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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.

These "real photographs" of Melrose Abbey in Scotland were issued by the Ancient Monuments Department, suggesting that the photographs were not only created as souvenirs for visitors, but that they also played a role in the documentation and…

This album includes photographs of medical students at the University of Alberta in the 1920s. One page of the album shown here features two photographs taken in the university's Anatomy Laboratory, where men in white lab coats appear to be having…

This deck of playing cards acts as both a souvenir and an advertisement for the White Pass and Yukon route. Each card features a different picture.

These photographs of Palmyra, Syria, are printed as glossy silver gelatin prints and were likely taken with a hand-held camera and celluloid film. Despite this use of twentieth-century technologies, the photographs follow a tradition of travel…

This souvenir book from Winnipeg provides a good example of the photogravure process.

This portrait of Mrs Morrow provides an example of one of the first successful photographic technologies: the daguerreotype. The daguerreotype processcreated a single positive image on a metal plate—meaning that there was no negative and no…

This album, with its Art Nouveau cover design and faded photographs, was created during World War I. Given the presence of men in uniform on the album's pages, it is likely that the album belonged to a soldier. The album's casual snapshots suggest…

This portrait of a baseball player from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, reminds us of the continued value of professional photography in the Kodak era. This portrait came with a special frame that protected the picture when it was tucked away and folded…

This album documents an annual inspection trip from Montreal to Victoria taken by the CPR’s chairman, president, and directors. It provides another example of the ways photography circulated knowledge about places, contributing to Canada's…