General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

stone

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

35.5 cm

Width

25.4 cm

Height

9.2 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

15.0

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Railway Transportation

Category

Operations

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

early 20th century

Canada

This lithographic stone carries an image of a streetcar marked St. Clair, presumably used on the St. Clair route of the Toronto Civic Railways which began operating in 1913. The streetcar appears to be one of the TCR streetcars numbered 100-119. These were double truck cars of wooden construction built by the Niles Car and Manufacturing Co. of Niles, Ohio and purchased in 1913 by TCR for its new St. Clair and Danforth lines. The Toronto Civic Railways was formed by the city of Toronto in 1911 to provide public transportation to the newly annexed areas of the city. The St. Clair carline was the second one built and ran from Yonge Street to to the Grand Trunk Railway's tracks at Station Street (now Caledonia Road). In 1921 the Toronto Civic Railway became part of the Toronto Transit Commission (Refs 1-3). An item from the collection of Mr Andrew Merrilees acquired between the 1950’s and his death in 1979. Mr. Merrilees was a noted collector of early railway and transportation material and was particularly interested in pre-1920 photography. The majority of Mr.Merrilees’ collection was sent to the National Archives circa 1980, his printed material to the National Library and the Ontario Archives. The material in this donation was retained by Andrew Merrilees Ltd., currently owned by Dr. Robert Stewart (Acquisition proposal for AK0114 archival material by D.Monaghan, in Supp. Info.).

Function

Used in offset printing to carry the image to be printed, in this case, on one side for a Toronto? streetcar company debenture on one side and forms for Imperial Oil Ltd./ the Royal Bank of Canada on the other side.

Technical

An example of an engraved stone used as an original in printing. Because transfers could be cheaply made from the original engraved stone, lithography was the preferred process for printing large numbers of a given form or format, for many years. Their use is now generally limited to artists

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Black debenture form on one side with an image of a streetcar marked 'ST. CLAIR' and lettering reading 'PER CENT DEBENTURE/ 1000 1000'/ black forms on the other side in script reading in part 'St. John, N.B./ The Royal Bank of Canada, St. John/ Imperial Oil, Limited' and 'Halifax, N.S./ The Royal Bank of Canada, Halifax/ Imperial Oil, Limited' with numerous names of Canadian cities in script and print.

Missing

complete

Finish

polished

Decoration

N/A