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Bruce Braden Peel (1916–1998) was Chief Librarian at the University of Alberta from 1955 to 1982. The publication of his A Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces in 1956 was a landmark achievement that documents the early settlement and publishing history of western Canada, and his bibliography continues to grow today as an online database called "Peel's Prairie Provinces." Named to honour Peel's accomplishments, Bruce Peel Special Collections houses a world-class collection of more than 100,000 ...



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As a student of entomology, Ronald Madge spent his summers working for Canada’s Department of Agriculture on insect surveys in southern Canada, Alaska, and the Canadian high arctic. After completing his doctoral dissertation on the classification of the coleopteran genus  Lebia  at the University of Alberta, under the supervision of Dr George E. Ball, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Natural History Museum in London, Dr Madge was employed from 1965 to...
Bruce Peel Special Collections - Playbills
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From the late 1960s through the early 1980s, major accessions of English playbills were acquired by the University of Alberta Library. Purchased for study and research in the Department of Drama the collection of 800+ playbills document in detail casts, contents, dates and prices of the performances staged in the major playhouses of the United Kingdom from 1779 though 1949. The playbills also provide a wealth of information and opportunity for research in the study of history, graphic design...
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This important collection comprises over 2,500 volumes related to North and South American Indigenous peoples and cultures. The  University of Alberta Library  acquired the "Gregory S. Javitch Native Peoples of the New World Collection" in 1980, as half donation and half purchase. It was the finest private collection of its kind in Canada at the time, and it is a cornerstone of the holdings in  Bruce Peel Special Collections...
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The  Indigenous Photograph Collection   in   Bruce Peel Special Collections   profiles the lives of Indigenous peoples living in Western Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. University of Alberta Library is   open to collaborate . If you would like to contribute information about these photographs, please use this contribution  form  or leave a message at 780-492-5998 and we will fill out the form on your behalf. The...
46 p. : 30 cm
Topics: Riel, Louis, 1844-1885, Riel Rebellion, 1885
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by Salomon, Julian Harris, 1896-1987
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418 p. 23 cm
Topics: Indians of North America, Indians of North America -- Music, Indians of North America --...
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by Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940
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274 p., [35] p. of plates : 32 cm
Topic: Indians of North America
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by Canada. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Affairs of the Indians in Canada
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[280] p. ; 36 cm
Topics: Indians of North America -- Canada, Indians, Treatment of -- Canada
[10], 767, [45] p. : 35 cm. (fol.)
Topics: Invertebrates -- Early works to 1800, Insects -- Early works to 1800, Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works,...
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3 v. : 52 cm
Topics: Indians of North America -- History, Indians of North America -- Biography, Indians of North...
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vii, 152 p., 2 folded leaves of plates : 20 cm
Topic: Sericulture -- Germany -- Bavaria
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by Tinctor, Johann, approximately 1405-1469
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Burgundian ms
Topics: Witchcraft, Demonology, Magic
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The journey undertaken by this group is described in Cheadle and Milton’s book The Northwest Passage by Land: Being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific (1865)
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by Larned, W. T. (William Trowbridge)
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[93] p. : 24 cm
Topic: Indians of North America -- Folklore
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3 v. : 52 cm
Topics: Indians of North America -- History, Indians of North America -- Biography, Indians of North...
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by Green, Charles R. (Charles Ransley), 1845-1915
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[70] p., [17] leaves of plates : 22 cm
Topics: Sauk Indians, Fox Indians, Osage County (Kan.) -- History
Chief Little Fox, Cree, as identified in pencil on verso
141 p. : 19 cm
Topics: Gowanlock, Theresa, 1863-1899, Delaney, Theresa, 1849-1913, Indian captivities, Cree Indians
189 p. : 19 cm
Topics: Ants -- Juvenile literature, Natural history -- Juvenile literature
[22] p. : 16 cm
Topics: Butterflies -- Pictorial works, Moths -- Pictorial works
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1 sheet ; 50 x 71 cm
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by Eschscholtz, Johann Friedrich, 1793-1831
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v. : 24 cm
Topic: Entomology
104 p., [8] leaves of plates : 27 cm (4to)
Topic: Insects -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
The location is identified as Banff in a handwritten note on verso
(same as IP115). The subject is identified through a story in The Winnipeg Tribune, 5 May 1962
Brother of Star Blanket, c. 1930, as identified and dated in handwritten notes on verso of the frame (postcard PC002998 in Peel’s Prairie Provinces database). This is one of a set of six hand-coloured photographs
104 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Topic: Indians of North America -- Missions -- Sermons
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by Saeki, Yoshikado
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2, 2, 14, 11 leaves : 22 cm
Topics: Sericulture -- Japan, Silkworms -- Breeding -- Japan
[26] leaves : chiefly col. ill ; 25 cm
Topics: Insects -- Japan -- Pictorial works, Insects in art, Color prints, Japanese -- Edo period,...
