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This portrait of a baseball player from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, reminds us of the continued value of professional photography in the Kodak era. This portrait came with a special frame that protected the picture when it was tucked away and folded…

This album, with its Art Nouveau cover design and faded photographs, was created during World War I. Given the presence of men in uniform on the album's pages, it is likely that the album belonged to a soldier. The album's casual snapshots suggest…

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 souvenir book from Winnipeg provides a good example of the photogravure process.

A selection of the snapshot albums housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.

These photographs of Palmyra, Syria, are printed as glossy silver gelatin prints and were likely taken with a hand-held camera and celluloid film. Despite this use of twentieth-century technologies, the photographs follow a tradition of travel…

This deck of playing cards acts as both a souvenir and an advertisement for the White Pass and Yukon route. Each card features a different picture.

These "real photographs" of York are similar in format to the photographs of Melrose Abbey, though these were published by the Valentine company, a commercial photographic firm based in Scotland.

This album includes photographs of medical students at the University of Alberta in the 1920s. One page of the album shown here features two photographs taken in the university's Anatomy Laboratory, where men in white lab coats appear to be having…

Lise Melhorn-Boe is a visual artist who creates unique sculptural works in the form of books. This example, titled Family Album, pairs photographs of young girls posing nicely for the camera with texts that describe what it means to be a “good…