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Published by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1890, this brochure provides another example of the way that the CPR packaged and sold the land of Canada, and of the role that photography played in that process. Here, actual land is advertised as…

This album of original photographs offers a view of India as seen through a Pictorialist lens. The photographer, who was a visitor to India in 1900, plays with composition and focus to soften the appearance of the photographs, differentiating this…

Cigarette albums offer a different model for ways in which words and photographs could come together in a single volume. Albums like this one were sold with printed text and blank spaces for photographs; album owners would send in coupons that came…

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…

First Over Everest: The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933 brings together the technologies of aviation and photography to exert a sense of control over asublime landscape. The book’s photographic illustrations demonstrate photography’s…

Related to the earlier tradition of lantern slides on glass plates, slides made from celluloid film became a commonplace way of circulating photographic images in the twentieth century.These slides featuring the sites and artworks of Toledo, Spain,…

This lavish and unique five-volume photograph album records a hunting trip to the Canadian Rockies in 1916-17. Each photograph in the album is hand-tinted with watercolours and mounted on its own page. The album's large and heavy pages provide a…

This album of portraits features actresses, singers, and dancers, demonstrating the growing popularity of celebrity photographs. Emerging technologies and formats such as the wet collodion process and the carte-de-visite format made mass reproduction…

The Changing of the Guard: Graphic Incidents of the Two World Wars provides examples of photojournalism created by “official and other photographers” and collected into a commemorative album published in Australia. Some of the action shots…

R. A. Ellis explains that “the scarcity of books on the subject of spider life is my excuse for assuming the role of guide into ‘Spiderland.’ The fruit of personal observation and reading is set forth, in as graphic a form as I could command,…