84 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm and 2 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm
Description
Photographs taken during a Women's Alumni lecture at University College and dinner at the Great Hall, Hart House in 1969. It includes photographs of guests and lecturers.
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.
Photograph taken from "Torontonensis," 1953 Standing, left to right: Beth Wade, Jane Timmins, Mary Macdonald, Margaret Walker, Carolyn Dobson, Shirley Roberts, Mickey Barnett Sitting, left to right: Daphne Walker, Jane Duff, June Hansford, Sally Wallace, Joan Mooney, Marion Capel, Heather Chipman
Title
Women's Studies class
Date
March 04, 1975
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
Seminar held in Innis College and led by Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, back to camera.
Title
Clara Cynthia Benson
Date
1950
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 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
Physical Health and Education swimmers
Date
[1958?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
Left to right: Mary Rutherford, Jean Milkard, Norma Gant, Isabell Crary, and Maureen Finn from the Peterborough Swimming Club.
Title
Piret Komi, football referee, 1975
Date
1975
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Jan (Thayer) Tennant (2nd from left) attempts a basket as part of a III PHE women's basketball team, 1957-1958
Date
1957-1958
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Candlelight vigil for the Montreal Ecole Polytechnique massacre, organized by the University of Toronto Women's centre
Date
December 13, 1989
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Francess G. Halpenny in her office
Date
December 1972
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w
Description
Halpenny was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Library Science in 1972. She also served as General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1969-1988.
Title
School of Physical and Health Education - Women's Athletics
Date
September 29, 1971
Extent and medium
37 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during the women's athletics skill instruction registration at Clara Benson Building in 1971. It includes photographs of kiosks and registration, students demonstrating activities such as gymnastics, fencing and golf. There are also photographs of the pool in the Benson building.
Title
School of Physical Health and Education - Netball demonstration clinic
Date
June 07, 1972
Extent and medium
27 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs show female students playing netball for representatives of provincial educational and recreational institutions. Prof. Maureen O'Bryan organized the clinic and was helped by Miss Rena Stratford, past president of the International Federation of Women Netball Associations.
Title
Athletics and Recreation - Activities in the Women's Athletic Building
Date
January 1960
Extent and medium
28 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Interior views of the Women's Athletic Building (Benson Building) featuring students practicing badminton, archery, gymnastics, golf, and rhythmic gymnastics.
Title
Athletics and Recreation - Opening of pool at Women's Athletic Building
Date
January 3, 1960
Extent and medium
12 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Views of swimmers and spectators at the pool in the Women's Athletic Building.
Title
Faculty of Social Work - students
Date
January 29, 1960
Extent and medium
12 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Views of Social Work students studying together. Possibly taken for the Hamilton Spectator.
Title
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.