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Abstract: As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the camera was there throughout as both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and as a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. Rare Merit examines how they did so, why their images look the way they do, and the meanings their work carries. Studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers make up the assembly, beginning with the arrival in Nova Scotia of North America’s first professional woman photographer, the American daguerreotypist Mrs. Fletcher. Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women who followed her, from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island. Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range of their work, Rare Merit proves that women’s practices and images--knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history--were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential. Whenever and wherever women photographers lived, travelled, and worked, their impact undermined the status quo. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: The Daguerreans, 1841-61 ; The Livernois Studio, 1854-74 ; Notman's Printing Room, 1860-80 ; The Maynard Studio, 1862-1912 ; The Moodie Studio, 1895-1905 ; Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872-1940 ; Commercial Studio Photographers,1860-1940 ; Artists and Amateurs, 1890-1940

ISBN: 9780774867054

Accession Number: 2022.09

Call Number: 08.1 Sk3r

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer : women wilderness photography

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2017

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press

Call Number: 06.4 sk3s

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Responsibility: Colleen Skidmore

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: xi, 360 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 26 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mary Schaffer; Photography; Women; Bibliography; History

Abstract: "Mary Scha¨ffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women and men with whom Scha¨ffer interacted and collaborated. It argues for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of Scha¨ffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Acknowledgements; Author's notes on names; She Who Coloured Slides; Philadelphia, Paris and the Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1889-1903; The Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1904-1906; Maligne Lake, 1907-1911; Japan, 1908-1909, and Banff, 1909-1939; Epilogue

Notes: Signed by Colleen Skidmore - dated 09/17

ISBN: 978-1-77212-298-5

Accession Number: 2019.16

Call Number: 06.4 sk3s

Collection: Archives Library

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A Swift encounter

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Call Number: P

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Physical Description: p.47 : ill

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Jasper; Schaffer, Mary; Swift, Suzette Chalifoux

Notes: In Beaver, vol. 87, no. 3 (June / July 2007). Article describes the handiwork of Mrs. Swift, including the buckskin jacket that she embroidered for Mary Schaffer

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta

Call Number: 08.3 Sk3t; Copy 2 Reference Room Browser's Shelf

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Responsibility: edited by Colleen Skidmore

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 295p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Mountain cairns : a series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Subjects: Adams, Mollie; Glacier House; Engelhard, Georgia Cromwell; Henshaw, Julia W.; Poetry; Schaffer, Mary; Swift, Suzette Chalifoux; Sharples family; Tourism; Vaux family; Whyte, Catharine Robb; Young, Julia

Notes: Includes bibliography and index; Partial contents: Includes excerpts from writings by Victorian and Edwardian era women describing their travel to the Canadian Rockies, including Lady Agnes Macdonald, Mrs. Arthur Spragge, The Countess of Aberdeen, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, Sara Jeanette Duncan (Mrs. Everard Cotes), Mrs. George Cran, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Includes poetry by Rhoda W. Edwards, Moira O'Neill, Lynda R. Woods, and Elizabeth Ferguson; Includes Jasper's first lady [act two] / Elsie Park Gowan; Hunter of Peace [prologue and act one, scene one] / Sharon Stearns

ISBN: 13:978-0-88864-466-4

Accession Number: 7638 (2 copies)

Call Number: 08.3 Sk3t; Copy 2 Reference Room Browser's Shelf

Collection: Archives Library

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This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta

Call Number: G512 S55

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Responsibility: edited by Colleen Skidmore

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 295p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Mountain cairns : a series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Subjects: Adams, Mollie; Glacier House; Engelhard, Georgia Cromwell; Henshaw, Julia W.; Poetry; Schaffer, Mary; Swift, Suzette Chalifoux; Sharples family; Tourism; Vaux family; Whyte, Catharine Robb; Young, Julia

Notes: Includes bibliography and index; Partial contents: Includes excerpts from writings by Victorian and Edwardian era women describing their travel to the Canadian Rockies, including Lady Agnes Macdonald, Mrs. Arthur Spragge, The Countess of Aberdeen, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, Sara Jeanette Duncan (Mrs. Everard Cotes), Mrs. George Cran, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Includes poetry by Rhoda W. Edwards, Moira O'Neill, Lynda R. Woods, and Elizabeth Ferguson; Includes Jasper's first lady [act two] / Elsie Park Gowan; Hunter of Peace [prologue and act one, scene one] / Sharon Stearns

ISBN: 13:978-0-88864-466-4

Accession Number: AC612

Call Number: G512 S55

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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