Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[thecharioteer]

Some portraits:

"The Bunch". (1902) Note says: Item consists of an unidentified group portrait likely showing Whittingham's fellow employees at the Toronto Engraving Company. The nicknames of each man in the portrait is inscribed in ink on the board on which the photograph is mounted.

Miss Morgan:

Master Cooke:

Unidentified:

Arthur Goss:

Ethel Goss:

The Oslers:

The James family:

The Queens Own Rifles:

The Toronto Canoe Club:

Trainmen:

Mr. James:

Waltzing champions:

Miss Laing 1924:

RCAF:

Princess Margaret:

The Rose Queen 1956:

 

[BeeRich]

The Fag, Pup, The Scotchman, and Fat? With those types of nicknames, no wonder nobody smiled in pictures. Check out the smiles on the Moustache Club there. Heh.

Some portraits:

"The Bunch". (1902) Note says: Item consists of an unidentified group portrait likely showing Whittingham's fellow employees at the Toronto Engraving Company. The nicknames of each man in the portrait is inscribed in ink on the board on which the photograph is mounted.

The Toronto Canoe Club:

 

[Anna]

Neat! So that would mean your grandfather was Edward Cunningham, Messenger, Dominion Bank?

http://www.archive.org/stream/torontodirec191200midiuoft#page/312/mode/2up

http://www.archive.org/stream/torontodirec191200midiuoft#page/586/mode/2up

There are 10 pictures of 'Bank Messengers' at the Toronto Archives. Maybe JT's grandpa is in one of them.

 

[Songbird]

Some portraits:

I hate to be uncouth, but even though he's labelled as "Identified", it's hard not to identify a certain reeeally visible part of this photo .... those pants leave nothing to the imagination ... yeeesh!

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

My I say briefly that this man had the ideals of a boxer?

Regards,
J T

 

[spider]

I think it's a flashlight.

 

[Goldie]

Just having a bit of fun with that great photo of University Ave., submitted by thecharrioteer:

 

[thecharioteer]

I think it's a flashlight.

Victorian gentlemen carried calling card cases. Undoubtedly, we're seeing the edge of his....

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Victorian gentlemen carried calling card cases." QUOTE thecharioteer.


Suitably engraved, no doubt.
(Both the card and the case.)


Regards,
J T

 

[thecharioteer]

Real estate poster 1847:

 

[Spoonman]

The gentleman also appears to be sporting the very first documented proto-fauxhawk.

Some portraits:

I hate to be uncouth, but even though he's labelled as "Identified", it's hard not to identify a certain reeeally visible part of this photo .... those pants leave nothing to the imagination ... yeeesh!

 

[Urban Shocker]

Identified - Ned Hanlan:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Ned_Hanlan_statue_on_the_Toronto_Islands.jpg

 

[DSC]

Identified - Ned Hanlan:

I assume that's one of his oars then?

 

[BeeRich]

I like a good oar once in a while.

 

[adma]

I like a good oar once in a while.

Well, you'll find plenty at Hanlan's Point if Giorgio Mammoliti has his way