SFU AtoM

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.

Innes, John Clarke

“Militants attention”

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Item
[191-?]

Part of John Innes fonds

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 slacker’s return”

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Item
[1917?]

Part of John Innes fonds

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

Eleventh Annual North West Moose Association Convention [program]

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Item
1926

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a program for a North West Moose Association convention held in Vancouver. The program is illustrated throughout by Innes.

Innes, John Clarke

Our Fifty Years

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Item
1940

Part of John Innes fonds

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]

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Item
1940

Part of John Innes fonds

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]

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Item
1940

Part of John Innes fonds

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

[Portrait of Innes by P. Bentley]

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Item
[1923]

Part of John Innes fonds

Innes, John Clarke

John Innes and J. Linkison King with Frederick E. Crotois - Agreement

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Item
1 Feb. 1919

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a patent agreement relating to a device for “detecting the direction of motion on a horizontal plane,” filed in New York City.

Innes, John Clarke

Stampede of Cattle

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Item
[190-?]

Part of John Innes fonds

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

Innes, John Clarke

[Page with 3 pencil sketches]

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Item
[192-?]

Part of John Innes fonds

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.

Innes, John Clarke

“Is Creator of Noted Picture”

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Item
[1923]

Part of John Innes fonds

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

Innes, John Clarke

Reproductions of Epoch Making Incidents in the Early History of British Columbia

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Item
1927, 1928

Part of John Innes fonds

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.

Innes, John Clarke

George D. Innes Notes D’ly Representing John Innes

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Item
1935

Part of John Innes fonds

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

Innes, John Clarke

Announcing “From Trail to Rail” The Epic of Transportation : A Story of Great Vision, Heroic Enterprise and Splendid Achievement. Told in Twenty-one Oil Paintings By John Innes

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Item
[1936]

Part of John Innes fonds

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

Innes, John Clarke

[Photograph of “The Builders” painting]

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Item
27 Mar. 1936

Part of John Innes fonds

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

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Item
9 Jan. 1943

Part of John Innes fonds

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

Innes, John Clarke

[Pen and watercolour sketch of canoe]

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Item
[between 1880 and 1941]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a pen and watercolour sketch of a First Nations canoe being paddled by two people.

Innes, John Clarke

“Half a Century of Progress” [pencil sketch]

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Item
[1940?]

Part of John Innes fonds

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

Cowboy Race, at the Half