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An elderly Loucheux First Nations couple at Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, watching the boats come in. They have come faithfully for years, despite his blindness. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a…

American Pictorialist photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn was a founding member of the Photo-Secession, along with Alfred Stieglitz. Photo-Secession members advocated for photography’s status as a fine art, showing their photographs alongside…

Acquired in honour of Stacy Schiff

Colourful tropical fish such as these from Strack’s Naturgeschichte in Bildern mit erläuterndem [1826] were popular subjects in colour-plate books about fish.

Straight, crooked, and broken lines using all combinations of black, white, yellow, red and blue for lines and intervals. 1 of 1000.

Life is among the most famous of the twentieth-century picture magazines, and some of the century's most iconic photographs were published in its pages. This first issue of Life, from 1936, features a photograph by Margaret Bourke-White on its cover.…

Life in the Antarctic: Photographs by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition includes a prefatory note explaining that “the illustrations in this little book are all reproductions of genuine photographs from life, taken by the Leader and Staff of the…