Imagining Winnipeg: History Through the Photographs of L.B. Foote

by L B Foote and Esyllt W. Jones

Book Overview

In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city's pre-eminent commercial photographer. Documenting everything from royal visits to deep poverty, from the building of the landmark Fort Garry Hotel to the turmoil of the 1919 General Strike, Foote's photographs have come to be iconic representations of early Winnipeg life. They have been used to illustrate everything...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088755735X
• ISBN13: 9780887557354
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.4" x 10.4"