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The Blue Ribbon Company was established by George Frederick and John Galt in Winnipeg around 1897; the cousins had already established a wholesale grocery business in 1882 (Driver, Culinary 928). Though the copyright for this book was apparently…

A boat hanging in midair as it is navigated over a short waterfall. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.

Text by Peter Clothier. Pages made of various types of metal, fabric, wood, cardboard, sandpaper, staples, yarn, electrical cord, screen, and other materials. One of 100 copies, signed.

Literary scholar Stephanie L. Hawkins explains that, “as one of the world’s most widely recognized distributors of global images, National Geographic has filled an important role in what Arjun Appadurai has termed the global mediascape” by…

Acquired in honour of Dr Robert Foster