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Acquired in recognition of Allan Goodman in 2019

Acquired in recognition of Martin Garber-Conrad in 2019

Jean Brodie was a popular Toronto-based food writer in the 1930s, responsible for 100 Tested Recipes, produced for the Farmer’s Dairy in Toronto. She also edited a food column for the Toronto Star: as one early ad put it, “To further its…

Black 'binder' with detachable front end paper which gives the artists' CV, signature, edition number, date and artist statement. There are 25 pages horizontally bound to the other side of the binder which flip independently back and forth along…

Codex. 25 x 18 cm.
N 7433.4 C37 A6 W35 2005

Cloth Book. 31 x 34 x 18 cm.
N 7433.4 B187 A6 E93 1986

The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite by British scientists James Nasmyth and James Carpenter raises questions about the role that photographs play in circulating knowledge. The book’s photographs offer a likeness of the moon,…

Sights and Scenes on the Tōkaidō circulates knowledge about a particular place—a popular travelling route through Japan. The photographs, reproduced as collotypes, and their accompanying texts were intended for English-speaking armchair…

This reader, employed as a textbook in Alberta schools in the 1920s (“Alberta School”), creatively approaches geography lessons through the accessible medium of food. The author, James Chamberlain, writes, “The natural connecting…

Between 1860 and 1874, a team headed by Josiah D. Whitney surveyed the state of California in order to gather and circulate information about the natural resources of California.Most of the photographs in the volume featured here were taken by…