Lost Foote Photos

Writing captions for Imagining Winnipeg - the book's proper title, as opposed to my usual "Foote book" - was a two week projec...

I hate offering yet another excuse as to why the blog has gone dormant, especially as we've got a storehouse of such very good material ...

I think I remember the night the Leland Hotel burned down. Or at least the morning after. But all of the fires, all of the buildings los...

I find Foote’s photographs both very familiar and very strange. They are familiar in large part because of how frequently they have been use...

On the end of March, Dale Barbour wrote a post about one of Foote’s many photos of the beaches and resorts north of Winnipeg on Lake Manito...

Hey all, Cheryl Miki, UMP's Sales & Marketing Supervisor, attended the spring sales conference in Toronto this past week. At this ...

So why did a bunch of gentlemen involved in the construction trade call themselves The Mechanic’s Club? Joanna Effler has an answer for th...

Winnipeg's Johanna Effler and her mother, M. Marie McGrath (nee Bolton), compiled this article about their relative, which includes seve...

Lewis Benjamin Foote’s photographs are a time capsule of early Winnipeg. They are quiet, strong photos, like silent movies. These are pi...

Hey all, we're busily launching this spring's titles and working on next fall's titles, but I've got two pieces of Foote-rel...

Foote 157 is not really my favourite. I don’t actually have one. Perhaps it is that I have seen the photographs too many times. As an archiv...

This photo arrived via email from Cartwright, MB: "Hello! I read about your book in in the Free Press and was sure I'd seen Foote o...

Winnipeg's Fred Knight emailed this photo of a group of bike-riding girls on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature on Broadway in late...

Oh, Orlina, you have been loved, haven’t you? I was drawn to this picture because I am so in love with old houses right now. I want one so b...

Winnipeg seems to be enjoying a sort of renaissance these days. Construction projects downtown spurred on by the return of the Winnipeg Jets...

I was drawn to this picture because the crowd is so delightfully relaxed. So often in beach pictures from the turn of the century, it seems ...

1914 Soldier Saying Goodbye to his Mother has become one of my favourites for all the things I don’t know about it. It remains a puzzle tha...

I was excited when this email arrived in my inbox from a vintage postcard collector: "I just acquired this Foote & James portrait p...

My grandfather, like these men, was a railway worker and a musician - a machinist and a violinist, to be precise. But you won’t find him in ...

Hey all, This is just a brief note to say that production for the University of Manitoba Press' spring titles has recently put a crimp i...