Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →
Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →
Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →
Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →
Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →
This photo from June, 1894, shows John Campbell Gordon, Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair, moments before the laying the cornerstone for the east wing of Trinity College (1852-1925); it was taken on the north side of Queen St. West, between Gore Vale Ave. & Crawford St., in Toronto. Lord Aberdeen Read More →
Creator: Unidentified Location: St. Helena Island, Queensland Description: The tailors’ workshop where prison uniforms, police uniforms and any other necessary sewing was done by the convicts. Notice the tailors on the side benches are all sitting cross-legged with the material to be sewn lying across their knees. This was the Read More →
The recent visit of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Consort of Queen Elizabeth II, made us think of another royal visit, also in May. This is a photograph of the present Queen’s parents (George VI, King of England, and Elizabeth, his queen consort) attending the King’s Plate at the Read More →
A composite photograph taken in 1884, the Wanderer’s Bicycle Club is depicted in front of the Queen’s Park fountain (University Ave, Toronto). The Toronto Daily Mail described one of their trips to Hamilton, August 16, 1883: “As customary to this club, they wandered in small parties into that city, (…) Read More →
Soldiers from Toronto shipping out to fight in WWI. These young men are getting ready to catch a train on the old Grand Trunk Railway at the Exhibition Park station, in 1915. Many did not return. In the First World War alone, there were more than 37 million military and Read More →
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