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Mimico Asylum (Lakeside Sanatorium)

Front: Coloured, printed postcard. Depicts about a blue sky with some white clouds, eight red brick buildings with blueish-grey roofs, a large field, and 13 cricket players. The field is green but at the forefront of the image, there is a gravel path. The cricket players are all dressed in white. “Mimico Asylum (Lakeside Sanitorium), Toronto, Canada” is in printed text on top right. Bottom right of the image reads “JV” in a circle with the number “104,072”. Top half of the postcard (horizontal) has a handwritten message in black, faded ink.

Back: Divided back. Some printed text identifies the maker as Valentine & Sons Publishing. There is no message on the back.

The Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. Ltd.

The Incomparable Westpoint Motor Hotel & Restaurant Ltd.

Front: Colour image. The image shows a blue body of water mainly on the top left but extends towards the bottom and right top. The rest of the image shows the shore and buildings. The bottom left is a piece of grassy land with a rectangular pool. The bottom right shows a partial roadway. Above the grass and between the water and road is a parking lot near the bottom with some cars. The parking lot surrounds various buildings. The buildings get taller from bottom of the photo to the top.

Back: Plain white back. There is a line of vertical text down the centre which divides the postcard. There is a paragraph of text on the left side and a few lines of text on the right.

Grant-Mann Lithographers Ltd

Hillcrest Motel -- Toronto, Ontario

Front: Colour image. The image shows the front of a two storey building. The building has light brown brick along the left side and bottom. Along the top and half of the bottom storey, is white walls. There are balconies/railings along the top floor. At the corner on the left of the building, there is an overhang over a wall of windows. In front of the building, there is a road with multi-coloured cars in front. Behind the building and the very right edge, are trees with green leaves. At the bottom, there is a line of yellow text.

Back: Plain white back. There is a line of vertical text down the centre which divides the postcard. There is a paragraph of text on the left side and a few lines of text on the right.

Canadian Postcard Company

The beautiful new Seaway Towers Motor Hotel

Front: Colour photo. The image shows the street view of a building. The building has two parts, a short brown brick part on the left, and a twelve-storey white tower section on the right. The brown section has white text across the front and a section to the left of the text which is black with three windows. On the roof of the brown section, there is a black fence around the building and a pink rounded tent. The white tower section is rectangular and has various windows and balconies throughout. The first floor of the white tower had white pillars. In front the of the whole building, there is a parking lot with multi-coloured cards. At the edge of the parking lot, there is a strip of grass with light posts and around the light posts are multi-coloured flags on a string. Behind the building on the lower right are some green trees and the rest of the background is a blue sky with a few white clouds.

Back: Divided blank back. There is some blue text across the top with a rectangle in the right corner. There is a vertical line of text in the middle dividing the page.   

Maple Leaf Press

Lake Shore Boulevard office on the Boardwalk

Front: A colour image of a white square building with a brown slanted roof along a wooden boardwalk. The building has yellow, blue, and red striped overhangs above the windows. On the front of the building, there is a door, a union jack flag on a pole at the top of the point formed by the roof, and brown vertical and horizontal stripes within the triangle section. Around the building, there are some flowers and plants. Around the building and boardwalk, there is green grass. Behind the building, there is a blue sky with white clouds, a blue body of water, and a yellow beach.

Back: Beige blank back divided back. There is a double line down the center of the page and a short double line in the centre along the top. There is a vertical rectangle in the top right corner. There are a couple of lines of text down the left edge. At the bottom centre, there is a coat of arms and some text. 

Unknown

Public School Mimico

Front: Black and White Photograph – of Mimico Public School of a medium sized stone school building with a bell towers surrounded by large trees. The photograph image is bordered by a large white border and the text on the border reads, “Mimico Public School”

Back: Divided back postcard, bears a personal message from Muriel to Elizabeth, handwritten in blue ink. It is postmarked both Mimico and Lucknow, Ontario and bears a 1903 King Edward VII 1 cent stamp. The stamp is positioned upside down and on a slight diagonal, with the corner that would usually be found in the upper right presently forming the lowest point of the diamond.

Unknown

Green Heron Flight

Landscape colour photograph. At the bottom left corner of the photograph there is a tan, black, and white rock pointing diagonally upwards. Closer to the right side of the image but within the centre of the frame, there is a bird mid-flight facing away from the rock. The bird has two four-toed yellow feet and legs on the left side. The feathers on the bird are brown, white, and black. The bird’s two wings are bent and the feathers at the end are separated. The head of the bird is black with a little brown and white. The bird’s beak is yellow and orange and is pointing out towards the frame with its yellowish-white eye at the beginning of the beak. The rest of the photo is out of focus, a little blurry and is grey. The photograph is within a black frame.

