Item is a mounted albumen photographs depicting a city street and street cars. Gold text below photograph reads, 'With the Compliments of the Season'. Inscription in pencil on back of mount reads, 'Top of Collins St. E.' and '6.00'
Glossy print with white border. Depicts Union Station in Washington D.C. Many cars and pedestrians, as well as a large reflecting pool, are visible in foreground. No inscriptions.
Lantern slide, glass slide in wood frame. Image area is circular as is the hole in the wood frame. Illustration is hand painted onto the glass. Handwritten on sticker "Ireland - Sackville Street, Dublin." Illustration of a busy street scene with people, horse & buggies, streetcar with buildings on either side of the street, and the Nelson's Pillar at the end of the street. Cobblestone street, men in top hats. Please note, date is based on the knowledge that since 1924, the street has been known as O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare. The Nelson's Pillar was erected in 1808 and destroyed by a bomb in 1966. It is a granite pillar topped by a statue of Horatio, Lord Nelson.
Reprints of historical photographs of streetcars, including the Bay Streetcar (May 1, 1937) and streetcar track construction at Bay and Wellington streets (May 8, 1925). A streetcar enters the St. Clair West subway station (date unknown). View of Rosedale Valley subway bridge by John B. Parkin & Associates. Interiors of Dupont subway station (January 26, 1978), Saint Clair West station (date unknown), and Yorkdale subway station (date unknown). View of Yorkdale subway station (date unknown).
Photographs of the exterior of a trolley streetcar built into a glass enclosure on the side of a building, operated as a restaurant. A TTC streetar can be seen exiting the station adjacent to the restaurant in one of the photographs. An article on the interior decoration was published in the May 1980 issue of Canadian Architect magazine.
Reproduction from the National Photography Collection of the Public Archives Canada. View of Sparks Street showing streetcards, horse and carriages ca. 1900.
Interior view of a restaurant with a streetcar renovated for use in seating customers. The side of the streetcar is labeled "Winnipeg Electric Street Railway", and a sign on top gives the route as "Portage Ave."
Metal rail spike, presumably from Yonge St. tracks, north of Wellesley St. The tracks were buried when the subway was built in the 1950s but dug up in 1980.