Drawn from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, A Century of Progress is a collection of rare-and in many cases, previously unseen-photographs that document the Century of Progress International Exposition, the world's fair held in Chicago from 1933 to 1934. Conceived during the Roaring Twenties and born during the Great Depression, this sprawling event celebrated the city's centennial with industrial and scientific displays, lascivious entertainment, and a touch of unadulterated bad taste. Dur...
The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which portray this strange subterranean world in its various manifestations. The cards have been selected to show how life progressed from day to day in and out of the trenches. We see wounded men smiling obligingly for the camera; others appear to be suffering from the onslaught of boredom. Some take part...
Wilson's Photographics (Literature of Photography S.)
by Edward L Wilson
In Projecting Citizenship, Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British government's Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the beginning of the twentieth century-a series of lantern slide lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel like an imperial citizen. Through detailed archival research and close readings, Moser elucidates the impact of this vas...
Hamilton Ontario Book 3 in Colour Photos (Cruising Ontario, #89)
by Barbara Raue
Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art (1889)
by Peter H Emerson
Our Tour of Doors Open Niagara-on-the-Lake October 22, 2022
by Barbara Raue
Southwest Oxford and Norwich Townships Ontario in Colour Photos (Cruising Ontario, #241)
by Barbara Raue
Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the ""historian's eye"" during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a moment with unquestionable historical significance. Th...
Finglas: The People's Portrait
by Samantha Libreri and Darren Kinsella
This richly illustrated volume will take readers on a marvellous journey into the unknown. From Bigfoot to the Bermuda Triangle, aliens to yetis, dowsing to the "Da Vinci Code", telepathy to "Crossing Over", "Time" will separate truth from rumour and fact from fantasy: The book includes new scientific reports from worlds we are only beginning to understand, including new findings on twins and telepathy; mind and body studies, and the surprising power of prayer.
The latest volume in this prestigious series is chiefly concerned with the production and circulation of regional manuscripts between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions range from Kathryn Lowe's study of charters of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, to Andrew Taylor's analysis of a seventeenth-century ballad manuscript. They include studies of particular works, the Tabula medicine and the "Speculum Christiani" respectively by Peter Murray Jones and Vincent Gillespie and of new manu...
Woodstock Ontario Book 3 in Colour Photos (Cruising Ontario, #127)
by Barbara Raue
Picturing Disability (Critical Perspectives on Disability)
by Robert Bogdan
Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. A young woman with no arms wears a sequined tutu and smiles for the camera as she smokes a cigarette with her toes; a man holds up two prosthetic legs while his own legs are bared to the knees to show his missing feet. The photos were used as promotional material for circus sideshows, charity drives, and art galleries. They were found on be...