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A recurring theme in wartime community cookbooks is the kitchen as home front. An ad for Eaton’s specifically celebrates “Soldiers of the Kitchen Front,” the women whose knowledge of nutrition and food preparation would help them nourish their…

Elizabeth Driver points out that this book was one of two major vegetable company cookbooks to come out of Manitoba in the pre-1950 period; the other was produced by the A.E. McKenzie Co. (Culinary 923). The author of the McFayden book, Katharine…

All but one of the photographs in this souvenir book were taken by Leonard Frank, one of Vancouver's leading photographers in the early-twentieth century. Frank's photograph of the newly-constructed Burrard Bridge is particularly noteworthy: Frank…

The Upper Pelican Rapids, located near the community of Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta.

Men wait on the dock with cargo to travel up the Clearwater River in Alberta. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

A crew of men wait on the river dock to go up the Clearwater River. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a photo print in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album.

Scroll. 28 x 20 x 12 cm.
N 7433.4 M522 A6 U62 1995