{"id":14999,"date":"2019-07-06T05:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T09:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14999"},"modified":"2019-07-05T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:18:42","slug":"i-see-said-the-blind-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/i-see-said-the-blind-man\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I see&#8221;, said the blind man &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15000\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rhodes-Ave.-Presbyterian-United-Church-construction-of-annex-N-W-corner-Gerrard-St.-E.-at-Rhodes-Ave.-1909-TPL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15000\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rhodes-Ave.-Presbyterian-United-Church-construction-of-annex-N-W-corner-Gerrard-St.-E.-at-Rhodes-Ave.-1909-TPL-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carpenters in 1909<br \/>by P H Figary of Toronto<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8212; as he picked up his hammer and saw &#8230; This old bromide was around when I was a kid. The photograph at left was taken by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographersofontario.ca\/index.php?title=Philip_Figary\">P (Philip) H Figary<\/a>, 590 Yonge St, Toronto (west side of Yonge, a few doors above Wellesley. <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/590-Yonge-St-Google-Street-View.jpg\">Click<\/a> to see 590 Yonge St \u00a0today from Google Street View). The shot at left is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/search.jsp;jsessionid=iQ150OVctk5z-BHRBPttKTRL.tplapp-p-1a?Ntt=Rhodes+Avenue+United+Church+(Toronto%2c+Ont.)&amp;Ntk=Subject_Search_Interface&amp;view=grid&amp;Erp=20\">TPL<\/a> and shows \u00a0a collection of carpenters. It caught my eye because my mother was born in Toronto West\/Junction in 1909 and <em>her<\/em> grandfather was a carpenter.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, when you do your Canadian photographic research, the wealth of details we have here in our city archives, our schools and our library System. Just saying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8212; as he picked up his hammer and saw &#8230; This old bromide was around when I was a kid. The photograph at left was taken by\u00a0P (Philip) H Figary, 590 Yonge St, Toronto (west side of Yonge, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/i-see-said-the-blind-man\/\">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":[1944],"tags":[2668,2667,495,2669],"class_list":["post-14999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-2668","tag-carpenters","tag-photograph","tag-toronto-public-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999","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=14999"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15003,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999\/revisions\/15003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}