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Larry
Becker Collection
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The Larry Becker Collection continues to grow. Materials
acquired since our 2002 exhibition, Collecting
Toronto: Through the Eyes of Larry Becker, include both additions
to existing series, such as Photographs (Series 327), Militaria
(Series 340), Prints, Drawings & Documentary Art (Series 496),
and Education (Series 600), as well as entirely new collecting areas,
such as Library and Rare Books (Series 654), Newspapers (Series
655), and Business Records (Series 682). Here are a few highlights.
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larger version of photos
Panorama
of Toronto Fire Ruins, 1904
Series 327, Subseries 5, File 27.
On
April 19–20, 1904, much of downtown Toronto was destroyed
by fire. Local photographer Alexander W. Galbraith documented
the disaster in many ways, including with this panoramic
view taken and copyrighted in 1904 by the Galbraith Photo
Co. of 245 Yonge Street.
Toronto
fire ruins
April 1904
City of Toronto Archives
Series 327, Subseries 5, File 27
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Soldiers’
Comforts Club, 1917-1919
Series 340, Subseries 6, File 49.
During World War I, groups of
young women formed “Soldiers’ Comfort Clubs”
across Canada to raise money, write letters, and send packages
of socks, biscuits, chocolates, and other “comforts”
to soldiers overseas. One such group was based at 29 Lonsdale
Road, Deer Park, Toronto. The record of their efforts –
a small leather binder containing thank you letters, greeting
cards, and a few photographs from their correspondents –
has survived, providing insight into both life on the homefront
and the battlefront.
Notebook
of a "Soldiers' Comfort Club"
1917-1919
City of Toronto Archives
Series 340, Subseries 6, File 49
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“King Street,
The Great Thoroughfare of Toronto,” 1880
Series 496, Subseries 1, File 36.
King Street East was early
Toronto’s most fashionable shopping street. This engraving,
based on a photograph taken by Notman and Fraser and published
in the July 31, 1880 issue of Canadian Illustrated News,
shows not only horse-drawn streetcars and fashionable ladies
bustling across the busy street, but also street kids hawking
newspapers, uniformed cops-on-an-elegant-beat, and carriage-trade
businesses such as the Notman and Fraser photographic studio.
“King Street, The Great Thoroughfare
of Toronto"
1880
City of Toronto Archives
Series 496, Subseries 1, File 36
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Victoria University: medical department
announcement, 1873
Series 600, Subseries 4, File 23.
In 1873, Victoria University
(then in Cobourg, Ontario) announced the establishment of
its new Medical Department at Toronto. This pamphlet features
a drawing of the faculty’s new building on Sackville
Street opposite the Toronto General Hospital on Gerrard
Street East in what is now known as Cabbagetown. The pamphlet
describes the courses and provides lists of faculty members
and graduates in medicine going back to the 1850s.
Victoria
University: Medical Department announcement,
front cover
1873
City of Toronto Archives
Series 600, Subseries 4, File 23
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