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Street scene, Yonge Street
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Street scene, Yonge Street

1 imageFonds 620 > Item 1053

Held by
City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
Dates
1993 (indexed as 1993)
Level
item
In the picture
AdvertisingCarCigaretteCityCrowdDowntownManPedestrianPostcardRainShopShop SignShoppingSidewalkSignSkyscraperStreetStreetscapeTobaccoWet StreetTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Location
  • Yonge St · street · confidence 35% · street · found as “Yonge Street”
Access & use
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Creator
Avard Woolaver
Extent
1 photograph : b&w, JPG
Genre / form
Photographs - electronic
Format
Photograph
What the image shows
A black and white street photograph on a city sidewalk shows a cardboard sandwich-board sign in the foreground, with handwritten marker lettering reading "CHEAP SMOKES / ICE COLD DRINKS" on the upper panel and "SPECIAL CHEAP SMOKES" on the lower panel. Beside it, an older man in glasses and a light striped shirt walks past, and a rack of postcards with a "POST CARDS 39¢" sign stands at a shop front on the left. Pedestrians and cars move along the wet street in the background, with tall buildings and signage lining the road.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Text in the image
POST CARDS39¢CHEAP SMOKESICE COLD DRINKSSPECIALNAVYRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
Harvested
2026-10-22T06:29:27Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto

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Original metadata

As harvested (toronto)