Office of the President - James and Mary Ham host women alumni at 93 Hyland
Date
September 18, 1981
Extent and medium
35 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photos show mainly women alumni at a reception and lunch at 93 Hyland. Most appear to be graduates from the 1930s.
Title
Female student posing with bust of John Galbraith
Date
[197-]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm
Description
Galbraith was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering from 1906 until 1914.
Title
Women engineering students
Date
February 24, 1972
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm
Description
These students are at a party for women in engineering at Dean Ham's.
Title
Pauline Emily Mills McGibbon
Date
[1971?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
McGibbon was the first woman President of the University of Toronto Alumni Association and was also the first woman to be elected, in 1971, to the post of Chancellor at the University of Toronto. In 1974 she became Ontario's 22nd Lieutenant Governor, a post she held until 1980. In 1981 she was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. McGibbon died in December, 2001.
Title
Kay Riddell
Date
June 07, 1965
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
Riddell, director of the International Student Centre, stands in front of the Centre located in Cumberland House on St. George Street.
Title
Clara Cynthia Benson
Date
1899
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 38 x 48 cm
Description
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
Annie Lewisa Laird
Date
[ca. 1930]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 cm and 1 slide : b&w ; 7 x 7 cm
Description
Annie Laird and Clara Benson were the first women professors at the University. Professor Laird became the principal of Household Science.
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
Clara Cynthia Benson
Date
[ca. 1945]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 11 cm
Description
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, along with Annie Laird, were the first women professors at the University of Toronto.
Title
Drum majorette and Physical Education student Hilkka Maria Filpula
Date
[ca. 1950]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w
Title
The First Basic Diploma Graduates from the School of Nursing, 1936
Date
1936
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 20 x 16 cm
Title
Library School Class, Ontario College of Education?, 1929-1930
Date
[ca. 1930]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: 11 x 7 cm
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
Women's Medico-Literary Society
Date
1908
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Taken from the yearbook, Torontonensis 1908 p. 159
Title
Nurse Margaret Allemang
Date
[ca. 1941]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w
Description
Seen here in her first position
Title
Phyllis Hart, goalie of the Ladies' Intercollegiate Hockey Team, 1961
Date
1961
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Mildred Vera Peters
Date
[196-?]
Extent and medium
1 slide : b&w ; 5 x 5 cm
Description
Dr. Vera Peters, a medical researcher and a pioneer in the treatment of Hodgin's disease and breast cancer, graduated from the university's Faculty of Medicine in 1934.
Title
Class in Massage , second year, physiotherapy
Date
1939
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Reproduced from page 20 of the University Extension, Two-Year in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, 1939
Title
Candlelight vigil for the Montreal Ecole Polytechnique massacre, organized by the University of Toronto Women's centre