Bibliography

The images that compose the Notman Photographic Archives are regularly used as illustrations in scholarly studies that investigate various aspects of nineteenth-century history – for example, the histories of slavery, of westward colonialism or of railway technology. The Archives have also been the subject of numerous articles, theses, books and films on the histories of photography, art and visual culture, of which the following list offers a selection.

Bara, Jana. “Cody’s Wild West Show in Canada.” History of Photography, vol. 20, no. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 153–156.

______. “The image of Canada: Iconological Sources of Canadian Popular Symbolism: Nineteenth-century Souvenir Photographs.” PhD diss., Concordia University, Montreal, 1991.

______. “Through the Frosty Lens: William Notman and His Studio Props, 1861–1876.” History of Photography, vol. 12, no. 1 (January– March 1988), pp. 23–30.

Berton, Pierre. “A Priceless Photo Collection Finds a Home.” Maclean’s, vol. 69, no. 24 (1956), pp. 16–27.

Boone, Emilie. “The Likeness of Fugitivity: William Notman’s Carte-de-visite Portrait of John Anderson.” History of Photography, vol. 37, no. 2 (May 2013), pp. 221–234.

Cloutier, Nicole. “Les disciples de Daguerre à Québec, 1839–1855.” Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d’histoire de l’art canadien, vol. 5, no. 1 (1980), pp. 33–38.

Evoughlian, Sandra. “Envisioning New Futures: Portrait Photographs of Black Victorians in Montreal, 1861–1901.” MA thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 2018.

Greenhill, Ralph. Early Photography in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Greenhill, Ralph, and Andrew Birrell. Canadian Photography: 1839–1920. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1979.

Hall, Roger, Gordon Dodds and Stanley G. Triggs. The World of William Notman: The Nineteenth Century through a Master Lens. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993.

Harper, J. Russell, and Stanley G. Triggs. Portrait of a Period: A Collection of Notman Photographs, 1856–1915. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1967.

Lavoie, Vincent. “From the Final Sleep to the First Steps: Postmortem Portraiture and Childhood and Amateur Photography.” In Healing the World’s Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century, edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden and George Weisz, pp. 282–294. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.

Lee, Anthony W. The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography: Encounters in Scotland, Canada and China. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.

Lerner, Loren. “William Notman’s Home Library: Discovering Underlying Meaning in the Portrait Photograph.” In Collecting Knowledge: New Dialogues on McCord Museum Collections/À la recherche du savoir : nouveaux échanges sur les collections du Musée McCord, edited by Joanne Burgess, Cynthia Cooper, Céline Widmer and Natasha Zwarich, pp. 85–99. Montreal: Éditions MultiMondes, 2015.

______. “William Notman’s Portrait Photographs of Girls Reading from the 1860s to 1880s: A Pictorial Analysis Based on Contemporary Writings.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada/Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada, vol. 47, no. 1 (2009), pp. 45–73.

______. “William Notman’s Portrait Photographs of the Wealthy English-speaking Girls of Montreal: Representations of Informal Female Education in Relation to John Ruskin’s ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’ and Writings by and for Canadians from the 1850s to the 1890s.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation, vol. 21, no. 2 (2009), pp. 65–87.

Lessard, Michel. “Photographie et idéologie : W. McFarlane Notman (1857–1913).” Photo Sélection, vol. 6, no. 3 (August 1986), pp. 42–43, 55.

––––––. “Avec l’avènement du format cabinet… La maison Notman de Montréal (1856–1935) : un commerce d’art.” Photo Sélection, vol. 5, no. 6 (February 1986), pp. 37–39.

McNabb, Heather. “Visions of Canada: Photographs and History in a Museum, 1921–1967.” PhD diss., Concordia University, Montreal, 2015.

Morisset, Gérard. “Les pionniers de la photographie canadienne.” La Revue populaire, vol. 44, no. 9 (September 1951), pp. 14–15, 58, 60–63.

Newhall, Beaumont. “William Notman, 1826–1891.” Image: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House, vol. 4, no. 8 (November 1955), pp. 58–59.

Omhovère, Claire. “Documenting Disappearance: A Century of Canadian Photography, from William McFarlane Notman to Edward Burtynsky and Douglas Coupland.” In The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Paquet, Suzanne. “Transcontinental Lines: Migrating Images and the Production of Space.” Photoresearcher (Vienna, European Society for the History of Photography, Donau-Universtät Krems), no. 12 (May 2009), pp. 26–35.

Parsons, Sarah. “Domesticating Jefferson Davis: Family Photography and Postwar Confederate Visual Culture.” American Art, vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring 2023), pp. 82–105.

