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Nation Building

Photograph of a wooden railway bridge over Mountain Creek, British Columbia, circa 1880-1890

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Portraiture

Framed photograph of Samuel Leonard Tilley and Julia Ann Hanford, ca. 1843

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Aboriginal Peoples

Photograph of female and male Aboriginal students, nuns and two men outside an Indian residential school, circa 1890

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Amateur Photography

Photograph of a man and a woman, each with a camera, sitting on a rock on the shore of a lake with their backs to the photographer, Sparrow Lake, Ontario, 1916

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The Canadian Mosaic

Photograph of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with a second, smaller building beside it, Canora, Saskatchewan, date unknown

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Commercial Photography

Photograph of three women in bathing dresses and caps standing in ankle-deep water, Grand Beach, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, circa 1914

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Photojournalism

Photograph of a woman, using headphones to listen to her husband who is down in the mine, Moose River, Nova Scotia, 1936

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War and Conflict

Photograph of a female anesthetist holding a mask over a patient’s mouth and nose, Leavesden, England, 1944

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Sense of Space

Photograph showing lightning over a house at night, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, 1903

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Evolution of Photography

Trailer camp, Waterton Lakes

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