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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.

This item was produced for the fiftieth anniversary of Canada’s first transcontinental passenger train journey. Though the last spike was driven on 7 November 1885, the winter and ongoing repairs to the track delayed the first cross-Canada trip.…

A selection of the snapshot albums housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.

A selection of the souvenir books housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.

Stereoscope technology was developed to experiment with binocular vision, and later became a popular tool for both entertainment and instruction. Stereographs seen through the stereoscope offered such a convincing illusion of three-dimensional…

Photograph of University of Alberta students at the sophomore dance.

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…

Two Slavie First Nations women at Providence, Northwest Territories, the younger of whom carries a little girl slung on her back. They may be three generations of the same family. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available…

A group of Slavie First Nation women and children, pictured at Providence, Northwest Territories.