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Men carrying wooden boxes of supplies, piled on the riverbank where they were unloaded from a steam wheeler, into camp. Such deliveries were infrequent and necessarily large. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.

The “Fishes” section of Shaw’s General Zoology includes four volumes, each with an engraved title page adorned with a vignette of a fish in an ocean scene. In my hand-coloured copy of this title, all four vignettes have also been hand coloured.

Medicine Hat had a vibrant Jewish community: although it numbered only about forty families, their impact on city life was substantial. As S.M. Selchen wrote in the Canadian Jewish Chronicle in 1954, “This tiny Jewish island among a non-Jewish…

Carousel Book. 22 x 16 x 3 cm.
N 7433.4 M52 A6 G97 2007

Acquired in recognition of Ingrid Kritsch

Acquired in recognition of Brian Wildcat

Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Group photograph of several of the Loucheux First Nations, Fort McPherson. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a photo print in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album.

This group portrait, printed on albumen paper, was taken inside the first Chinese church in Victoria, BC. The act of taking group portraits like this one and the sharing of the resulting prints may have contributed to the construction of collective…