Buildings- new steel placed at Engineering Building's construction site
Date
February 12, 1960
Extent and medium
1 negative : b&w ; 13x10 cm
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
Trinity College - Sod turning ceremony for new academic building
Date
March 29, 1960
Extent and medium
4 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Views of the sod turning ceremony for Trinity College's new academic building (Gerald Larkin Building). Included are shots of the procession being led through the quad from the main building
Title
Portrait - Frank Stone
Date
March 30, 1960
Extent and medium
3 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Passport photographs taken for Frank Stone, Vice-President (Administration) of the University of Toronto, in the Vice-President's office.
Title
Blood Donation Clinic at Howard Ferguson Hall
Date
February 17, 1960
Extent and medium
6 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Nurses and donors at a blood donation clinic held at Howard Ferguson Hall.
Title
Dentistry - TV demonstration of dental techniques
Date
February 25, 1960
Extent and medium
6 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Views of the recording of a TV demonstration in the Dental Building where Dr. C. H. M. Williams is demonstrating dental techniques to aid the education of dental students. TV Demonstrations like these were created as part of the University's initiative to integrate TV demonstrations as a teaching aid into lectures.
Title
Campus views - ice formations on trees
Date
January 13, 1960
Extent and medium
28 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Exterior views of Soldiers' Tower, Sir Daniel Wilson Residence, Simcoe Hall, University College, the Sigmund Samuel Library (Gerstein Science Information Centre), Convocation Hall, the Medical Sciences Building, the Goldring Student Centre, Margaret Addison Hall, Victoria College, Flavelle House, and Falconer Hall featuring trees after an ice storm.
Title
Portrait - Reginald A. Blyth (copyprint)
Date
January 13, 1960
Extent and medium
1 negative : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Copy of a Torontonensis yearbook photo of Reginald A. Blyth. Blyth left $1,500,000 to the University of Toronto for scholarships and fellowships in mathematics and physics after his death in 1928.
Title
Great Lakes Institute - Research onboard the Port Dauphine
Date
June 19, 1960
Extent and medium
49 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Interior and exterior views of research being conducted onboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Port Dauphine, which was on loan to the University of Toronto's Great Lakes Institute. The Institute was established in 1960 by Professor George Langford to study the impacts of pollution and the future Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station on the Great Lakes and their water life. Included are shots of the Porte Dauphine
Title
Portraits - Gustav Hahn and his wife
Date
May 13, 1960
Extent and medium
2 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Views include Gustav Hahn and his wife at their residence. Mr. Hahn can be seen holding his painting of a procession of meteors that were observed in February 1913. This painting helped Professor C. A. Chant, Head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Toronto, explain the procession of meteors that could be seen travelling from Canada to Bermuda.
Title
Alumni Consultation - opening dinner
Date
May 26, 1960
Extent and medium
8 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Opening dinner for the Alumni Consultation at the Park Plaza Hotel. Among those in attendance are Mrs. J. D. Hamilton (001)
Views of students and faculty dining in the Hart House Great Hall, using a library card catalogue, attending lectures, sitting outside, examining architectural models, and using research equipment.
Views of students engaged in a variety of activities around campus including a women's choir, attending lectures, conducting research, studying in the Sigmund Samuel Library, eating in the Howard Ferguson Dining Hall, sitting outside Hart House, and nursing students assisting patients.
Title
Portraits - Dr. George Warburton Spragge and Dr. George Wright Young
Date
July 1960
Extent and medium
8 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Portraits of Dr. George Warburton Spragge, Trinity Archivist, and Dr. George Wright Young who were elected to the University of Toronto Senate to represent the Graduates in Arts of Trinity College and Graduates in Medicine respectively.
Title
York University - Architectural model of campus
Date
September 7, 1960
Extent and medium
8 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Views of an architectural model of the plans for York University's Campus.
Title
Hart House - a Peking opera group on a tour
Date
September 14, 1960
Extent and medium
4 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Views of the Chinese Classical Theatre from Peking touring Hart House with John. H. Sword, Assistant to the President.
Title
Student with a librarian
Date
September 29, 1960
Extent and medium
2 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Title
Homecoming - float parade and alumni committee meeting
Date
October 15, 1960
Extent and medium
28 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Shots of the homecoming float parade and President Claude Bissell presenting the award to the winners. Also included are portraits of William A. E. Sheppard and an Alumni committee meeting.
Title
Portrait - Professor H. R. Rice (copyprint)
Date
August 2, 1960
Extent and medium
1 negative : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Copy of a photograph of Professor H. R. Rice, U of T's Head of the Mining Engineering, and a Russian man in a coal mine in Ukraine's Krivoi Rog Region.
Title
School of Architecture - opening of the 4,000 Years of Mexican Architecture Exhibition
Date
December 9, 1960
Extent and medium
5 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Views of the official opening of the 4,000 Years of Mexican Architecture Exhibition that was given to the University of Toronto's Architectural Society as a gift from the Mexican Consulate. The exhibit featured around 400 photographs of Mexican architecture and was originally prepared by the National Architects College of Mexico and the Society for Mexican Architects. Included are shots of the opening ceremony where Senor Rafael de la Colina, Ambassador of Mexico opened the exhibition with Dr. Thomas Howarth, Director of the School of Architecture, Murray Ross, President of the Architectural Society, and Antonio Carrillo Flores, Mexican Statesman as well as shots of attendees including third-year student Helga Woitech.
