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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

El Lissitzsky’s Russland: Die Rekonstruction der Architecktur in der Sowjetunion, published in 1930, proposed a new and revolutionary architecture for the Soviet Union. Like the architecture that the book promotes, the book’s photographs offered…

Victorian bodybuilder Eugen Sandow’s guide to physical training provides an example of the ways in which photographs could be used in how-to manuals. To consider the advantages of photography for this purpose, compare this volume to The Art of…

Kodachrome was one of the first widely-used colour films, introduced by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1935. Here, Kodachrome film was used to create colourful pictures of the Canadian Rockies. Printed as postcards, the pictures were sold as souvenirs…

This album, featuring photographs of Boy Scouts, was created by inserting each photograph's corners into slits cut into the pages of a "Scrap & Newscutting Book." News clippings included in the album suggest that it was assembled between 1918 and…

As a founding member of Group f/64, Ansel Adams—along with other members of the California-based group—used the camera’s smallest aperture (known as f/64) in order to create photographs with greater depth of field, keeping as much of the image…

Sights and Scenes on the Tōkaidō circulates knowledge about a particular place—a popular travelling route through Japan. The photographs, reproduced as collotypes, and their accompanying texts were intended for English-speaking armchair…

The photograph captioned "Cowgirl?" provides an example of how identities can be reimagined through photographs. In this example, a young woman challenges the gender stereotypes of the day by dressing up as a cowboy, just like the men posed in the…

Stereoscope technology was developed to experiment with binocular vision, and later became a popular tool for both entertainment and instruction. Stereographs seen through the stereoscope offered such a convincing illusion of three-dimensional…

A selection of the souvenir books housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.