This photo was taken from a composite of the University of Toronto graduating class of 1899 when Clara Benson received her BA. Benson, a chemist, received a PhD in 1903. Benson and Emma Baker were the first women to receive PhDs from the University. Benson belonged to the Faculty of Household Science from 1905 to 1945. Clara Benson and Annie Laird were the first women professors at the University.
Title
Clara Brett Martin
Date
[189-?]
Extent and medium
1 slide : colour ; 35 mm
Description
Martin graduated from Trinity in 1890. In 1897 she graduated from Osgoode Law School and was admitted to the Bar, becoming Canada's first female lawyer.
Title
Dr. Helen MacMurchy
Date
[ca. 1914]
Extent and medium
1 photoclipping : b&w ; 5 x 7.5 cm
Description
Portrait of Dr. Helen MacMurchy, taken from the Globe, April 28 1914. MacMurchy was one the first female graduates of Medicine (M.B. 1900) and internationally known in the field of child welfare.
Title
Annie Teresa Reed (B.A. 1897)
Date
1897
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 2 x 2 cm
Description
Portrait taken from the University of Toronto, Graduating Class in Arts, 1897,
Title
Eliza May Balmer
Date
[188-?]
Extent and medium
1 halftone : b&w ; 13 x 23 cm
Description
Balmer graduated from University College in 1886.
Title
Margaret Langley, May Bell Bald, and Ella Gardiner
Date
1885
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 40 x 49 cm
Description
Image part of the composite of the University College graduating class in Arts, 1885. These women were members of the first graduating class that included women.
Title
Esther Marjorie Hill
Date
[194-?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller. -
Description
Hill received a B.A.Sc. in 1920 from the University of Toronto. She was Canada's first woman architect.
Title
Nursing students from the 1945-49 class with Ms. Russell in the garden
Date
[194-]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 7.5 x 13 cm
Title
Maud Lenora Menten, as a young woman.
Date
[191-?]
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Menten was the first Canadian woman to receive a medical doctorate in 1911 from the University of Toronto. Photograph taken from pamphlet entitled "Maud Lenora Menten 1879-1960" published by the Canadian Biochemical Society.
Title
Emma S. Baker
Date
1899
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 3x5 cm
Description
Graduation portrait taken from University of Toronto, Graduating Class, 1899
Title
Minnie Louise Barrie of the Varsity Ladies Hockey Team
