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A portrait of the Mother Superior of the Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Catholic mission. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album. The coloured magic…

Mrs. Conibear, trader and entrepreneur, posing in front of her Fort Smith home holding a bag made from the a moose fetus' hide by an Inuit craftsperson. 'Tea bags' like this were used much like a market bag. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic…

Alex Stefansson, back right, poses with two other Inuit boys in Aklavik, Northwest Territories. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album. The coloured magic…

Men wait on the dock with cargo to travel up the Clearwater River in Alberta. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album. The coloured magic lantern slide version…

A First Nations woman sits in front of a cabin making snowshoes. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album. The coloured magic lantern slide version is on the top,…

An Inuit woman from Aklavik, Laura, poses behind the wheel of a car in front of the Templeman Bros. store in Edmonton, Alberta. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo…

A birch bark canoe, set on the shore at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album. The coloured magic…

Miriam Green Ellis (middle back) poses with the Prince Albert High School girls' hockey team, in Saskatchewan. She started and managed the team while George Ellis was principal of the Prince Albert College Institute.

This image is courtesy of the…

A portrait of MIriam Green Ellis with her signature Welthur camera. This image accompanied her article "Out West with the Weekly" published October 1951 in the The Slug magazine, on the adventure of agricultural journalism in Western Canada.

Modified photograph of Mrs. Conibear, trader and entrepreneur, holding a moosehide 'tea bag' in front of her Fort Smith home. From the accompanying text:

'Mrs Connibear in front of her house at Fort Smith. It is probably the only house in the…