Framing Canada
A Photographic Memory
Photos from the Library and Archives Canada (LAC), which holds approximately 30 million photographs from various public and private sources in its collection.
Representing the history of photography from its beginnings in the early 1840s to the present day, these images are an invaluable resource for the visual history of Canada and Canadians.
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
Woman drinking from a bottle
England, ca. 1914-1919
Photographer: unknown
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
“The Modern Farmer”
Toronto, Ontario, 1910
Photographer: Canada Post Card Co.
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
“Taking our Geese to market”
Toronto, Ontario, 1910
Photographer: Canada Post Card Co.
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
“I Finally got Him”
Toronto, Ontario, 1910
Photographer: Canada Post Card Co.
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
“Bathing beauties”
Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, ca. 1909
Photographer: Frank W. Micklethwaite
PA-161586
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
Lord Dundonald’s servants posing with their pets
Ottawa, Ontario, March 1904
Photographer: William James Topley
PA-208448
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
Portrait of two pigs
Location unknown, 1903
Photographer: John Cornwall Trotter
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
“Babes in the woods” — after
Ottawa, Ontario, March 1899
Photographer: Topley Studio
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
S.J. Dixon crossing Whirlpool Rapids on a wire cable
Niagara Falls, Ontario, July 17, 1891
Photographer: Charles Bierstadt
PA-143309
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The Weird and Wacky - Humour in Archival Photographs
“Babes in the woods” — before
Ottawa, Ontario, March 1899
Photographer: Topley Studio
PA-025928
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