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Burndy Canada Ltd. office & plant : Scarborough

The industrial building and offices has a steel frame, bolted in the factory area, and bolted and welded in the office area. The curtain wall of windows in the office area is accented by exposed exterior columns. This architectural detail (the columns) was originally developed by the architects for a school building, to aid in the addition of a second storey. The building has concrete floors throughout and a steel roof deck.

Canadian Architect

Harbour Terrace, Queen's Quay

Photographs of the architect's models. This building was given an Award of Merit by the Governor General's Awards for Architecture in 1990, and an Award of Excellence by the Ontario Association of Architects Awards in 1988.

Applied Photography Ltd.

Vancouver, 2131 Riverside Drive / Kiyooka residence

Folder contains 6 b&w photographs of the Kiyooka residence in Vancouver, B.C. A residence for artist Roy Kenzie Kiyooka and his wife Monica Kiyooka. Winner ward for residential design 1971 from the Canadian Housing Design Council. The designer of the residence was Mrs. Monica Kiyooka.
Caption on verso: "A delightful house which takes full advantage of a forest-river orientation...an open, stepped, plan with soaring spaces."

Pullan, Selwyn

[Servant with tea service]

Item is a photograph adhered to cream-coloured card with gold letterpress. Text at bottom reads "L. L. Christmas/ 104 STOKE NEWINGTON Rd. N/ (OPPOSITE PRINCE GEORGE Rd.)". Photograph is of a maid holding a tray with a teacup and pots of cream and sugar. Studio backdrop with palm fronds. On verso of card, decorative gold stamp with floral motif and the photographer's name and address repeated, with the additional information: "Alexandra Studios" and "NEGATIVES KEPT EXTRA COPIES CAN ALWAYS/ BE HAD BY SENDING NAME."

Christmas, Lea Latimer

[Portrait of a man]

Item is an ambrotype photograph in a velvet-lined thermoplastic union case, showing a male sitter in front of a studio backdrop. The case was intended for use with 1/4 plate daguerreotypes, as indicated by the manufacturer's stamp on the inside back cover beneath the ambrotype plate: "Littlefield, Parsons & Co.,/ MANUFACTURERS OF/ Daguerrotype Cases./ L., P. & Co., are the sole/ Proprietors and only legal Manu-/ facturers of UNION CASES, with the/ Embracing Riveted Hinge./ Patented October 14, 1856,/ and April 21, 1857."

Littlefield, Parsons & Co.

Hunter in kayak

Small carving of a kayak with figure inserted. A float and a drinking container are adhered to the rear of the boat. A bone paddle and spear (removable) can be held by the figure.

Palliser, William

Theatre Program Collection

  • 2011.006
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1960] - 2010

Collection consists of theatre programs from Great Britain and Ireland, Broadway venues in New York, and from various theatres in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, including the Shaw and Stratford Festivals. Opera and symphony programmes are also included in this collection.

To browse the individual items in this series, click on the "View the list" link under the "See the sous-fonds, series or sub-series lists for this collection" title (to the right of the page).

Canadian Opera Company

First Edition Photobook Award

  • 2015.004
  • Collection
  • 2014-2023

Collection contains books created by the winners of the First Edition Book Award. The Award was established to honor 3rd year photography students who have made exceptional achievements in photobook production. It provides incentive for them to achieve early recognition that will have a lasting legacy in our collection.

As part of MPS507, a 3rd year Image Arts class in The Photographic Book, students are expected to conceive of and create their own book. This is, in part, related to work that has been completed in the co-requisite class, MPS506 - Photographic Production. These are both required courses for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Image Arts) Photography Studies Option.

The Award was established in 2015, enabling the Library to annually purchase the top five books in the class, as judged by the professor, and the Special Collections Librarian. Books are judged at the year end exhibition of the books and evaluation is focused particularly on design, sequencing, and integration of images and text.

Winning books are catalogued in the TMU Library system, including a note about the award, and housed in Special Collections. Occasional exhibits are created to showcase the works.

2015 Winners:
Rebecca Zynomirski, Sheila's Tropical Vacation (Toronto: Rebecca Zynomirski, 2014). TR655.Z96 2014
Lodoe Laura Haines, Stateless / Photographs by Lodoe Laura, forward by Tashi Wangdi (Toronto: Lodoe Laura, 2014).
Evan Hutchinson, 43.7000 79.4000 (Toronto: Evan Hutchinson, 2014).
Lucy Lu, Memories of Nowhere : A book by Lucy Lu (Toronto: Lucy Lu, 2014).
Imogen Wallis-Mayer, An Ambiguous Form (Toronto, Imogen Wallis-Mayer, 2014).
Emily Pleasance, My Relative Life : A Mapping of Memories (Toronto, Emily Pleasance, 2014)
Kristina Smith, Orillia: A Photographic Exploration (Toronto, Kristina Smith, 2013).

