# @toronto_archives on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34405346-toronto-archives-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-08T17:01:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** City of Toronto Archives (@toronto_archives) — https://gondola.cc/toronto_archives

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What are you reading these days - comics, magazines, books, news?

September 8 is International Literacy Day, with a focus this year on "Promoting literacy in the digital era." We love digitization for enabling greater access to archives - not just great photos like these reading-related ones, but also other fascinating records such as city directories, by-laws, maps, and more! 

1. Men reading news in Chinatown, V-J Holiday, August 15, 1945. Globe & Mail Fonds 1266, Item 98421.
2. Group of boys reading magazines, Variety Village, 3701 Danforth Avenue, circa 1950s. Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 9240.
3. Mary Goss (daughter of City photographer A.S. Goss), aged 2, seated in armchair reading book. Photo by A.S. Goss, December 1913. Fonds 200, Series 372, Subseries 41, Item 586. 
4. Armed Forces personnel reading comics, possibly at CFB Borden in Ontario or CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick. Photo by Desmond E. Wainwright, 1955. Fonds 536, Item 344. 
5. Church Street Library, interior of children's room, May 21, 1925. Globe & Mail Fonds 1266, Item 5312. 

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