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Picture of a large sailing ship with sails down.

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Sailing ship 'Lyman M. Davis' lying at Sunnyside Beach, Toronto

DateApproximatley 1934

Notes

Burned at Sunnyside Beach at midnight, July 29, 1934.

On reverse of postcard: sole survivor of that company of ships which for two centuries plied the Great Lakes with cargo under canvas, the LYMAN M. DAVIS lies at Sunnyside Beach, awaiting the day when she will be burned to make a spectacle for vast crowds of people. When the waves finally close over her hull and her stately masts fall, her kind shall have been seen for the last time on the great inland seas of America. She is a 430 ton two-master, 125 feet in length, with masts 130 feet high. She was built in 1873 in the United States and has braved the storms on all the lakes.

Subject

Sailing ships

GeographyBuilding Monument ParkSunnyside Amusement Park, 1922-1955

GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto

GeographyNeighbourhoodSunnyside

GeographyEast-west streetLakeshore Boulevard West

GeographyNorth-south streetRoncesvalles Avenue

GeographyProvince stateOntario

GeographyCountryCanada

Medium

DimensionsImage size: 8.8 cm x 14 cm (3 7/16 in. x 5 1/2 in.)

Language

English

ProvenanceGift of Norman Attikin

CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Object NumberPC_4132

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