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Artifact
Any element from the collections of a museum, which falls under that museum's mission to preserve and make better known these elements: objects (clothes, furniture, toys, etc.), images (photographs, paintings, engravings, etc.) or manuscripts (letters, diaries, etc.).
Web Folder
A selection of images saved on the Museum's Web site, which can be supplemented by comments, personal images, and by hyperlinks.
Material Culture
"All objects made or used by human beings, considered as a whole: tools, furniture, implements, buildings, etc." (Trans.; Québec, Department of Cultural Affairs, L'ethnologie au Québec, 1987).
Hyperlink
"A connection within the Web, that can be established if so desired, to link complementary data, wherever they may be located on the Internet" (Trans.; Québec, Office de la langue française, En ligne).
Sources
Documents (in a broad sense) that provide information about the past, allowing historians to establish and interpret facts. Sources can be divided into two categories: "primary" sources and "secondary" sources. Primary sources are more varied and include texts, images and objects. As to secondary sources, they are usually published texts.
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Anachronism
"An error in chronology; especially: a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other" (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, On-line).
Calamity
"An extraordinarily grave event marked by great loss and lasting distress and affliction." (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, On-line).
Debacle
"A tumultuous breakup of ice in a river." (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, On-line).
Industrialization
"A step in the economic development of a country characterized by the establishment of a wide variety of workshops and factories" (Trans.; Duchesne, Histoire du Québec et du Canada, 4e secondaire, Guide d'apprentissage, 1995).
Methods of Production
"The reunion of all industrial means required to set up the manufacturing of specific goods" (Trans.; Le Nouveau Petit Robert, 1993).
"Mobile" Photographer
The use of the dry plate technology relieved photographers from the obligation of developing glass plates immediately after taking a picture, and therefore from the need of having a dark room nearby. Developed in 1878, that technology would allow for portable cameras, heralding the dawn of the photography industry. (Newhall,The History of Photography, 1964).
Mount
"A horse, etc. provided for a person's riding" (Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, 1981).
Nostalgic
"Of nature of, caused by nostalgia, a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition" (Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, 1981).
Retail store
Store that "sell in small quantities directly to the ultimate consumer" (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, On-line).