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See the image at bottom illustrating a story about bootleggers using flamethrowers to foil police. The image of an army truck was originally published on Feburary 11, 1947.

Eisenhower and his wife visited Toronto’s Hart House in 1946. The Toronto Star cut two photographs – Ike and Mamie were originally sitting apart – and brought the pair closer together to produce an image for publication. The final composite…

Boris Spremo’s photograph of a student protest was altered to remove the word “Bullshit” from the placard. In the published version of the image the placard reads just “Lenin Humanist?”

The art department eliminated Engel's hand and reconstructed her sweater using paint and airbrushing techniques in order to create a head-shot for publication purposes.

A Toronto Star editor ordered the art department to “Fix side burns” on this photo of Dalton Camp, Canadian journalist and Progressive Conservative party strategist. The altered sideburn image was used in the newspaper on July 26, 1969 as a small…

This photo was originally published on February 11, 1947, unaltered, with an army vehicle throwing flames. On November 7, 1959, the truck was substituted for the army vehicle in order to illustrate bootleggers using flamethrowers “to foil…

The Queen’s hotel, on the site of the present day Royal York Hotel, is illustrated with a diagram of a planned tunnel to connect the building to Union Station.

The painted arrows on this photo illustrate the robbers’ dramatic get-away from the bank after escaping with $12,549. The hold-up men ran from the Bank of Montreal branch on Royce Avenue in Toronto and jumped into their waiting car. The car…