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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Ethnographic Photographs
Creator
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Karel Plicka (photographer)
Date
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[1900]
42.0 x 34.0 cm
GT 820 C95 P72
Description
An account of the resource
<span style="font-weight: 400;">This album of photographs by Czech photographer, filmmaker, and ethnographer Karel Plicka offers a portrait of the people of Czechoslovakia in twenty pictures. <br /><br />The impulse to document a culture through photographs is related to other anthropological and <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/circulate-knowledge/1900-to-1969">documentary practices</a> of the early-twentieth century, such as German photographer </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">August Sander’s </span><a href="https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/sander/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">People of the Twentieth Century</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and American photographer </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Edward Curtis’s </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3155"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The North American Indian</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Each of these photographic projects aim to circulate knowledge about the people and cultures they represent, yet they do so through the dominant artistic styles and ideologies of their time. Here, Plicka views the people of Czechoslovakia through a </span><a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/pictorialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pictorialist</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> lens.<br /></span>
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Photographies
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Title
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The Fight against Apartheid!
Date
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1969
29.5 x 41 cm
DT 763.6 A25 1969 folio
Description
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Fight against Apartheid! </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is, as its cover explains, “an </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">album of exhibition photographs showing life under apartheid and depicting the struggle of the South African people for their liberation under the banner of the African National Congress.” The photographs gathered here call </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">attention to the role of <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/circulate-knowledge/1900-to-1969">documentary photography</a> in political activism, and are related to the tradition of </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">social documentary photographs</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">published in twentieth-century magazines like </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3045"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Life</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> At the time of this album’s publication, apartheid was still a reality in South Africa, and the fight referenced in the title was an urgent one. <br /><br />These photographs provide one example of photography's </span>potential to prompt action by establishing a “<a href="https://vimeo.com/25369128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">civil contract</a>” (Azoulay) between the people photographed and the viewer. However, given that <span style="font-weight: 400;">apartheid in South Africa continued well beyond the publication of these photographs, the album also points toward </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the limitations of documentary photography</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">A related photograph, taken in 1976, is Sam Nzima’s “</span><a href="http://100photos.time.com/photos/sam-nzima-soweto-uprising" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soweto Uprising</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” which is sometimes credited with bringing international attention to apartheid. To learn more about apartheid in South Africa, visit</span><a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-apartheid-south-africa" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> South African History Online</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>
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African National Congress (author)
photographers unknown
photojournalism
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Photographies
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Title
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Hunting in the Canadian Rockies
Date
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[1916-17]
38.5 x 30.5 cm
FC 219 P14 1916 folio
Description
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<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>
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photographer unknown
colour
Rockies
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Photographies
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Title
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Sights and Scenes on the Tōkaidō
Creator
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James Murdoch (author)
Kazumasa Ogawa (photographer)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1893]
27.0 x 40.5 cm
DS 895 T6 O44 1893 folio
Description
An account of the resource
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sights and Scenes on the </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tōkaidō</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">circulates knowledge about a particular place</span>—<span style="font-weight: 400;">a popular travelling route through Japan. The photographs, reproduced as </span><a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/collotype" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">collotypes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and their accompanying texts were intended for English-speaking armchair travellers who might never step foot in Japan. The photographs thus contribute to an “imagined geography” of Japan, much like other volumes in this exhibition contribute to an “</span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity"><span style="font-weight: 400;">imagined geography</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” of Canada. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/ogawa/ogawa_tokaido.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sights and Scenes on the </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tōkaidō </span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">recalls the nineteenth-century British photographer John Thomson’s </span><a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/john-thomsons-illustrations-china-and-its-people-1873-1874" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Illustrations of China and Its People</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. However, here the pictures were taken by a Japanese photographer, </span><a href="https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1432/kazumasa-ogawa-japanese-1860-1929/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kazumasa </span>Ogawa</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who recorded features of his own home land and culture.</span></p>
