Painting of the original Toronto Magnetic and Meteorologic Observatory. Originally uploaded to English Wikipedia by Maury Markowitz on 28 August 2007
Date
1852
date QS:P571,+1852-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer
Taken and cropped from Canada Space Agency; a version from the University of Toronto Archives is here. The latter is taller, but has also been flipped from left to right.
Licensing
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2007-08-28 14:13 Maury Markowitz 431×290×8 (25056 bytes) Painting of the original Toronto Magnetic and Meteorologic Observatory, painted by [[William Armstrong (artist)|]] in 1852. Cropped from the original found [http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/img/toile_armstrong.jpg here]. {{PD-Art|PD-old}} {{PD-Canada}}
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