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A portrait of Captain Bucey, at the helm of his steam wheeler, possibly the 'Distributor'.

This portrait of Mrs Morrow provides an example of one of the first successful photographic technologies: the daguerreotype. The daguerreotype processcreated a single positive image on a metal plate—meaning that there was no negative and no…

A group portrait of the Edmonton Women's Press Club. Miriam Green Ellis is at the far right.

A First Nations man poses with a pipe in Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

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 Miriam Green Ellis, 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.

This group portrait, printed on albumen paper, was taken inside the first Chinese church in Victoria, BC. The act of taking group portraits like this one and the sharing of the resulting prints may have contributed to the construction of collective…

Head tax certificates, as they came to be known, include photographs that attempt to fix identity in place. The text that accompanies the photographic portrait categorizes the subject as a legal immigrant, showing that the head tax required by…

A portrait of Laura, an Inuit woman travelling to Edmonton for trial. She is said to have beaten her husband. Miriam Green Ellis did not comment on the circumstances of the altercation, but did report that Laura was sent back home without a…