Photographs, Paintings or Drawings
Title: Brigadier General Charles Willoughby
Creator: McClelland Barclay
Archive or Repository: U.S. Navy
Collection or Fond: www.history.navy.mil/ac/artist/b/barclay/85-236-AV.jpg
Notes: Chief of G-2, Military Intelligence, in the U.S. occupation force in Japan after WW2.
Title: E. Herbert Norman
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Library and Archives Canada
Collection or Fond: National Film Board/Library and Archives Canada
Reference Number: PA-134317
Title: Norman the scholar
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-202
Title: Norman, formal portrait
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 1860-032
Title: Wedding dinner
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 2124-25
Notes: The diplomatic life was not all meetings and reports. It also included moments of ceremony, such as this wedding about 1945, which Norman handled with aplomb.
Title: Inspector Terry Guernsey
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Title: RCMP Superintendent George B. McClellan
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Title: Herbert Norman
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-014
Notes: Norman, the "compleat civil servant," about 1953.
Title: Trinity College, Cambridge University 1930s
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 2124-133
Title: Norman (front) as a boy, with family
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 1860-005
Title: Norman, Australian High Commissioner and Japanese Premier Yoshida
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 2124-034
Title: Norman and parents
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 2124-08
Notes: Norman, age 16, with father, Daniel, and mother, Catherine.
Title: Bennett's Twenty Millions
Creator: Unknown
Notes: Communists cast a critical eye on Canadian Prime Minister R.B. Bennett, who seemed more concerned to assist the rich than the unemployed.
Title: Work for all in the USSR; mass unemployment in Canada
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Canadian Labor Defender
Title: No Fooling
Creator: Ritchie
Notes: The "Halifax Herald" cartoonist comments on the arrest of eight leaders of the Communist Party of Canada under Section 98 of the Criminial Code.
Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning
Creator: Avrom
Notes: A communist suggestion that large metallurgical companies will benefit from rearmament.
Title: RCMP-FBI relations formalized in 1937
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Reference Number: 7718
Notes: RCMP Commissioner James H. MacBrien (left) visited FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in Washington in 1937 to set up the liaison that saw officers from each force stationed in the headquarters of the other.
Title: Vancouver police attack unemployed protesters
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RCMP_1938_sitdowner_strike.jpg
Title: Capitalisms alternatives to youth
Creator: Walker
Notes: To socialists, capitalist society during the Great Depression offered little hope to youth.
Title: So Much in Common
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Winnipeg Free Press
Notes: The Canada-U.S. Ogdensburg Agreement that more closely aligned the military operations of the two countries evoked this cartoon response.
Title: British government poster celebrating World War Two anti-Axis cooperation
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: British Ministry of Information
Collection or Fond: www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/G2/cs1/s2.htm
Title: Russian view of WW2 anti-fascist alliance
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Unknown
Title: Norman and friend under internment in Tokyo
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-052
Notes: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan and Canada were at war. The staff of the Canadian Legation in Tokyo was interned until fall 1942.
Title: Comrade, do you see anyone coming?
Creator: Vicky
Notes: A year after the Second Front was promised in Western Europe, the USSR is still waiting for help from the West to confront the German Wehrmacht.
Title: Colonel Nicolai Zabotin
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Library and Archives Canada
Reference Number: PA-116421
Notes: Zabotin headed the GRU spy network in Canada
Title: Potsdam Conference
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: U.S. government
Collection or Fond: Wikimedia
Notes: Churchill, Truman and Stalin make friendly at the Potsdam Conference
Title: Churchill defeated
Creator: Unknown
Notes: Cold War launched? Public opinion shifts to the left as WW2 ends, leaving conservatives defeated and scrambling to reverse the tide.
Title: Norman and Japanese women
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 2124-59
Notes: Norman and Japanese women, whose company he enjoyed, at a memorial for his father at Nagano, Japan.
