Toronto Public Library has unveiled a massive new photo archive donated by Toronto Star. The archive, which consists of more than 1 million print photographs taken from 1900 to 1999, is held at the Toronto Reference Library and accessible to patrons as of July 7. A selection will be available via the library’s digital archive at a later date.
At a presentation this morning, special collections, archives, and digital archives manager Mary Rae Shantz said the donation is “a huge addition to TPL’s documentary art collection.” Prior to receiving the Toronto Star’s donation, the library’s collection held about 80,000 photographs, and Shantz says TPL is actively seeking to acquire more materials. Efforts to digitize the collection are ongoing and, so far, TPL has digitized approximately 144,000 photographs from the Toronto Star archive.
Starting tomorrow, several photos will be displayed on the Reference Library’s second floor.
Click through the slideshow for a selection from TPL’s new collection.
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- 1992: First baseman Joe Carter leads the celebration of the Blue Jays World Series win. Photo: Mike Slaughter.<br />
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- 1944: Streetcar overturned at Mutual St. and Queen St. in the great blizzard of 1944. One passenger was killed and 50 injured. Police and TTC workers spent 45 minutes breaking apart the streetcar with axes to free the victims. Photo: Alexandra Studio.
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- 1977: Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau caught in the rain at church services held on the front lawn of Parliament Hill. Photo: Jeff Goode. <br />
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- 1977: Clutching live chickens, a man crosses the road in Kensington Market. <br /> Photo: Graham Bezant.<br />
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- 1968: Boris Spremo won a National Newspaper Award for this photo of a construction worker balancing on a vertical beam of Toronto Dominion Centre building, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Spremo had to walk about 20 feet along a beam to get the proper angle for the shot. <br />
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- 1983: Customers line up outside Honest Ed's during the Christmas shopping season. <br /> Photo: Keith Beaty.
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- 1968: Urban writer and activist Jane Jacobs outside her home on Spadina Road just north of Bloor Street. Photo: Frank Lennon.<br />
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- 1966: Award-winning author, broadcaster, and social activist June Callwood at her typewriter. Photo: Norman James. <br /> <br />
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- 1915: First World War soldiers group in front of the recruiting office for the 74th and 75th battalions on the grounds of Toronto's Old City Hall. Photo: James and Sons. <br />
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