Michael Hainsworth's HAINSWORTH.COM » time machine http://www.hainsworth.com Serving the Internet for over 75 years! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:11:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Serving the Internet for over 75 years! Michael Hainsworth's HAINSWORTH.COM no Serving the Internet for over 75 years! Michael Hainsworth's HAINSWORTH.COM » time machine http://www.hainsworth.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.hainsworth.com Time Machine: Broadview Avenue & Gerrard Street East, 1908 http://www.hainsworth.com/2011/06/time-machine-broadview-avenue-gerrard-street-east-1908/ http://www.hainsworth.com/2011/06/time-machine-broadview-avenue-gerrard-street-east-1908/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:46:25 +0000 Michael http://www.hainsworth.com/?p=6796 As a decor project for our home renovation, we’re researching archival photographs of our broader neighbourhood taken at about the same time the house was built.

I’m fascinated by the normalcy of it all. These people, just like us, went about their day to day lives. The child in the background would have experienced the most remarkable advances between 1900 and her likely death in the early 60s. This same location, on the south east corner of Broadview at Gerrard, 103 years later:


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You can search the City of Toronto Archives for photos of your neighbourhood and more here. Be sure to click the “Scanned photographs only” checkbox.
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