Constructing the State, Managing the Corporation, Transforming the Individual: Photography, Immigration and the Canadian National Railways, 1925–30

Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 162-192

  Osborne, Brian S ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003268260-10     Document Type: Chapter

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