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Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong,_Beere_and_Hime_panorama},
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  year = {2026}
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The Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama is an almost complete panorama of the city of Toronto taken in 1856–1857 by the firm Armstrong, Beere and Hime. They are the earliest known photographs of the city of Toronto, and create an almost complete record of the city at that time. A fictionalized history of the photographs and their story plays a central role in Michael Redhill's Consolation. They were created by the firm Armstrong, Beere and Hime under contract from the city of Toronto. In 1857 the British Colonial Office was deciding which city should be made the capital of The Canadas. As part of their bid, the city of Toronto elected to present a set of photographs of the city to the authorities in London. The city paid Armstrong, Beere and Hime £60 to create four copies of 25 pictures. The panoramic images were taken from the roof of the Rossin House Hotel, at the southeast corner of King and York streets. Toronto's bid to become the capital failed, and the photographs were lost and forgotten. They were rediscovered on October 9, 1979, when archivist Joan Schwartz located them when looking through records at the Colonial Office Library (original negatives were transferred to the Library of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Records, which are now on permanent loan at King’s College London). Subsequently, a second set of the pictures was found in Ottawa at the Library and Archives of Canada. A set of modern duplicates, reproduced from copy negatives, was presented to the City of Toronto as a Sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) gift from the British government in 1984. These are housed in the City of Toronto Archives.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong,_Beere_and_Hime_panorama
Wikidata Q4793903: «1856 photographs of Toronto» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4793903
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