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Consumers' Gas Company Ltd. photographs by F.W. Micklethwaite Studio

fonds1909-1936Fonds 1034

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City of Toronto Archives via City of Toronto Archives
Creator
Consumers' Gas
Dates
1909-1936 (indexed as 1909–1936)
Level
fonds
Extent
295 photographs : b&w, glass negatives ; 20 x 25 cm; 778 photographs : b&w, copy negatives ; 10 x 12 cm
Scope & content
Collection consists of photographs commissioned from F.W. Micklethwaite's Studio by Consumers' Gas Company Ltd., between ca. 1909 and 1936. The photographs document: the Consumers' Gas Company head offices at 19 Toronto Street, including their billing and cashier's departments; their salesrooms at 55 Adelaide Street East, 124 Richmond Street West, 732-734 Danforth Avenue and 2532 Yonge Street; the company's facilities at Station A, Front Street East and Berkeley Street, and Station B, on Eastern Avenue, including construction associated with expansion at these sites; a variety of residential, commercial and industrial products, such as furnaces, fireplaces, radiant heaters, ranges, ovens, traveling ovens, refrigerators, washing machines, clothes pressers, ironers, water heaters, humidifiers, boilers, incinerators, arc lamps and light fixtures, manufactured by a number of different companies, including American Stove, Bastian-Morley, Clark Jewel, Electrolux, Gurney-Oxford, McClary Garland, Moffat, Ruud, Vulcan and others; displays of products in sales campaigns, in their showroom windows, at Belyea Plumbing & Heating and on exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition; Domestic Science and Home Economics classes and demonstrations; the exteriors and interiors of many residences, including apartment buildings, especially the kitchens, living rooms and basement spaces; the exteriors and interiors of various commercial and industrial concerns using gas in their business, including the Toronto Daily Star and Canada Bread Co. Ltd.; and the exteriors and interiors of numerous restaurants, including the kitchens at the Toronto Hunt Club and large hotels, such as the King Edward, the Royal York and the Park Plaza. The images provide an extensive record of the social, industrial, and commercial use of gas in Toronto during the early years of the 20th century.
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Subjects
Micklethwaite Studio; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; STORES; INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; INDUSTRIAL SITES
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