Toronto, Nov. 16, 1929: View looking northeast from the Harbour Commission Building rooftop 96 years ago today.
📸: City of Toronto Archives + digital edit & colourization by me.
#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #colourization #colorization #otd #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Newsstand on the northeast corner of Broadview Ave. & Queen St. E., Toronto, 88 years ago today - Nov 4, 1937.
#onthisday #OTD #newsstand #news #queenstreeteast #colorization #colourization #signage #research #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
103 years ago today: Steamships Cayuga and Northumberland heading into Toronto's harbour through the eastern gap, August 30, 1922. - John Boyd photo.
Image credit: Toronto Public Library, with colour by me.
#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #steamship #colourization #history #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
The Word by New Wave Posters
The Word
It's an Orwell quote
#art #photomontage #digitalpainting #surrealism #colourization #restoration #vintage #1940s #broadcasting #news #propaganda
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Looking north east to downtown Toronto's skyline from the harbour 100 years ago - 1925
Photographer unknown. Colour by me.
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library.
#1920s #100yearsold #skylineoftoronto #harbour #history #colourization #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
This photo shows the Royal Train making its way south along the west bank of the Don River in Toronto on May 22, 1939. I’ve colourized it to bring the moment more life.
#OTD #OnThisDay #1930s #Railway #Railroad #RoyalTour #Colorization #Colourization #jeremyhopkin #TorontoHistory #Toronto #Canada
On this day in 1939, May 22, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived in Toronto, one of the most significant stops on their Royal Tour of Canada and the United States.
#OTD #OnThisDay #1930s #Railway #Railroad #RoyalTour #Colorization #Colourization #jeremyhopkin #TorontoHistory #Toronto #Canada
94 years ago today Lawrence "Lol" Solman passed away in Toronto - March 24, 1931
#OnThisDay #OTD #solman #entrepreneur #baseball #theatre #promoter #manager #torontohistory #toronto #canada #colorization #colourization #jeremyhopkin
Children sleighing the day, 102 years ago today - March 3, 1923.
Photo by Alfred Pearson for the Ontario Safety League.
Original image credit: City of Toronto Archives.
#1920s #fun #childhood #history #snow #safetyfirst #TorontoHistory #toronto #canada #colourization #colorization #hopkindesign
TTC head office building, NE corner of Front & Yonge Sts., Toronto, 102 years ago today - March 2, 1923.
Alfred Pearson photo, colour by me.
Original image: City of Toronto Archives.
#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #ttc #transit #TorontoHistory #toronto #canada #colourization #colorization #hopkindesign
Happy Snow Day Toronto! ❄️
They all had fun riding "WeAllGo" in High Park, Toronto, 1910.
📸: City of Toronto Archives - Wm. James
Digital edit & colour by me
#ThrowbackThursday #1910s #snowday #park #sledding #sleightheday #torontohistory #toronto #canada #colorization #colourization #hopkindesign
Steam shovels making the 1st excavations for TTC's Hillcrest Complex, 102 years ago today - Jan 13, 1923.
📸: City of Toronto Archives + digital edit & colour by me.
#OTD #OnThisDay #1920s #ttc #publictransit #construction #torontohistory #colorization #colourization #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Fourteen people in warm clothing are sitting on a long wooden sled inside a snowy natural park setting in 1910. The sled has the name WEALLGO inscribed on the front runners.
They all have fun riding "WeAllGo" in High Park, Toronto, 1910.
📸: City of Toronto Archives, Wm. James fonds
With digital edit & colour by me
#1910s #snow #park #sled #sleightheday #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #colorization #colourization #hopkindesign
Santa greets the crowd at the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade, Toronto, Canada, 99 years ago today - Nov 21, 1925.
📸: City of Toronto Archives, with digital edit & colour by me.
#OnThisDay #OTD #Christmas #1920s #santaclaus #colorization #colourization #torontohistory #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
Toronto, a view looking northeast from the Harbour Commission Building rooftop, as photographed 95 years ago today - Nov. 16, 1929
#onthisday #otd #1920s #colourization #colorization #otd #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
Newsstand on the North East corner of Broadview Ave. & Queen St. E., Toronto, #onthisday 87 years ago - Nov 4, 1937.
#otd #1930s #newsstand #colorization #colourization #research #history #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
👻Motor Spirit👻 Happy Halloween!
Shell Motor Spirit station, 376 Dupont St., Toronto, 101 years ago #OnThisDay - Oct. 31, 1923.
📸: City of Toronto Archives with digital edit & colour by me.
#OTD #1920s #Halloween #colourization #gasoline #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
Interior view of a TTC ‘Peter Witt’ streetcar, taken #OnThisDay 96 years ago, Oct. 30, 1928.
📸: City of Toronto Archives, with digital edits & colourization by me.
#OTD #1920s #colorization #colourization #streetcar #ttc #transit #torontohistory #toronto #canada #humanart #hopkindesign
I'm so excited to attend the annual @heritagetoronto Awards tomorrow, where my colourization of Toronto's first panoramic photo for @Spacing is up for a Public History Award. 😃
www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...
#colourization #colorization #torontohistory #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
People boarding a "one-man" (single operator) streetcar at St. Clair & Yonge, Toronto, #OnThisDay in 1926 (Oct. 15th)
📸: City of Toronto Archives, with digital edit & colour by me.
#OTD #1920s #streetcar #ttc #Transit #colorization #colourization #TorontoHistory #Toronto #Canada #hopkindesign
Steamships Cayuga & Northumberland head into Toronto's harbour through the eastern gap 102 years ago #OnThisDay (Aug 30, 1922)
📸: John Boyd, with digital edit & colour by me.
#OTD #1920s #steamship #colourization #colorization #torontohistory #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
Bird's eye view of Toronto, taken #OnThisDay in 1961 (May 10)
#otd #1960s #birdseyeview #aerialview #colourization #colorization #history #torontohistory #tdot #the6ix #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
#OnThisDay in 1924, (March 23) the movie industry power couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks paid a much publicized visit to Toronto.
#marypickford #DouglasFairbanks #moviestar #otd #1920s #colourization #colorization #history #torontohistory #tdot #the6ix #toronto #canada #hopkindesign
