Globe and Mail launches new photo archive for subscribers

The Globe and Mail has launched the News Photo Archive, a special service for its subscribers. GlobeandMail.com subscribers now have an opportunity to view thousands of prints from the newspaper’s photo archives.

As part of the Globe‘s Canada 150 celebration, the national newspaper has put together “an eclectic selection of photos that range from a 1901 picture of the Forester’s Arch being erected on Bay and Richmond streets for a royal visit to a Canadian astronomical discovery in the late 1990s.”

To celebrate the launch of the News Photo Archive, photo archivists and researchers have prepared special collections for subscribers.

The collections include Major Characters — prime ministers, premiers, and famous Canadians; Everyday life — at work, at play and beyond the city; and Defining Moments — FLQ Crisis, Canada’s centennial, Summit series, Oka standoff, and World War Two.

The photos can be browsed by year, from 1901 to 1997, and by photographer.

A unique feature of the archive is that it shows both the front and back of the photos, providing an unedited look at the newspaper’s graphics process.

The Globe marks its 173rd anniversary this year. “We are intensely proud of the fact we have helped shape Canada from the very beginning of its existence to its 150th birthday. George Brown, our publisher in 1867, was one of the fathers of Confederation.”

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2 Responses to Globe and Mail launches new photo archive for subscribers

  1. Helen Gillespie says:

    Fantastic that the Globe is doing this! York U has the fonds for the defunct Toronto Telegram and they have posted many photos from their archive https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/1478/browse?value=Toronto+Telegram&type=series and I think The (Toronto) Star also has an Archive, but may not be nearly as usable as the Globe one, I think. https://starstore.ca/collections/photographs They have produced a number of collections in books.

  2. Ben and Norma Fear says:

    On Sept 6 1948 , our paper wedding anniversary, Norma , my wife of now 70 years
    in celebration of the occasion gave me a gift of the Globe and Mail. We have been subscribers and readers since that date. One outstanding feature off this long time readership is the extremely efficient delivery service of innumerable delivery persons from young persons before attending school to older seniors . We had delivery from entire families as they have grown year by year, to older persons whom we have never seen, but after 50 years in Niagara Falls and now 20 years in Guelph we say “Thank You”. We will enjoy refreshing our memories.

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