2016 Winners:
Andrea Chartrand, Save As. (Toronto: Andrea Chartrand, 2015).
Kayla Blaze Kelley, Dear Dad. (Toronto: Kayla Blaze Kelley, 2015).
Mina Markovic, Komplikovani Identiteti. (Toronto: Mina Markovic, 2015).
Terence Reeves, Looking Outside Looking In. (Toronto: Terence Reeves, 2015).
Gabriel Steele, Jackson. (Toronto: Gabriel Steele, 2015).
Alia Youssef, Self-portraits of my Family in our Backyard. (Toronto: Alia Youssef, 2015).

2017 Winners:
Adrian Walton-Cordeiro – Comtesse De Bertren
Ailene Devries – Two Cities and a River
Fehn Foss – Remembering, Faring
Julia Garnet – Elements
Feline Gerhardt – About Mankind and the Attempt to Increase Significance
Warren Rynkun – The Yard

2018 Winers:
After Grapefruit, Clea Christakos-Gee
Untitled, Raelene Giffin
In Nocte, Rafaela Conde
Into the Water, Lisa McElroy
9869518588, Heather Rattray
Home and Glory, Kalen Huxhan
It’s Good Once You Get There, Hayley Wilsdon

2019 Winners
How to Run Away, Lucy Alguire
Istanbul, Neha Bokhari
Playful urban drifts : a set of instructions for the urban wanderer, Bahar Kamali
Cowboy, Austen Ambraska
Shallow Season, Ally Ambler
Overdressed, Jared Miller

2020 Winners
Metamorphosis by Julie Ng, 2019
Interplay of light by Jordana Petruccelli, 2019
Biotypes by Gabrielle Tyrie, 2019
Two minutes of Progress Avenue by Austin Wadell, 2019
The disposable Glitch series by Teagan Lopes, 2019
Surveillance culture by Yarden Haddie, 2019
The death of an industry, the death of a generation : the state of the Canadian auto industry by Samuel Toward, 2019

2021 Winners
My Mennonite Mother, by Sarah Bauman, 2020
No, You, by Freida Wang, 2020
You, the Light & Nothing Else, by Christina Oyawale, 2020
Right Here, Right Now, by Dein Squires-Rouse, 2020
Mapping Colour, by Abygail De Leon, 2020
Plant Kingdom, by Zongzhe Cai, 2020
Fag, by Tyler Da Silva, 2020
I Beg You To Have Patience, by Caeden Wigston, 2020

2022 Winners:
Back Book, by Pengxiang Zhou, 2021
Shrieking sisterhood, by Kayla Ward, 2021
The Paper, by Kayla Ward, 2021
Calm and Chaos, by Kay Nadjiwon, 2021
Rosemary and Thyme, by Katya Lina, 2021
Need me, by Peyton Keeler Cox, 2021
Meu Avo, by Andrew Moreno, 2021
Bring back ice to the lake, by Yixuan Mark Wang, 2021

2023 Winners:
Forget Me not by Jessica Berger, 2022
More Than Someone's Daughter : She is Someone by Kennedy Soong Bouchard, 2022
To us, my love by Alec Boyle, 2022
Nightmares by Bella Della Penna, 2022
Pockets of Haven by Rahim Perez-Anderson, 2022

"Five-a-Minute and a Million!"

Item is an article about the Phototeria, written by Frederick Griffin and published in the Toronto Star Weekly on April 14th, 1928.

Griffin, Frederick

"Slot machine makes perfect portraits"

Item is an article published in the Science and Invention magazine, in 1927. The article details the Photomaton, a photo booth similar to the Phototeria, invented by Anatol N. Josepho, and located at 1659 Broadway, in New York City.

Science and invention magazine

Ryerson Press Textual Records

Series contains records related to the publishing of books by the Ryerson Press company between 1902 and 1973. Documents include author agreements and contracts, memorandums of understanding, and some correspondence with authors.

The Ryerson Press

Ryerson Press Collection Books

Series contains books published by the Ryerson Press company between 1862 and 1973, as well as publishing catalogues. The series does not represent a full run of titles produced by the publisher during these dates.

