{"id":8866,"date":"2017-06-25T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T12:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2017-06-25T23:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T03:54:20","slug":"new-archive-of-globe-and-mail-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/new-archive-of-globe-and-mail-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"New Archive of Globe and Mail Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People board buses on Yonge above Eglinton. in this John Boyd photo<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Many well known photographers worked for and sold photographs to the Globe over the years. Now with the help of the folks from the Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC), a selection of the images will be available at this link<\/a> for subscribers. The icon at left is by John Boyd. [please see correction below]<\/p>\n

The Globe article<\/a> begins, “As part of the Globe\u2019s Canada 150 celebration, (the Globe hits 173 this year), we\u2019ve pulled an eclectic selection of photos that range from a 1901 picture of the Forester\u2019s Arch being erected on Bay and Richmond streets for a royal visit to a Canadian astronomical discovery in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n

“You can search the archive by date or Globe photographer, and there are special collections that cover different aspects of Canadian life. A unique feature of the archive is that it shows both the front and back of the photos, providing an unedited look at the newspaper\u2019s graphics process.”<\/p>\n

A big thank you to member and past Photographic Canadiana<\/em> journal editor, Doug Gilbertson, for suggesting this link. While I do read the Globe daily, for some reason I missed this important article. Well done, Doug!<\/p>\n

It should be noted that my original post mentioned that John Boyd was still alive. Both Bob Lansdale and Wayne Gilbert corrected me on that:<\/p>\n

Bob Lansdale said, “John Boyd died years ago. He was Secretary to the CAPPAC association for years and transcended it in to PPOC. [His father, also named John Boyd, \u00a0took photographs too.] See\u00a0http:\/\/torontoist.com\/2011\/12\/historicist-the-two-john-boyds\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n

“John H. Boyd [Jr.] retired in 1964 and passed away on October 28, 1971, at the age of 73. Throughout his career, he had meticulously detailed his negatives and photographs in a series of log books\u2014recording the subject and date\u2014making his collection a valuable document of Toronto and Ontario\u2019s 20th-century history. More than 100,000 of Boyd Jr.\u2019s images, as well as the logbooks, live at the City of Toronto Archives.”<\/p>\n

Wayne Gilbert further clarified my comments with this, “The John\u00a0 Boyd you met at Harry\u2019s 95th<\/sup>\u00a0is now 104 and living at Sunnybrook. His surname at birth out west was Boychuk and he had a literary career for many years. He also painted in watercolours and oils before losing his eyesight and he still writes using a voice-activated computer. Sandy and I visit with him from time-to-time when we are at Sunnybrook.”<\/p>\n

My apologies for mixing up the two gentlemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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