Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Businesses series

Level

Item

Fonds

18

Series

2

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

16 May 1959

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a negative of the exterior of F. Goldstien's (sic) butcher shop at the corner of Augusta and Baldwin Avenues in Kensington Market.

Name Access

F. Goldstien Butcher Shop

Subjects

Storefronts

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.)

Baldwin Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Businesses series

Level

Item

Fonds

18

Series

2

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

16 May 1959

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a negative of the exterior of Percy's Fruit Market, 232 Augusta Avenue, at the corner of Augusta Avenue and Nassau Street in Kensington Market.

Name Access

Percy's Fruit Market

Subjects

Markets

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Nassau Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Benjamin Brown fonds

Commercial building plans and drawings series

Level

File

Fonds

49

Series

3

File

4

Material Format

architectural drawing

Date

1935

Physical Description

4 architectural drawings : pencil on tracing paper ; 62 cm length or smaller and 4 cm diam.

Scope and Content

File consists of architectural drawings for the conversion of a three storey building into a hotel at the S.W. corner of Queen and Augusta for Mr. Max Sherman. Floor plans and elevation drawings are included.

Name Access

Sherman, Max

Physical Condition

Material is fragile and somewhat torn.

Places

Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.)

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2016-3-63

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

[192-?]-1953

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material primarily documenting kosher meat scandals and strikes in Toronto in the 1920s and 1930s as well as the Kehilla (Toronto Rabbinical Board). There are complete pages of some documents and portions of others. The documents are flyers (public notices) in Yiddish (with some Hebrew in religious context and quotations) to do with a scandal or several scandals in which it became clear a number of butchers were operating outside Rabbinical Board supervision and therefore selling (assumed to be) treif meat to Toronto Jews. Secondary scandal with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart, who allegedly split off from the Rabbinical Board with six butchers to do business outside the union, with wholesalers, and gaining more money than union butchers and the rabbis working with them. Another thread relates to a strike for cheaper meat, including meetings of women picketers, and then for better conditions for local butchers. The flyers mostly fall between 1920-1940. All are from Toronto. Lists of local butchers’ shops with addresses and names are included.

Additional flyers cover Communist protests and protest meetings against German fascism and pogroms, specifically Hitler's government's prosecution of the Communist Party of Germany related to the Reichstag fire. Also included are a 1953 flyer for the tenth anniversary commemoration of the Latvian-Lithuanian Jews’ annihilation, and an open letter to Rabbi Abraham Aaron Price regarding his title.

Custodial History

There is no information on the acquisition of this material. However, retrieved from the original package in which the material was lodged was a note "Kashruth fliers from E. Miller" or Mitler.

Descriptive Notes

Language: Yiddish with some Hebrew (phrases and quotations).

Subjects

Demonstrations

Kosher food

Rabbis

Places

Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.)

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

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Level

Item

Item

556

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1911

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative); 18 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a copy photograph and corresponding negative of Albert Fine and family, duplex at 57 Augusta Avenue, Toronto.

Name Access

Fine, Albert

Fine family

Subjects

Dwellings

Families

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

Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1499

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1970]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Name Access

Max Karry Dry Goods (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Dry-goods

Places

Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.)

Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-8-28

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

275

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Jun. 1974

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photographic slide. The photograph was taken by Syd Shoub.

Subjects

Markets

Repro Restriction

Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.)

Baldwin Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions