Series 11 - Graphic material

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Reference code

UTA 1636-11

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Graphic material

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  • [196-]-1991 (Creation)

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0.57 m of graphic records

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(1927-2020)

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Scope and content

This series contains photoprints, photonegatives, posters, and (mounted) cartoons that were assembled over many years. The posters and some of the photoprints have been removed from other series; these items are described in those series as being filed "in box /001P" or other box, as appropriate. The remaining photographs relate mostly to specific events related to a particular position held by Dr. Ostry, and are so described.

The photographic images document many aspects of Dr. Ostry's life and career. There are, of course, photographs of her, family and friends, usually informal and often amusing, including one of her perched on a camel. More formal images document her
career as an academic and as a senior civil servant, especially her positions as Chief Statistician of Canada and Chairman of the Economic Council of Canada. Her years with the OECD and her involvement in the multilateral trade negotiations--the ongoing GATT conferences, the Summit meetings, and the Group of Thirty meetings--are also well represented. The locations range from the White House in Washington to Brussels where the Group of Thirty met in 1991 and for which there is a album of photoprints.

There are two mounted presentation copies of cartoons, both bearing the signatures of her colleagues and serving as commentaries on the vicissitudes of international politics. One, from 1987 and entitled "The Mirage", depicts Brian Mulroney on a life raft labelled `Cairns Group' (the mirage is the next meeting scheduled for Venice); the second, a Far Side cartoon, portrays two people emerging from underground shelter to the devastation brought by a nuclear war, with one exclaiming, "Thank God, Sylvia, we're alive".

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Open

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      B1994-0016/001P-/002P

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