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March 8, 2019

From Flickr: “Warmly celebrate the successful convention of the Fourth National People’s Congress” by chineseposters.net

Designer unknown (佚名) 1973 Warmly celebrate the successful convention of the Fourth National People’s Congress Relie qingzhu "sijie renda" shengli zhaokai (热烈庆祝"四届人大"胜利召开) Call nr.: BG E16/90 (IISH collection) More? See: chineseposters.net via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/Qv8QVW
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April 14, 2015

From Flickr: “Second annual dinner of the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

This is a menu for the second annual dinner of the Toronto Board of Trade, held in 1889. The 127th such dinner will take place on January 26, but it will not be held at the Horticultural Gardens. One of our city’s earliest parks, it’s now called Allan Gardens, after William Allan (1772-1853), a poor…
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April 2, 2015

From Flickr: “The Right Honorable Sir George Yonge, Bt.” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

The Right Honourable Sir George Yonge (1731–1812), Secretary at War, Knight of the Bath, One of his Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council—the man after whom Yonge Street was named was a Baronet, a member of the British Parliament and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. He was the fifth baronet in his line but,…
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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt

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