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Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.

Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.

Date11/8/1983
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126194F
Alderman Ben Grys. He denies he was involved in a conflict of interest over mortgages his wife held on a developer's property
Alderman Ben Grys. He denies he was involved in a conflict of interest over mortgages his wife held on a developer's property
6/23/1971
Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
7/15/1970
Bank site today. Toronto-Dominion Bank as it looks today. Building will be torn down to make way for a soaring 55 storey structure. Developers hope th(...)
Bank site today. Toronto-Dominion Bank as it looks today. Building will be torn down to make way for a soaring 55 storey structure. Developers hope th(...)
11/6/1962
Bill Dendy: Author and architectural historian with relief carvings outside post office building on Bay St.
Bill Dendy: Author and architectural historian with relief carvings outside post office building on Bay St.
6/29/1987
Exquisite work Stanley Hill of the Six Nations reserve of Brantford, artist whose bone carvings are on exhibit at the Christel Galleries of Fine Art, (...)
Exquisite work Stanley Hill of the Six Nations reserve of Brantford, artist whose bone carvings are on exhibit at the Christel Galleries of Fine Art, (...)
4/8/1981
See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near
See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near
4/29/1985
Text in varied font type, framed with a line border. Small illustration of maker's mark or shie ...
Wood fibro carvings: catalogue no. 9, section no. 1
Approximately 1900s
Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
9/28/1965
Great mix: German designer Otto Kern, posing with two of his models, is doing printed silks and cottons for spring
Great mix: German designer Otto Kern, posing with two of his models, is doing printed silks and cottons for spring
10/15/1992
Juvenile pieces : containing The student's dream, The vision of female excellence, The painter's panegyrist, and An evening's meditation on the extent and uses of our present knowledge : accompanied with an extract from Mason's Elegy to a young nobleman leaving the university and Cotton's Fire-side
Juvenile pieces : containing The student's dream, The vision of female excellence, The painter's panegyrist, and An evening's meditation on the extent and uses of our present knowledge : accompanied with an extract from Mason's Elegy to a young nobleman leaving the university and Cotton's Fire-side
1793
Gay's Fables and other poems , Cotton's Visions in verse , Moore's Fables for the female sex , with sketches of the authors' lives
Gay's Fables and other poems , Cotton's Visions in verse , Moore's Fables for the female sex , with sketches of the authors' lives
1826
Large photo, top thee bolts are snappy cottons from IKEA, $9 to $14 per metre
Large photo, top thee bolts are snappy cottons from IKEA, $9 to $14 per metre
9/8/1987