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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…

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…

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'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…

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…

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…

University of Alberta co-ed's read The Gateway newspaper between lectures.

Photograph of University of Alberta's Student's Council President Ted Bishop.