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Fire hole

Date8/11/1988

Names

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Weil, Bernard (photographer)

FormatPicture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Fire hole: Dennis Moore spent 25 years tending the giant; 899C (1;650F) oven that burned Toronto's garbage at the Commissioners St. incinerator.

Subject

Refuse and refuse disposal

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Object NumberTSPA_0112649F

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