______. William Notman: Life and Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2014. E-book.

Parsons, Sarah, and Vanessa Nicholas. “Victorian Facebooks: Privacy Concerns at William Notman’s Studio.” History of Photography, vol. 46, no. 4 (November 2022), pp. 227–242.

Poulter, Gillian. Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840–85. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009.

Regimbald-Roy, Florence. “Elites and Scottishness in Montreal: Identity, Culture and the Self in Portrait Photography, 1860–1900.” MA thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 2021.

Reid, Dennis. “William Notman: St. Anne Falls, near Quebec.” Canadian Art, vol. 29, no. 4 (Winter 2013), pp. 88–89.

Rioux, Gilles. “Notman et les jeux/photomontages.” Vie des arts, vol. 21, no. 83 (Summer 1976), pp. 18–21.

Ruggles, Mervyn. “Paintings on a Photographic Base.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 24, no. 2 (Spring 1985), pp. 92–103.

Samson, Hélène. “Portrait of a Period de J. Russell Harper et Stanley Triggs (dir.), 1967. Le livre devrait conjuguer élégance et distinction.” In Livres québécois remarquables du XX^e siècle, edited by Claude Corbo, pp. 222–235. Montreal: Presses de l’Université du Québec and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales, 2012.

______. “Notman Photographic Archives.” In 90 Treasures, 90 Stories, 90 Years, edited by Nicole Vallières and Cynthia Cooper, pp. 172–211. Montreal: McCord Museum, 2011.

______. “Notman reçoit.” Continuité, no. 122 (Fall 2009), pp. 45–49.

Samson, Hélène, and Suzanne Sauvage, eds. Notman: A Visionary Photographer. Montreal and Paris: McCord Museum and Hazan, 2016.

Schwartz, Joan M. “Photographic Archives and the Idea of Nation: Images, Imaginings, and Imagined Community.” In Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation, edited by Costanza Caraffa and Tiziana Serena, pp. 17–40. Berlin, Munich and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.

______. “William Notman’s Hunting Photographs, 1866.” The Archivist/L’Archiviste, no. 117 (1998), pp. 20–29.

______. “Another Side of William Notman.” History of Photography, vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 1986), pp. 63–69.

Skidmore, Colleen. “Notman’s Printing Room.” In Rare Merit: Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940, pp. 59–81. Vancouver, UBC Press, 2022.

______. “Women in Photography at the Notman Studio, Montreal, 1856–1881.” PhD diss., University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1999.

______. “‘All That Is Interesting in the Canadas’: William Notman’s Maple Box Portfolio of Stereographic Views, 1860.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes, vol. 32, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998), pp. 69–90.

______. “Women Workers in Notman’s Studio: Young Ladies of the Printing Room.” History of Photography, vol. 20, no. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 122–128.

Thomas, Ann. Fact and Fiction: Canadian Painting and Photography, 1860–1900/Le réel et l’imaginaire : peinture et photographie canadiennes, 1860–1900. Montreal: McCord Museum, 1979.

Triggs, Stanley G. “The Notman Photographic Archives.” History of Photography, vol. 20, no. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 180–185.

______. The Composite Photographs of William Notman/Les photographies composites de William Notman. Montreal: McCord Museum of Canadian History, 1994.

______. William Notman’s Studio: The Canadian Picture/Le studio de William Notman : objectif Canada. Montreal: McCord Museum of Canadian History, 1992.

______. William Notman: The Stamp of a Studio. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario and The Coach House Press, 1985.

Triggs, Stanley G., Conrad Graham, Brian Young and Gilles Lauzon. Victoria Bridge: The Vital Link/Le pont Victoria : un lien vital. Montreal: McCord Museum of Canadian History, 1992.

Willock, David. “Pioneer Picture-Takers.” Weekend Picture Magazine, vol. 3, no. 52 (1953), pp. 14–16.

Wilson, Robert G. “Notman’s Maple Box.” Stereo World, vol. 23, no. 6 (January–February 1997), pp. 14–22.

______. “William Notman’s Stereo Perspective: The Victoria Bridge, Montreal.” History of Photography, vol. 20, no. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 108–112.

Audio/video content

Notman’s Canada: Photographer to the Queen. Documentary directed by Murray Battle. Toronto: PTV Productions Inc., in conjunction with the McCord Museum, 2004. Film, 60 min.

Notman’s World. Documentary short directed by Albert Kish. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1989. Film, 29 min.

William Notman of Montreal. Two-part radio documentary written by Elaine Kalman Naves. Ideas, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Montreal, 22 and 23 February 2012. Sound recording, 54 min. (each part).