“Yonge St. Mission, Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Davis on roof garden,” Toronto, July 29, 1924, via The Globe and Mail Collection (Fond 1266, Item 3318), City of Toronto Archives.
John Coolidge Davis founded the Yonge Street Mission in the 1890s, handing out food and clothing to the poor from a “gospel wagon.” In 1904, the Mission purchased the building at 381 Yonge Street, now called the Evergreen Centre for Street Youth.
“Mrs. Gordon’s boys,” Montreal, 1906, by Wm. Notman & Son, via McCord Museum Common on flickr.
The boys’ father was a wealthy businessman and banker, and their garden encompassed five acres. Next door, another four acres were owned by their uncle and aunt, Harriet Brooks Pitcher. She was an early nuclear scientist who contributed to the discovery of radon and worked briefly with Marie Curie.
Women and Children in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, 1898, by Eugène Atget, via The J. Paul Getty Museum Open Content Program.
“Hilde Eschen (right) with two women in the garden of Weikersheim Castle,” Baden-Württemberg, Germany, July 1959, by Willem van de Poll, via Nationaal Archief (Netherlands).
Eschen was the photographer’s wife.
Homes on North Commerce Street, Natchez, Mississippi, ca. 1900, by Robert Livingston or William Percy Stewart, via Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
The Stewart brothers were local amateur photographers. A search on Google Maps shows that these houses still stand, but without the elaborately turned post columns of the house on the right.
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