Toronto Public Library Participates in Doors Open Toronto
Toronto Public Library is thrilled to showcase Toronto Reference Library on Doors Open Toronto by Great Gulf with an open house of the Preservation & Digitization Department on the lower level and a rare glimpse of some our greatest treasures on the fifth floor in the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre.
We throw open the doors at 10 am on Saturday May 26! Here is a glimpse of some of the treasures on display:
Poster: Advertising a showing of "Outside the Law" at the Regent Theatre, Toronto
"Outside the Law" is a 1920 American crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Priscilla Dean (1896-1987) as the woman who is exquisitely gowned with tricky eyes, a dangerous smile and nimble fingers! The film was remade in 1930. Dean starred in numerous silent films and a few “talkies.”
Book: The Stanley Kubrick Archives, Jeremy Bernstein et al., Taschen, 2005
Cigarette Cards: Cigarette cards from the 1920s featuring film advertising
Engraving, 1843: Grace Marks and James McDermott, as they appeared at their trial, Toronto, Ont.
Margaret Atwood did research at the library while writing Alias Grace, which was later adapted into a TV miniseries in 2017.
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