Members of the Massey Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences
Date
1951
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 22 x 17 cm
Description
Left to right sitting: Arthur Surveyor, a Montreal consulting engineer, Vincent Massey (centre), head of the Commission and Chancellor of the University of Toronto, and Norman Mackenzie, President of the University of British Columbia. Left to right standing: Georges Henri Levesque of Laval University and Hilda Neatby, history professor at the University of Saskatchewan
Title
George Sydney Brett
Date
July 1927
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm
Description
Professor of Philosophy, George Brett, succeeded John McLennan as Dean of the graduate school in 1933. He was Dean until his death in 1944.
Title
William Paul McClure Kennedy
Date
[194-]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 cm
Description
Kennedy, appointed the first Dean of the Law School in 1944, resigned the position in 1949. Kennedy was born in 1879 and died in 1963.
Title
Jacob Finkelman
Date
[194-?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 cm
Description
Professor Finkelman was appointed lecturer in law in 1930 and assistant professor in 1934. He was the first Jew to be appointed full-time professor at the University of Toronto.
Title
Arthur W. Ham
Date
March 01, 1966
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
Dr. Ham was head of biology at the Ontario Cancer Institute, in 1966.
Title
John Bradford Cherriman
Date
[18--]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 14 cm
Description
Cherriman was professor of mathematics and physics (then called natural philosophy) from 1853 to 1875. Cherriman was born in 1823 and died in 1908.
Title
Daniel Wilson
Date
[ca. 1890]
Extent and medium
1 albumen photograph : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm
Description
President Daniel Wilson was born in 1816 and died August 5, 1892. Wilson was President of University College from 1880 to 1892 and he was President of the University of Toronto from 1890 to 1892.
Title
Archibald Byron Macallum
Date
[ca. 1900]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 33 cm
Description
Macallum was appointed professor of physiology in 1891 and professor of biochemistry in 1908. He resigned in 1917 when he became the First Administrative Chairman of the Research Council of Canada. Macallum was born in 1858 and died in 1934.
Title
John Galbraith
Date
[ca. 1900]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 25 cm
Description
Galbraith was appointed the first professor of engineering in 1878. Galbraith was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering from 1906 until 1914.
Title
William Houston
Date
[ca. 1885]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 37 x 37 cm
Description
Portrait taken from composite entitled: "General Committee University College Literary and Scientific Society 1885-86" Houston was listed as President of the Society in the photograph. Houston received his MA in 1874.
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
James Loudon
Date
[188-?]
Extent and medium
1 glass lantern slide : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm
Description
James Loudon was born in 1841 and died in 1916. He was appointed professor of mathematics and physics in 1875. Between 1892 and 1901 Loudon was President of University College and President of the University of Toronto from 1892 to 1906.
Title
Banner for The University of Toronto Graduates in Arts, 1895
Date
1895
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 37 x 48 cm
Description
Banner taken from composite photograph of graduates entitled: "The University of Toronto Graduates in Arts 1895". Across the top are portraits from left to right of : Chancellor Edward Blake, Sir Daniel Wilson, President James Loudon and A.R. Bain, professor of ancient history at Victoria.
Title
James Mavor
Date
[ca. 1905]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 27 x 35 cm
Description
James Mavor was appointed professor of political economy in 1892 and retired in 1924. He was born in 1854 and died in 1925.
Title
James Hume
Date
[ca. 1890]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 16 cm
Description
Hume was appointed professor of ethics and the history of philosophy in 1889.
Title
George Wrong
Date
1895
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 37 x 48 cm
Description
Wrong was appointed lecturer in history in 1892 and professor of history in 1894. Portrait taken from composite photograph entitled: "The University of Toronto Graduates in Arts 1895"
Title
William Dale
Date
1895
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 37 x 48 cm
Description
Dale was professor of Latin. Portrait taken from composite photograph entitled: "The University of Toronto Graduates in Arts 1895"
Title
Edward Chapman
Date
[189-?]
Extent and medium
1 glass lantern slide : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm
Description
Chapman, appointed professor of mineralogy and geology in 1853, resigned in 1895.
Title
W. Norman Millar
Date
1924
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w : 9 x 13 cm
Description
Portrait of Professor Millar taken from a composite of the graduating class, Faculty of Forestry 1924.
Title
Sod turning ceremony for Convocation Hall
Date
1904
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
John Hoskin, chairman of the board, turns the sod. R.A. Reeve, president of the Alumni Association and dean of the faculty of medicine holds the wheelbarrow.
