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A red coat, smoking, demonstrating an image of the "true, strong, righteous" man

This contemporary photograph shows Duncanson’s work presented at a modern U.S. presidential inauguration. It demonstrates the enduring cultural resonance of his art and its reclaiming within major public institutions. However, also a reminder about…

Railway porters, such as F.R Blackburn, were known as conduits of culture, often coming into porting already educated and well-travelled. Their work took them through some of the busiest cultural corridors in North America. As they moved between…

Clement Virgo is the final Pioneering artist for Black directors in Canada. His presence would likely not be possible without the successful works of the other three directors. Clement Virgo however is commonly known for his directing for Rude 1995.…

This is a photograph taken by Yucho Chow (a very well known Chinese-descended photographer who operated a store in Vancouver Chinatown) in 1944 of a woman named Emily Aida and her grandchildren. Chinatowns were hubs of multiculturalism, whether as a…

This is a photograph of Mah James, a soldier of Chinese-descent in World War 2 who fought on the side of Canada, taken in 1942 by Yucho Chow. Photos like these are important parts of humanising the statistical costs of war, looking beyond the numbers…

This is another photograph taken by Yucho Chow, centering around an unidentified Black sailor from the US Navy in 1944. Here there is again the attempt to humanize minority soldiers, individualizing them by capturing their faces to present to a world…

This was an advertisement for an organization called Zami as seen on the front page of a queer-focused magazine called Xtra!. Zami was founded in 1984 by a Black lesbian feminist, Debbie Douglas, along with other members like Courtnay McFarlane.…

First Baseball card of Baseball player Jimmy Claxton while he played for the Oakland Oaks