Subseries primarily consists of material which relates to the policies and procedures of the museum. Also included in the subseries is a selection of correspondence on the subject of donations to the museum, as well as purchases made by the museum. The subseries consists of memos, annotated policy documents, drafts of procedure documents, schedules, blank item cataloguing cards sample forms, correspondence and notes.
Subseries consists of material primarily relating to various committees which Audrey Hawthorn was a part of during her tenure at the museum. Records include those of the Committee on Museum (1942-1949), the Museum Programme Committee (1969-1976) the senate committee, and the Users Committee/Planning Coordinating Committee (1973). These committees dealt largely with issues surrounding the collection, budget and human resources. The subseries also contains notebooks used by Audrey Hawthorn from 1949-1971, which focus on a wide range of subjects including artifact drawings. The subseries consists of notes, minutes, financial statements, correspondence, budgets, memoranda, ephemera, spiral bound notebooks, and reports.
Subseries consists of records created in the process of examining and evaluating the museum. Records include a variety of reports and committee correspondence, minutes and memos.
Subseries consists of material pertaining to the museum’s interactions with the media during Hawthorn’s tenure. Records in this subseries consist of newspaper articles, museum, press releases, ephemera and memoranda.
Subseries consists of photograph requests and other public inquiries about totem poles, baskets, coins, masks, stones, shell and ivory statues, pottery, and other items held or services provided by the museum. These inquiries are in the form of letters to the museum or telephone calls, the latter which are recorded on a museum form.
Subseries consists of information pertaining to procedures for the acceptance of new members to the museum as well as correspondence with some notable members of the museum such as Arthur Erickson and John Koerner. Records in this subseries include correspondence and memoranda.
Communication and service: museums and institutions
Subseries consists primarily of correspondence with other museums, galleries and associations. The material in this subseries pertains to a multiplicity of functions. Records in this subseries take the form of correspondence, ephemera, account statements, questionnaires, minutes, memoranda and newspaper clippings.
Subseries consists correspondence and communication between Hawthorn and individuals who were not representatives of another museum. There are several General Correspondence files, divided by year, and these consist primarily of people requesting that Audrey Hawthorn identify and price various objects, to recommend where to purchase NWC material, to speak at functions, and of requests for bibliographies. This subseries differs from subseries 10-B in that although the files may contain inquiries and requests, they often contain other types of correspondence as well. Record forms include correspondence, press releases, and ephemera.
Subseries consists of 14 files relating to the museum’s budget and to budgets for the department of anthropology. The records within the subseries consist of correspondence, budgets, ledger sheets, memoranda, receipts, notes, requisition books, expense ledgers, receipts, account statements, and statements of purchases.
Subseries consists of records created as a result of keeping financial account of the museum’s activities. Among these records are expense ledgers, receipts, account statements, and statements of purchases. Files with more extensive descriptions contain material which may relate to the purchase of items in the collection.
Subseries consists of files relating to various sources of funding for MOA, including files on grants, donations and foundations. These files pertain to both the acquisition and use of this funding. Records in this subseries take the form of correspondence, notes, photocopies of news paper clippings, statements of purchase, journal vouchers, ledger print outs, timesheets, payroll statements, application forms and memoranda.
Subseries consists of files on specific employees, on positions and on the day to day life of museum staff members. A staff member is generally considered a paid employee versus a volunteer who works without pay. The records in this subseries consist of curriculum vitas, memoranda, notes, correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, time sheets, receipts, account statements, position postings, and appointment notices.
Subseries consists of a single file, “In-Service Education for Museum Associates” which relates both to the development of a policy for the broader education of museum associates in the fields of anthropology and archaeology, as well as documents which pertain to the public interaction training for volunteers. Records within this subseries include programs, memoranda and policy documents. Also included in this subseries is an audio cassette entitled “Audrey Hawthorn talks to Associates— History of MOA” 72.
Subseries consists of material relating to miscellaneous subjects related to the physical environs of the museum, including a photograph of the UBC campus, various work orders, permits as well a records relating to security and preservation of the totems at Totem park. The records in this subseries consist of a photograph, work order forms, correspondence, and memoranda.
Subseries consists of material relating to the upkeep of the buildings used by the museum. Records in this subseries consist of correspondence, memoranda, plans and financial documents.
Subseries consists primarily of material relating to the construction of a new museum building in the mid-1970s. There are also records regarding earlier proposals for new museum facilities which never materialized. There is material relating to the design and installation of the ‘Ksan doors and the Koerner Gallery. Record forms include correspondence, design plans (housed in the map cabinet), design team meeting minutes, budget notes and contracts.
Subseries consists of three files: “Correspondence re: proposed exchange of items with the Delacarte Gallery,” “Considerations for carvings done in new museum” and “Norman MacKenzie on the history of the MOA: donations, donors, purchases.” These files titles are largely descriptive of the subject matter of the records in the subseries. The records in this subseries take the form of correspondence, notes and negatives.
Acquisitions and documentation
Subseries consists of a wide variety of records relating to the acquisition and documentation of collections. Material includes, but is not limited to: the notebooks of R.A. Brooks, Totem Pole subject files, H.R. MacMillan correspondence, H.R. MacMillan Museum Purchase Fund, gifts received by the museum, collections lists, collections receipts, collections summaries, L. and T. Koerner Museum Purchase Fund, W.C. Koerner donations and his Museum Purchase Fund, correspondence with Florence Fyfe-Smith, artist biographical files, possible acquisitions and files on objects A50000 ADCD – A50045. Photographs are also included in the series.
Subseries consists of material that documents cultures rather than specific objects which may be found in the museum’s collection. The records in this subseries primarily take the form of published material, but general reference material is also included. This subseries at one point also included Audrey Hawthorn’s reference photograph collection of ca. 4000 items: 35mm slides, various black and white prints and negatives. These items however have since been amalgamated with the MOA General Photograph Collection.
Preservation/conservation and storage
Subseries consists of material relating to the treatment and housing of objects in the museum’s collections. Files include records from the BC Totem Pole Preservation Committee (1953-1965) and material reflecting the planning and execution of visible storage. Files also include records documenting the fumigation of wooden objects in the collection and general care of totem poles. The records in this subseries consist of formal recommendations, correspondence, committee notes, receipts, proposals, reports, lists of expenditures, notes, newspaper clippings, photocopies student papers, memoranda, reports, plans, purchase orders, invoices and ephemera.