Canafornian's photos with the keyword: canada

POSTCARD Date: Not evident. Not Posted. Publisher / Photographer: Valentine Series Notation: Pretty stunning message in the face of our current understandings/perspectives of colonialism, racism and discrimination. Opening the flap on the chest area releases and accordion strip of eleven small images of indigenous people - all derived from images on actual postcards. Here is the strip of attached images.

PHOTOGRAPH 11.5cm X 9 cm Date: Not evident. Publisher / Photographer: J. H. Clarke, West Selkirk, Manitoba Notation: J. H. Clark was a photographer and reasonably prolific postcard publisher, publishing lithographic images of his photos as early as 1906. His postcard images were primarily of scenes in the Rocky Mountains but he also captured scenes in Manitoba & Northwestern Ontario. At some point in his career, he took an impressive set of photographs of first nations people. This one, entitled "Miskoopenaises, Squaw, Chippewa Indians", was #5 in a series.