The Ryerson Press

Lantern Slide Collection

  • 2017.017
  • Collection
  • 1820-1950

This collection consists of early optical devices commonly known as magic lanterns. The first report of the construction of a magic lantern is generally considered to be referring to the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1659. The lanterns in this collection are dated from the early 1800s until the mid 1900s and include large professional devices as well as consumer models and toy magic lanterns.

The collection also holds over 500 lantern slides on a wide range of subjects. The slides demonstrate different iterations of glass slide projection and the evolution from hand-painted imagery to photographic and mechanical slides.

For more information about the history of magic lantern projection, please see our blog post: https://library.ryerson.ca/asc/2017/10/new-exhibition-projecting-magic/

Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern

A black tin Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern with handle and crooked chimney.

Carpenter marketed his Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern as a consumer version of the famous Phantasmagoria lantern shows that simulated ghost and spirit projections during the late 1700 and early 1800s. The name is a misnomer since Phantasmagoria refers to a type of projection rather than a type of lantern. The handle on the lantern was meant to accompany a larger professional magic lantern show with a small, mobile projector, or for small scale uses.

Carpenter & Westley

Lampascope Boule

The Lampascope Boule is a circular magic lantern projector with a hole at the base. This consumer lantern was meant to be placed on top of an oil lamp for home use. Lampascope projectors were elaborately painted with bright colours. This lantern is very faded but has remnant of red on the lens, and blue on the chimney.

Auguste Lapierre

Biunial Magic Lantern

A large biunial mahogany and brass magic lantern. Biunial or double lens projectors have two separate optical systems that allow transition effects such as dissolves between slides.

Cinematograph

A hand-cranked 35 mm and small glass slide projector. This cinematograph was made after 1908 by the limited company Société Anonyme des Etablissements Demaria - Lapierre, when the two Lapierre brothers were obliged to amalgamate with the photographic manufacturer Jules Demaria. Cinematographs always had the ability to show loops, film strips from which the begin and end were glued together. For this purpose the upper reel was mounted above the apparatus on an extending bar. Longer films could also be showed but since there was not take-up reel the film would fall onto the floor or in a bag. The intermittent film transport was brought about by a rotating buckled rod that repeatedly struck the film down.

Auguste Lapierre

1994 Digital Records

This sub-series contains one digital file, the 1994 festival program guide titled "HOT DOCS NATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARDS FEBRUARY 24-27 1994 TORONTO.pdf"

1995 Digital Records

This sub-series contains one digital file, the 1995 festival program guide titled "HOT DOCS THE 1995 CANADIAN INDEPENDENT FILM CAUCUS NATIONAL DOCUMENTARY AWARDS.pdf"

1996 Digital Records

This sub-series contains one digital file, the 1996 festival program guide titled "THE CANADIAN INDEPENDENT FILM CAUCUS DOCUMENTARY AWWARDS HOT DOCS 96 MARCH 21-24 1996.pdf"

1997 Digital Records

This sub-series contains one digital file, the 1997 festival program guide titled "HOT DOCS 97 MARCH 19-23 1997 METROPOLITAN HOTEL TORONTO CANADA.pdf"

1998 Digital Records

This sub-series contains one digtial file, the 1998 festival program titled "5TH ANNUAL CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL AND AWARDS - HOT DOCS 98 MARCH 18-22 METRO.pdf"

1999 Digital Records

This sub-series contains one digital file, the 1999 festival program titled "CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - HOT DOCS MAY 5-9 1999 TORONTO, CANADA.pdf"

2000 Digital Records

This sub-series contains one digital file, the 2000 festival program guide titled "CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY [FILM] FESTIVAL - HOT DOCS MAY 1-7 2000 TORONTO.pdf"

2001 Digital Records

This sub-series contains one digital file, the 2001 festival program guide titled "CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - HOT DOCS APRIL 30 MAY 6 2001 TORONTO PROGRAMME.pdf"

Canadian community cookbook collection

  • 2021.08
  • Collection
  • 1888-2005

This collection contains Canadian cookbooks and textbooks with a focus on community created cookbooks, diet and nutrition cookbooks, high school textbooks, and food company cookbooks and pamphlets.

Cookbooks

Series contains published cookbooks, pamphlets, and magazines, including promotional recipe collections from food companies, community fundraising cookbooks, governmental publications, and textbooks. The books are catalogued and searchable on the library catalogue (https://library.torontomu.ca/).

