Gay travel guides published between 1978 and 2002 document the development of LGBTQ social spaces and travel networks during the late twentieth century. Printed guides of this kind served as practical tools for gay and lesbian travelers seeking safe environments and community venues in cities and tourist destinations. At a......
Damron, Bob (contributor); Collins, Andrew. Gay travel guides and newspapers (1978–2004). These publications document the circulation of location-based information used by gay and lesbian travelers to identify bars, hotels, and social spaces during a period when public visibility remained uneven and often restricted. Issued across the late twentieth century, the.....
Labor Press photo archive documenting the labor consequences of NAFTA through farm work, economic dislocation, and anti trade protest in the 1990s. The archive documents agricultural labor, rural economies, and public resistance to free trade policy through newsroom photographs showing how NAFTA was understood not only as an international trade.....
Collection of five Fodor’s gay travel guides published between 1996 and 2001 documenting LGBTQ travel culture and the geography of queer social life in the late twentieth century. Produced during a period when openly gay and lesbian travelers frequently relied upon specialized print resources to identify welcoming public accommodations and.....
Responsible government and imperial administration in British North America documented through the correspondence of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, governor general of the Province of Canada, and Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, secretary of state for the colonies, from 1846 to 1852. Their exchanges follow the transfer of.....
Ontario Industrial and Landscape Photograph Archive. This archive documents Ontario's economy In the 1920s with growth in the manufacturing and resource extraction sectors, particularly in pulp, steel, and mining. Archive of ten original black-and-white silver gelatin photographs, c. 1910s–1930s, depicting the industrial infrastructure, waterways, and wilderness of Ontario, Canada. Prints.....
Silver gelatin portraits of faculty and graduating class from the University of Manitoba Medical School. Canada 1932. Measures 16 x 12.5 inches. 42 student subjects including a single female student. 2 faculty members with illustration of school building between them. Mounted to photographer's board. Photographer's info in bottom corner, "Campbell.".....
Untitled press photograph (Quebec Conference) (1943) documents high-level Allied leadership during World War II at a critical stage of coordinated military planning between the United States and Great Britain. The image supports research into wartime diplomacy, Allied command structures, and strategic decision-making leading to major operations in the European and.....
[Reproductive Health] [Women's Medicine] Students' Society of McGill University. "Birth Control Handbook." Montreal, 1970. Staplebound, with illustrated wrappers. 47 pages, 10" x 7." Front bears black-and-white photograph of a mother and her newborn. The Birth Control Handbook was published by McGill University as a response to an increase of backstreeet.....
Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin, 2000, constructs the history of sisters Iris and Laura Chase through Iris’s retrospective narrative, newspaper reports, family history, and a novel within the novel. Set principally in twentieth-century Canada, the book moves through the economic dislocations of the Depression, industrial wealth and labor conflict, marriage.....
[Feminism][Sex Work][Theater] Tremblay, Michel. Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1981. First English edition. 43 pages. Glossy photographic wraps featuring a black-and-white composite image of actors Heath Lambert and Clare Coulter. 8vo. A feminist play by Quebecois dramatist Michel Tremblay, Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra explores class, gender, and sexuality in.....
