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
Women graduates on the steps of University College
Date
[191-]
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
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
Red Cross Room, Library
Date
[191-]
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
Description
Photo shows women working on sewing machines in the university library during World War I.
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
Varsity Ladies Hockey Team
Date
[ca. 1910]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 14 cm
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 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
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
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
Varsity Ladies Hockey Team
Date
[ca. 1910]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 14 x 8 cm
Description
From left to right: official (unknown), Miss Macdonald, Miss Barry, Miss Hunter, Miss Bonnar, Miss Sutherland, Miss Fairburn, Miss Murphy
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
University College ladies hockey team, ca. 1911
Date
1911
Extent and medium
1 photograph
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.