Over 100,000 Digital Objects Now Available in the Digital Archive

Toronto Public Library's digitization program has reached an important milestone: the Digital Archive now contains over 100,000 Special Collections objects for your use.

We will feature more Digital Archive content in upcoming blog posts, but below are some examples of the types of materials you will find within this growing collection.

The Toronto Star Photo Archive offers images from between the years 1900 to 2000:



Toronto Maple Leafs, 1974

Toronto Blue Jays, 1991

CN Tower

construction, 1974

Blondie's Debbie Harry

at El Mocambo, 1982 The Beatles at Toronto International

Airport, 1964

Princess Elizabeth,

1946

We also have many rare and precious maps:



First printed map of the

North Pole, 1613



Palma, 1593 circa

Not to mention lots of historical ephemera:



In Flanders' Fields,

broadside, 1918

Canadian National Exhibition,

broadside, 1917





Prohibition pin, 1910

We have also been actively digitizing complete books from Special Collections and you can view them all here, with a few examples below:



Toronto Illustrated, 1893

A sequel to the North-west passage, 1860



Toronto City Directory, 1868-9

Don't miss digitized versions of images from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books:



Jack and Jill, 1899

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, 1911

And last, but certainly not least, we have a wonderful resources in the Baldwin Picture Collection, featuring many historical pictures of Toronto and elsewhere:





View on King Street, 1885

City Hall and Square Competition,

model, 1958 Rossin House, York and King Streets, 1862 Princes' Gate, model, 1926

Yonge Street, King to Queen

Streets, looking north, 1912

Great Western Railway Station, 1922

Organ grinder on Bay Street, 1922 Canadian National Exhibition, 1923

Kensington Market, 1924 Grandstand, Canadian National Exhibition, 1924

Please visit the Digital Archive often as we are always adding new content.

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