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One of Miriam Green Ellis' many efforts to capture the Midnight Sun. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is the more boldly painted of two glass slide interpretations of this image.

The Midnight Sun sits on the horizon, reflecting on the water at 12:20am on July 5, 1922. Likely taken in the Northwest Territories.

One of Miriam Green Ellis' many efforts to capture the Midnight Sun. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, still vivid despite the scratches and wear to the pigment.

One of Miriam Green Ellis' many efforts to capture the Midnight Sun. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured. A crack traverses the slide from top to bottom, and a scratch mars the image at the lower left.

One of Miriam Green Ellis' many efforts to capture the Midnight Sun, here over the Arctic Ocean. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is the more delicately painted of two glass slide interpretations of this image.

1 box. 46 x 34 x 15 cm.
N 7433.3 M646 2000 folio

Codex. 13 x 13 x 6 cm.
N 7433.4 P252 A6 M655 1990

Miniatures: Portage La Prairie folds into a rectangular object that can be held in the palm of one's hand, but as our photographs show, it folds out to reveal a series of views of this Manitoba town. The photographs are set within elegant oval frames…