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McCleary, a resident of Fort Norman, Northwest Territories. 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 left, and…

Miriam Green Ellis, photographed in her office at the end of her career as a journalist. This print has been signed at the lower right.

The cover of Miriam Green Ellis' book 'Pathfinders', published by the Canadian Women's Press Club. This volume chronicled the history of the CWPC.

A young First Nations mother, pictured carrying her baby in a moss bag. Her location and nation affiliation are unknown, though this image may have been taken during Miriam Green Ellis' journey to Aklavik.

A formal portrait of Emily Murphy, with her signature. This image was included with her contribution a memory book created by the Edmonton Women's Press Club for a departing member.

A formal portrait of Nellie McClung. This image was included with her contribution a memory book created by the Edmonton Women's Press Club for a departing member.

Lantern slides, which allowed the image on a glass plate to be projected with light onto a wall or screen, represent one way that knowledge circulated through photographs. Though lantern slides with painted imagery have a long history that predates…

The front cover of Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis: Pioneer Journalist of the West, edited by Dr. Patricia Demers.

The Aurelian: A Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies was created by English entomologist and artist Moses Harris. The book’s title page explains that its pictures were “drawn, engraved and coloured from the natural…

Community cookbooks were not generally a francophone practice (Driver, “Cookbooks” 410). Even the promising-sounding Recettes des Femmes de St. Joseph, from a francophone community in Manitoba, contains recipes written entirely in…