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Sundry Photographs of the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Co
Creator
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Arthur Rafton-Canning of the British and Colonial Photographic Company (photographer)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1912]
25.4 x 17.5 cm
FC 3234.2 p732 PE004991
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 Breweries Limited). </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The photographs document the interior of the factory, and are reminiscent of <a href="https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/lewis-wickes-hine?all/all/all/all/0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lewis Hine</a>'s photographs of industrial labour. Though perhaps best known for his photographs documenting child labour while he worked for the <a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-child-labor-committee/about-this-collection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Child Labor Committee</a> from 1908 to 1924, Hine also photographed adult labour, and some of his photographs heroize labourers</span>—<span style="font-weight: 400;">such as his series of the <a href="https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographs-of-the-empire-state-building-under-construction#/?tab=about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Empire State Building under construction</a> from 1931 and his 1920 <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265184" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photograph of a steamfitter</a>.<br /><br />This album is from the <a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/prairie-ephemera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prairie Ephemera Collection</a> housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.</span></p>
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Photographies
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Title
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The Moon
Creator
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James Nasmyth (creator)
James Carpenter (creator)
Date
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1885
22.0 x 15.0 cm
QB 581 N26 1885
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite</em> 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, and circulated knowledge about the moon’s surface, but what the pictures record was not the moon at all. Based on observations through the telescope, Nasmyth and Carpenter created plaster models of the moon’s surface and then photographed the models under precise lighting conditions. The results are certainly photographic, recording an </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/what-is-photography">indexical</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> relationship to their subjects, but, to what extent do they deliver the type of truthful image that we commonly expect of photographic images? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The photographs included in the volume were created by the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOqsaCu-_yw&feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woodburytype process</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which records a wider range of tones than many other photomechanical processes. A full scan of Nasmyth and Carpenter's <em>The Moon</em> is available through the <a href="https://archive.org/details/moonconsideredas00nasmiala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet Archive</a>.<br /></span></p>
<p>Astronomical photography <span style="font-weight: 400;">has changed dramatically since the nineteenth century. To see more recent examples, explore the <a href="https://images.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA Image and Video Library</a>. </span></p>
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Toledo
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1965
5.0 x 5.0 cm
DP 402 T7 T6
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Related to the earlier tradition of <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3170">lantern slides</a> on glass plates</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, <a href="https://obsoletemedia.org/135-film-slides/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slides</a> made from <a href="https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/celluloid-and-photography-part-1-celluloid-as-a-substitute-for-glass/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celluloid film</a> became a commonplace way of circulating photographic images in the twentieth century. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">These slides featuring the sites and artworks of Toledo, Spain, could have been used in various ways. Slides were frequently used to circulate art reproductions, much like </span>engraving<span style="font-weight: 400;"> or lithography had been in previous centuries (such as in Baxter's <em><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3033">Cabinet of Paintings</a></em>)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and they became a fixture of art history classrooms in the twentieth century. These slides also allude to the tradition of the family slideshow, popularized in the 1950s and 1960s with </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3043">Kodachrome</a> slides<span style="font-weight: 400;">. Much like </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">photographic <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity/1900-to-1969/souvenir-books">souvenir books</a> and <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity/1900-to-1969/souvenir-cards">souvenir cards</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, slides like these could be purchased by a traveller to supplement their snapshots of a trip. </span></p>
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photographer unknown
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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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Photomontages
Creator
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John Heartfield (artist)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1974 reprints of 1931-34 and 1938 originals
64.0 x 48.0 cm
TR 685 H42 1974 folio
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These reprints of John Heartfield’s </span><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/photomontage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photomontages</a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">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 of this kind of print media can be found in </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">a <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3142">cigarette album</a></span> that celebrates Adolf Hitler’s life. </p>
