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This album documents an annual inspection trip from Montreal to Victoria taken by the CPR’s chairman, president, and directors. It provides another example of the ways photography circulated knowledge about places, contributing to Canada's…

The picturesque 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.

This presentation album was created to commemorate a Canadian Pacific Railway investors' trip across Canada, and was published by Canadian photographic studio William Notman & Son. The album provides an example of albumen prints created using the…

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…

This album featuring photographs of the Canadian Rockies, Fraser River, and Yellowstone Park is a typical souvenir album that contributes to “imagined geographies” of a place, much like the album CPR 1887. The album's albumen prints, some of…

As a founding member of Group f/64, Ansel Adams—along with other members of the California-based group—used the camera’s smallest aperture (known as f/64) in order to create photographs with greater depth of field, keeping as much of the image…

This souvenir book promoted travel on the Canadian Pacific Railway in the early-twentieth century by featuring sublime landscapes alongside modern conveniences like trains and luxury hotels (such as the CPR Banff Springs Hotel). The cover artwork is…

These views of Portree, Scotland, are reproduced by collotype, a photomechanical processdeveloped in the mid-nineteenth century that allowed photographic negatives to be printed with ink on paper. Collotypes provided a way to print photographs within…