Old Lightning Fingers

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Old Lightning Fingers

Date7/7/1980

Names

Combs, Erin (photographer)

Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991 (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Old Lightning Fingers: A typing contest brought Northrop Frye to Toronto in 1929. He typed his way to a second-place finish then stayed to enroll in then Victoria College. He's now chancellor there - a famed teacher; writer; literary critic and all-round genius.

Subject

Literary theorists

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Photographs

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0048623F

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