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Northern exposures : photographing and filming the Canadian north, 1920-45 / Peter Geller.

Title
Northern exposures : photographing and filming the Canadian north, 1920-45 / Peter Geller.
Author
Geller, Peter G. (Peter Geoffrey), 1963-
Publication
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2004.

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Description
xviii, 258 p., [1] p. of plate : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Northern Exposures looks at the photographic and film practice of the three major colonial institutions in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic in the first half of the twentieth century - the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson?s Bay Company... through the work of federal government special investigator Major Lachlin T. Burwash, first Bishop of the Arctic Archibald Lang Fleming, The Beaver magazine editor and publicity expert Douglas MacKay, and photographer-filmmaker-author Richard Finnie"--Back cover.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Electronic books
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-242), filmography (p. 243-246) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-242) and index.
ISBN
0774809272 (bound) :
OCLC
  • 55596009
  • SCSB-11010329
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library