#archival document

City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 1465, File 120 Created sometime in the 1970s, this is a colour negative reproduction. 

For context, I’ve been going through boxes of old books, magazines, and papers belonging to my family. I recently turned up an entire folder full of old engineering photographs and x-rays from my father’s engineering work, which I’m going to scan over the next few weeks in the interest of sharing some really neat images. I also ran across this manual for a telescope (my father was hard into astronomy and had several quite large telescopes) and thought it was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a week. I doubt the creator of this undoubtedly useful piece of technology ever thought his name would eventually mean what it does today. Item: ‘Yolo Reflector’ user’s manual and functionality whitepaper Published by OPTICA Oakland, CA 1965

Facsimile of broadside proposing an Institution whose “Plan of Education solicits, and it is not Presumption to add, deserves public Encouragement.” From the Georgetown University Archives and published in A History of Georgetown University. Happy birthday Georgetown University Press!