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This album of photographs records a "Northern Buffalo Hunt" in Alberta, as shown by a news clipping taped to the album's back cover and by the photographs, including one taken at the Embarras Airport in Northern Alberta. The album includes both…

Head tax certificates, as they came to be known, include photographs that attempt to fix identity in place. The text that accompanies the photographic portrait categorizes the subject as a legal immigrant, showing that the head tax required by…

Little is known about this album of photographs, but it is noteworthy that it includes photographs of Japanese Canadian families in Canadian internment camps during World War II. Unlike documentary photographs taken by Dorothea Lange of internment…

This group portrait of a graduating class in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, brings together 49 individual portraits, mostly sharing the same oval shape and similar poses, facing forward or turned slightly to the side. The similarities between them, and…

This snapshot album documents a year spent in Canada working on pipeline construction in the Northwest Territories. The album's compiler arranged the photographs by theme into neat grids.

Postcards grew in popularity in the early-twentieth century. Postcards offer an easy way to send pictures through the mail, and to communicate both visually—with the picture on the front of the card—and textually, with a short message…

This album includes delightful cartoons on each of its pages. Of particular note are two cartoons that represent photographers in the act of taking pictures, each one drawn in red at the centre of the page. One of these figures is a woman holding a…

One page of this personal album documents a day in 1939 when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Edmonton as part of their royal tour of Canada.This album is part of thePrairie Ephemera Collectionhoused in Bruce Peel Special Collections.

This album's owner combined photographs and text to record "sunny memories" of family and friends. Each page of this album is unique, with some photographs cut into various shapes to produce playful collages. Particularly charming in this album are…

This album includes photographs and objects. Particularly notable is the page that features a photograph of a church side-by-side with a piece of textile taken from the church altar. Both of these items have an indexical relationship to the place…