Royal Handiwork. The warm embrace for Edward VII at Queen's Park yesterday is really just a good scrubbing from Anne Marie Guchardi, inset, as the 30-(...)

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Royal Handiwork. The warm embrace for Edward VII at Queen's Park yesterday is really just a good scrubbing from Anne Marie Guchardi, inset, as the 30-(...)

Date7/31/1991

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Power, Peter (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Royal Handiwork. The warm embrace for Edward VII at Queen's Park yesterday is really just a good scrubbing from Anne Marie Guchardi; inset; as the 30-year-old Toronto Historial Board employee cleas the statuesque rider and mount of dirt and bird offerings. The statue will be waxed when she's done.

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