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Literary scholar Stephanie L. Hawkins explains that, “as one of the world’s most widely recognized distributors of global images, National Geographic has filled an important role in what Arjun Appadurai has termed the global mediascape” by…

George Baxter’s Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings provides an example of how art reproductions circulated before the discovery of photography. Like the portraits of the Emperor and Princess of Prussia, these reproductions are made with…

The photographs included inCalgary, the City Phenomenal help support the claim that Calgary is "the continent's fastest growing city" by emphasizing modern aspects of the city. The selection of photographs includes a train crossing an overpass, large…

Published by the Canadian National Railways, this souvenir book promotes travel through the Canadian Rockies and Alaska with colourful pictures. The colours were likely printed in stages over the black-and-white image, as we can see gaps and overlaps…

The picturesque views featured in this souvenir book, along with the subtitle "The Switzerland of America," calls attention to the ways that European perspectives and conventions influenced representations of North American landscapes.

Celtic Ornaments from the Book of Kells provides an example of a photographic reproduction of a unique work of art. This example, published in Dublin at the end of the nineteenth century, provides access to the book's decorative elements for those…

This presentation album was created to commemorate a Canadian Pacific Railway investors' trip across Canada, and was published by Canadian photographic studio William Notman & Son. The album provides an example of albumen prints created using the…

This portrait of Mrs Morrow provides an example of one of the first successful photographic technologies: the daguerreotype. The daguerreotype processcreated a single positive image on a metal plate—meaning that there was no negative and no…

This cigarette album commemorates the 1936 Olympic Games, held in Berlin and in the Bavarian ski town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.Cigarette albums like this one were sold with printed text and blank spaces for photographs; album owners would send in…

The twenty-eight volumes of the Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une societé de gens de lettres(also known as the Encyclopédie) was originally published in Paris between 1751 and 1772. The edition of the…