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Published by the Canadian National Railways, this souvenir book promotes travel through the Canadian Rockies and Alaska with colourful pictures. The colours were likely printed in stages over the black-and-white image, as we can see gaps and overlaps…

This group portrait of plumbers and steamfitters was taken during a picnic held at Shouldice Park in Calgary in July of 1926. The portrait was printed as one single print, in contrast to some panoramic photographs that were created by putting…

This report on evaporation data combines two types of photographs. Glossy silver gelatin prints that portray various locations in Alberta and Saskatchewan are inserted into cuts in the pages, while the pages themselves are cyanotypes on which the…

Miniatures: Portage La Prairie folds into a rectangular object that can be held in the palm of one's hand, but as our photographs show, it folds out to reveal a series of views of this Manitoba town. The photographs are set within elegant oval frames…

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…

This album includes photographs and objects. Particularly notable is the page that features a photograph of a church side-by-side with a piece of textile taken from the church altar. Both of these items have an indexical relationship to the place…

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…

One page of this personal album documents a day in 1939 when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Edmonton as part of their royal tour of Canada.This album is part of thePrairie Ephemera Collectionhoused in Bruce Peel Special Collections.

This album includes delightful cartoons on each of its pages. Of particular note are two cartoons that represent photographers in the act of taking pictures, each one drawn in red at the centre of the page. One of these figures is a woman holding a…

Postcards grew in popularity in the early-twentieth century. Postcards offer an easy way to send pictures through the mail, and to communicate both visually—with the picture on the front of the card—and textually, with a short message…