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Collection Profiles, prepared by the curators at Ingenium, offer a glimpse into the national collections. They explain historical and social context of technologies and describe significant artifacts in areas such as agriculture, aviation, communication, graphic arts, household technologies, medicine, natural resources, sciences, and transportation. 

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Lights! Camera! Personality! The Karsh of Ottawa Collection Profile

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Anna Adamek
Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
May 24, 2018
In 1997 Jerry Fielder contacted the then-director of the Collection and Research Division of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Geoff Rider, with an offer of a donation. Each year the Museum receives several hundred offers from across Canada, yet Geoff immediately recognized that this was not an average proposal. Since 1979 Jerry had been a curator and an assistant to prominent Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh.
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From the Stove to the Electric Range: The Range Collection

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Louise Trottier
Ingenium
Apr 19, 2018
The Ingenium’s collection of ranges, includes a variety of appliances — fireboxes, table stoves, cooking plates, buffet stoves — and illustrates the main innovations made to these electric household cooking appliances between 1900 and 2000.
A nineteenth-century coach decorated with gold leaf and the Royal Coat of Arms
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Industrial Transfers and the Art of Decalcomania: Collection Profile

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Anna Adamek
Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 20, 2018
Industrial transfers were a form of decal commonly used in Canada, and around the world, replacing the expensive method of hand painting coats of arms, trademarks, signs, ornaments, letters and numbers on railway equipment, ships and industrial machinery.

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