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Siesta in the summer sun. Noon-hour idlers take their ease beneath the Queen's Park statue of Sir James Pliny Whitney while yesterday's warm sunshine (...)

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Siesta in the summer sun. Noon-hour idlers take their ease beneath the Queen's Park statue of Sir James Pliny Whitney while yesterday's warm sunshine (...)

Date7/9/1968

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Teskey, Frank (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Siesta in the summer sun. Noon-hour idlers take their ease beneath the Queen's Park statue of Sir James Pliny Whitney while yesterday's warm sunshine lasted. Later sudden summer rainstorms soon cleared the park. Whitney was the sixth premier of Ontario.

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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0114406F

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