions and descriptions of a collection of 8 Innes paintings on loan to the University of British Columbia.

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 newspaper clippings relating to Innes as well as the happenings of the Vancouver Sketch Club and other arts news in Vancouver.

Item is a program for an exhibit of Innes’ paintings in Vancouver, sponsored by Hudson’s Bay Company.

Item is a notebook tracking discussions and sales of John Innes paintings, as well as strategies for finding prospective buyers.

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a painting by R.A. Davenport. This postcard appears to be from the same series as the Innes postcards.

Item is a program for an exhibit of Innes’ paintings held at David Spencer Limited department store in Vancouver.

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