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Jesse Beaufort Hurlbert was born in Canada to Loyalist parents. He became Professor of Natural Science at Victoria College in Toronto in 1841 (Neill 82). The long title of this book is Physical Atlas with Coloured Maps Showing the Geographical…

This album of photographs records a "Northern Buffalo Hunt" in Alberta, as shown by a news clipping taped to the album's back cover and by the photographs, including one taken at the Embarras Airport in Northern Alberta. The album includes both…

These reprints of John Heartfield’s photomontages show one way that photographs circulated political knowledge. Heartfield reused and remixed images printed in the German mainstream media in order to expose and critique Nazi propaganda. One example…

This album featuring photographs of the Canadian Rockies, Fraser River, and Yellowstone Park is a typical souvenir album that contributes to “imagined geographies” of a place, much like the album CPR 1887. The album's albumen prints, some of…

This album of original photographs offers a view of India as seen through a Pictorialist lens. The photographer, who was a visitor to India in 1900, plays with composition and focus to soften the appearance of the photographs, differentiating this…

This album, with its Art Nouveau cover design and faded photographs, was created during World War I. Given the presence of men in uniform on the album's pages, it is likely that the album belonged to a soldier. The album's casual snapshots suggest…

Little is known about this album of photographs, but it is noteworthy that it includes photographs of Japanese Canadian families in Canadian internment camps during World War II. Unlike documentary photographs taken by Dorothea Lange of internment…