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These postcards from Palestine could be collected as souvenirs or broken apart and sent through the mail. In this case, whoever first purchased the cards kept them intact.

These "real photographs" of Melrose Abbey in Scotland were issued by the Ancient Monuments Department, suggesting that the photographs were not only created as souvenirs for visitors, but that they also played a role in the documentation and…

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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

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

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…