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.
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
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
Letitia Catherine Salter
Date
[191-?]
Extent and medium
1 halftone : b&w ; 15 x 23 cm
Description
In 1884 Salter was appointed the first Lady Superintendent of women students at University College. She resigned in 1916 and died soon after in 1919.
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
Annie Lewisa Laird
Date
[ca. 1930]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 20 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
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
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
Biological Building - First Year Honour Science Class, women students
Date
1924
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w
Title
Marjorie Hill, graduate of architecture seen graduating with fellow male students
Date
June 04, 1920
Extent and medium
1 photograph: 16 x 12 cm
Title
Convocation procession
Date
1917
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 26 x 19 cm
Description
Shows Clara Benson, second in procession
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
Varsity Ladies Hockey Team
Date
[ca. 1910]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 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
Minnie Louise Barrie of the Varsity Ladies Hockey Team
Date
[ca. 1910]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 6 x 10 cm
Title
Nursing sisters in dug-out in process of construction, No. 4 Canadian General Hospital, Salonika, Jan. 1916
Date
1916
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Executive of Medical Undergraduate Women's Council and Medical Y. W. C. A.
Date
1918
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Top row: F. Speers, L. Snider, M. Stuart, M. Cowan. Bottom row: S. Gay; J. McClure, President Y. W. C. A.; G. Boyd, President Council; L. Chase, M. Folinsbee. Taken from the yearbook, Torontonensis 1918 p. 101
Title
Officers of Women's Literary Society of University College, 1894-1895
Date
[ca. 1895]
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Description
(back row, from left) Flora Mabel Webb, Treasurer; Jessie Pell Brown, 2nd year councillor; Elizabeth Rebecca Laird, curator; Mary Louise Menhennick; (seated, from left) Ethel Elizabeth Scott, corresponding secretary; Julia Sim Cowan, vice-president; Janie Sanderson Hillock, president; Grace Kearn Dingle, 4th year councillor; Ellen Maud Graham, recording secretary; Agnes Rutherford Riddell, 3rd year councillor.