<p>Some of <a href="https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/heartfield/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heartfield’s </span>photomontages</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> were published in the left-wing workers’ magazine </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Workers Illustrated Newspaper, also known as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">AIZ</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and some were reprinted and disseminated as posters. We can get a sense of the power that these photomontages may have held for contemporary viewers from Walter Benjamin's comment in his 1934 essay, "<a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1970/author-producer.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Author as Producer</a>," that Heartfield's "<span>technique made book jackets into a political instrument."</span><br /><br />The prints housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections were reprinted in 1974 as collectors' items. Today, the photomontages are most often viewed as works of art, and Heartfield is often described as a <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/dada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dada</a> artist. Another artist who took a similar approach by using printed media to critique mainstream culture was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E1cA3j_xY8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Höch</a>. </span></p>
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Anatomical Illustrations of the Bee
Creator
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Goh Windisch (creator)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1875]
23.4 x 31.6 cm
QL 568 A6 W53 1875
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This album (labelled on the cover "<em>Anatomische Abbildungen der Biene</em>") from 1875 captures some of the reasons why early photography was more effective at </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">producing </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">knowledge than </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">circulating </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">knowledge. Here, photographs, drawings, and text mingle together on the page. The album’s compiler was interested in using the most effective combinations to record and convey information, and photography was not always the best choice.<br /><br />Created with </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnxT4WQsLLM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wet plates</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and printed on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObveSq3cMkw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">albumen paper</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the photographs are pasted into the album and then combined with additional markings that make each page unique. Consider similarities and differences between this album and Charles </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Darwin’s </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3145"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which also used photography as a means of producing knowledge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the unique features of this album is its </span>photomicrographs<span style="font-weight: 400;">. Even though these photographs may not have circulated widely, the idea of capturing the view through the microscope photographically was considered an important breakthrough and offered advantages over the practice of recording microscopic views by hand, as seen in the example of </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3030"><em>Miscellaneous Objects as Seen With and Without the Microscope</em></a>.</p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the earliest </span>photomicrographs<span style="font-weight: 400;"> were made in 1840, using the </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3125">daguerreotype process</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The scientists responsible for the images, Alfred Donné and Léon Foucault, published reproductions of their </span>daguerreotypes<span style="font-weight: 400;"> as </span>engravings<span style="font-weight: 400;"> in </span><a href="https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b30455248#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-0.2291%2C-0.0874%2C1.4581%2C1.747" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cours de microscopie complémentaire des études médicales</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 1844, and in an accompanying atlas in 1845. </span>
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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The North American Indian
Creator
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Edward Curtis (photographer)
Date
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1907
32.5 x 26 cm (folio plates 57 x 46 cm)
E 77 C97 1907
Description
An account of the resource
<em>The North American Indian </em>is a twenty-volume study of <span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Indigenous peoples in North America, published by photographer <a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/edward-s-curtis/about-this-collection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edward Curtis</a> between 1907 and 1930. Bruce Peel Special Collections houses all twenty volumes, each illustrated with <a href="https://www.nga.gov/research/online-editions/alfred-stieglitz-key-set/practices-and-processes/photogravures.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photogravures</a>, as well as accompanying portfolios of the photographic plates. <br /><br />Curtis's photographs offer an example of the Pictorialist aesthetic popular among art photographers at the turn of the century. As explained on the <a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/pictorialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Art Institute of Chicago's website</a>, Pictorialists like Curtis "preferred romantic or idealized imagery over the documentation of modern life, welcoming artistic composition and soft focus." These characteristics permeate Curtis's photographs in <em>The North American Indian</em>. <br /></span></span><br />Iroquois artist <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-Opj3NGC4%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Thomas</a> has said that Curtis's photographs make him "long to hear the subjects' voices." With his project <a href="https://jeff-thomas.ca/2014/04/my-north-american-indian-v21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>My North American Indian Volume 21</em></a>, Thomas engages Curtis's images in order to—in Thomas's words—"challenge the silences in the archive; to build a new paradigm that connects past and present." <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 400;">The complete set of Curtis's <em>The North American Indian </em>is one of the highlights of the <span><a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/gregory-s-javitch-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gregory S. Javitch Collection</a> of books about North and South American Indigenous peoples and cultures</span>. </span>For information about additional photographs of Indigenous peoples housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections, see the <a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/indigenous-photograph-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indigenous Photograph Collection</a>.<span style="color: #888888;"></span>