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This panoramic photograph was created from three different prints, as we can see from the seams between the photographs.For another example of a panoramic photographic, see the group portrait of plumbers and steamfitters.This album is part of…

These photographs of Palmyra, Syria, are printed as glossy silver gelatin prints and were likely taken with a hand-held camera and celluloid film. Despite this use of twentieth-century technologies, the photographs follow a tradition of travel…

A handwritten page from one of Miriam Green Ellis' journals, spanning October and November.

A handwritten page from one of Miriam Green Ellis' journals, commenting on a wedding she attended in October.

Five men packing gear into camp. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.

This pamphlet for Otis dump cars provides an example of the promotional uses of photography in the early-twentieth century. It also calls to mind some of the more mundane uses of photography, which were taken up and parodied by conceptual artists in…