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Harley Parker: Designer of museum's new gallery
Harley Parker: Designer of museum's new gallery

Harley Parker: Designer of museum's new gallery

Date1/24/1967
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Object NumberTSPA_0131871F
Old cars come out like new. Restoring antique cars is the hobby and the business of Ron Fawcett of Whitby leading on a 1956 Thunderbird under the Harvard trainer mounted on the roof. Fawcett has restored cars for museums in Ottawa. Oshawa and Niagara Fall
Old cars come out like new. Restoring antique cars is the hobby and the business of Ron Fawcett of Whitby leading on a 1956 Thunderbird under the Harvard trainer mounted on the roof. Fawcett has restored cars for museums in Ottawa. Oshawa and Niagara Fall
11/3/1975
386-Pound Meteorit at Royal Ontario museum. Dr. V. B. Meen si museum's chief mineralogist
386-Pound Meteorit at Royal Ontario museum. Dr. V. B. Meen si museum's chief mineralogist
9/1/1966
Don't worry, they're pickled. Dr. E. J. Crossman, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's department of ichthyology and herpetology, checks two sharks he has taken from an alcohol solution. He's making the checks as the museum moves 1 million fish specimens to a warehouse during renovations.
Don't worry, they're pickled. Dr. E. J. Crossman, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's department of ichthyology and herpetology, checks two sharks he has taken from an alcohol solution. He's making the checks as the museum moves 1 million fish specimens to a warehouse during renovations.
8/26/1977
Showman: Mel Hinde and his company Museum Productions create displays for museums around the world.
Showman: Mel Hinde and his company Museum Productions create displays for museums around the world.
1/27/1993
Hundreds of rocks are displayed in the mineralogy department laboratory of the Royal Ontario Museum as Dr. Joseph Mandarino, head of the department, talks with 13-year-old Steven Berdock. Steven began collecting specimens two years ago and is proud of the display he has at home. The museum's collection is one of the fienst in North America and among the best ten in the world.
Hundreds of rocks are displayed in the mineralogy department laboratory of the Royal Ontario Museum as Dr. Joseph Mandarino, head of the department, talks with 13-year-old Steven Berdock. Steven began collecting specimens two years ago and is proud of the display he has at home. The museum's collection is one of the fienst in North America and among the best ten in the world.
1/8/1971
Edward Meyer works out of a Toronto office for Ripley's Believe It Or Not! hunting down exhibits for 20 museums around the world
Edward Meyer works out of a Toronto office for Ripley's Believe It Or Not! hunting down exhibits for 20 museums around the world
9/14/1992
Bat man: Randolph Lee Peterson, the Royal Ontario Museum's expert on bats, holds up a bat known as a flying fox
Bat man: Randolph Lee Peterson, the Royal Ontario Museum's expert on bats, holds up a bat known as a flying fox
10/26/1989
Ojibwa Indian Walter Currie (left), who opened the Royal Ontario Museum's 60th anniversary exhibit of British artist Paul Kane's paintings yesterday talks with his daughter, Leslie, student Philip Fischer (second from left) and Johnny Yesno, and Ojibwa and producer of CBC's Our Native Land in exhibition hall.
Ojibwa Indian Walter Currie (left), who opened the Royal Ontario Museum's 60th anniversary exhibit of British artist Paul Kane's paintings yesterday talks with his daughter, Leslie, student Philip Fischer (second from left) and Johnny Yesno, and Ojibwa and producer of CBC's Our Native Land in exhibition hall.
1/4/1972
The rigid English said he was 'unsuitable' but the Royal Ontario Museum's keeper of 'romantic magical' dinosaurs has proved them wrong
The rigid English said he was 'unsuitable' but the Royal Ontario Museum's keeper of 'romantic magical' dinosaurs has proved them wrong
3/28/1983
Ancient evidence: Chris McGowan, curator of the Royal Ontario Museum's vertebrate palaeontology department, and Rev
Ancient evidence: Chris McGowan, curator of the Royal Ontario Museum's vertebrate palaeontology department, and Rev
11/17/1984
But not for us: The Royal Ontario Museum's chief archeologist, Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham, points out part of Iran's royal collection from a book he co-authored. If they were to go on sale, the ROM would not be in the market for the priceless treasure. It couldn't even afford the sparkle from one of these emeralds, he said.
But not for us: The Royal Ontario Museum's chief archeologist, Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham, points out part of Iran's royal collection from a book he co-authored. If they were to go on sale, the ROM would not be in the market for the priceless treasure. It couldn't even afford the sparkle from one of these emeralds, he said.
3/11/1982
Freelance writer Judy Nyman, left, looks over the program with her husband, chartered accountant Harley Mintz, chairman of the board of the Reena Foundation, as Lisa Raphael looks on
Freelance writer Judy Nyman, left, looks over the program with her husband, chartered accountant Harley Mintz, chairman of the board of the Reena Foundation, as Lisa Raphael looks on
4/20/1989