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The best news

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The best news

Date5/1/1945

Names

Rutherford, George (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: The best news: A mammoth Star headline tells the story Toronto and the world had been waiting nearly six years to read; but now a reader fears that the anniversary is becoming less and less recongnized. How soon we forget such an epochal event; he says.

Subject

Remembrance Day (Canada)

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0001578F

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