Chiefly research and production materials relating to Canemaker's book "Winsor McCay, his life and art." Includes photocopies of correspondence, cartoons, contracts, census records, calendar diary, notes, research materials, McCay family tree, etc. Includes photocopies of 322 sequential drawings from McCay's animated film Gertie the dinosaur used as a flipbook. Includes book correspondence, letters from the McCay family, clippings, printed materials, interview notes, etc. Includes also original and revised manuscripts for Canemaker's book Felix, the twisted tale of the world's most famous cat. Includes cassette tapes of interviews by John Canemaker dating from 1984 to 1988. Interviewees include Ray Moniz, John Fitzsimmons, Dorothy and Jim Noonan, Jane Barnes Cameron, Tedda McCay and Janet Trinker, Robert Brotherton and William Randolph Hearst. In May 2012 two folders of material were added to the collection. A folder contains 1870 and 1880 census reports, which supported Canemaker's belief that McCay was born in 1867 in Canada. The other folder contains research on McCay's years in Vaudeville theater and information regarding the musical "Little Nemo."