Woman’s Day-May 1955 via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/sqoAge
Read More →Woman’s Day-May 1955 via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/sqmBH2
Read More →These women, two of whom are Lizzie Fisken (Mrs. George Ridout) and Bessie Baldwin, are posing in Reservoir Park just south of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, around 1880. That’s near Mt. Pleasant Rd. and St. Clair Ave. East. Creator: Unknown Date: 1880 Identifier: 956-1 Cab Format: Ephemera Rights: Public domain Courtesy: Read More →
Designer: Guan Zeju (关则驹) 1972, July Passing on a historical song along the banks of tenthousand springs and rivers Wan quanhe pan chuan shige (万泉河畔传史歌) Call nr.: BG E13/809 (Landsberger collection) More? See: chineseposters.net via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/qfqmR5
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 →
In the summer of 1893, it was hot and it was dry. There was a drought, and that September the City’s water intake pipe broke. This meant that water had to be brought in by wagon—people would go out into the street to meet the wagon and fill their buckets, Read More →
In the summer of 1893, it was hot and it was dry. There was a drought, and that September the City’s water intake pipe broke. This meant that water had to be brought in by wagon—people would go out into the street to meet the wagon and fill their buckets, Read More →
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