Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/52442 Local call number: SP01466 Title: Portrait of two women – Jacksonville Date: ca. 1890 Physical descrip: 1 photograph – b&w – 4 x 6 in. Series Title: Jack Spottswood Collection Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Read More →
This picture shows the spectators at a baseball game held on then-vacant land in 1900. They stood (some sat) on the south side of Deforest Rd., between Kennedy and Runnymede in Toronto. The area is now a residential street. Check out your area in our Digital Archive (http://ift.tt/1Dn4XI8). Creator: Unknown Read More →
Hoping you all glide through Valentine’s day as gracefully as the two couples pictured here, from the in 1923. These members of the Toronto Skating Club are pictured in “Graceful Movements” (show), presented in their Dupont Street rink. At left: Mr. Melville Rogers and Miss Sydney Pepler. At right: Mr. Read More →
Published in The Globe on April 21, 1923: "SPRING-AT LAST! The beautiful weather of yesterday afternoon brought forth the artists from their indoor work, and the young folk are interested spectators. The picture was taken at the Grange." Sorta how I feel, too. Go out and enjoy after that long, Read More →
Persistent URL: http://ift.tt/1IMkvao Local call number: PR15044 Title: May queen and her court – Tallahassee Date: 1964 Physical descrip: 1 photonegative – b&w – 4 x 5 in. Series Title: Print Collections Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com Read More →
Time to hop to it, dust off our bonnets and really ENJOY the long weekend! We think this might be the Williams family, around 1915, at the Long Branch Theatorium near Lakeshore Blvd. Creator: Williams, Charles A., Canadian, fl. 1897-1962 Date: 1915 Identifier: 964-6-16 Format: Ephemera Rights: Public domain Courtesy: Read More →
Staff at the Toronto Mechanics’ Institute (Church and Adelaide) in 1895. Originally the York Mechanics’ Institute, it opened in the 1830 "for the mutual improvement of its members in useful scientific knowledge… A library of reference and circulation will be formed." Many years later, it became the Toronto Public Library. Read More →
“WHEN FIRE INVADED SCHOOL: Girls at Havergal Hall yesterday recovering some of their belongings after the fire was out.” This photo appeared on page 15 of The Globe on April 14, 1923. Havergal College, which opened at 350 Jarvis St. in 1894, was named for Frances Ridley Havergal, an early Read More →
School’s out! Kids are free to play in the park, or maybe in the garden… like Madeline and Mary Playter, pictured here, did in the 1920s. The Loyalist Playter family originally settled the area north of the Danforth between Broadview and Jackman avenues. While thier farmhouse can still be seen Read More →
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