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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…

Sagra’s Historia fisica, politica y natural de la isla de Cuba was a monumental work issued in parts over more than 20 years. Complete copies of the entire work are rare, and the original parts in their wrappers are uncommon. Thus, I was very…

The operating room of the Catholic mission at Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories.