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Accident scene: Woman survived elevator shaft fall from top floor to basement
Accident scene: Woman survived elevator shaft fall from top floor to basement

Accident scene: Woman survived elevator shaft fall from top floor to basement

Date1/31/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Accident scene: Woman survived elevator shaft fall from top floor to basement.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0000928F
      Soon to be a memory: The chimney and elevator shaft were all that remained yesterday of a building being demolished on the northwest corner of Bathurst and King Sts
      Soon to be a memory: The chimney and elevator shaft were all that remained yesterday of a building being demolished on the northwest corner of Bathurst and King Sts
      Spremo, Boris
      11/30/1981
      Victim rescued. Larry Zimmerman, trapped for almost two hours between an elevator and its shaft in an Adelaide St. W. building today is carried out by(...)
      Victim rescued. Larry Zimmerman, trapped for almost two hours between an elevator and its shaft in an Adelaide St. W. building today is carried out by(...)
      Mahler, John
      5/16/1980
      Accident Scene : Cousins Mark Carneiro, 5, in the foreground, and Paola Ulloa, 7, have a good view of the open fourth floor window from which 3-year-old Nicholas Wood plunged on Monday
      Accident Scene : Cousins Mark Carneiro, 5, in the foreground, and Paola Ulloa, 7, have a good view of the open fourth floor window from which 3-year-old Nicholas Wood plunged on Monday
      Lautens, Richard
      1/26/1998
      Revolving Restaurant. There will be two elevated floors. Arrows showing entrance from elevator and this floor will be standing still. Lower part (between dotted lines) will revolve very slowly around the clock. ... Peggy Price is looking on the model
      Revolving Restaurant. There will be two elevated floors. Arrows showing entrance from elevator and this floor will be standing still. Lower part (between dotted lines) will revolve very slowly around the clock. ... Peggy Price is looking on the model
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      1974
      View from inside eleavotr shaft sows Goodwin near top of his climb
      View from inside eleavotr shaft sows Goodwin near top of his climb
      Griffin, Doug
      6/26/1986
      Adjusting: Above, former crane operator Joe Dowdall, 33, was injured in a runaway elevator accident at the Scotia Plaza construction site in August, 1987
      Adjusting: Above, former crane operator Joe Dowdall, 33, was injured in a runaway elevator accident at the Scotia Plaza construction site in August, 1987
      Dowdall, Joe
      1/12/1989
      What floor, please? Wolfgang Schnetz is one of the few elevator operators left in Toronto
      What floor, please? Wolfgang Schnetz is one of the few elevator operators left in Toronto
      Bull, Ron
      8/14/1980
      Robbery aftermath: Bags of loot which robbers failed to take with them lie strewn on floor in Simpsons' basement at Yonge and Queen Sts
      Robbery aftermath: Bags of loot which robbers failed to take with them lie strewn on floor in Simpsons' basement at Yonge and Queen Sts
      Cooper, David
      10/4/1982
      On the scene: Crown attorney Bev Kogan and Coroner Dr. Stefan Kopytek, right, show members of the coroner's jury the elevator where Margaret Joseph, 67, fell 16 storeys to her death
      On the scene: Crown attorney Bev Kogan and Coroner Dr. Stefan Kopytek, right, show members of the coroner's jury the elevator where Margaret Joseph, 67, fell 16 storeys to her death
      Spremo, Boris
      5/5/1982
      12 Corning, These houses were smashed to pieces after they were wrenched from basements and carried away by flood waters. They're resting on top of a dike
      12 Corning, These houses were smashed to pieces after they were wrenched from basements and carried away by flood waters. They're resting on top of a dike
      Norris, Dave
      6/25/1972
      Brother's grief: Larry St. Michel joined the rest of his family at hospital when his brother Wayne was pulled from mine shaft after being trapped 27 hours by a rock burst at the mine
      Brother's grief: Larry St. Michel joined the rest of his family at hospital when his brother Wayne was pulled from mine shaft after being trapped 27 hours by a rock burst at the mine
      Brazao, Dale
      6/14/1984
      Image shows The Church of the Ascension front view. 
      The Church of the Ascension basement offers excellent facilities parents claim, but they feel they cannot stay past next fall without some drastic changes
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      1/17/1967