The new year means the newest edition of the 12 Days of Archives, where we share via social media some of the neat things we have in our archives in a lead up to the holidays. This years’ tune goes a little something like this…
12 Playing Cards
MG 586, “White Pass and Yukon Route” playing cards. These cards come from the Raymond Yochim fonds, a collection which contains many interesting collectables.
11 Tiny Pins
These pins come from the Sylvia Fedoruk fonds, MG 435. There are pins for the College of Arts and Science, Penta Kai Deka, the Sheaf, as well as many others!
10 Silhouettes
MG 410, Courtney Milne fonds, 165-506. One of many of the beautiful images from the Milne Photograph collection. You can find more images here: https://library.usask.ca/courtneymilne/
9 Alpha Flights
These are the first 9 issues of a comic book series featuring a team of Canadian superheroes, set in the same universe as X-Men. From our Shortt Collection of Canadiana.
8 Sporty Postcards
These come from the “Views of Canadian Sports” postcard collection. For more postcards check out our “Wish You Were Here” digital project http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/gallery/postcards/
7 Inuit Wall Hangings
These come from the R.G. Williamson fonds, which contains a lot of material collected during Williamson’s work for and with the Inuit of Northern Canada.
6 Women Wrestlers
The Neil Richards collection, MG 355, is more well known for its LGBT material but it also has an extensive collection of material on professional (& amateur) wrestling!
5 Fishing Flies
These come from one of our newer acquisitions, the Logan-Wickendon Collection. They were created by artist Horace Wickendon and sent to his friends Ivan and Marjorie Logan.
4 USask Ceramics
In 1921-1958 College of Engineering had a Ceramics Department. We have many examples of the pieces they made in our Duff Spafford fonds http://library2.usask.ca/pottery/
3 Student Floats
These images come from the University Photograph Collection, which contains thousands of images of University of Saskatchewan throughout it’s history. These are from the late 1950’s/early 1960’s when the University of Saskatchewan’s homecoming included a parade! (A-2549, A-4357, A-4298)
2 Baby Booties
What the finding aid says is that these were knit in 1987 with the wool from the family’s own flock of sheep. What do I say? ADORABLE. (MG 271 – Cooper, Hunter, and Anderson fonds)
1 Brass Blood Leaching Tool
This beautiful but slightly terrifying artifact comes from the College of Nursing fonds, RG 2096.
