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 Forneri
Date
[186-?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
Forneri was professor of modern languages from 1853 to 1866.
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.
Title
Annie Lewisa Laird
Date
[ca. 1930]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 20 cm
Description
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
