{"id":11456,"date":"2018-05-01T08:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2018-04-29T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:36:59","slug":"buy-photos-and-photo-gear-in-toronto-in-1879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/buy-photos-and-photo-gear-in-toronto-in-1879\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying photos and photo gear in Toronto in 1879"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11458\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Toronto-Photographis-listings-1879.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11458\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11458\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Toronto-Photographis-listings-1879-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Directory 1879<br \/>Photographic artists and suppliers<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Our city reached a population of over 86,000 in 1871, a few years before the City Directory of 1879 was published and distributed. Take a look at the Wikipedia entry shown for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Toronto\">Toronto<\/a> to see its interesting history.<\/p>\n<p>In 1879, some four suppliers of photographic gear were listed along with seven studios, including one listed as &#8220;Notman and Fraser&#8221;. Almost all were clustered around the corner of King and Yonge Streets. The city at the time had a population around the size of that in modern-day Barrie.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks goes to George Dunbar for spotting this bit of history in the City Directory of 1879 which was likely compiled a year earlier. City Directories are a great source for genealogists. I traced my mother&#8217;s ancestors on her father&#8217;s side from Port Hope to various homes in the Junction\/Toronto West. In the 1980s all the houses still existed in the area and I was able to take a photograph of many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Our city reached a population of over 86,000 in 1871, a few years before the City Directory of 1879 was published and distributed. Take a look at the Wikipedia entry shown for Toronto to see its interesting history. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/buy-photos-and-photo-gear-in-toronto-in-1879\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[1879,1880,1523,59],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-city-directory","tag-studios","tag-supplies","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11463,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions\/11463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}