The Archive Box
Each week, you will encounter a series of photographs from the Archives to inspire you.
These images will be available below, updated weekly.
At first, the images will be without any additional contextual information.
After the class in which we discuss the images and your creative response to them, information will be added about their historical and archival context.
By the end of the workshop, the full set of images will be here for you to revisit if you wish.
Click on each image to view it in a larger size.
01
week one
Learn more about the Toronto’s Great Fire of 1904.
Bay Street looking north from just north of Front Street
April 1904
Photographer: William James
City of Toronto Archives
Fonds 1244, Item 2
Wyld-Darling building after the fire, looking south-east from the corner of Bay and Wellington streets
April 1904
City of Toronto Archives
Series 402, Item 3
M. McLaughlin & Co. mill buildings (right), looking north on Bay Street from the Esplanade
April 1904
City of Toronto Archives
Fonds 1408, Item 12
02
week two
[and so forth]
Notes
Two weeks are presented as a sample of the way the page will be updated. The images presented in week one will be discussed in week two, and updated afterwards. Images presented at the end of week two, to be discussed in week 3, are here without their context, as described above.
The first three images have detailed descriptions for accessibility, a sample of how all images will be treated.
As the workshop series progresses, the Archive Box can be broken out by event, with additional information on archival and historical context from workshop lecture material, and added to this page.