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  1. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    I did not know that. A stitched-together photo of Northern in 1930. (from here: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/access-city-information-or-records/city-of-toronto-archives/whats-online/web-exhibits/a-stitch-in-time/)
  2. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    Bare asses (with viaduct in background)
  3. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    1924 Goad's Fire Insurance Plans (also online at Toronto Archives website :)
  4. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    Here's where you can find various Toronto City Directories online https://wherethestorytakesme.ca/toronto-city-directories/
  5. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    Don't go to City Hall -the Archives are on Spadina Road just south of Davenport. To find a photo by the indexed numbers on the pics - use Advanced Search: If searching by Fonds - don't check 'scanned photographs only' This photo is part of the James Salmon fonds, so there are a lot of them. So...
  6. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    That's one of the photos on the Sidewalk Labs site I corrected today - they had it at the intersection of Don Mills and Wynford Drive.o_O Part of the problem is improper labelling of the Archives photos - but this one was labelled 'King Street - Queen Street (Intersection west from Don Bridge)'
  7. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Langstaff Jail Farm http://edrh.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca/default.asp?ID=s11.13
  8. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    That's a colourized photo, by Canadian Colour. His logo is on it. http://www.canadiancolour.ca/ She is Irene Ayers, Miss Toronto 1946 : Irene Ayers wears TTC guide uniform, and poses with tickets in hand at her home, 591 Rhodes Avenue. It was taken by Alexandra Studios - here's the original.
  9. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    I was on the Archives Flickr page yesterday, where they have this photo of the weigh house ca 1955
  10. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    According to Toronto Archives: First one is one of a series take prior to extension of subway north of Eglinton - 1968 Second one is between 1982-1986 Last one some time in the 1980s (but has to be after the second one) Interesting thing for me was that a 4 storey office building just east of...
  11. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    More iterations of the TD Bank at Yonge and Eglinton.
  12. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    I agree. The bank pictured in the 'north' photo is the (Toronto) Dominion Bank on the north east corner of Yonge and Eglinton which means the photo is facing south.
  13. Anna

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    I think it is the Eglinton Yard looking north, not west, with the building in the background being the Toronto Hydro Eglinton substation at the corner of Duplex and Eglinton.
  14. Anna

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Even older Pottery Road ran parallel to the railway tracks - from the foot of what is now Bayview Heights Drive 1947 aerial

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