Tag Archives: Lithography

illustrating books, etc.

Toronto. Books, newspapers, and magazines were illustrated on occasion with lithographs or drawings transposed to engraved plates. In the 1820s, there was considerable interest in capturing a scene by the effect of sunlight. A young Frenchman, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, liked … Continue reading

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Toronto Lithographing Co Photography Dept 1898

  Toronto. We sometimes forget that our city once was the engine of industrial Canada. In 1898, the massive Toronto Lithographing Company, founded two decades earlier, commissioned  photographer A A Gray to record the interior facilities at the north-west corner … Continue reading

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