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A barge, stripped of its hide hull, sits on the river bank at Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories. Hides for trade were often used as boat hulls, acting as both cargo and transportation.

A portrait of the Sister of the Catholic Mission at Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, in charge of the Operating Room. A ghosting effect is evident in the doorway where someone has walked into the photo shoot, while the Sister's face has blurred…

Altered Book. 30 x 30 cm.
N 7433.4 P74 A6 S57 2006

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…

As a founding member of Group f/64, Ansel Adams—along with other members of the California-based group—used the camera’s smallest aperture (known as f/64) in order to create photographs with greater depth of field, keeping as much of the image…

A close view of the shipping tag attached to one of the storage boxes in the Miriam Green Ellis collection. It indicates that this box was sent by the estate of Miriam Green Ellis via rail to Dr. Walter Johns, President of the University Alberta, and…