Camera in the Interior : 1858. H. L. Hime, Photographer. The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition

Hardcover, lacks dust jacket, 55 pages, oblong shaped, 9x10.5 in - 23x27 cm, B&W plates are micrograin duotone photo offset reproductions from original photographic prints.

Lacks dust jacket. Covers and spine lightly worn at edges. Ffep. and epigraph page stamped by previous owner, rear free endpaper bears slight divot. Short closed tear to margin of fold-out map.

Richard J. Huyda served as Head of Historical Photographs and Curator of the National Photography Collection at the Public Archives of Canada. In 1975 he published “Camera in the Interior” to showcase the work of Humphrey Lloyd Hime (1833-1903), a photographer who joined an 1858 expedition heading west from the Red River district between the Assiniboine and South Saskatchewan rivers. Forty-nine plates capture the expedition’s journey, the land west of Red River, the churches and trading posts erected by Europeans, and the area’s First Nations inhabitants. Huyda’s text recounts the 1858 expedition’s purpose and progress (with excerpts from Hime’s journals), offers a biography of Hime, and explains period photographic techniques. Hime’s landscape and portrait photography provides an early visual record of life and travel in the North-West. Includes a 31 x 48 cm (12 x 19 in) fold-out map.