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Toronto Views – illustrated with photographs by William James<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. … is a popular expression describing a very special item. In the issue 26-3 column “Book Shelf”, Dr Wilson describes a book of photographs by photographer William James. The book’s illustrations were made using rare hand coloured slides from photographs taken around Toronto in the first half of the last Century.<\/p>\n

The slides are often hand coloured and reside in the City of Toronto archives. The illustrations of Toronto past in ‘Toronto Views’ use these slides. Once many of the slides were quite common, but today (2026) are hard to find ‘in the wild’.<\/p>\n

Bob begins his review, “This book presents an appealing look\u00a0at Toronto during the first half of the\u00a0twentieth century, through photographs\u00a0taken by longtime Toronto photographer William James.<\/p>\n

“James learned photography in England before emigrating to Canada. In Toronto, he commenced taking photographs on a part time basis in 1908, while working for Metropolitan Life; by 1910 he was making his living using the camera.<\/p>\n

“His main customers were the large number of Toronto daily newspapers. During his 30 year career in Toronto James built up an archive of over 10,000 photographs.” …<\/p>\n

Bob continues his review in issue 26-3. Members read it in the pdf file for that issue on the free members-only DVD\/stick. Joining is a snap – follow ‘membership’ above and at right. Any questions may be emailed to member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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