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Ivaan Kotulsky fonds

fonds[ca. 1969-2000]Fonds 427

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City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
Creator
Kotulsky, Ivaan, 1944-2008
Dates
[ca. 1969-2000] (indexed as 1969–2000)
Level
fonds
Extent
10,200 photographs
Scope & content
Fonds consists of photographs created by Ivaan Kotulsky. Most of the images document downtown Toronto street life in the 1990s, with some images dated earlier and some later. The images are mostly of street people and people on the streets. Included are images of street musicians, street vendors, panhandlers, people sitting on benches and on sidewalks, people lying and sleeping on the streets, the homeless, people shopping, shopkeepers, "squeegee kids" and Indigenous Canadians. Many specific individuals are photographed and rephotographed on several separate occasions. Most of the images were taken in the area around Kotulsky's jewellery store, Ivaan, Lord of the Rings, located at 692 Queen Street West, in the Queen Street West and Bathurst Street neighbourhood.Other areas documented include Queen Street West in general, between Spadina and Palmerston avenues, Queen Street East, between Yonge and Church streets, and the area at and around the intersection of Yonge and Dundas streets, before and after the creation of Dundas Square. Included are formal posed portraits, informal portraits and photographs of people in passing, with special emphasis on people congregating outside the building at the north-west corner of Queen Street West and Bathurst Street, while it was a bank, while it was an empty building, and after The Meeting Place, a program of St. Christopher House, opened at the location.Other areas of concentration in the portraiture include people with their children and people with their pet dogs. Also included are shots of storefronts, with a special emphasis on the block of Queen Street West between Bathurst Street and Palmerston Avenue, especially the Bovine Sex Club nightclub, Czehoski Delicatessen, the nightclub at the north-east corner of Queen Street West and Palmerston Avenue, known variously as the Volcano Room, the Boom Boom Room and Fat City, and Sanctuary: The Vampire Sex Bar nightclub. Also well documented in the photographs are the two sides to graffiti in an urban setting, the artistic wall pieces appearing in the alleys and laneways of the area and the tagging that appears in the doorways and elsewhere on the streets, and the daytime street life activities of members of the goth, punk and related hybrid sub-cultures of Toronto in the 1990s.
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Subjects
Queen St W (Toronto, Ont.); Yonge St (Toronto, Ont.); Queen St E (Toronto, Ont.); Dundas St E (Toronto, Ont.); St. Christopher House; HOMELESS PERSONS; ALCOHOLISM; URBAN ISSUES; YOUTH; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; STORES; FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN
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2026-10-18T23:07:38Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto
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