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Transporting Toronto

List of Works

Toronto Railway Company, Street Railway Map
August 1898
Original map and digital reproduction of verso
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 70

Pre-TTC horsecars and electrified streetcars
1891 - 1915
Original tickets (e.g., 1894 "Stelco", 1890s Toronto & Scarboro, TRC Tickets with Ads), transfers (e.g., 1893 horsecar) , and 1907 novelty postcard
City of Toronto Archives, Series 547, Subseries 1, File 1

Toronto Island ferries and amusements
1890s - 1920s
Original Toronto Ferry Company and amusement tickets, and postcard of Hanlan's Point amusement park
City of Toronto Archives, Series 547, Subseries 1, File 8

Trip to Bond Lake by radial railway
1893 - 1930
Original tickets, transfer, folder, and postcard; and Digital reproduction from original folder
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 70

"Everybody will ride the Massey-Harris Wheel"
September 1896
Toronto Lithographing Company
Original chromolithograph advertisement from Massey's Magazine Advertiser
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 70

"Hartford Single Tube Tires" advertisement
September 1896
Original advertisement in Massey's Magazine Advertiser
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 70

Mounted police
ca. 1900
Original photograph
Photographer unknown
City of Toronto Archives, Series 327, Subseries 1, File 8

Display tray: bicycles, cabs etc.
1907 - 1968
Original licenses, buttons, tags, and awards; and digital reproductions from original items
City of Toronto, Culture Division, Becker Tray #52

Ontario licence plate #1283
Between August 1906 and August 1908
Original rubber double-sided plate
City of Toronto, Culture Division

Automobile Road Map of Western Ontario
1899
Original map and covers
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 70

TTC: Toronto Transportation (1921-1953) and Toronto Transit Commission (1954- )
1921 - 1954
Original tickets, ticket books, and transfers: first TTC ticket (Peter Witt), first issue TTC transfer, ticket proofs, 1942 TTC ticket (PCC "red rocket"), World War II transfer, 1953 CNE "first subway" souvenir, misprinted tickets
City of Toronto Archives, Series 547, Subseries 1

Display tray: TTC
1891 - 1994
Original tickets, pins, buttons, and artifacts; and digital reproductions from original items
City of Toronto, Culture Division, Becker Tray #54

Subway firsts on the Yonge, University, Bloor -Danforth, and Spadina lines
1954, 1963, 1968, and 1978
Original token, transfer, button, and digital reproduction of headline
City of Toronto Archives, Series 547


 
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