Left to right: Associate Dean Irving Spiegel, geophysicist David Strangway, Principal J. Tuzo Wilson, and Dean E.A. Robinson
Title
Wilbur Rounding Franks
Date
1962
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
Wilbur Franks, Professor in the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, posing here with the Franks Flying Suit - the worlds first G-suit, which in World War II, enabled allied fighter pilots to remain conscious when executing sharp turns at high speeds.
Title
Original members of the Playfair Committee.
Date
1961
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
From left to right: Dr. Olszweki, Dr. Scott, Dr. Botterell and Dr. Richardson. .
Title
Trixie Worsley and Irene Ploester at the IBM 650 computer in the University of Toronto Computation Centre
Date
1960
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 17 x 8 cm
Title
Dr. Frederick Kergin, preparing for operation.
Date
February 27, 1961
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Description
Dr. Kergin was head of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon in Chief of Toronto General Hospital, 1957-1966
Title
Astronomer, Helen Sawyer Hogg beside the of the David Dunlop optical telescope
Date
[ca. 1960]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: 20 x 24 cm
Title
Prof Fred Urquhart
Date
May 1960
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Scientists of the University of Toronto Aerospace Studies prepare payload that will go into the rocket cone used to collect scientific data form the ionosphere.
Date
1964
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Great Lakes Institute - Research onboard the Port Dauphine
Date
June 19, 1960
Extent and medium
49 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Interior and exterior views of research being conducted onboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Port Dauphine, which was on loan to the University of Toronto's Great Lakes Institute. The Institute was established in 1960 by Professor George Langford to study the impacts of pollution and the future Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station on the Great Lakes and their water life. Included are shots of the Porte Dauphine
Title
Dentistry - open house
Date
February 12, 1961
Extent and medium
24 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Interior views of an open house at the Dentistry Building that was attended by 2,000 visitors. Included are shots of guests enjoying refreshments, touring the building, and receiving demonstrations from students, faculty, and alumni.
Title
Faculty of Pharmacy - cardiac research bulb planting
Date
September 18, 1962
Extent and medium
12 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
External view of building and shots of individuals planting bulbs. Sign reads "The plot of Star of Bethlehem is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of West Toronto for Cardiac Research at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto"
Title
Faculty of Dentistry - Orthodontic Studies in Burlington
Views of women filing, examining x-rays, making mouth pieces and other activities. Shots of orthodontist making mould of patient's mouth, taking and examining x-rays.
Title
Royal Ontario Museum - Dr Gordon Edmund, paleontologist, undertaking reptile tooth study
Date
November 9, 1965
Extent and medium
20 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Shows Edmond with a live iguana named Charlie and the posing with the fossil skeleton as of the Tyrannosaurus rex as well as using the X-ray machine to study reptile teeth.
Title
Great Lakes Institute
Date
November 25, 1965
Extent and medium
36 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Views aboard ship including laboratory, kitchen and top deck. Shows a sample being taken and examined
Title
Faculty of Medicine - Department of Ophthalmology Opening
Date
April 28, 1967
Extent and medium
48 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Views of guest examining laboratory and equipment. Views of exhibits and demonstrations and formal speech. This is possibly the opening of the Department.
Title
Department of Ophthalmology - view taken from operating table
Date
May 11, 1967
Extent and medium
34 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
These images taken by Bob Lansdale involved putting the camera on the operating table simulating patient view for eye surgery. Includes a self-portrait of photographer Bob Lansdale.
Title
Dean Andrew R. Gordon in a laboratory in the Lash Miller Chemistry Laboratories
Date
[ca. 1963]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 25 x 20 cm
Description
Gordon was head of the Chemistry department from 1943-1953. He was appointed Dean of Graduate Studies in 1953, a position he held until his retirement in 1964.
Title
Dr. W.G. Bigelow and colleagues in hibernation research are grouped around an electro-cardiograph machine and cooling bath.
Date
1961
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Taken from Varsity Graduate, spring 1961, p.56-57.
Title
Unidentified medical researcher
Date
[196-]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b/w ; 20.5 x 16.5 cm
Description
Possibly a colleague or student of Dr. Bernhard Cinader
Title
Albert H. Lacey, Chief chemist of the Insulin Committee, Connaught Laboratories