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This album contains a collection of portraits in the format of cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards. The carte-de-visite was introduced in the 1850s by French photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri. Since Disdéri depended on the wet collodion…

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 series of postcards from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague provides a striking example of the transition from Pictorialism towards straight photography among twentieth-century photographers. The postcards were issued in…

The owner of this souvenir book inscribed the back of the last page with a short unattributedpoem: For unadulterated mountain scenery With its snow capped jagged peaks The Canadian Rockies furnish everythingThat the true lover of Nature seeks

This souvenir book promoted travel on the Canadian Pacific Railway in the early-twentieth century by featuring sublime landscapes alongside modern conveniences like trains and luxury hotels (such as the CPR Banff Springs Hotel). The cover artwork is…

These views of Portree, Scotland, are reproduced by collotype, a photomechanical processdeveloped in the mid-nineteenth century that allowed photographic negatives to be printed with ink on paper. Collotypes provided a way to print photographs within…

This souvenir book from Saskatoon includes twenty photographs, each one mounted on its own separate page. The photographs are typical of souvenir books of Prairie towns during this period, as can be seen from comparisons toPicturesque Edmonton…

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.

All but one of the photographs in this souvenir book were taken by Leonard Frank, one of Vancouver's leading photographers in the early-twentieth century. Frank's photograph of the newly-constructed Burrard Bridge is particularly noteworthy: Frank…