Finding Wolff: Intellectually Arranging the Werner Wolff Fonds at the Ryerson Image Centre

<p> This thesis presents the results of an applied project in Collections Management, comprising the intellectual arrangement of the Werner Wolff <em>fonds</em> at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), and the creation of a finding aid to promote public research in the collection. Wolff was a photojournalist from the late 1930s to the 1980s who amassed a collection of over 1,300 files of photographs and related materials, which his son donated to the RIC in 2009. The project revolved around the organization of the collection inventory, a necessary step before it was possible to proceed with the intellectual arrangement of the <em>fonds</em> into series and sub-series with descriptions of each as set by the Canadian standard Rules for Archival Description. This thesis describes the arrangement of the <em>fonds</em> and the decisions made along the way. It also includes a copy of the finding aid written to promote public access to the <em>fonds</em>. The conclusion outlines the future needs of the collection to finalize the processing of the <em>fonds</em>.</p>