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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

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