Barrett, Nancy

Tree Swallow on Post

Vertical coloured photograph. At the centre of the bottom, there is a rusted metal pole that extends about one-third of the image. On the left side of the pole near the top, there is a circular hole. On top of the pole, there is a bird sitting. The bird has a white torso with some of the feather sticking out on the sides and some black feathers closer to the head. The bird’s black and white tail is slightly visible on the left. On either side of the bird, the top of its wings are seen with blue and black feathers. The bird’s head is mostly blue but with black eyes, a black beak, and white feathers below the eyes and beak. The rest of the photo is out of focus, a little blurry and is grey. The photograph is within a black frame.

Barrett, Nancy

Bricks

Vertical colour photograph. The photograph is of eight bricks (all but one is partially seen). In the middle of the photograph, there is a full grey brick that appears worn. On all edges, it is surrounded by red bricks, but only part of each is seen in varying amounts. Four of the bricks seen have one or two holes visible. Photograph is held within a black frame.

Smith, Zac

Mimico

2016.011.01a: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The left top corner is a triangular white background and the bottom right corner is a triangular black background. Between the two triangles are diagonal brown lines with some white detailing. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01b: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The left bottom corner is a white background and the left side fades into reddish-brown. The almost all of rest of the image is grey-ish brown and out of focus. Near the top right corner is an eye with a yellow iris and diagonally down towards the centre is an in focus line of feathers. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01c: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The top is an image of two grey feathers horizontally across the picture. The rest of the image is a white background. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01d: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is a white-ish grey. The rest of the image shows a three-toed brown skinned foot diagonally across the page. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01e: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The right top corner is a triangular white background. The rest of the image is a mostly out of focus image of grey with a part focused at the front which appears to be a feather. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01f: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The bottom left corner is a triangular white background. The rest of the image is a partial shot of a birds head. The top of the head is grey and white feathers. The bottom of the head (near the bottom right) is reddish-brown feathers. Near the centre at the top of the image, there is an eye with a red iris. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01g: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The image is divided into eight equal vertical sections. The colour of the sections are as follows (from left to right): white, red, black, grey, blue-grey, light blue, orange, and pink. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01h: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The image shows multiple brick coloured feathers with the ones in the foreground being in focus and the ones closer to the right side are unfocused. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01i: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The The left top corner is a triangular white background. The rest of the image is od grey feathers with some purple detailing and some reddish-brown feathers at the bottom right corner. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01j: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is white. There are two bird heads – one art the top which is mainly out of focus and one at the bottom that is in focus. Both heads have brown feathers with some white detailing and some grey mixed in on the top of its head. The beak is black and the iris of the eye is red. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01k: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The left side of the image is a reddish-brown colour. The right is dark brown with some lighter brown lines. The reddish and dark brown create a triangle and it is white-ish grey in the remaining space. Extending through the middle of the page from the top, there is a brown triangle with a black tip. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01l: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is out of focus with a redish-orange circle surrounded by brown. At the bottom right corner, there is a circle of black behind another circle of reddish-orange. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01m: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The left and right side of the image are black/brown and mostly out of focus except for a bit of a feather in focus vertically on both. Both sides create a triangle and it is white-ish grey in the remaining space. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01n: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The bottom right of the image is a bird’s head with dark grey feathers and a red iris. The top left corner has a feather that is brown and grey in focus. The rest of the image is a white background. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01o: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The bottom centre of the image has a triangular black shape with light brown at the tip. The top left and the bottom two corners are black. The rest of the image is a white background. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01p: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is white in the centre and black around the corners and its out of focus. The rest of the image is partly in focus and shows two black skinny four toed feet with long nails. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01q: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The background of the image is pink on the left and white on the right with some black at the bottom and its out of focus. The rest of the image is partly in focus and shows two light brown skinny two toed feet with long nails. The image is within a black frame.

2016.011.01r: Art Photograph
Colour vertical photograph. The right top corner is a triangular white background and the left bottom corner is a triangular black beige. Between the two triangles are diagonal brown lines with some white and black detailing. The image is within a black frame.

Zbitnew, Anne

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