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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Hunting in the Canadian Rockies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1916-17]
38.5 x 30.5 cm
FC 219 P14 1916 folio
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This lavish and unique five-volume photograph album records a hunting trip to the Canadian Rockies in 1916-17. Each photograph in the album is hand-tinted with watercolours and mounted on its own page. The album's large and heavy pages provide a generous frame for each picture, creating a setting that would be appropriate for an original work of art. </span></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The album belonged to Cleveland millionaire </span><a href="https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/915" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kenyon Vickers Painter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
photographer unknown
colour
Rockies
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Lett's Expedition from Edmonton to Victoria
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
R. C. W. Lett (photographer)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1910
24.2 x 19.0 cm
FC 3205.3 L65 1910
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This album was assembled by a man named R. C. W. Lett, who is described in the album’s pages as a “colonization agent” of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The album thus makes visible and explicit the ways that photography was used as a tool of colonization. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The album also contains some surprises. Three loose photographs found among the album’s pages offer views of Mount Robson. Look closely. In each print, a man sits at an easel in the foreground, dwarfed by the size of the mountain while painting the scenery around him. Paint has also been applied to the surface of the photographs in an apparent effort to transform these documentary prints into </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/works-of-art/1850-to-1900"><span style="font-weight: 400;">works of art</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.<br /></span></p>
landscape
Rockies
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
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Title
A name given to the resource
Canadian Rockies: The Switzerland of America
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Stephen J. Thompson (photographer)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1904]
23.5 x 29.0 cm
FC 219 T47 1904
Description
An account of the resource
The <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3052">picturesque</a> views featured in this souvenir book, along with the subtitle "The Switzerland of America," calls attention to the ways that European perspectives and conventions influenced representations of North American landscapes.
landscape
Rockies
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
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Title
A name given to the resource
Canadian Rockies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1940
23.2 x 30.6 cm
FC 219 C225 folio
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
photographer unknown
Description
An account of the resource
Published by the Canadian National Railways, this souvenir book promotes travel through the Canadian Rockies and Alaska with colourful pictures. The colours were likely printed in stages over the black-and-white image, as we can see gaps and overlaps between the yellows and blues when we look closely. Compare these images to the colourful pictures produced with <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3043">Kodachrome film</a>.
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Rockies
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
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Title
A name given to the resource
Souvenir of My Trip through the Canadian Rockies on the CPR
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1915
24.7 x 29.7 cm
FC 219 S72
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
photographer unknown
Description
An account of the resource
This souvenir book promoted travel on the Canadian Pacific Railway in the early-twentieth century by featuring <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3147">sublime landscapes</a> alongside modern conveniences like trains and luxury hotels (such as the CPR Banff Springs Hotel). The cover artwork is particularly striking, recalling some of the commercial designs created by members of the <a href="https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/exhibitions/the-group-of-seven-and-graphic-design" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Group of Seven</a> around the same time, such as A. Y. Jackson's <a href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungosgr/items/1.0216282" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bon Echo Inn on the Mazinawe Lakes</a>.<span> </span> <strong><br /></strong>
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Rockies
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
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Title
A name given to the resource
CPR 1887
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Wm. Notman & Son (photographer)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1887
20.0 x 30.0 cm
FC 3205.2 W46 1887 folio
Description
An account of the resource
This presentation album was created to commemorate a Canadian Pacific Railway investors' trip across Canada, and was published by Canadian photographic studio <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3154">William Notman & Son</a>. <br /><br />The album provides an example of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObveSq3cMkw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">albumen prints</a> created using the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnxT4WQsLLM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wet collodion process</a>. The photographers responsible for these images would have travelled across the landscapes pictured here carrying their supply of glass plate negatives and a full darkroom, due to the necessity of preparing and developing wet plates on location. Once the photographs were printed on albumen paper, they had to be individually pasted onto each page of the album.<br />
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photographs like these ones played a role in shaping the ways that the Canadian West was imagined, and provide a good example of what photo historian Joan Schwartz calls "<a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity">imagined geographies</a>." This album turns the spaces of Canada into an imagined place</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and, for the specific purposes of this album</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">one that was intended to please investors in the railway. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you consider the kind of “imagined geographies” that these photographs both build on and contribute to, consider additional <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity/1900-to-1969/souvenir-books">souvenir albums</a> of the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Western Canadian landscape included in this exhibition. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">What arguments do these photographs make and how do they encourage us to imagine and remember these places? <br /><br />This album forms part of the Prairie Roots Collection at Bruce Peel Special Collections, supported by the Prairie Roots Endowment Fund (gift of Ralph and Gay Young).</span></p>
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Rockies
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Scenes from Kodachromes
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Byron Harmon (photographer)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1904-1942]
9.4 x 14.0 cm
IA 36565
Description
An account of the resource
<a href="http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1906503,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kodachrome</a> was one of the first widely-used <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP3uLdlAAAA&feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colour films</a>, introduced by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1935. Here, Kodachrome film was used to create colourful pictures of the Canadian Rockies. Printed as <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3096">postcards</a>, the pictures were sold as souvenirs of one’s travels. They could be preserved as a set, as was the case with this particular example, or sent through the mail. <br /><br />Many of the photographs taken with Kodachrome film were printed as <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3159">slides</a>. To see examples of Kodachrome slides, visit the <a href="https://www.anonymous-project.com/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anonymous Project</a>. Created by Lee Schuler, the website features digitized slides that “preserve this collective memory and give a second life to the people forgotten in these timeless moments captured in stunning Kodachrome film.”
colour
Kodachrome
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Rockies
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
Dublin Core
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Title
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Hoofs, Claws and Antlers of the Rocky Mountains by the Camera
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
A. G. Wallihan (photographer)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1894
29.5 x 26.0 cm
QL 706 W21 1890
Description
An account of the resource
<em>Hoofs, Claws and Antlers of the Rocky Mountains by the Camera</em> documents a trip through the Rocky Mountains, with an emphasis on the animals encountered (and hunted) along the way. The publication provides a good example of an early use of the <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3044">halftone process</a>, which allowed photographs to be easily printed side by side with text, bringing about what historian Gerry Beegan has called “the mass image.” <br /><br />In its approach to photographic illustration, this publication is firmly rooted in nineteenth-century practices. This can be seen in the photograph captioned “Mr. Wallihan and his Camera,” where Mr Wallihan stands next to a large camera mounted on an even larger tripod in order to illustrate the photographer’s care and expertise. <br /><br />The publisher’s note informs us of the “extreme difficulty of securing first-class negatives under these conditions,” where “the photographer was rarely able to obtain the most favorable position or sunlight advantage.” As a result, not all of the photographs published here are by Mr and Mrs Wallihan: “In order to make the collection of wild animals found in the Rocky Mountains more complete, it has been necessary to use several photographs obtained by others.” <br /><br />These notes, as well as an introduction entitled “How We Made the Photographs,” and a title that announces the camera’s authorship (“by the Camera”), present photography as a remarkable mode of representation that requires specialized knowledge.<br /><br />A full scan of this item is available through the <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924024575205/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet Archive</a>.
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