Browse Items (1354 total)

The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire was founded in 1900 to support the British Empire during the Boer War. The Military Chapter of Calgary was formed in 1914 (Glenbow, “IODE”). Likely published around 1927 (Driver 1054), this…

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,…

The most Northerly bank, a Union Bank of Canada, in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. The man standing in front of the building is B. Beuer, the bank manager.

A man stands at the riverbank accompanied by a skinny horse and a dog. This horse is said to be the only one north of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

The Mother Provincial, Sister Ste. Rose and two unnamed Sisters, pictured next to some of the First Nations children of the Catholic mission at Providence, Northwest Territories.

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…

Altered Book. 13 x 19 cm.
N 7433.4 S8795 A6 O43 2006

Acquired in honour of Brian Paisley