Category: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Title: An American tourist and family stop momentarily beside the Queen Elizabeth Way at night. The highway is lighted for 74 miles between Toronto and Niagara Falls, and when the system is completed as the highway is finished to Fort Erie and the Peace Bridge, the lighting system will be the world's longest.
Date: ca. 1941
Medium: gelatin silver print with retouching and editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0639.0010

Inscriptions:
Recto, handwritten: 66-7; Verso, handwritten: 14-485-L-14-D [circled]; typed: An American tourist and family stop momentarily beside the Queen Elizabeth / Way at night. The highway is lighted for 74 miles between Toronto and / Niagara Falls, and when the system is completed as the highway is finished / to Fort Erie and the Peace Bridge, the lighting system will be the world's / longest.; handwritten: [circled] Sunday Autos / [circled] 3 col Shallow / Queen Eliz. Way / Canada; stamped: RECEIVED / OCT 17 1941 / ART DEPT. FILES; stamped: RESORT [underscored] / THURSDAY; handwritten: 6 x 3; handwritten: 11-411-L [circled and struck through]Recto, écrit à la main : 66-7 ; Verso, manuscrit : 14-485-L-14-D [encerclé] ; dactylographié : Un touriste américain et sa famille s'arrêtent momentanément au bord de la Queen Elizabeth / Way de nuit. L'autoroute est éclairée sur 74 miles entre Toronto et / les chutes du Niagara, et lorsque le système sera achevé / jusqu'à Fort Erie et le pont de la Paix, le système d'éclairage sera le / plus long du monde ; manuscrit : [encerclé] Sunday Autos / [encerclé] 3 col Shallow / Queen Eliz. Way / Canada ; estampillé : [encerclé] Sunday Autos / [encerclé] 3 col Shallow / Queen Eliz : REÇU / 17 OCT. 1941 / DOSSIERS DU DÉPARTEMENT DES ARTS ; cachet : reçu / 17 oct. 1941 / art dept : RESORT [souligné] / JEUDI ; manuscrit : 6 x 3 ; manuscrit : 11-411-L [entouré et barré]

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection, The Image Centre.