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American Pictorialist photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn was a founding member of the Photo-Secession, along with Alfred Stieglitz. Photo-Secession members advocated for photography’s status as a fine art, showing their photographs alongside…

Tobacco gets its own chapter in this reader, part of a series on “the great industries of the world.” This copy was once in the library at the Camrose Provincial Normal School. The book’s treatment of ethnicity and cultural…

A collection of rare and unusual books made primarily by contemporary artists of the 60s and 70s. Exhibit coordinated by Francis Brown.

Edited, distributed and signed by Frank Brown, former gallery director. A collection of 47 sheets which includes reproductions of newspaper clippings and articles as well as correspondence from the University and between faculties regarding Frank…

Mixed-media - questionnaire and pencils in envelopes, entry forms and rejection notices from various exhibitions. Also includes a note from Katherine C. Brugger regarding how Brown's submission was handled and shipped back to him.

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…

Victorian bodybuilder Eugen Sandow’s guide to physical training provides an example of the ways in which photographs could be used in how-to manuals. To consider the advantages of photography for this purpose, compare this volume to The Art of…