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Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.

Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.

Date11/8/1983
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0126194F
      Alderman Ben Grys. He denies he was involved in a conflict of interest over mortgages his wife held on a developer's property
      Alderman Ben Grys. He denies he was involved in a conflict of interest over mortgages his wife held on a developer's property
      City council members
      6/23/1971
      Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
      Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
      James, Norman
      7/15/1970
      Bank site today. Toronto-Dominion Bank as it looks today. Building will be torn down to make way for a soaring 55 storey structure. Developers hope th(...)
      Bank site today. Toronto-Dominion Bank as it looks today. Building will be torn down to make way for a soaring 55 storey structure. Developers hope th(...)
      James, Norman
      11/6/1962
      Exquisite work Stanley Hill of the Six Nations reserve of Brantford, artist whose bone carvings are on exhibit at the Christel Galleries of Fine Art, (...)
      Exquisite work Stanley Hill of the Six Nations reserve of Brantford, artist whose bone carvings are on exhibit at the Christel Galleries of Fine Art, (...)
      Dunlop, Al
      4/8/1981
      Bill Dendy: Author and architectural historian with relief carvings outside post office building on Bay St.
      Bill Dendy: Author and architectural historian with relief carvings outside post office building on Bay St.
      Spremo, Boris
      6/29/1987
      Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
      Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
      Darrell, Dick
      9/28/1965
      See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near
      See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near
      Faught, Ken
      4/29/1985
      Text in varied font type, framed with a line border. Small illustration of maker's mark or shie…
      Wood fibro carvings: catalogue no. 9, section no. 1
      John Walter & Sons
      Approximately 1900s
      Country colors: Blue and white French cottons brighten broadcast editor Micki Moore's home office, which does double duty as a guest room
      Country colors: Blue and white French cottons brighten broadcast editor Micki Moore's home office, which does double duty as a guest room
      Bull, Ron
      12/12/1987
      Great mix: German designer Otto Kern, posing with two of his models, is doing printed silks and cottons for spring
      Great mix: German designer Otto Kern, posing with two of his models, is doing printed silks and cottons for spring
      Beaty, Keith
      10/15/1992
      Large photo, top thee bolts are snappy cottons from IKEA, $9 to $14 per metre
      Large photo, top thee bolts are snappy cottons from IKEA, $9 to $14 per metre
      Beaty, Keith
      9/8/1987
      Juvenile pieces : containing The student's dream, The vision of female excellence, The painter's panegyrist, and An evening's meditation on the extent and uses of our present knowledge : accompanied with an extract from Mason's Elegy to a young nobleman leaving the university and Cotton's Fire-side
      Juvenile pieces : containing The student's dream, The vision of female excellence, The painter's panegyrist, and An evening's meditation on the extent and uses of our present knowledge : accompanied with an extract from Mason's Elegy to a young nobleman leaving the university and Cotton's Fire-side
      Cottle
      1793