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A history and description of billiards, its sanitary advantages, etc

Date[1867?]

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May, Samuel (publisher)

May, Samuel (author)

Format

Book

Notes

A history and description of billiards, its sanitary advantages, etc., with instructions how to play the game

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Hardcover books

Dimensions22 pages : illustrations

Language

CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession Number37131055356430D

Dewey Number1989773

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A history and description of billiards, its sanitary advantages, etc

A history and description of billiards, its sanitary advantages, etc

[1867?]

Carlos Billiards, Lansdowne Avenue, west side, between College Street and Lumbervale Avenue, Toronto, Ont.

Carlos Billiards, Lansdowne Avenue, west side, between College Street and Lumbervale Avenue, Toronto, Ont.

1980

Black and white photograph of a group of men in uniforms and civilian cloths posing around pool ...

Billiard Room Red Triangle Club Toronto

Approximately 1918

Trick-shot billiard artist Atomic Eddie Agha, who puts on a show several times a day in Leisure Time Pavilion at the Canadian National Exhibition, can(...)

Trick-shot billiard artist Atomic Eddie Agha, who puts on a show several times a day in Leisure Time Pavilion at the Canadian National Exhibition, can(...)

8/21/1974

A pool hustler, who claims he's the best in the world, Bruce Christopher, 29, does hold the world record for the most number of billiard balls pockete(...)

A pool hustler, who claims he's the best in the world, Bruce Christopher, 29, does hold the world record for the most number of billiard balls pockete(...)

3/9/1976

A posh look to an old game

A posh look to an old game

3/21/1989

Playing pool is winning a new respectability, attracting professional people like Gayle Bonish, top, and Olivier Tran, above

Playing pool is winning a new respectability, attracting professional people like Gayle Bonish, top, and Olivier Tran, above

3/5/1993

Playing pool is winning a new respectability, attracting professional people like Gayle Bonish, top, and Olivier Tran, above

Playing pool is winning a new respectability, attracting professional people like Gayle Bonish, top, and Olivier Tran, above

3/5/1993

Pool halls lose but there are fears the game may be on the wane

Pool halls lose but there are fears the game may be on the wane

11/15/1976

1/26/1982

It's first class. Don Stoyanovich of Rack and Cue Billiards checks on customs cue that is being raffled off with proceeds going to the Sportsmen's Corner of The Star Santa Claus Fund

It's first class. Don Stoyanovich of Rack and Cue Billiards checks on customs cue that is being raffled off with proceeds going to the Sportsmen's Corner of The Star Santa Claus Fund

12/18/1972

Back at it: Corrado Di Pietro, left, settles in for a good card game with customer Mike Stelti, right, while another customer watches at Corrado's Billiards on Ellesmere Ave.

Back at it: Corrado Di Pietro, left, settles in for a good card game with customer Mike Stelti, right, while another customer watches at Corrado's Billiards on Ellesmere Ave.

3/20/1986