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Industry: Unidentified.

Image of the exterior of an industrial building seen at a distance from across a parking lot filled with cars. The building has a smokestack with Sunshine painted vertically down the side.

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Circus Parade, King. St. near Water.

Two copy negatives of old photographs. One shows elephants walking double file down a dirt road beside [electric railway?] tracks headed by two single elephants with ladies riding on top. The negative is annotated: "Circus Parade. King St. near Water St. 1904." The other, taken from the same position, shows uniform wearing [firemen?] horseback riding a double file down a dirt road while carrying flags that read: "Fighting the Flames".

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John Roat's Commercial Hotel After Fire, Site of the Walper Hotel, ca. 1892.

Copy negatives from an old photograph ang Page 255 of W. V. Uttley's book "A history of Kitchener, Ontario" (1975). Taken by Sebastian Fischer, the photo is of John Roat's Commercial Hotel, at the corner of Queen and King, following a fire. One of the negatives includes a photograph of the first ambulance with nurses. Also included in the file are typed captions about the hotel and the ambulance that read:

"John Roat's Commercial Hotel after fire

site of Walper

destroyed 1892, after the fire, site bought
by Abel Walper of Zurich, Ont

sign says Livery Stable

(see Uttley History of Kit ..page 255)

2) same pic from book

3) same pic /with first ambulance
& nurses..."

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Horse-Drawn Streetcars: Horse, Man, Small Car From Old Book.

Copy negative of a photograph on Page 78 of Berlin today Centennial number in celebration of the old boys' and girls' reunion August, 6th, 7th, 8th, 1906. Person looking toward the camera from where they are standing at the the front of a horse-drawn trolley. Caption under photo reads: "In the Days of the Horse-Car. Photo kindly loaned by Mr. H. F. Boehmer."

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