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A wooden fish wheel, set just off shore at Wrigley in the Northwest Territories. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.

The Lake of the Woods Milling Company, which produced Five Roses flour, was founded in 1887 in Quebec, but the company proudly celebrated its grain, “from the sun-flooded prairie lands of Western Canada.” The first edition of this book…

Codex. 17 x 16 cm.
N 7433.4 Q23 A6 F648 1990z

Codex. 13 x 12 x 2 cm.
N 7433.4 O43 A6 F95 2008

Rolled sheet in cloth bag, 6 1/2" x 34". Signed. Intentionally spotted by the artist.

Though published by the Department of Education for the Province of British Columbia, versions of this book were used as curriculum and reference texts for Alberta junior and senior high school students from 1937 to 1969 (“Alberta School”). This…

An association between black-and-white film and fine art photography persisted long after colour photography became commonplace among amateurs. Despite this association, Eliot Porter took up colour photography in the 1940s and achieved widespread…