Biographical data files, clippings, correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks, resource files, slides, and other memorabilia relating to Guelph painter, stained glass artist and local art historian Gordon Couling, 1920-1983. 19 20- 1983.

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Biographical data files, clippings, correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks, resource files, slides, and other memorabilia relating to Guelph painter, stained glass artist and local art historian Gordon Couling, 1920-1983. 19 20- 1983.

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Box 25 includes photographs of A.Y. Jackson painting the OAC campus in 1959. The painting showing Johnston Hall, the Chemistry Building, the Administration Building, Massey Hall and Library was presented by OAC 1909 for their 50th anniversary. It's part of the University art collection and is hanging in the Wellington County Room, McLaughlin Library. Material in archives concerns Gordon Couling's unpublished manuscript which he entitled "Ontario Stone: a Vocabulary of Forms" and which contains many b&w photographs and descriptions of Guelph and area (and other parts of Ontario) houses, buildings, architectural features, etc. built in the 1800's. Annex material includes biographical data on G. Couling and family.

37 grey boxes, 2 unboxed items.

University of Guelph. McLaughlin Library

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