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Tips for Tourists
Artist
Arthur George Racey
(1870-1941)
SignatureL.r., A. G. Racey
InscriptionsWritten in pencil on verso: Our nationalization canyon with its "bottomless deficit" rift fills tourists with wonder. The custom of the country's government in annually dumping the peoples taxes into this rift where they are lost forever makes visitors gasp with amazement. A.R.?
Date
1920-1930
Medium / Technique
Ink and graphite
Dimensions53.4 x 37 cm
Origin
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Object NumberM2005.23.341
DivisionDocumentary Art
CollectionMcCord
CreditGift of Susan Racey Godber and Margaret Racey Stavert
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1925
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American tourists on the Little French River, ON, about 1935
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Picturesque Montreal, or, The Tourist’s Souvenir of a Visit to the Commercial Metropolis of the Dominion of Canada
Witness Publishing House
1876
M2004.97.7
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