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In Boards as Issued
It was not uncommon for technical works such as Bakker’s Osteographia piscium (1822) to be issued with a large atlas of plates and a small volume of explanatory text. Over time, it is not uncommon for plate and text volumes to become separated.…
I Think That the Root of the Wind is Water by Susan Lowdermilk
Acquired in honour of Jan Reimer
Husky Puppies at Fort Smith
Husky puppies, sheltering in the shade of a boat at Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.
Hunting in the Canadian Rockies
This lavish and unique five-volume photograph album records a hunting trip to the Canadian Rockies in 1916-17. Each photograph in the album is hand-tinted with watercolours and mounted on its own page. The album's large and heavy pages provide a…
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…