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Advertisement to support striking women workers.

Notice advertising rally to support women workers.

This leather binding sports a large floral ornament blind-tooled into the centre of each cover, with double borders in gilt. Although printed in Madrid, this item contains the stamp of a bookseller in “Habana”. Is this perhaps a Cuban binding.

Blue and black poster with white text and a picture of a volcano made of several heads with red hats.

The photograph is a rear view of a woman, seemingly with osteoporosis, looking out from the edge of a sidewalk.

This collection of poetry from Québec poet, musician and actor Michel Garneau, is printed on loose leaves of paper and illustrated by Maureen Maxwell. All is housed in a leather “case” of a mosaic design, executed by artist Lise Rodrigue. This is…

This shows us a variation in the rendering of roman numerals. Using a format scholar Paul Lewis calls “deep parenthesis”, an “I” flanked between by both a forward facing C and an upside down, backward facing C, would represent “1000”. And “I” before…

This is an example of paste paper, most specifically one generated with the “pull “(i.e. “pull-paper”) technique. A mixture of glue and colour pigments are applied with a brush to two sheets of paper that are imposed upon each other. Before the glue…

Large red and white button with design of balancing scales, in black lettering: "Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value".

A laminated notice outlining the events that led to the enactment of equality rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.