Paul Christie Theatre Program Collection

  • 2021.12
  • Collection
  • 1952-2020

This collection consists of programs from theatre, opera, and symphony performances that the collector attended from 1952-2020. Most programs have the ticket stub tipped in, and some include newspaper reviews and clippings for the performances.

Nicholas M. and Marilyn A. Graver Photographic Publications Collection

  • F 2005.003
  • Fonds
  • 1893-2005

The collection consists of small pamphlets or periodicals issued by camera manufacturers to promote the sale of camera equipment or encourage the use of their films and apparatus. Most issues were published by the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY, but there are a few issues from other Kodak branches and other photographic companies. A couple of fiction stories and comic books on the topic of crime photography are included as well.

Many books on the history of photography were also part of the collection, catalogued in the Ryerson Library database: http://innopac.lib.ryerson.ca/search~S0/X?graver+collection&SORT=AX

A.W. Cluff & P.J. Cluff Architectural Firm

  • F 2006.003
  • Fonds
  • 1950-2006

This fonds contains published and grey-literature textual records collected by the architect Pamela Cluff and her firm “A.W. Cluff & P.J. Cluff Architects” and used as part of the firm's small reference library. The items in this collection have a strong subject focus on architecture and interior design for elderly and alternately-abled users.

Spira 19th and 20th century foreign language photography publications

  • F 2008.004
  • Collection
  • 1866-1975

The collection contains books and bound periodicals on the subject of photography. Subjects include instructional guides, process descriptions, art photography, early photographic chemistry and product catalogues. Some publications include tipped in photogrpahs. TThe primary language of the collection is German, with a few Spanish, Russian, Czech, and Japanese publications.
Periodicals include:
Allgemeine Photographische Zeitung (January 1924-December 1926)
Photofreund (1924)
Photofreund Jahrbuch (1924-1934)
Photographische Archiv (1866, 1871-1891)
Photographische Correspondenz (1878, 1889-1908, 1928, 1932, 1947-1951)

Spira, Jonathan

Leniniana Collection

  • F 2008.005
  • Collection
  • 1917-2003; predominant 1980-1990

The collection consists of more than 800 items featuring the image of Vladimir Ilych Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union. There is a variety of media, including paper, textile, bronze, alloy, gold, clay, wood, porcelain, stone as well as books, posters, postcards, and 35mm black and white film. The collection was assembled between 1989 and 2003 in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Vilnius and Kaliningrad. The items in the collection have been arranged in the following series: Documentary Films, Posters, Postcards, Books and Periodicals, Records, Pins, Bookplates, Paintings, Rugs and Embroidery, Postage Stamps, Notes, Coins and Commemorative Medals, Sculptures, Reliefs, Flags.

Canadian Architect magazine fonds

  • F 2009.002
  • Fonds
  • 1955-[ca. 1990]

The archive contains thousands of negatives and photographs taken for publication in Canadian Architect magazine. As announced in the magazine's inaugural issue, Canadian Architect reviewed and documented both public and private structures, including churches, homes, businesses, airports, government offices and public spaces. The subjects of the photographs are generally modern Canadian structures, but images of some International sites and early 20th century Canadian buildings can be found in the collection as well. The collection also contains images of entries to the annual national design awards program sponsored by the magazine, the "Awards of Excellence." The collection also functions as a record of the changing nature of magazine production over the latter part of the 20th century. Canadian Architect was the first business publication in Canada to make engravings on site from original photographs, allowing for a rich selection of both prints and negatives. Instructions by editors and layout artists regarding their eventual printing in the magazine are often written directly on the prints, along with photographer's stamps, credit lines or captions.

Canadian Architect

Paddy Sampson fonds

  • F 2010.003
  • Fonds

Fonds consists of audio reels and video tapes (VHS, U-Matic and Betacam) with excerpts of interviews, television shows and specials intended for broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) English Television Network. The tapes were compiled by Paddy Sampson during the course of his employment with the CBC as a television producer.

Sampson, Paddy

WECA Comic Book Collection

  • F 2015.003
  • Collection
  • 1941-1946

Fonds consists of 181 comic books, produced in Canada, mainly during World War II, after the War Exchange Conservation Act (WECA), on December 2, 1940 classified American comics as "luxury goods" and limited their importation. These comics are also known as the "Canadian Whites" (due to the fact that the comics were black and white, except for the covers), the comics were published by Commercial Signs of Canada, which consisted of brothers Cyril (Cy) and Gene Bell, with investor John Ezrin. Publication began in the summer of 1941 and included titles Wow Comics, Active Comics, Dime Comics, and Joke Comics. '

In the winter of 1942, Commercial Signs absorbed another publishing house, Hillborough Studios, and renamed the company Bell Features. The acquisition brought the "Triumph Comics" title, and two more, Dizzy Don Detective (later retitled The Funny
Comics), and Commando Comics, soon followed.

