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The British Women’s Co-operative Guild was first founded in 1883, and it became a model for the retail co-operatives that were founded across the Prairie provinces in the early twentieth century. These retail co-ops joined to form provincial…

This album (labelled on the cover "Anatomische Abbildungen der Biene") from 1875captures some of the reasons why early photography was more effective at producing knowledge than circulating knowledge. Here, photographs, drawings, and text mingle…

Many Chinese immigrants came to Canada to work on the railway, but after these jobs ended, they were prohibited from entering or training for many professions. Many turned to restaurants to make a living. The earliest Chinese restaurant menus…

Printed and staple bound. Sheets of black and white reproductions, overlaid with three color separations of walls cut at random to create different combinations.

As immigration to the Prairies exploded in the first decade of the twentieth century, railway companies like the CPR, CNR, and Grand Trunk Pacific competed to bring prospective farmers to Western Canada. This brochure, cleverly shaped like a…

Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

5 x 15" plus a strip of 29 photographs. The book has been attributed as the catalogue for Larry Bell's show at the Fort Worth Museum. It has no words, only photos mounted tight on each page without any borders. Each photo probably represents a…

Buckskin Cookery was originally self-published by Gwen Lewis of Quesnel, British Columbia, in 1957. It consists of two volumes: “The Pioneer Section” and “The Hunter Section.” In reality these two groups overlapped greatly, as…

Photograph of the 90th Winnipeg Rifles squad in Ottawa preparing to leave for South Africa/ Strathcona's Horse.