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Library and Archives Canada has acquired through bequests, donations, and planned acquisition, over twenty-five million photographs illustrating Canadian reality, and certain aspects of the world in general. This search tool allows you to consult almost 400,000 descriptions of photographs, modern and old, as well as have access to some 41,000 digitized images on-line. This number (revised May 2006) will gradually increase.

Descriptions are written mainly in the language of the creator-donor, with most descriptions in English.