Correspondence and research series

Artist/Creator: Henry Greenhow (Creator)
ID #: 38.2
Date: [1964-2002, predominant 1970-1990]
Level of Description: Series

Scope & Content

Series contains material reflective of Greenhow's relationships with Western Front co-founders, associated artists and friends of the Western Front, and his position in Vancouver's art scene in the 1970s and 1980s. Series also includes personal literary research.

Materials consist of correspondence in the form of letters and mailings (early zines); mailed and blank postcards; newspaper and magazine clippings; and collected exhibition flyers, pamphlets, publications, project prototypes, and stationary, interspersed with photographic documentary material.

Series is arranged roughly according to the contents of the series, titles of original binders and file folders, or chronologically. Binders and file folders have remained physically grouped together.

Physical Description

Physical Extent: 65.5 cm of textual records and graphic material. ― 53 photographs : multiple processes. ― ca. 630 postage stamps ; 3.5 x 5 cm or smaller
Material Type: Textual record, Graphic material, Philatelic record

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