File consists of copy prints of photographs originating from the City of Toronto Archives. Depicted are: nude boys receiving swimming instruction at the Don River, from the James Collection (01) ; nude boys at the Don River, 1908, from the James Collection (02)-(03); corner of Yonge Street and Dund…
Several of the prints are in poor PhysicalCondition.
Scope and Content
File consists of copy prints of photographs originating from the City of Toronto Archives. Depicted are: nude boys receiving swimming instruction at the Don River, from the James Collection (01) ; nude boys at the Don River, 1908, from the James Collection (02)-(03); corner of Yonge Street and Dundas Street, Toronto, KK Books located at extreme left, ca. 1975 [circa], from the White Collection (04); Turner's Turkish Baths and lockers, Centre Island, Toronto, Aug. 1928, (05)-(08); St. Charles Tavern, Yonge Street, Toronto, ca. 1970, from the White Collection (09); Les Cavaliers Steak House and Jojo's, Church Street and Granby Street, Toronto, ca. 1971, from the Planning Board Collection (10); 164 Richmond Street West and York Street, Toronto, ca. 1910, broadside reads : "The Gay World / Hanson Burlesque", from the James Collection (11)-(12).
Notes
Title and subject information from inscriptions on prints and from content of images.
Several prints from this accession are missing or were culled.
File consists of photographs of James Fraser taken at a Lesbian and Gay Pride Day in Toronto (Grange Park). Fraser is wearing a Canadian Gay Archives t-shirt. Fraser is standing at the Canadian Gay Archives booth. Two copies of Fraser with lover Alan Fetterley (later owner of Back Door Baths), Spr…
File consists of photographs of James Fraser taken at a Lesbian and Gay Pride Day in Toronto (Grange Park). Fraser is wearing a Canadian Gay Archives t-shirt. Fraser is standing at the Canadian Gay Archives booth.
Two copies of Fraser with lover Alan Fetterley (later owner of Back Door Baths), Spring 1978
Two photographs of James Fraser and Oberlin College CGA volunteer (Ralph Buchalter) taken at Alan Miller's apartment IN 1978
Two photographs of the interior of the men's lavatory, Wards Island, June 18, 1926
Two young lesbians lying on sidewalk, one holding a pole
[Pride Day photo taken between 1981 and 1984, see Wilde '82 buttons on James' chest]
Photoprints relating to the production of "Jim loves Jack" by David Adkin Productions, the story of Canada's first gay activist, James Egan, and his lover, John Norris Nesbit Photographs include: Jim and Jack at home and as Grand Marshalls at Toronto Pride Day parade, Hotel Breadalbane (later Parks…
Photoprints relating to the production of "Jim loves Jack" by David Adkin Productions, the story of Canada's first gay activist, James Egan, and his lover, John Norris Nesbit
Photographs include: Jim and Jack at home and as Grand Marshalls at Toronto Pride Day parade, Hotel Breadalbane (later Parkside Tavern), Hotel Metropole, Chez Paree, Hotel Municipal (exterior & interior), Savarin Hotel (exterior & interior), Letros - all bar and street photos from the City of Toronto Archives, James Collection
