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Title: School of Social Work - Conference
Date: November 24, 1972
Extent and medium: 36 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description: Photographs document a conference sponsored by the school of social work. Several sessions are documented. The event itself is unknown.

Title: President Bissell addresses students
Date: September 17, 1968
Extent and medium: 36 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm and 26 negatives: b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Photographs show Claude T. Bissell, University President, welcoming first year student and addressing the student body in Convocation Hall (Opening address). Students greet returning Bissell who was away teaching at Harvard University the previous year. Free watermelon is given to the students prior to the meeting as a form of protest to Bissell's stance on University governance outside of Convocation Hall. Also, included are images of students and tents in front of Hart House representing "Tent City," which is a dramatization of the student housing shortage at the University of Toronto. This issue is further documented in photographs of student crowds in front Convocation Hall being addressed by student leaders.

Title: Massey College - Writer-in residence Margaret Atwood
Date: November 13, 1972
Extent and medium: 23 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description: Photographs show Margaret Atwood reading and interacting with students while writer in residence at Massey College.

Title: Institute of Aerospace Studies - 25th anniversary
Date: April 01, 1974
Extent and medium: 64 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description: Photographs of a banquet held in the Great Hall at Hart House to mark the 25th anniversary of the Institute of Aerospace Studies (IAS). Includes shots of guests and speeches delivered by various speakers including Omond Solandt and Gordon Patterson, first Director of the IAS.

Title: Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering - Science lecture series for Grade 13 students
Date: February 13, 1960
Extent and medium: 4 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description: Views of a Professor J. M. Ham teaching and providing physics demonstrations to Grade 13 students in the Mechanical Engineering Building. The class was a segment of a 7-part Saturday morning lecture series organized by Professor A. I. Johnson. The series was offered by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering to introduce approximately 200 high school students to topics such as automation, space flight potential of atomic energy, metallurgy, rock mechanics, cellulose chemistry, paper making, three-dimensional photography, and the use of engineering models.

Title: Northrop Frye speaks to Alumni
Date: February 22, 1971
Extent and medium: 47 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description: Photographs of Northrop Frye taken during a talk on "The Quality of Life in the Seventies" and sponsored by the University of Toronto Alumni Association as part of Seminar 71. It includes photographs of A. G. Rankin, executive Vice-President (non-academic), of Dr. Frye giving his address and the audience.

Title: News Bureau - Allan Hill at Malvern Collegiate
Date: February 14, 1974
Extent and medium: 21 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description: Photographs of Alan Hill speaking to Malvern Collegiate High School students

Title: Retirement Party for Dr. William E. Blatz
Date: August 16, 1961
Extent and medium: 4 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description: Views of Professor William Blatz giving a lecture during his retirement dinner which was held celebrate his retirement as the Director of the Institute of Child Study after 35 years.

Title: Hart House - Dr. Marcus Long interviewing Bruce West
Date: July 18, 1961
Extent and medium: 12 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description: Interior views of the Hart House Great Hall where Dr. Marcus Long, Professor of Philosophy, informally interviewed Globe and Mail columnist Bruce West for a summer Noon-Hour Conversation event. Shots include Dr. Long chatting with Bruce West as well as attendees.

Title: Installation of the 23rd Chancellor, Omond Solandt - ceremony in Convocation Hall
Date: October 18, 1965
Extent and medium: 44 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description: Views of procession including Solandt and President Bissell and both speakers at the podium.

Title: President's Lecture
Date: July 17, 1963
Extent and medium: 26 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description: Photographs show lecture by an unidentified speaker in Convocation Hall with Carlton Williams as the host. Views show speaker, stage and audience.

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