xviii, 398 p., 3 leaves of plates (some folded) : 19 cm
Topics: Natural history -- Sweden, Västerbottens län (Sweden) -- Description and travel, Umeå Region...
1 leaf, [29] leaves of plates : 24 x 30 cm
Topics: Insects -- India, South, Butterflies -- India, South
With the exception of the phrase “Indian Mission School,” much of the handwriting on the verso is undecipherable
xiv, 498 p. : 24 cm
Topic: Iroquois Indians
ii, 189 p. ; 24 cm
Topics: Indians of North America, Indians of North America -- New York (State), Indians of North America --...
2, 88 p. : 29 cm
Topics: Insects -- India, Insects -- Pictorial works
xx, 244 p., [1] leaf of plates : 18 cm
Topics: Bee culture, Women beekeepers
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by Charing Cross Theatre
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The photograph is captioned “Souvenir of the North-West.”
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by G.A. Hanes & Co
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xiii, 91 p., [2] leaves of plates, [6] leaves of samples : 29 cm
Topics: Flies, Artificial, Fly tying, Fly casting
3 volumes (142 pages, XXX leaves of plates) : 34 cm (4to)
Topics: Insects -- Early works to 1800, Insects -- Pictorial works
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2 v. : 25 cm
Topic: Insects -- North America
xvii, 355 p., [51] leaves of plates : 24 cm
Topics: Neptune (Ship), Arctic regions, Northwest Territories -- Description and travel, Hudson Bay, Canada...
2 v., [1] leaf of plates 19 cm
Topic: Entomology
[4], 443, [4] p., [1], xxv leaves of plates : 26 cm (4to)
Topics: Plant anatomy, Flowers -- Anatomy, Fertilization of plants
[98] p., [50] leaves of plates : 30 cm. (4to)
Topic: Insects -- China
4 v. : 26 cm
Topics: Moths -- Great Britain, Moths -- Pictorial works
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3 v. : 52 cm
Topics: Indians of North America -- History, Indians of North America -- Biography, Indians of North...
3 v. : 52 cm
Topics: Indians of North America -- History, Indians of North America -- Biography, Indians of North...
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by Alfred Blyth
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by New Globe Theatre
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by Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
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XXVIII leaves of plates : 33 cm. (fol.)
Topics: Insects -- Pictorial works?, Insects -- Early works to 1800, Reptiles -- Pictorial works, Reptiles...
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by MacLean, John, 1851-1928
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351 p. : 19 cm
Topic: Indians of North America -- Canada
2 v., [70] leaves of plates : 31 cm (4to)
Topic: Orthoptera
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by United States. Office of Indian Affairs
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v. : 23 cm
Topics: Indians of North America -- Periodicals, Indians of North America -- Government relations --...
vi, 512 p. : 22 cm
Topic: Indians of North America
vii, 234 p. ; 24 cm
Topics: Cakchikel Indians, Guatemala -- History -- To 1821, Guatemala -- Antiquities
86, 9 p., 16 leaves of plates : 18 cm
Topic: Butterflies
35 p. ; 14 cm
Topics: Ten commandments, Penobscot language -- Texts
5 postcards : col. ; 15 x 9 cm + 1 sheet (4 p. ; 15 cm)
Topics: Butterflies -- Pictorial works, Butterflies -- Classification, Postcards, Butterflies --...
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Bruce Peel Special Collections - Playbills
by Gaiety Theatre
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by Theatre Royal, Hay-Market
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2 volumes (x, 362 pages, 56 unnumbered leaves of plates) : 26 cm
Topics: Lepidoptera -- United States, Nature prints -- Specimens
180 p., 2 leaves of plates : 21 cm
Topic: Insects