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• Title:Claire Culhane fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Culhane, Claire, 1918-
  
• Published/Created:1975-1996
  

• Holdings

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  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1151
    
  • Number of Items:214
    
  • Status:c.1 General, Box 24 Requested
    c.1 General, Box 25 Requested
    c.1 General, Box 44 Requested
    c.1 General, Box 45 Requested
    c.1 Personal, Box 1 Requested
    c.1 Personal, Box 4 Requested
    c.1 Personal, Box 5 Requested
    c.1 Personal, Box 6 Requested
    c.1 Letters, Box 2 <Prisoner's Letters> Requested
    c.1 Letters, Box 3 <Prisoner's Letters> Requested
    c.1 Letters, Box 4 <Prisoner's Letters> Requested
    c.1 Letters, Box 5 <Prisoner's Letters> Requested
    c.1 Letters, Box 1 <Prisoner's Letters> Requested
    
  • Location Has:General, Box 1-141; Personal, Box 1-16; Prisoner's Letters, Box 1-50, 52-56.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Culhane, Claire, 1918-
  Prisoners' Rights Group (Vancouver, B.C.)
  
• Description:17 m of textual records
  
• Terms governing use:Although restrictions placed by Claire Culhane on personal letters and prisoner's letters have expired, users should be aware of the sensitive nature of the material and that it is subject to copyright law.
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, printed material, and documents related to Culhane's social justice activities, particularly concerning prisoner's rights and prison reform.
  
• Biography/history note:The daughter of Russian Jewish refugees, Claire Culhane was born in Montreal and moved to Vancouver in the early 1950s. In 1976 as a member of the Citizen's Advisory Committee at the B.C. Penitentiary, she began working tirelessly for prison reform. Founder and most vocal member of the Vancouver-based Prisoners' Rights Group, Culhane has written two books on prison reform and her experiences in fighting the prison system entitled "Barred from Prison" (1979) and "Still Barred from Prison" (1985). A biography was written about her by Mick Lowe entitled "One Woman Army".
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.