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…
Sights and Scenes on the Tōkaidō circulates knowledge about a particular place—a popular travelling route through Japan. The photographs, reproduced as collotypes, and their accompanying texts were intended for English-speaking armchair…
This album of photographs from the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Company likely dates from between 1905 (when the Alberta Brewery, founded in 1901, was renamed the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Co) and 1918 (when the name was changed to Lethbridge…
The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite by British scientists James Nasmyth and James Carpenter raises questions about the role that photographs play in circulating knowledge. The book’s photographs offer a likeness of the moon,…
Related to the earlier tradition of lantern slides on glass plates, slides made from celluloid film became a commonplace way of circulating photographic images in the twentieth century.These slides featuring the sites and artworks of Toledo, Spain,…
These reprints of John Heartfield’s photomontages show one way that photographs circulated political knowledge. Heartfield reused and remixed images printed in the German mainstream media in order to expose and critique Nazi propaganda. One example…
This album (labelled on the cover "Anatomische Abbildungen der Biene") from 1875captures some of the reasons why early photography was more effective at producing knowledge than circulating knowledge. Here, photographs, drawings, and text mingle…
The North American Indianis a twenty-volume study of Indigenous peoples in North America, published by photographer Edward Curtis between 1907 and 1930. Bruce Peel Special Collections houses all twenty volumes, each illustrated with photogravures, as…
Portraits of British Americans demonstrates some of the challenges of circulating knowledge through photographs in the mid-nineteenth century. Though these albumen prints could be mass-produced, each print had to be individually pasted onto the page…
Eadweard Muybridge’s efforts to capture animal motion with photography provides evidence of the desire to capture photographically what is invisible to the human eye. The resulting photographs had a significant influence on both scientists and…