Images & Photographs

	Gordon E. McCaw Vancouver Street Art Photograph Collection In 1979, photographer Gord McCaw moved to Vancouver and set up a studio in the Standard Building at 510 West Hastings Street. Between 1980 and 1992, he took a series of approximately 750 photographs documenting street art and graffiti in locations around Vancouver. In 2015, McCaw donated to... more
	Grace McCarthy Scrapbook Collection Donated to the Simon Fraser University Library in 2011, the Grace McCarthy fonds (MsC 168) includes 89 scrapbooks compiled by McCarthy, the Social Credit MLA who became cabinet minister and deputy premier. These scrapbooks include photographs, correspondence, clippings, press releases, and... more
	Harrison Brown Collection Photographs and writings by Harrison Brown (1893-1977), a freelance journalist, writing for The Evening Standard, The New Chronicle, The New Statesman, and the Fortnightly Review between the World Wars. He also worked as a broadcaster for the BBC. Harrison moved... more
	Indigenous Media Arts Group (IMAG) A collection of digitized photographs, print materials, and ephemera that document the activities of the Indigenous Media Arts Group, or IMAG. IMAG was an Indigenous and community organization founded in early 1998. Its mandate was to facilitate the promotion, development, and dissemination... more
	Italian Canadian Women Photograph Collection A collection of archival images dating from 1950 to 1975 celebrating the contributions of Italian women immigrants to Canadian history and culture. In 1948, Canada began accepting family-sponsored Italian immigrants. Between 1950 and 1975, over 100,000 Italian women came as sojourners and... more
	Judith Marcuse Dance Collection View selected photographs, posters, publications, and promotional materials from the Judith Marcuse fonds held by the SFU Library’s Special Collections. For more information about this content, including a biographical history of creator Judith Marcuse, visit the... more
	Mai '68 Collection The mai '68 poster collection in SFU Library Special Collections consists of posters and handbills created largely by the Atelier Populaire. The collection is important as a source of documentary, artistic and historical evidence of the student protests in France during May 1968. Each day... more
	Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection The Pacific Socialist Education Association’s Pacific Tribune photograph collection comprises over 40,000 35-mm images taken for the weekly Vancouver labour newspaper Pacific Tribune. The images cover a twenty-year period, from 1972 to 1992, one of the most active periods... more
	Perry Giguere "Perry the Poster Man" From 1978 to 2018, Perry Giguere (aka "Perry the Poster Man") made a living putting up promotional posters all over Vancouver, always holding on to an extra copy or two at the end of a job. The result was a comprehensive archives of nearly 250,000 posters documenting cultural, social and... more
	Philip Francis Postcard Collection Postcards provide a window into the past unlike other written or photographic materials. In many respects, they can be viewed as the precursors of today’s social media. They were, first and foremost, a quick, inexpensive and often visually appealing means of communication. In the Golden Age... more