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Birch Bark Canoe at Fort Norman
A birch bark canoe, set on the shore at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.
Birch Bark Canoe
A canoe hulled with birch bark, pictured on the shore at the Fort Norman First Nations camp. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a photo print in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album.
Billy Kemistsema, Reverend Hester, Mona Kemitsema and Bishop Lucas
An Inuit couple, Billy Kemitsema and Mona Kemitsema, pose with two Anglican priests, Reverend E. Hester and Bishop Lucas. According to Miriam Green Ellis, Billy was Mr. Hester's assistant, and Mona was the niece of Mrs. Stefansson.
Big to Small, Shark to Seahorse
The plates in Sagra’s Peces [1853] are magnificently coloured, and the fish seem ready to swim off the page. Three species of Cuban fish are illustrated here, including a large shark and a diminutive seahorse.
Bettie Visits CBGB
Wallet style portfolio opens to reveal 10 photographs taken at CBGB of "Bettie" with various of the performers and an enlarged clipping from Rolling Stone from July 14, 1977 advertizing the sale of the book itself.
Beauties of the Tropics
Colourful tropical fish such as these from Strack’s Naturgeschichte in Bildern mit erläuterndem [1826] were popular subjects in colour-plate books about fish.