Title: Dominion Day, Tokyo, 1947
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-060
Notes: Norman, as Head of the Canadian Legation in Japan, was an enthusiastic host for Dominion Day (later Canada Day) celebrations. In 1947 the guest list included General Douglas MacArthur (not shown), his wife, and Col. Sidney L. Huff, MacArthur's aide de camp.
Title: Anti-communist election advertisement
Creator: Unknown
Notes: Anti-communists in the Toronto Civic Election campaign of 1947 used the Gouzenko spy revelations in their effort to oust leftist councillors.
Title: Igor Gouzenko
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Collection or Fond: http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/en/about_us/history_artifacts/history/brf_pics_007.asp
Notes: A hot intelligence property in 1945, by 1948, when this photo was taken, Gouzenko weighed heavily on the hands of the Canadian government. Under a pseudonym, he tried his hand at various ventures -- writer, farmer, entrepreneur -- finding satisfaction and success at none of them.
Title: It Will Help the Way That Bandages Help a Dead Man
Creator: Kukryniksy
Notes: A Soviet critic comments on U.S. President Harry Truman's assistance to Chinese Nationalist leader Jiang Jieshi.
Title: Norman, General Douglas MacArthur and Lt-Gen. R. L. Eichelberger, US 8th army
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-105
Notes: Norman, the quintessential civilian, found himself surrounded by military men during the occupation of Japan
Title: Lester Pearson and Herbert Norman, Tokyo
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-108
Notes: Pearson, on the last lap of a world trip, visits Tokyo to consult with Norman and General Douglas MacArthur.
Title: Norman in Ottawa
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-115
Notes: Norman stands in front of Japanese inscriptions in his office in Ottawa 1951
Title: "It's OK, we're hunting communists"
Creator: Herbert Block
Archive or Repository: A 1952 Herblock Cartoon, copyright by The Herb Block Foundation
Notes: "Washington Post" cartoonist Herbert Block was an early and persistent critic of the American investigatory committees.
Title: Norman and unidentified Japanese tennis partner
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 2124-116
Notes: If nothing else, Norman was a serious man, but he found time for some diversions, such as tennis.
Title: Norman and his wife, Irene, on board M.V. Australia
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 2124-122
Notes: Norman and Irene, perhaps pleased to be leaving N.Z., journey to a new posting in the Middle East.
Title: Norman presents his diplomatic credentials to President Nasser
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-246
Title: Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Creator: John Collins
Notes: Lester Pearson's task was to convince Israel, Britain and France to accept a UN force; Herbert Norman's was to convince Egypt's President Nasser.
Title: Memorial meeting for Norman in Japan following his death
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC 1860-010
Title: Norman on "HMCS Magnificent" during the Suez Crisis
Creator: Unknown
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-145
Notes: Canadian General E.L.M. Burns, commander of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), Norman, Captain A.B. Fraser and an Egyptian officer on board the "HMCS Magnificent".
Title: "His Name Just Happened to Come Up"
Creator: Herbert Block
Archive or Repository: A 1957 Herblock Cartoon, copyright by The Herb Block Foundation
Title: His Masters Voice
Creator: Unknown
Publication: The Canadian Tribune
Notes: American anti-communists had one view of Lester Pearson; Canadian nationalists had a different one. This cartoon circulated in Vancouver labor union halls in 1963.
Title: Soviet embassy Ottawa 1940s
Creator: Unknown
Publication: Canada's Security Service: An Historical Outline 1864-1966
Publisher: RCMP
Notes: The Soviet Embassy in Ottawa from which Gouzenko defected in 1945 burned in the 1950s.
Title: Wadi el Nil Building Cairo
Creator: Roger Bowen
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: Roger Bowen Collection
Reference Number: C2124-123
Title: Norman residence, Cairo
Creator: Roger Bowen
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: Roger Bowen Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-124
Title: The Norman gravestone
Creator: Roger Bowen
Archive or Repository: University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections
Collection or Fond: E. Herbert Norman Fonds
Reference Number: BC2124-049
Notes: Norman's ashes were interred beneath a cypress tree in the Protestant Cemetary, Testaccio, Rome, a metre away from the grave of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.