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Accidental Wilderness photographs
22 of 22 descriptions below digitizedFonds 1664 > Series 3021
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- City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
- Dates
- 2019-2020 (indexed as 2019–2020)
- Level
- series
- Scope & content
- Series consists of 22 colour photographic landscape prints taken by Robert Burley in Tommy Thompson Park in 2019 and 2020. The images depict the combination of natural and industrial elements of the landscapes of the Leslie Spit, including beaches with construction waste, wetlands, roads, grasslands, trees, Visitor Centre, and surrounding urban landscape. These images are a selection from a series of portfolios created to illustrate Walter H. Kehm's 2020 book Accidental Wilderness.Series also includes high resolution TIFF files of all 22 images, as well as a signed special edition copy of Accidental Wilderness.
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- Extent
- 22 photoprints : col. ; 41 x 51 cm; 22 photographs : col., TIFF ; 807 MB; 1 v.
- Subjects
- Tommy Thompson Park (Toronto, Ont.); NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE
- Harvested
- 2026-10-18T01:20:29Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto
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22 images · displayed from City of Toronto Archives's own server
Shoreline of the Endikement
Shoreline of Lighthouse Point
Wild flowers and grasses on the tip of the Endikement
The unassumed road on the Endikement
Shoreline of the Flats with brick and rebar constructions
Brick and concrete building remnants
Constructions of brick and rebar, Lighthouse Point
Cottonwood tree in rubble landform on the Endikement
Quaking aspen trees with metal parts
Hawthorn tree on the tip of the endikement
View of Toronto skyline from Lighthouse Point
Lighthouse Point
Triangle Pond
The Sunken Woods
The Toronto skyline from Embayment C
Black willow tree, The Neck
Cottonwood tree in concrete rubble, The Neck
Cottonwood tree in winter, The Neck
Woodland thicket, The Baselands
Black willow tree, The Baselands
Visitor centre, The Neck
Corner of Leslie Street and Unwin Avenue