Fonds F0529 - Allan Robb Fleming fonds

• Textual record
• Graphic material
• Sound recording
• Philatelic record
• Object

5.5 m of textual records and other material

The records that comprise Accession 2008-002 were initially deposited at the Massey College Library of the University of Toronto in October 1994, and were transferred to the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections in December 2007 by Martha and Peter Fleming. The records in Accession 2008-031 were transferred from the home of Nancy Fleming after her death on 24 February 2008.

Fonds consists of correspondence, brochures, clippings from newspapers and magazines, curriculum vitae, reports, original artwork, photographs (black and white prints and colour transparencies), financial records, speeches, exhibit catalogues, typographical research files, audio recordings, appointment diaries, awards, and design objects created or accumulated by Allan Fleming during his career as a graphic designer, teacher, and administrator. Topics of these records include: previous generations of his family in Scotland; his secondary school education; his years in England working with English typographers; his marriage to Nancy Chisholm; their relationship with Richard Outram and Barbara Howard; work at Cooper & Beatty Ltd., MacLaren Advertising, University of Toronto Press and other firms; the work of typographers such as Eric Gill and Carl Dair; Fleming's work for a wide variety of corporate clients (including Ontario Hydro, Trent University, the Hudson's Bay Company, Gray Coach, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian National Railway, Massey College, and the City of Toronto); television scripts; book and stamp design; his involvement in design juries; exhibitions of his work; book collecting; his declining health after a heart attack in 1971; and his death in 1978.