When WECA was repealed in June of 1944 and American comic books were once again available to Canadians, Bell Features attempted to remain competitive by expanding their market into the US and the UK, and by publishing some titles in colour. Due to a lack of available newsprint, however, the company shifted its focus on Canadian content and began reprinting American titles.

Source: Scanlon, Meaghan. (10 July, 2015). Written, Drawn and Printed in Canada ---- by Canadians!”
Bell Features, CanCon, and the Perception of Comics in Postwar Canada. Presentation for SHARP Montreal.

Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited

Hot Docs Fonds

  • F 2018.002
  • Fonds
  • 1994-2018

This Fonds consists of documentation and promotional materials produced for the annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, calendars and information related to the year-round programming at the Ted Rogers Hot Docs Cinema, and various administrative materials associated to the non-profit cultural organization.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Jack Layton fonds

  • F 404
  • Fonds
  • 1906-2011

This fonds contains a collection of published materials, audio visual items, textual records, photographs, electronic resources, and artifacts.

Layton, Jack

Old campus

Photograph of unidentified buildings on the Ryerson campus. Large trees stand by the buildings. People are in the background on the left side and cars are on the right.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

South East edge of Howard Kerr Hall

Large tree standing in front of the end of Howard Kerr Hall (south-east corner). Edge of Ryerson Hall (Normal School) can be seen on the left side of the photograph as well as the Egerton Ryerson statue.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Soccer game

Soccer players on the field. In the foreground is a man in a striped jersey. The men's soccer team was called the Zebras because of the gold and navy blue striping of their jerseys.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

South campus buildings

Two south buildings as connected to Ryerson Hall structure. On right side of photo is the end of Unit II construction of what would be named Howard Kerr Hall.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Old campus building and demolition

Left side of photograph shows part of the old Normal School building. on the right is the skeleton of a building that is being demolished to make way for Howard Kerr Hall.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

South campus buildings

South east section of old Normal School buildings. Construction debris can be seen in the foreground and a small piece of Howard Kerr Hall on the left in the background as well.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Building skeleton after demolition

Metal skeleton of a building during the demolition process. Piles of debris, including stacks of old doors and windows, can be seen throughout the site.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Building skeleton after demolition

Metal skeleton of building being torn down on the north west corner of the lot. Gorrie's Chevrolet signs can be seen on the far right side of the photo. Gorries Chevrolet was located on Gerrard Street.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

North edge of Ryerson property

Site of demolished building. Vacant lot with piles of wood and stacks of windows. Northern perimeter fence and treeline still in tact. Gorries Used car sign on Gerrard St. can be seen in the left corner of photo. Photographer indicates that this lot was the site of a former cafe on campus.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

North edge of Ryerson property

Vacant lot after building demolition. Piles of cinderblock, wood, and windows are left on site. North perimeter fence and trees are still intact. Gorries used car dealership is visible across Gerrard St. on the left side of the photo. Lot was former site of an on campus cafe, according to the photographer.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

North edge of Ryerson property

Vacant lot full of left over pieces of building after demolition on north end of campus. The Gorrie's Chevrolet building is clearly visible in the background through trees and fence.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Heating plant building

Remains of heating plant building and smoke stack. Scaffolding visible on the left side of the photograph.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Home Economics "Dream House"

Exterior photograph of the Home Economics "Dream House". The house was a live-in residence for the Home Economics teacher and her family with students in the program. The house was previously the residence for the principal of the Toronto Normal School.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Middle building on east side.

Middle building in the Ryerson Hall complex of structures that made up the Normal School campus. Building faces east towards Church Street.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Guard House

Exterior view of single story building with cars and trees in front of it. Marked as the Corp. of Comm's guard house - which is a layover from when Ryerson was R.C.A.F. training school no. 6 in the 1940's.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Guard House

Exterior view of single story building with trees and gardens in front of it. Marked as the Corp. of Comm's guard house - which is a layover from when Ryerson was R.C.A.F. training school no. 6 in the 1940's.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

Middle East building

Exterior view of a 2-story brick building that would have run parallel to Church Street. Building was part of the old Normal School complex of buildings that were demolished to make way for Howard Kerr Hall.

Horney, Charles Roy, Mr.

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