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- Thomas Taylor collection
Thomas Taylor collection
fonds1912-1937Fonds 89
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Portrait of Thomas Taylor
Portrait of Thomas Taylor
Portrait of Mary Florence ("Minnie") Taylor
Concrete rubbing machine
Showing the men wirebrushing the concrete railing: note the dismantled forms laying in the foreground
Handrail complete on the Rosedale section
View showing the form work for the ends of Piers B, C, D, and E above the subway floor: note the steel posts with expanded metal wound around them
View of Pier C taken in 1915 showing the complicated forming required for the ends
View of Pier D in 1916 showing the nature of the form work required in the piers between the top of the granites and the subway floor
Trimming steel sheet piling with gas flame, Pier E
Bloor Street Viaduct - Don section - perspective study of Don Bridge
Bloor Street Viaduct - Don section - perspective study of main piers
Where
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- Held by
- City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
- Creator
- Taylor, Thomas, 1876-1936
- Dates
- 1912-1937 (indexed as 1912–1937)
- Level
- fonds
- Extent
- 89 photographs and other materials
- Scope & content
- Collection consists of records relating to the life and work of Thomas Taylor, an engineer with the Railway and Bridge section of the City of Toronto's Dept. of Works. The focus of the collection is on the Bloor Street Viaduct -- the largest project of Taylor's career -- and it includes an image of Taylor and his colleagues in the Dept. of Works; two perspective studies of the main piers and Don Bridge section of the viaduct; photographs documenting the progress of construction; an album compiled by Taylor about the history of the project; and articles about the project published in various engineering journals.Other records in the collection include photographs of Taylor and his wife, obituaries for Taylor, and a report documenting the development of Toronto Harbour between 1912 and 1920.
- Location
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- Subjects
- Prince Edward Viaduct (Toronto, Ont.); Toronto (Ont.). Dept. of Works; BRIDGES; CONSTRUCTION; waterfront development
- Harvested
- 2026-10-18T16:22:21Z · source datestamp n/a · toronto