Toronto at work
Organ grinder on Bay Street
Van & Ryan
1922
An unidentified organ grinder, resting on a fire hydrant on Bay Street in 1922.
Dispensing chemist
Photographer unknown
1910
Pharmacist
Doug Griffin /Toronto Star
March 5, 1969
Dispensing chemist, Neil Lamont McMillan's drugstore was located on Vaughan Road, near Bathurst Street and St. Clair Ave. West.
Tom Lock and his friend, Sam Chin, were the first Chinese-Canadian graduates of University of Toronto's School of Pharmacy in the late 1940s. He owned Tom Lock's Drugs on Dundas Street.
George Pearce in his taxidermy shop
Photographer unknown
ca. 1900
Gelatin silver print
Taxidermist
Frank Grant/Toronto Star
June 30, 1964
Gelatin silver print
Taxidermist George Pearce is shown in his taxidermy shop around 1900.
Taxidermist Cliff McCutcheon mounts an armadillo and an iguana in the Toronto workshop of Oliver Spanner and Co.
Teacher views flower through a magnifying glass
Boris Spremo/Toronto Star
October 5, 1971
Bank teller
Mario Geo/Toronto Star
November 16, 1971
Frank Burger, of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University), peers through an oversized magnifying glass during a workshop on new science courses conducted for Toronto teachers.
Toronto bank teller Mrs. William McRae made front-page news after she caught a man trying to cash a counterfeit travellers cheque. She was later called to testify at the trial in England.
Social worker and child
Frank Grant/Toronto Star
June 10, 1964
University of Toronto social worker Margaret Kirkpatrick talks with a little girl trying on her mother's shoes on Tracy Street, near Queen and Parliament Streets.
Dancer heads home
Reg Innell/Toronto Star
May 17, 1966
Sandy Leigh heads home after a night working at the Friar's Tavern as a go-go dancer. A popular nightclub on Yonge Street until it closed in 1976, the site is now home to the Hard Rock Café.