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Free Farms for the Million

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

ca. 1890

Reference:

Accession number: 1996-063 DAP

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2943516

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Canada. Department of the Interior

Free Farms for the Million
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Date(s):

ca. 1890

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher:

Government of Canada

Extent:

1 Estampe : lithograph
Support 74.000 x 52.000 cm

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See C-063478 for another copy of this poster; note added inscription, b.: The Canadian Pacific Railway / Great Wheat Fields...; GARDD ref. no. [found on negative jacket] ref. no. RG 15, vol. 683, file 358. (Note NAL catalogue card ref. no.: RG 15, B 1(a), vol. 208, file 321252)., See also C-063482 for another copy of this poster; note added inscription: Dominion Line, Royal mail steamships... ; GARDD ref. no. [found on negative jacket] RG 15, vol. 683, file 321252. This image has been published in Douglas A. Fairbairn & Graham L. Brown "A Nation Beckons: Canada 1896-1914" p. 2, and "Illustrated History of Canada" published by Lester Publishing., Originating from the National Archives Library, this collection was transferred to the National Library of Canada in 1995, then was transferred back to the National Archives of Canada.

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Artist: Unknown

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See CD for unverified location information.
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Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Acres of Dreams : Settling the Canadian Pairies. Curators: Jeffrey Murray and Krista Cook, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec, 2005.10.28 - 2006.01.30.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: In the print, t.: FREE FARMS FOR THE MILLION ; [on the image] t.: DOMINION / OF / CANADA ; [on the image] b. t.: FREE FARMS OF 160 ACRES / MANITOBA, CANADIAN NORTH-WEST AND BRITISH COLUMBIA... (partial)

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poster

Source:

Private

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123-040632-8
1996-063 DAP
95-246
R190
RG15

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1996-063 DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Researchers must be accompanied by an art archivist.

Copy negative [1996-063] C-095320

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1996-63
Copyright: Expired

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