A 19th-century Morris chair provides listening comfort beside an upright Stewart-Warner radio from the 1920s kin the library

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A 19th-century Morris chair provides listening comfort beside an upright Stewart-Warner radio from the 1920s kin the library

Date10/26/1987

Names

Beaty, Keith (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: A 19th-century Morris chair provides listening comfort beside an upright Stewart-Warner radio from the 1920s kin the library.

Subject

Radios

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0101235F

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