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22 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
It’s twitter poll time! There has been recent interest in organizing a Canadian Military History Book Club online.

Sound vaguely interesting to you? Please answer the 3 questions below and share with your tweeps 😊
I’d love to join an online book club devoted to themes of Canadian Military History!
I am:
I’d join if the topic were expanded to themes of military history pertaining to other counties and across different timelines:
(It goes without saying that alcohol consumption will be encouraged if that’s your jam 🍻)

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23 Mar
A new #warphotos thread to brighten up your Tuesday and you’re going to want to bookmark this one. What follows is a step-by-step guide on how to find Canadian official First World War photographs. Image
(Photograph is: Lt. Charles Hemming “Chas” Hastings, CWRO Records Officer, ca. 1916-1919, unattributed, LAC MIKAN 3216622).
If you cast your mind back to May 1919, you can almost picture Canadian official war photographer William Rider-Rider escorting big heavy crates of glass-plate negatives across the Atlantic to Canada.
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11 Oct 20
One of the most iconic First World War photographs - Ivor Castle’s 'Over the Top' - turns 104 years old this month. Let’s explore the history of this extremely famous (yet misunderstood) photograph #thread #warphotos
(This #thread is derived from a talk I gave last year for Remembrance Day, but as we all know, this year looks a little different. Alas, the magic of the internet).
Over the Top, taken in October 1916, is actually a series of 4 photographs, and I’ve posted them all for you here (not sure why O-876, the final photograph in the series is digitized from a print, unlike O-873-875). These four belong to Library and Archives Canada.
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22 Jul 20
Today marks the 76th anniversary of the funeral of Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit (CFPU) cameraman, James "Jimmy" Campbell. Learn more about Jimmy below 👇🏼
Jimmy was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1906, but enlisted for the war from Vancouver. He had been working as a cameraman for Columbia Studios. Enlisting in Vancouver, he became a member of the @SeaforthOfC
The CFPU came together in 1941, and Jimmy was brought on as a cameraman. He later filmed in places like Sicily and Italy, and we see him here drinking wine with photographer Terry Rowe, an interpreter, and a local.
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17 Feb 20
Who's ready for a #thread on the materiality of photographs!? If it sounds thrilling, it's because it is
I recently purchased the above photographic print on eBay. When we look at the image, we see a very memorable: "Battle of Pilckem Ridge. Stretcher bearers struggle in mud up to their knees to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe," 1 August 1917, by Ernest Brooks.
However, when we look at the back (an essential, and honestly thrilling, pastime for all photo-historians) we see that this particular print was actually run in the Sunday Telegraph in 1966.
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16 Feb 19
A Saturday afternoon #thread on different historical photographic processes using, in honour of #BlackHistoryMonth, representations of African Americans. Saddle up kids! 👇🏿👇🏿
Daguerreotype is: [African American woman], ca. 1850, unattributed Daguerreotype with applied color, George Eastman Museum, 1969.0201.0020.
In 1839, two practical photographic processes were unveiled to the world: the Daguerreotype, developed by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (et al), and the Calotype, developed by Henry Fox Talbot.
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5 Feb 19
A quick break from #BlackHistoryMonth to talk about the #LunarNewYear - I did a similar search for Chinese representations in Canadian official war photographs, and found 10 results. Here's a little #thread about them -
(Photograph is: Chinese Labour Battalions in France celebrating the Chinese New Year on February 11, 1918. William Rider-Rider, LAC MIKAN 3396797) #warphotos
Rider-Rider took four additional photographs by that same title. They're LAC MIKAN 3396798 - 6801. This is neg # O-2447
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