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Practised eyes: Joy and Clive Goodwin, authors of A Bird-Watching Guide to Ontario, focus their telescope and binoculars so they won't miss any of the 1,000 plumages familiar to the Metro area
Practised eyes: Joy and Clive Goodwin, authors of A Bird-Watching Guide to Ontario, focus their telescope and binoculars so they won't miss any of the 1,000 plumages familiar to the Metro area

Practised eyes: Joy and Clive Goodwin, authors of A Bird-Watching Guide to Ontario, focus their telescope and binoculars so they won't miss any of the 1,000 plumages familiar to the Metro area

Date5/12/1983
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0127821F
Bird's eye view: A London policeman looks down through binoculars for any sign of trouble in the crowds
Bird's eye view: A London policeman looks down through binoculars for any sign of trouble in the crowds
7/29/1981
Binoculars jammed to eyes, birders scans the treetops as the great migration begins
Binoculars jammed to eyes, birders scans the treetops as the great migration begins
5/12/1980
Telescope teachings : a familiar sketch of astronomical discovery : combining a special notice of objects coming within the range of a small telescope : illustrated by the author's original drawings : with a detail of the most interesting discoveries which have been made with the assistance of powerful telescopes, concerning the phenomena of the heavenly bodies, including the recent comet
Telescope teachings : a familiar sketch of astronomical discovery : combining a special notice of objects coming within the range of a small telescope : illustrated by the author's original drawings : with a detail of the most interesting discoveries which have been made with the assistance of powerful telescopes, concerning the phenomena of the heavenly bodies, including the recent comet
1859
Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
7/8/1990
Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
7/8/1990
Watching: An Ontario provincial policeman peers through binoculars at the Woodstock home where a gunman was thought to be holding hostages after four people died in gunfights
Watching: An Ontario provincial policeman peers through binoculars at the Woodstock home where a gunman was thought to be holding hostages after four people died in gunfights
10/8/1984
Alert Gpards, one with binoculars, man a security post at a window in the Confederation hall and keep a close eye on the crowd below and nearby buildings
Alert Gpards, one with binoculars, man a security post at a window in the Confederation hall and keep a close eye on the crowd below and nearby buildings
10/7/1964
Ardent student: Jack Elmes' neighbors often bring him birds they find dead and he keeps them in the freezer so he can study their plumage for his paintings
Ardent student: Jack Elmes' neighbors often bring him birds they find dead and he keeps them in the freezer so he can study their plumage for his paintings
5/22/1980
The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy
The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy
1770
Freedom road: It took binoculars to get a full view of westbound traffic stretching 45 kilometres from Helmstedt to West Berlin
Freedom road: It took binoculars to get a full view of westbound traffic stretching 45 kilometres from Helmstedt to West Berlin
11/11/1989
Spy glass: Amateur astronomer Ted Molczan peers out his window using powerful binoculars
Spy glass: Amateur astronomer Ted Molczan peers out his window using powerful binoculars
10/31/1990
Paul Harpley: The painter-naturalist uses binoculars to get a little closer to his subject on a sketching expedition in Morningside Park in Scarborough
Paul Harpley: The painter-naturalist uses binoculars to get a little closer to his subject on a sketching expedition in Morningside Park in Scarborough
4/8/1980