Arts & Culture

Toronto Public Library's digitization program has reached an important milestone: the Digital Archive now contains over 100,000 Special Collections objects for your use.

We will feature more Digital Archive content in upcoming blog posts, but below are some examples of the types of materials you will find within this growing collection.

The Toronto Star Photo Archive offers images from between the years 1900 to 2000:

We also have many rare and precious maps:

First printed map of the North Pole, 1613

Palma, 1593 circa

Not to mention lots of historical ephemera:

In Flanders' Fields, broadside, 1918

Canadian National Exhibition, broadside, 1917

Prohibition pin, 1910

We have also been actively digitizing complete books from Special Collections and you can view them all here, with a few examples below:

Toronto Illustrated, 1893

A sequel to the North-west passage, 1860

Toronto City Directory, 1868-9

 Don't miss digitized versions of images from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books:

Jack and Jill, 1899

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, 1911

And last, but certainly not least, we have a wonderful resources in the Baldwin Picture Collection, featuring many historical pictures of Toronto and elsewhere:

Please visit the Digital Archive often as we are always adding new content.

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