Protest Meeting and March - "Stop the Spadina Expressway"
Date
March 18, 1970
Extent and medium
73 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a University of Toronto rally against the construction of the Spadina Expressway in 1970. It includes views of University staff and students meeting in Convocation Hall, the march to Queens Park and the rally in front of the Provincial Legislature.
Title
University College - views of architectural features and deterioration
Date
March 09, 1970
Extent and medium
153 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of University College building in 1970 including views of architectural features such as classrooms, pieces of decorative art, roofs, stairwells. Photographs also document deteriorating outdoor walls, columns and decorative stonework.
Title
Alumni Affairs - Council discussion
Date
April 14, 1970
Extent and medium
32 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a discussion at the Alumni Affairs council in 1970. It includes photographs of council members, among them are Claude T. Bissell and Pauline McGibbon.
Title
Faculty of Forestry - Student Field work at Forest Technical School, Minden Ontario
Date
April 24, 1970
Extent and medium
159 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of Faculty of Forestry undergraduate students during spring field work at the Forest Technical School - a forest of 18,000 acres of Crown land between Dorset and Minden that was operated by the Department of Lands and Forests. Shots include students in lectures both indoors and outdoors, students surveying, taking samples, hiking and canoeing,. There are also portraits of unidentified faculty members and/or Department of Land and Forest staff in an office.
Title
Hart House - Seminar with Premier Bill Davis
Date
June 15, 1970
Extent and medium
19 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during an informal seminar or meeting with Premier William (Bill) Davis in June of 1970.
Title
Fundraising - Varsity Fund telethon campaign
Date
March 03, 1969
Extent and medium
114 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm and 4 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm
Description
Photographs taken during the annual Varsity Fund telethon campaign, running from March 3rd and carried over until April 1969. There was the Toronto based telethon campaign as well as the U.S. teams phoning on behalf of the Associates of the University of Toronto, Inc., New York, who were pacesetters for the telethons scheduled in Hamilton, Niagara - St. Catharines, London, Windsor, Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal. It was reported a total of more than $230,000 in pledges. It includes photographs of more than 2,000 alumni from every sector, who in teams of 100 spent the evening working and answering phone calls from donors in the East Hall of University College. Included in the photographs are: Dr. Claude T. Bissell, president of the University of Toronto, Roy L. Jones, Associate Director of Development, William H. Broadhurst, Telethon Chairman and photographs of the Telethon Trophy, which goes to the division with the highest percentage of donors in Toronto based telephone campaign. The Varsity Fund began in 1960 and was designed to cover cost of "extras" such as scholarships, fellowships, academic research, general projects, works of art and new projects, which had become vital to the University's progress.
Title
Innis College - Innisfree Farm
Date
April 18, 1969
Extent and medium
105 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm and 14 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm
Description
Photographs of Innisfree Farm after the Harold Innis Foundation acquired it for Innis College. It includes photographs of the interior and exterior of the farmhouse and the barn, during the spring of 1969. It also includes photographs of Peter Russell, acting president of Innis College, and Sam Innis visiting the buildings. Also includes some copy negatives of Innis' family photographs.
Title
St. George Graduate Residence (Opening)
Date
April 23, 1969
Extent and medium
35 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during the ceremony for the opening of St. George Graduate Residences, in 1969. It includes photographs of St. George Graduate Residence building (inside and outside) as well as shots of speakers and guests. Some of the officials present at the event include: President Claude Bissell; Ernest Sirluck, Vice-President and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, Warden R.T.H. Alden; John, Winter, president of the Graduate Student Union; Prof Keith Yates, Assistant Dean of the School of Graduate Studies;
Title
Convocation - Honorary Doctor of Laws conferred on Harold Bennett -
Date
June 05, 1969
Extent and medium
8 negatives; 6 x 6 cm
Description
Photographs taken at Convocation on 5 June 1969 where Dr. Harold Bennett, Principal Emeritus of Victoria College, received his honorary Doctorate in Law. Includes images of Bennett before and during the ceremony, President of Victoria College A.B.B. Moore presenting Bennett and the University's chancellor conferring the degree to Bennett.
Title
Convocation - Honorary Doctor of Laws conferred on H. Carl Goldenberg
Date
June 06, 1969
Extent and medium
16 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during the Convocation ceremony when H. Carl Goldenberg received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from University of Toronto in 1969.
Title
Campus - New campus signs
Date
June 24, 1969
Extent and medium
17 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of new street signs and name-plaques for buildings on the University campus, in 1969. It also includes photographs of the following campus buildings: Convocation Hall, King's College, University College, Soldier's Tower and Galbraith Building.
Title
Convocation - Honorary Degree conferred on Prof. Gleb Struve & Linda Sword
Date
June 02, 1971
Extent and medium
33 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs depict not only the Honorary Degree Recipients but also procession, the handing out of degrees, graduates upon exit from Convocation Hall. Also includes a close up of a protest sign posted on one of the indoor columns.
Title
Convocation - Honorary degree conferred on Helmut Kallman
Date
May 31, 1971
Extent and medium
15 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs depict not only the Honorary Degree Recipient but also the procession into Convocation Hall, a few shots of individual students holding their diplomas, officials on the campus lawn after the ceremony.
Title
Convocation - Honorary Degree - Ayala Zacks
Date
June 03, 1971
Extent and medium
28 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs show procession, seated guests, dignitaries on stage, Mrs. Ayala Zacks being hooded and addressing convocation. Zacks is seated beside Robertson Davies.
Title
Department of Physics - Slowpoke Reactor activated
Date
June 04, 1971
Extent and medium
12 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during the last steps to assemble Slowpoke, a small nuclear reactor on loan to the University by Atomic Energy of Canada for evaluation, in 1971.
Title
Convocation - Honorary Degree conferred on Dr. Murray Ross
Date
June 10, 1971
Extent and medium
31 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs shows convocation ceremony focusing on honorary degree recipient Murray Ross. Images show Ross addressing convocation and posing with President Bissell and Chancellor Solandt.
Title
Convocation - Honourary Degree conferred on Senator Lamontagne
Date
June 10, 1971
Extent and medium
22 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs shows convocation ceremony focusing on honorary degree recipient Senator Lamontagne.
Title
Student Administrative Council - Freshman Week
Date
September 16, 1971
Extent and medium
57 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs show various activities during the SAC freshmen orientation program.
Title
Bread and Puppet Theatre perform "The Birdcatcher from Hell"
Date
September 19, 1971
Extent and medium
44 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
This performance was this groups' first and took place in the Meeting Place at Scarborough College. The University of Toronto based company of puppeteers and actors was funded by the Varsity Fund and gave performances and workshops on puppeteering. "The Bird Catcher from Hell" was a morality play based on a Japanese legend.
Title
Faculty of Music - Czech conductor Karl Ancerl in rehearsal
Date
November 14, 1968
Extent and medium
78 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm and 9 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm
Description
Photographs of Karl Ancerl conducting the UofT Symphony Orchestra during rehearsals at the MacMillan Theatre. It includes photographs of musicians, entire orchestra and Czech conductor.
