Annie Laird and Clara Benson were the first women professors at the University. Professor Laird became the principal of Household Science.
Title
Clara Cynthia Benson
Date
1950
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 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
William Lash Miller
Date
August 20, 1924
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 16 cm or smaller.-
Description
Miller was professor of chemistry.
Title
John McCaul
Date
[ca. 1849]
Extent and medium
1 engraving : b&w ; 39 x 49 cm
Description
Engraving of Reverend John McCaul, done while he was President of King's College, 1849-1950. John McCaul was born in 1807 and died in 1887. From 1850-1853 he was the President of the University of Toronto. McCaul was President of University College from 1853 to 1880.
Title
Velyien Ewart Henderson
Date
[ca. 1927]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 8 x 10 cm
Description
Prof. of Pharmacology from 1911-1945, Henderson, a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A. 1899, MA 1902 MB 1903) is renown for his role in the co-discovery of the anesthetic cyclopropane.
Title
George H.W. Lucas
Date
[192-]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 8 x 10 cm
Description
Dr. Lucas was professor of pharmacy and pharmacology at the University of Toronto (BA 1921, MA 1922, PhD. 1923). Dr. Lucas, along with Dr. Henderson, was accredited with having discovered the anesthetic cyclopropane.
Title
Edward John Gregory Alford
Date
1934
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 16 x 22 cm
Description
Portrait of John Alford, 1st professor of Fine Art at the University of Toronto. He was head of this department from 1934 to 1945.
Title
Archibald Byron Macallum
Date
[191-?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 20x25 cm
Description
A.B. Macallum was professor of Physiology starting in 1901 and later became a professor of Biochemistry from 1908-1917
Title
Dr. James T. Burt-Gerrans
Date
[ca. 1937]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 8 x 10 cm
Description
Professor of electro-chemistry
Title
Prof. William R. Lang
Date
[191-?]
Extent and medium
1 copy print: b&w ; 10 x 16 cm
Description
Head of the Department of Chemistry from 1900-1920.
Title
Arthur P. Coleman
Date
n.d.
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 10 x 15 cm
Description
A.P. Coleman, renown professor of Geology (ca. 1890-1922) and Dean of Faculty of Arts (1919-1922).
Title
Charles T. Currelly
Date
n.d.
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 8 x 10 cm
Description
Currelly was an archaeologist who was fist appointed curator of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archeology in 1907. He served as director of the ROM from 1917-1946.
Title
Thomas L. Walker
Date
n.d.
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 8x10 cm
Description
Walker was professor of minerology and petrography from 1901-1937 and director of the Royal Ontario Museum of minerology.
Title
Portrait of Dr. Norman B. Gwyn, Toronto physician
Date
n.d.
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 19 x 254 cm
Title
Frederick Grant Banting and Charles H. Best
Date
[1921?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller. -
Description
Banting, right and student helper, Best, left, are standing on the roof of the medical building with one of the diabetic dogs used in experiments with insulin.
