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Foraging for reading material
Foraging for reading material

Foraging for reading material

Date1/7/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Foraging for reading material: Betty jane Wylie digs in a garbage can for a discarded nespaper. In her boarding house, it was suspicious to be caught with reading or writing materials. She explaine she wanted the paper only for the horoscope, there threw it away.
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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_0090245F
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