First Floor Plan of the School of Practical Science
Date
[1896?]
Extent and medium
1 architectural drawing : b&w ; 14 x 20 cm
Description
Copy of the plan of the first floor of the expanded School of Practical Science printed in the 1896-97 School of Practical Science Calendar
Title
Joseph Montgomery
Date
1895
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 37 x 48 cm
Description
Montgomery was an editor of the Varsity during the 1895 strike. Portrait taken from composite photograph entitled: "The University of Toronto Graduates in Arts 1895"
Title
Frederick Hughes Scott
Date
1897
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 35 x 50 cm
Description
In 1900 Scott received the first PhD granted by the University of Toronto. Portrait taken from composite photograph entitled: "Toronto University Graduating Class in Arts 1897"
Title
John Cunningham McLennan
Date
[ca. 1898]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm
Description
McLennan is photographed with post-graduate students at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, 1898-1899 John McLennan, physicist, is standing in the middle row, fourth from the left. Sir. J.J. Thomson is seated fifth from the left.
Title
Construction workers in front of the entrance to University College
Date
[ca. 1892]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
This is a copy of a photograph originally taken in ca. 1857.
Title
Tom Greenwood
Date
1895
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 37 x 48 cm
Description
A student of the University of Toronto, Greenwood was one of the leaders of the 1895 strike. Portrait taken from composite photograph entitled: "The University of Toronto Graduates in Arts 1895"
Title
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Date
1895
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 37 x 48 cm
Description
King, future Prime Minister of Canada, was one of the student leaders of the 1895 strike at the University of Toronto. Portrait taken from composite photograph entitled: "The University of Toronto Graduates in Arts 1895"
Title
Woman's Medical College
Date
1891
Extent and medium
1 reproduced drawing : b&w
Description
Drawing was taken from the College's 1891-1892 calendar.
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
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
Officers of the Women's Literary Society University College, 1894-1895
Date
1895
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w
Title
Notice of a mass meeting during the student strike of 1895
Date
1895
Extent and medium
1 document
Title
Destruction by fire of the Toronto University, on Friday evening, 14th of February.
Date
1890
Extent and medium
1 halftone: b&w ; 23 x 16 cm
Description
From a sketch by F. M. Bell which appeared in the March 22nd issue of the Dominion Illustrated News, 1890.
Title
W.H. Anderson
Date
1893
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia
Description
Graduation portrait taken from Graduating Class composite, 1893
Title
Dr. William H. Ellis at blackboard
Date
[189-?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 11 x 16 cm
Description
Professor of applied chemistry, head of the Department of Chemistry was later Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering 1914-1916.
Title
Victoria College, front elevation
Date
[ca. 1890]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 20 x 15 cm
Title
University of Toronto Museum, view after the fire in University College
Date
1890
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Taken from The Dominion Illustrated , March 22 1890 p.5.
Title
Varsity Editorial and Business Board, 1894 and 1895
Date
[ca. 1895]
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Taken from University of Toronto Bulletin, Feb. 1951 p.1 Front Row: C.H. Clegg '97; J.L. Murray '95; W.L.M. King '95 (ass. editor); V. S. Smith, Middle Row: C.W. Macpherson; J. Montgomery, '95; James A. Tucker, Editor-in-Chief, '95; Edward Gillis, '95; Miss E. Fraser, '95; Back Row: W.A. MacKinnon, '97; Miss E. Durand, '96; C.P. Megan, '95; E. T. Kellam, '95; W. Shotwell, '97; W.B. Hendry, '95.
Title
Volunteers Monument, Queen's Park
Date
[ca. 1890]
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative: b&w ; 22x16 cm
Title
Professor David Mills, lecturer on constitutional law.