CATALOGUING COLLECTIONS

Dominion Modern acquires and catalogues collections of individual architects and designers for future generations. We maintain a large collection of Canadian 20th Century artefacts -- from furniture and industrial design to photographs, drawings and ephemera.

If you would like to make a donation to our collection (books, periodicals, drawings, photographs industrial design, etc.) contact us at info@dominionmodern.ca.

-Artefact Collection: furniture, objects and industrial design
-Ephemera Collection: packaging, papers, includes graphic design
-Industrial Collection: Canadian company histories
-Biblio Collection: Collection of books and Periodicals on architecture, design, industrial and Canadian history.
-Photographic Collection: 50,000+ photographs, negatives, positives and prints.

COLLECTIONS

Peter Dickinson Collection 2000+

-Includes Dickinson's architectural archive. Format: photographs, negatives, transparencies, drawings, sketches, layouts, pamphlets, brochures and prints. Period: 1940-1990

Hugh Robertson Collection 5000+

-Includes Architecture, Product, Industrial, Portrait and War Photography. Plus Advertising and Layouts. Format: photographs, negatives transparencies, advertising and prints. Period: 1930-1985

Dieter Reppin Collection 1200+

-Includes history and output of Art Associates and TDF. Format: photographs, transparencies, layouts and advertising. Period: 1960-1983

Andy Smith Collection 4500+

-Including Architecture, Product, Industrial, Portrait and Progress Photography. Format: photographs, negatives transparencies and prints. Period: 1965-1990

Art & Industry Collection 3000+

-Includes Architecture Photography. Industrial and Domestic Artefacts. Industial Design and Ephemera. Format: photographs, negatives, transparencies, and prints. Period: 1930-2005

Gino Mastrangelli Collection

-Includes personal output of donor for Dudas Keypers Rowan (DKR). Format: photographs, drawings, sketches and prints. Period: 1966-1975

Adam Vaughan Collection

-Includes video interviews with modern Canadian architects conducted by Adam Vaughan, a former broadcaster. Period: 2005

OISE/UT Collection

-Includes a selection of period mid-century furniture original to the building of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Period: 1968-70.

Dominion Modern also maintains smaller collections from individuals that may include photography, industrial design, furniture, objects and ephemera. They include collections from: Jose Castel-Branco, Robert Chandler, Robert Fones, Blanche and Sandy van Ginkel, Helena Grossman, Peter and Andrea Maguire, Andre Morin and Meredith Robb.