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Design notes, drawings, funding bid, invoices, correspondence, press releases and cuttings, Clydeport maps and documents, tide tables, photographs, fabric samples, arrangements for launch by Lady Naomi Mitchison on 6 May 1989, Paper Boat letterheaded paper.

File 1. Funding bid etc., 1989.
File 2. Fabric samples, Clydeport documents, 1989.
File 3. Drawings etc., 1989.
File 4. Launch, tide tables, leaflet on Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, 1989.
File 5. Liverpool, including wallet of 21 colour photographs 110 mm (h) x 150 mm (w), & 8 more annotated colour photographs, 1989.
File 6. London, 1989.
File 7. New York, including invoices, street maps, tourist leaflets and 3 colour photographs of New York, 250mm (h) x 200 mm (w), 1990.
File 8. Antwerp, 1990.
File 9. Worldwide, including sketch entitled ‘Worldwide cruising’, press cutting about the liner, Queen Mary on the river Clyde, and miscellaneous notes, including Glasgow launch of the Paper Boat.

The photographs were commissioned by the University of Strathclyde.

Catalogue and poster for Scul?ture: a diversion into three dimensional humour by George Wyllie at Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 3-28 September 1976.

‘Surrealism – A Personal View’, lecture to the Orkney Arts Society, Kirkwall Library, 17 November 1983; special talk to full-time fine art students at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, in co-ordination with the British Council, San San Campus, 22 February 1993; ‘George Wyllie and Scul?ture’, a one day workshop and lecture for students at the Bartlett School of Architecture, 11 June 1993; ‘There is no Sanity Clause’: Christmas lecture at the an Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 17 December 1992; ‘Aspects of Scottish Sculpture’, a talk at the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 22 July [year not stated]; ‘An evening with George Wyllie: performance, lecture and tour as devised by the artist’, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews, 15 January [year not stated]; talk on Scul?ture and other aspects of Wyllie’s work at Saltcoats Town Hall, 22 March [year not stated]; ‘Art in the Park: celebrate Mayfest with George Wyllie and the Saltire Society’, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 11 May [year not stated]; ‘Locomotive Immortality: the pataphysical approach to arch!tecture’ [date, year and venue not stated]; ‘Corrupting the Young’: hand-painted poster for a performance and lecture at the ‘Mac Lec Theatre’ [date and year not stated]; untitled talk about his work, to be delivered as part of a festival at the Granary [date, year and town not stated]; untitled, free talk about his work, to be delivered in the drama studio [date, town and venue not stated].

Invitation to preview on 7 January 1981, press release, catalogue notes and posters for A Way with the Birds and other Scul?ture at Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 8-28 January 1981.

Still Life with Crocodile: two handwritten posters (slight differences), each signed by George Wyllie and dated 1981.

Flyer and posters for Summer Show, 2: George Wyllie [and Elizabeth Ogilvie] at Serpentine Gallery, London, 8 August-6 September 1981.

Black and white poster handwritten and signed by George Wyllie, 1981.

Flyer and poster for A Day down a Goldmine: exhibition by George Wyllie at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 17 July -7 August 1982.

Poster for A Day down a Goldmine: play by George Wyllie, with Russell Hunter, at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 6-7 August [1982]. Colour poster handwritten by George Wyllie.

Posters for ‘The Undiscovery of Architecture’: one poster is handwritten by George Wyllie.

Catalogue for Excavating for a Mine: the notebook for a scul?tural dig: exhibition by George Wyllie at Crawford Centre for the Arts, St Andrews, 11 May-3 June 1984; Crawford Centre Summer season programme, 1984.

Photographs of the construction, display and burning of the Straw Locomotive, by George Oliver, Marius Alexander and others.

Album of photographs entitled 'Straw Loco'.

Catalogue, invitation to private view on 9 June 1984 and poster for Excavations from a mine: a scul?tural dig: exhibition by George Wyllie at Art Space, Aberdeen, 9-27 June 1984; Art Space programme, May-June 1984.

[Later exhibited at Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA, 1984.]

Catalogue, invitation to preview on 13 December 1984 and poster for Christmas Day down a Goldmine: exhibition by George Wyllie at Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, 14 December 1984-13 January 1985.

Photographs of various sculpture projects including safety pin sculpture; wee hauf; paper boat and spires.

Photographs of various sculpture projects.