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These "real photographs" of York are similar in format to the photographs of Melrose Abbey, though these were published by the Valentine company, a commercial photographic firm based in Scotland.

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…

The practice known as spirit photography pushes the limits of what we consider photographic by seeking to represent the spiritual, rather than the physical and visible, on the photographic plate. The practice of spirit photography also points towards…

This album documents an annual inspection trip from Montreal to Victoria taken by the CPR’s chairman, president, and directors. It provides another example of the ways photography circulated knowledge about places, contributing to Canada's…

An arrangement of items from the Miriam Green Ellis collection, including two of the original storage boxes and mix of photography dry plate and magic lantern plate boxes.

Two of Miriam Green Ellis' wooden boxes, used for storing and shipping her magic lantern slides, displayed with boxes of photographic dry plates and magic lantern plates.

Curated with forward by Diane Perry Vanderlip. Cover of brown craft paper printed with an image of a stapled book bearing the title "Artists Books Moore College of Art Philadelphia". Exhibit held at the Moore College of Art, 23 March-20 April 1973;…