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Popular from the 1880s through the 1930s, souvenir albums were used to boost tourism, settlement, and investment in numerous Canadian towns and cities. Containing scenic photography and of-interest statistics, these albums illustrate a period of rapid growth in the region and tell part of the story about how the industrial city of Berlin became Kitchener.

http://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-68ea1b6b-30a9-4f77-8e8d-0b3553f96aa5/local-souvenir-albums

Local Souvenir Albums

The Women's domestic work advertisements collection consists of promotional items, primarily from the Victorian era, showing the role of women in the household and the defining gender roles of the period.

http://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-0bbc3cb7-83b2-4dcd-b187-ca824d4a8ab5/womens-domestic-work-advertisements-collection

Women's domestic work advertisements collection

Ranging from westerns and hardboiled crime to science fiction, fantasy and exploitation, the covers for our pulp fiction holdings reflect changing and emerging societal attitudes about topics such as race, sexuality and technology. Among the selection of pulp fiction covers included here are titles from the B.P. Nichol Library of Science Fiction, the Lesbian Literature Collection and the Black Experience Collection.

http://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-204bb1d6-4b73-4228-913c-9393ac790ec6/pulp-fiction-covers

Pulp fiction covers

The Kitchener-Waterloo Photographic Negative Collection consists of more than 2 million negatives taken between 1938 and 2001 by staff photographers at the Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

http://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-kwr/kitchener-waterloo-record-photographic-negative-collection?display=grid

Kitchener-Waterloo Photographic Negative Collection

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