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

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.

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…

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…

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,…

This album of photographs from the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Company likely dates from between 1905 (when the Alberta Brewery, founded in 1901, was renamed the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Co) and 1918 (when the name was changed to Lethbridge…

This album's owner combined photographs and text to record "sunny memories" of family and friends. Each page of this album is unique, with some photographs cut into various shapes to produce playful collages. Particularly charming in this album are…

The Art of Swimming was published before the discovery of photography and includes engravings as a means of circulating knowledge. As explained by the subtitle, the book contains "forty proper copper-plate cuts, which represent the different postures…

The Aurelian: A Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies was created by English entomologist and artist Moses Harris. The book’s title page explains that its pictures were “drawn, engraved and coloured from the natural…

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…