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This page from Strack’s Naturgeschichte in Bildern mit erläuterndem [1826] illustrates three species of fish grouped together because of their unusual body shapes.

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

The details here are fantastic. What appears to be a “normal” necklace around the woman’s neck is, in fact, a chain of small fish, and her brown hair is represented by two small flatfish beneath her lobster hat.

In cultures around the world, fish play an integral part in daily life as food, objects of study and recreational pursuit, and as characters in stories and parables. Over the last several years, I have built the portion of my collection that…

First Over Everest: The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933 brings together the technologies of aviation and photography to exert a sense of control over asublime landscape. The book’s photographic illustrations demonstrate photography’s…

A First Nations woman poses with her child held in a sling on her back. An older woman, possibly the child's grandmother, gazes at the camera from behind them both. The image has been overexposed at the middle bottom.

A First Nations woman tends the cookpot at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

A First Nations woman tending a camp cookpot at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a photo print in Miriam Green Ellis photo album. The slide shows the delicate shading possible in the…

A First Nations woman, photographed while preparing a caribou hide.