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La Vénérable Marie de l'Incarnation et son oeuvre dans le Nouveau Monde

1922 · [Québec : Action Sociale] · 13 pictures

A 1922 French-language commemorative book published in Québec by Action Sociale, about the Venerable Marie de l'Incarnation and her Ursuline work in the New World, aimed at Catholic readers. Its four photographs show the interiors of an Ursuline convent in halftone: a parlour with harps and a central chair, a long whitewashed corridor, a dining hall with a wooden table and chairs, and a sideways view of an ornate church altar. A designer could take the sober halftone interiors, the symmetrical arcades, and the muted wood-and-plaster palette as references for quiet period architecture.

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