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The main street of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

A wooden box used for shipping and storing Miriam Green Ellis' collection of magic lantern slides, with storage and railway tags attached.

The fragility of the glass slides is evident here. This slide, though otherwise whole, has been marred by a network of cracks interrupting a photo of skin boats set on the riverbank. It may have been dropped or its box struck over Miriam Green Ellis'…

A tar sands deposit eroding from the riverbank in northern Alberta. This slide is shown in full, showing the black paper used to frame the image and the red and white indexing stickers. The framing paper on this slide is glossy and textured, rather…

Attempting to ford the Salt River on horseback. This slide is shown in full, showing the black paper used to frame the image and the red and white indexing stickers.

The Northern Trading Co's steam wheeler 'Trader', pictured at 11:30 at night with the sun only just going down. This slide is shown in full, showing the black paper used to frame the image and the red and white indexing stickers.

A portrait of the cook on a steamwheeler, posing with fresh fish (though not trout as the caption indicates). This slide is shown in full, showing the black paper used to frame the image and the red and white indexing stickers.

Skin boats at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories. This slide is shown in full, showing the black paper used to frame the image and the red and white indexing stickers. A faded caption has been written in beneath the image.