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Cigarette albums offer a different model for ways in which words and photographs could come together in a single volume. Albums like this one were sold with printed text and blank spaces for photographs; album owners would send in coupons that came…

Codex. 18 x 22 cm.
N 7433.4 H695 A6 A38 2009

White visitors pose with Inuit hunters and what appears to be a freshly killed Beluga. This photo is not taken by Miriam Green Ellis, but is included with her collection of glass slides. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.

Codex. 13 x 28 x 1.5 cm at spine; in box 31 x 24 x 15 cm.
N 7433.4 C56 A6 A298 1995

The tents and residents of Aklavik, Northwest Territories.

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 unique album from 1894 acts as an aide memoire, with the photographs as well as the pressed plants and flowers providing an indexical link to the places represented. The gelatin dry plate process rendered photography more accessible in the…

Accordion Fold. 6.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm.
N 7433.4 Q23 A6 A352 1996

Loose Sheets. 19 x 24 x 4 cm.
N 7433.4 L22 A4 1982 folio