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Pitirim Sorokin Collection

The Pitirim A. Sorokin Collection came to the University of Saskatchewan in 1968. The collection contains Sorokin's entire library of more than 1,500 books, and numerous other materials, including his own books, translations of these in some 50 languages, and books and articles by such other eminent scholars as Arnold Toynbee with …

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Al Purdy Collection

Welcome to the A.W. Purdy Digital Archive hosted by the University of Saskatchewan Special Collection Library. In 1966 the University of Saskatchewan was fortunate enough to acquire a collection of Al Purdy's work through literary agent Laurie Hill. It comprises a significant part of his early work and includes: manuscripts; …

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Irving Layton Collection

Welcome to the Irving Layton Collection at the University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections. There are two collections reprsented on this website. The first materials, MSS 3, came to the University of Saskatchewan from Laurie Hill Ltd. in 1963. Included in this archive of three boxes are published materials, anthologies, tape …

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Anne Szumigalski

Welcome to the University of Saskatchewan Special Collections Anne Szumilgalski website. Special Collections acquired a collection of her materials in early 2009 and is in the process of digitizing, describing and posting this content to this web archive. It is our hope that this resource will assist anyone who wishes to …

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Ralph Gustafson Collection

Welcome to the home of the Ralph Gustafson Electronic Literary Papers at the University of Saskatchewan. The Gustafson fonds found its way to the University of Saskatchewan in the 1960s and includes eight boxes, or a meter of textual material. The Gustafson collection includes five boxes of correspondence, including many with some of …

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Paul Hiebert Collection

Paul Hiebert once wrote to Bill Clarke, from Oxford University Press Canada, which published Sarah Binks in 1947, "after I am properly dead and buried, someone is going to discover Sarah as real Canadiana" (quoted in Panofsky 84), and while that undoubtedly has already happened (Carole Gerson calls Binks "enshrined in the Canadian …

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Postcards

The Postcard Collection at the University of Saskatchewan, University Library, Special Collections is a large collection of over 3000 postcards, which still continues to grow.  The scope of the collection is nation-wide with an emphasis on Saskatchewan cards. All of the cards are being described with metadata to support …

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Notable Works & Collections

The University of Saskatchewan's Notable Works and Collections was a semi-annual publication which is the joint effort of the Collection Development Department and Special Collections. Its purpose was to inform the University community of outstanding or interesting acquisitions made to the library system.  Issues include content …

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Early 20th Century Women's Mags

The Margaret Friesen-Labach Collection of Early Twentieth Century Women's Magazines includes 421 individual items published between 1909-1953.

The collection includes 100 issues of  THE MODERN PRISCILLA,  for the years 1909-1930 and 286 issues of NEEDLECRAFT, for the years 1910-1941.  Other items in the collection include …

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SDA - Sask War Experience

The Saskatchewan War Experience project is designed to aid Saskatchewan libraries, archives, museums, and other organizations in digitizing collections of photos, documents, published materials, sound and film, or any other format, that relate to Saskatchewan`s Experience with War. 

USSR in Construction

Welcome to USSR in Construction, a digital presentation of the seminal propaganda journal. USSR in Construction is a photographic propaganda journal published in the Soviet Union throughout the years 1930 to 1941, and briefly in 1949. It was published in Russian, French, English, German, and, from 1938, Spanish, and its self-proclaimed …

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Saskatchewan Music Collection (SMC)

The Saskatchewan Music Collection (SMC) features recordings and sheet music which have a Saskatchewan connection, i.e., composer, performer, or subject matter. It consists of mainly popular music, encompassing country, folk, ethnic, pop, rock, alternative, rap, etc., and includes Aboriginal music, religious music, and music by school and …

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About the collections



The University of Saskatchewan Library hosts a number of online digitized collections designed to promote the collections and provide access to materials for a wide range of research interests. Many collections are based in Special Collections. Send comments to spec.coll@usask.ca

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