Nineteenth-Century Canadian Photographically Illustrated Books Online: Examining and Sharing a Research Collection as Data
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Résumé
This thesis investigates the artistic, economic, and social history of original photographs as book illustrations in Canada, from their first appearance in Samuel McLaughlin’s monthly periodical, The Photographic Portfolio: A Monthly View of Canadian Scenes and Scenery (Quebec: S. McLaughlin, 1858-1860), through the waning years of the nineteenth century when halftones and other forms of photomechanical prints surpassed them as more commercially viable options. The accompanying digital collection at Nineteenth-Century Canadian Photographically Illustrated Books (https://canadianphotographicallyillustratedbooks.com) brings to light hundreds of photographs found in books which survive in public collections today, primarily in Ontario and Quebec, and documents the often surprising differences between book copies as well as relationships to other nineteenth-century media. Thesis chapters present case studies of McLaughlin’s Portfolio and James MacPherson LeMoine’s Maple Leaves: Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Quebec: Hunter, Rose & Co., 1865) which explore, in turn, how authors and publishers used photographs and how readers engaged with them. The first chapter looks at the disconnect between the fraught economics of book production and the emerging popular discourse around photographically illustrated books as affordable and desirable artistic goods. By exploring the commercial challenges of publishing in a small, local market, I demonstrate that photographic books were probably far from profitable ventures. Their value was rather in their ability to fulfill the popular interest in illustration, supplying a developing local industry with assuredly high-quality goods. The second chapter explores the previously unknown trend of extra-illustrating with photographs in Canadian books, bringing to light a practice that has not received much attention in the history of photography generally and which offers a new mechanism for understanding the audience for photographic illustration as participants in meaning-making. A critical component of the thesis is the digital collection, which makes available the data that allowed for unique discoveries about the Canadian market for photographically illustrated books, such as the presence of extra-illustrators in the creation of Maple Leaves. The thesis concludes with a reflection on how to present humanities research collections as reusable research data by considering emerging practices from the cultural heritage sector around ‘collections as data.’
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Prédiction distillée sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.
Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,002 | 0,002 |
| Science ouverte | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,001 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule tête enseignante, pas un consensus.
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