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This large folding engraving of a fish skeleton is partially hand-coloured and is the most impressive plate in Bakker’s Osteographia piscium (1822).

Acquired in honour of John Acorn

An ad found in the November 12, 1928 issue of the University of Alberta student newspaper, The Gateway.

This album of photographs by Czech photographer, filmmaker, and ethnographer Karel Plicka offers a portrait of the people of Czechoslovakia in twenty pictures. The impulse to document a culture through photographs is related to other anthropological…

Cloth Book. 31 x 34 x 18 cm.
N 7433.4 B187 A6 E93 1986

Boxed concertina-folded panorama, 53 slides measuring 145 1/2" wide when opened fully. When pulled out, one side of the street appears at the top, the other side flipped over at the bottom as though the viewer is travelling down the center of the…