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Tallest woman
Tallest woman

Tallest woman

Date4/24/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: Tallest woman: At 7 feet, 7 inches, Sandy Allen towers over friend Laurain Northcot at Wellesley Hospital. After recovering from a operation, Allen will leave hospital two inches taller.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0029055F
The world's tallest woman life
The world's tallest woman life
10/15/1983
Sandy Allen: World's tallest woman, at feet 7 1/4 inches, recognized for her courage
Sandy Allen: World's tallest woman, at feet 7 1/4 inches, recognized for her courage
10/27/1986
True Lends a hand. East York Mayor True Davidson places handprint (top) in slab of cement which will be placed atop the tallest Leaside Towers apartme(...)
True Lends a hand. East York Mayor True Davidson places handprint (top) in slab of cement which will be placed atop the tallest Leaside Towers apartme(...)
6/25/1970
True Lends a hand. East York Mayor True Davidson places handprint (top) in slab of cement which will be placed atop the tallest Leaside Towers apartme(...)
True Lends a hand. East York Mayor True Davidson places handprint (top) in slab of cement which will be placed atop the tallest Leaside Towers apartme(...)
6/25/1970
Spiderman's' tallest challenge
Spiderman's' tallest challenge
5/21/1986
Look way up: Judy Schwartz's North York property boasts this 117-foot (about 36-metre) tall basswood, the tallest of the tall in the tallest tree caterogy of the great North York Tree Hunt
Look way up: Judy Schwartz's North York property boasts this 117-foot (about 36-metre) tall basswood, the tallest of the tall in the tallest tree caterogy of the great North York Tree Hunt
1/17/1990
Getting ready for world's tallest structure
Getting ready for world's tallest structure
4/17/1973
Chicago Beaches are in the shadow of some of the world's tallest buildings and with easy walking distance of major hotels. The John Hancock Centre, above is the world's fifth talles. Tenants occupying upper floor suites sometimes wake to sunshine and find clouds down below.
Chicago Beaches are in the shadow of some of the world's tallest buildings and with easy walking distance of major hotels. The John Hancock Centre, above is the world's fifth talles. Tenants occupying upper floor suites sometimes wake to sunshine and find clouds down below.
7/30/1974
Tallest export?, Malachy Grant, left, designer of Toronto's CN Tower, and Edward Baldwin, architect, display their entry in an international design competition for a tower for tiny oil-rich Abu Dhabi
Tallest export?, Malachy Grant, left, designer of Toronto's CN Tower, and Edward Baldwin, architect, display their entry in an international design competition for a tower for tiny oil-rich Abu Dhabi
6/6/1978
The Tallest Building in the British Empire when it was built, back in 1895, the venerable 12-storey Temple Building at the corner of Bay and Richmond (...)
The Tallest Building in the British Empire when it was built, back in 1895, the venerable 12-storey Temple Building at the corner of Bay and Richmond (...)
9/16/1970
They call it the jumbo jet and when you're at the top it seems as high as city's tallest office building, First Canada Place, towering in background. (...)
They call it the jumbo jet and when you're at the top it seems as high as city's tallest office building, First Canada Place, towering in background. (...)
8/25/1976
World's tallest free-standing statue? The 1,815-foot-high CN Tower appears to dwindle in the back-ground, viewed from this angle behind teh gigantic s(...)
World's tallest free-standing statue? The 1,815-foot-high CN Tower appears to dwindle in the back-ground, viewed from this angle behind teh gigantic s(...)
9/22/1976