Women graduates on the steps of University College
Date
[191-]
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
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
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
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 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
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
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
Annie Teresa Reed (B.A. 1897)
Date
1897
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 2 x 2 cm
Description
Portrait taken from the University of Toronto, Graduating Class in Arts, 1897,
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
Class in Massage , second year, physiotherapy
Date
1939
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Reproduced from page 20 of the University Extension, Two-Year in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, 1939
Title
World War I rehabilitation in Hart House - shown here a blind patient with a physiotherapist.
Date
[ca. 1917]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 16 x 12 cm
Title
World War I rehabilitation in Hart House - shown here patients with physiotherapists.
Date
[ca. 1917]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 16 x 12 cm
Title
"Farmerettes", home service workers during World War I
Date
1917
Description
Taken from publication: Varsity Supplement 1917 p.113.
Title
Class studying the composition of eggs, School of Household Science
Date
[1902?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Students in Food Chemistry Laboratory Class
Date
[ca.190-]
Extent and medium
1 photograph
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.
