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Street cleaning photographs

subseries1913-1949Fonds 200 > Series 372 > Subseries 70

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City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
Dates
1913-1949 (indexed as 1913–1949)
Level
subseries
Extent
ca. 588 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm and smaller; ca. 588 photographs : b&w negatives ; 13 x 18 cm and smaller
Scope & content
Subseries consists of images of buildings and equipment associated with waste management and the maintenance of clean streets during the first half of the twentieth century.Photographs provide views of the following waste management facilities: the Don Incinerator and Destructor, the Wellington St. Destructor, the Island Incinerator, the Symes Rd. Incinerator, Destructor, and Ash Building, the Willowdale dump, the Woodville dump, the Pendrith Ave. city dump, and the Keele St. city dump. Also pictured are vehicles and equipment used for collecting waste (e.g., horse-drawn and mechanized garbage collection vehicles, flushers, waste paper cabinets, auto eductors) and for cleaning and clearing streets (e.g., sprinkler trucks, snow removal equipment).Given the City's reliance on horse-powered street cleaning vehicles during much of the period covered by this subseries, there are numerous photographs of horses, horse shows, cattle markets, and stables (i.e., Lansdowne Ave. stables, Western stables, Northern stables, the old and new Eastern stables, Coxwell Ave. stables, Keele St. stables, Weston stables).Photographs are arranged chronologically by date.
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Subjects
Toronto (Ont.). Dept. of Works; ROADS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; GARBAGE COLLECTION; SNOW REMOVAL; CARTS
Harvested
2026-10-22T05:56:04Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto
Original metadata as harvested (toronto)