{"id":12177,"date":"2018-07-27T07:06:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T11:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2018-07-27T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T13:52:56","slug":"scaling-to-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/scaling-to-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"scaling to new heights …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wm James Sr
at Varsity Stadium
James fell off the fence and broke his leg. The camera is a Graflex.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. About 1919 William James Sr<\/a> tried to scale the fence at Varsitry Stadium (U of T stadium fronting on Bloor Street). In hand was his trusty Graflex camera. The intent to catch a sports event ended in disaster when James fell off the fence breaking his leg – no mention of the camera’s fate!<\/p>\n

This photograph is in the City of Toronto Archives in the James family fonds (#1244) as item 3553<\/a>. The James family members were well known in the day as some of the prominent professional Toronto photographers. In fact, William James Sr was considered to be Canada’s first\u00a0photojournalist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Summer Leigh<\/a>, who spoke to us back in January, 2015, has this to say of William James Sr and fond 1244<\/a> at the city archives. Summer likes to use the old images and carefully overlays them with modern colour versions taken at the same place and with the same perspective.<\/p>\n

A special thank you<\/em> to Goldie, a member of the Urban Toronto<\/a> \u00a0website for emailing me with this arresting image of the senior member of the James Family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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