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How We Are Fed
This reader, employed as a textbook in Alberta schools in the 1920s (“Alberta School”), creatively approaches geography lessons through the accessible medium of food. The author, James Chamberlain, writes, “The natural connecting…
Sights and Scenes on the Tōkaidō
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…
The Moon
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,…
Evergreen Before the Spell
Cloth Book. 31 x 34 x 18 cm.
N 7433.4 B187 A6 E93 1986
N 7433.4 B187 A6 E93 1986
The Walk Book
Codex. 25 x 18 cm.
N 7433.4 C37 A6 W35 2005
N 7433.4 C37 A6 W35 2005
Stupa
Black 'binder' with detachable front end paper which gives the artists' CV, signature, edition number, date and artist statement. There are 25 pages horizontally bound to the other side of the binder which flip independently back and forth along…
A Guide to Good Cooking
Jean Brodie was a popular Toronto-based food writer in the 1930s, responsible for 100 Tested Recipes, produced for the Farmer’s Dairy in Toronto. She also edited a food column for the Toronto Star: as one early ad put it, “To further its…
An image ofAn Outline of the Various Social Systems & Communities Which Have Been Founded on the Principle of Co-operation by Mary Hennell
Acquired in recognition of Martin Garber-Conrad in 2019
An image ofFarewell Address of President Jimmy Carter, January 14, 1981
Acquired in recognition of Allan Goodman in 2019
An image of The Bees Have Been Brought to Their Knees by Ginger Burrell
Acquired in recognition of Dr Kamaljit Bawa in 2014