Showing posts with label Alexandra Studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexandra Studio. Show all posts

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Alexandra Studio

 Baby clinic
  
 Lord Halifax watching female war workers at John Inglis Co., Ltd., January 24, 1944
  
 Miss War Worker Beauty Contest 1942, Canadian National Exhibition Grandstand
  
Soldier embracing two children, 1940s
  
Two women posing with air raid sirens in machine shop, 1940s
 

Friday, July 22, 2016

Alexandra Studio

Gloria Swanson at war stamps display, 1939-45
  
 Group of women on Bay Street, Toronto, ca. 1945
[probably VE Day or VJ Day]
  
 Honest Ed's, 1960s
["This way you lucky people" :)]
  
 Horse drawn buggy, 1940s
  
Horse drawn buggy, 1940s
 

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Alexandra Studio

Series consists of negatives produced by Lou and Nat Turofsky, Roy Mitchell, and Hal Crellin while assosiated with the Toronto-based commercial photography firm, Alexandra Studios. The photographs were commissioned by a diverse clientele, including Maple Leaf Gardens, Canadian National Exhibition, Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, City of Toronto, Toronto Transit Commission, Royal Alex Theatre, Wood Gundy, and the Ontario Motor League. There are photographs of schools, churches, hotels, medical facilities, and monuments; as well as commercial, financial, and municipal buildings. There are also photographs of sporting events, and informal and formal photographs of prominent local and visiting personalities.

 A Good Hotel dining room, ca. 1945
  
Adelaide Street West and Sheppard Street, 1946
  
Animal trainer Clyde Beatty in cage with tigers and lions
  
Ballet dancers in dressing room
  
Bay Street at Adelaide Street West, 1940s