Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

10

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of a woman buying a chicken in the Ward. The store in the background is that of S. Zlotkin, a grocery and poultry shop possibly located at 98 Elizabeth St.

Notes

Original is a glass slide with a black tape border.

Title taken from label on the slide.

Name Access

Zlotkin, S.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

13

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of seven children of various ages and one baby in a wicker pram outside a house in the Ward.

Notes

Original is a glass slide with a black tape border.

Title taken from label on the slide.

Subjects

Children

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

11

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of a woman standing outside of the entrance to a general store in the Ward. On the awning is printed the number 84 and the words "Flour and Feed".

Notes

Original is a glass slide with a black tape border.

Title taken from label on the slide.

Subjects

Storefronts

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of a small house in the Ward surrounded by other buildings and residences. The house appears to have a tar paper roof and many of its windows are broken. It is surrounded by pieces of old wood, barrels and a carriage. There is a for sale sign on attached to the wall on the left.

Notes

Original photo is a glass slide.

Title taken from a label on the slide.

Subjects

Dwellings

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of Teraulay St. (now Bay St.) showing pedestrian activity, 2 men on bicycles, a peddler's cart and several storefronts and buildings. The name on the window of the second hand furniture store is Liptchts (Lipchitz's). The Old City Hall clock tower can be faintly seen on the left hand side of the photo.

Notes

Original photo is a glass slide.

Title is taken from a label on the slide.

Name Access

Lipchitz's

Subjects

Streets

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Bay Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Teraulay Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of 11 children, male and female, playing in the street, or possibly an alleyway, in the Ward.

Notes

Original photo is a glass slide.

Title taken from label on the slide.

Subjects

Children

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

1 negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of seven boys and two girls playing on a sand pile in the Ward, while a man in a bowler hat looks on.

Notes

Original photograph is a glass slide.

Title taken from label on slide.

Subjects

Children

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of three men and three women walking down a street in the Ward during Yom Kippur. View of one woman is blocked by one of the men in front, but part of her hat is visible. In the background is an ice-cream and confectionary store.

Notes

Original photo is a glass slide.

Title taken from writing on the original slide.

Title may be wrong. It is possible that the holiday being celebrated is Rosh Hashana as the other slides in this accession depict the celebration of Rosh Hashana.

Subjects

Rosh ha-Shanah

Yom Kippur

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of 11 Jewish newsboys of various ages holding newspapers on a street in the Ward. The sixth newsboy from the left (standing centre) is Sam Lichtman.

Notes

Original photo is a glass slide.

Title taken from writing on original slide.

Sam Lichtman was identified by his daughter, Maxine Cadsby.

Subjects

Children

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

St. John's Ward (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of a young boy holding a tin of salmon in the Ward.

Notes

Original photo is a glass slide.

Title taken from writing on original slide.

Subjects

Children

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

15

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

1 slide : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the several horse and buggies at the Hamilton market located in Market Square. In the background is the Parke Building which housed a wholesale and retail drug store.

Notes

Original is a glass slide.

Title taken from writing on the slide.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of 7 Jewish women and 1 man praying near the shoreline of Lake Ontario during Rosh Hashana.

Notes

Original is a glass slide.

Title on original slide reads: Devout Jews reading The Law at Toronto Bay on Day of Atonement which is probably wrong as on the first day of Rosh Hashana, Jews gather at a body of water to cast away their sins by symbolically throwing breadcrumbs into the water. The title has been changed by the record creator.

Subjects

Rosh ha-Shanah

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of 6 young girls and 4 older women at the waterfront in Toronto. The young girls are all facing the camera. In the background are some sailboats and a large boathouse.

Notes

Original is a glass slide.

Title taken from label on original slide.

Subjects

Children

Women

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

1 slide : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a man, woman and baby with a covered pull-cart in the Ward. The baby is in a bassinet resting on the handles of the cart which may be housing musical instruments. It is unclear what the (solo by the baby) in the title refers to.

Notes

This is a glass slide.

Title taken from a label on the slide.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

43

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope and Content

Photograph of a large group of Jewish men and women engaged in the custom/practice of tashlich at the shoreline of Lake Ontario during Rosh Hashana. Some are standing on a bridge in the background.

Notes

Original is a glass slide.

Title on original slide reads: Jews celebrating Day of Atonement which is incorrect as on the first day of Rosh Hashana, Jews gather at a body of water to cast away their sins by symbolically throwing breadcrumbs into the water. The title has been changed by the record creator.

Subjects

Rosh ha-Shanah

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

2005-5-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Abe Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

4

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1940]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Frances Levine Bederman taken at a studio in Hanover, Ontario.

Notes

Mounted in cardboard frame.

Photographer: N. Lorenz, Hanover, Ontario.

Name Access

Bederman, Frances Levine

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Hanover (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Abe Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

4

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1930]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Frances Levine when she was approximately five years old in Hanover, Ontario.

Notes

The photograph is inscribed in black script: "Love, Frances".

Mounted in cardboard frame. The frame has a silver border with flowers.

Photographer: N. Lorenz, Hanover.

Name Access

Levine, Frances

Subjects

Children

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Hanover (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Abe Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

4

Item

3

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1924]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm (oval)

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Emma Levine taken in Toronto. She is wearing a pearl necklace and has a flower in her hair.

Notes

Silver gelatin print.

Mounted in card frame.

See also photo #128.

Name Access

Levine, Emma

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Physical Condition

There is some silver mirroring.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Abe Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

4

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1924]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm (oval)

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Emma Levine taken in Toronto. Emma is facing away from the camera and has her head turned to one side. She is wearing a pearl necklace and has a flower in her hair.

Notes

See also photo #127.

Name Access

Levine, Emma

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Physical Condition

There is some silver mirroring.

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Abe Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

4

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1924]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Emma Levine wearing a white dress and pearl necklace. She is standing in front of a curtained backdrop and appears to be pregnant.

Notes

Inscribed in bottom right-hand corner: "Love, Emma".

Name Access

Levine, Emma

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Physical Condition

The photograph is scratched.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Levine and Cass family fonds

Abe Levine family series

Level

Item

Fonds

25

Series

4

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[192-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm (oval)

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Emma Levine. She is wearing a pearl necklace and is dressed in a coat with a fur collar.

Notes

Inscribed in the bottom righthand corner: "Love, Emma".

Name Access

Levine, Emma

Subjects

Portraits

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Source

Archival Descriptions