Photographs show Hart House Amateur Radio Club - VE3UOT - setting up an amateur radio in Hart House as part of 50th anniversary celebrations.
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Hart House 50th Anniversary - Hart House Art Gallery Canadian Paintings, Jacques Godbout Writer-in-residence and Chess Tournament
Date
November 10, 1969
Extent and medium
126 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
This series documents several Hart House 50th anniversary events: Hart House Art Gallery displaying Canadian Art bequeathed to the National Gallery by Vincent Massey including a reception in the gallery; talk and other views of Writer-in-Residence Jacques Godbout; Chess Tournament featuring George Kuprejanov playing simultaneous games. There are also some portraits of Hart Massey.
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Hart House 50th Anniversary - Concert, debate, and chess
Date
November 12, 1969
Extent and medium
45 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
This series documents several Hart House 50th anniversary events: Classical Concert by Martin Polten (guitarist) in the Music Room; Noon Hour Debates with guest speaker Richard Needham, in the Debates Room; and students practicing for the chess tournament.
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Hart House 50th Anniversary - Lois Marshall Concert and Chess group.
Date
November 16, 1969
Extent and medium
53 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs document Lois Marshall performing in the Great Hall as part of the 50th anniversary of celebrations. It includes photographs of Lois Marshall in concert. Also in this series are group shots of the Chess Club.
Title
Faculty of Arts and Science - Council Meeting
Date
December 09, 1969
Extent and medium
89 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a meeting of Faculty of Arts and Science Council in Convocation Hall, in 1969. It includes photographs of Council members and participants asking questions to the council.
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Pollution Probe - members address meeting at Toronto City Hall
Date
July 07, 1969
Extent and medium
107 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during City of Toronto hearings on the link between the death of ducks on an island in Toronto Harbour and the use of Deazinon (pesticide) by the Metro Toronto Parks Department. This issue mobilized Pollution Probe, a student organization to join forces with a local environmental group - Group Action to Stop Pollution (GASP) - to convene an unofficial inquiry at which these photographs were taken. Commissioners included Dr. Robert McClure, Moderator of the United Church of Canada; Prof. Ernest Sirluck University of Toronto Vice-President and Graduate Dean and Prof. Marshall McLuhan, Director of the University's Center for Culture and Technology. Prof. Donald Chant, chair of the Department of Zoology, a member of Pollution Probes, spoke as a witness at the hearings.
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Scarborough College - Exhibit: "Art for Architecture - The Wall"
Date
September 21, 1969
Extent and medium
65 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken at the opening of the exhibit "Art for Architecture - The Wall", a traveling exhibition mounted by the Art Gallery of Ontario, at the Scarborough College "Science Street", in 1969. The exhibit included 33 leading Canadian artists. There were 15 contemporary wall hangings by Micheline Beauchemin, Joni Baker, Charlotte Lindgren, Joyce Weiland, and others; 15 walls of aluminum, ceramics, paintings, posters and sculpture by Michael Snow, Margot Ariss, Merton Chambers, Louis de Niverville, Roy Speirs, among others; and 6 illuminates by Harold Town, John Masciuch, Zbigniew Blazje, Michael Hayden and Margit Gatterbauer. Photographs show artwork as well as artists, visitors, staff members of the College. Also documented are William Withrow and E. G. Bovey of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Miss Anita Aarons, organizer and Wynne Plumptre, principal of the Scarborough College. There are also interior views of Scarborough College.
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Fundraising - United Appeal lunch
Date
October 03, 1969
Extent and medium
26 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a United Appeal lunch for funding campaign "Big Give", in 1969. It includes photographs of guests and United Appeal representatives.
Title
University College - Alumnae symposium.
Date
October 17, 1969
Extent and medium
121 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during discussions and presentations that occurred at Hart House during the 1969 Alumnae Symposium on "Challenging the Deep". It includes photographs of attendees.
Title
Athletics and Recreation - Activities in the Women's Athletic Building
Date
January 1960
Extent and medium
28 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Interior views of the Women's Athletic Building (Benson Building) featuring students practicing badminton, archery, gymnastics, golf, and rhythmic gymnastics.
Title
Convocation - honorary degree conferred to Major-General George P. Vanier
Date
February 8, 1960
Extent and medium
5 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Group portraits and shots of special convocation ceremony where Major-General George P. Vanier, Governor-General of Canada, received an honorary Doctor of Laws.
Title
Portrait - Prof George Grant (copyprint)
Date
January 29, 1960
Extent and medium
1 negative : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Title
Toronto General Hospital - Heart research
Date
January 12, 1960
Extent and medium
7 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Views of doctors performing heart research on a patient at the Toronto General Hospital.
Title
Athletics and Recreation - Opening of pool at Women's Athletic Building
Date
January 3, 1960
Extent and medium
12 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Views of swimmers and spectators at the pool in the Women's Athletic Building.
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Faculty of Social Work - students
Date
January 29, 1960
Extent and medium
12 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Views of Social Work students studying together. Possibly taken for the Hamilton Spectator.
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Senate Chamber - organizational meeting for alumni giving
Views of a meeting in the Senate Chamber of Simcoe to purpose a plan for the creation of an annual All-Varsity Alumni fund. This integrated fund would replace any campaigns run by individual Alumni groups. The meeting was attended by the board of directors of the University of Toronto Alumni Association, presidents of several Alumni groups, deans and heads of Colleges and Divisions, and several leaders of the National Fund. Included are shots of the attendees and speakers which included Dr. Claude Bissell, President of the University
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National Fund - Portrait of Prof. Nettie D. Fidler
Views of Professor Nettie D. Fidler, Director of the School of Nursing, with a chart showing the proportion of graduate alumni who contributed to National Fund campaign. The canvassers of the School of Nursing committee, headed by Mrs. M. Wallace McCutcheon, continued beyond the graduate list and contacted diploma and certificate holding Alumni which enabled them to achieve 187% graduate participation.
Title
National Fund - cocktail party at the King Edward Hotel
Date
May 9, 1960
Extent and medium
8 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Views of National Fund workers and lighting sketch artist George Freyer at a cocktail party in the Crystal Ballroom at the King Edward Hotel. The party was hosted by National Fund Co-Chairmen M. Wallace McCutcheon and Neil J. McKinnon to announce the grand total of the National Fund was $15,026,424. George Freyer was invited to draw a series of lighting sketch cartoons to accompany a script by Miss Pat Patterson which told the story of the National Fund.
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National Fund - Honouring of Co-Chairmen
Date
May 10, 1960
Extent and medium
7 negatives : b&w ; 13x10 cm
Description
Interior views of a ceremony at the Senate Chamber honoring National Fund Co-Chairmen M. Wallace McCutcheon and Neil J. McKinnon. During the ceremony Lt. Col. W. E. Philips, Chairman of the Board of Governors, unveiled a plaque dedicated to the Co-Chairmen which would be installed at one of the new buildings made possible by the National Fund. President Dr. Claude Bissell presented each co-chairmen with a volume of letters from the senior members of the University's staff expressing gratitude for their leadership in the Fund. Also included are shots of Deans Wright, MacFarlane, Bladen, and McLaughlin and the wives of McKinnon, McCutcheon, and Bissell in the audience.
Title
Hart House - Portraits of Wardens Joseph McCulley and J.B. Bickersteth
Date
May 2, 1960
Extent and medium
4 negatives : b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Joseph McCulley, Hart House Warden from 1952-1965, and J. Burgeon Bickersteth, Hart House Warden from 1921-1947, inside the Great Hall and in front of the memorial wall at Soldiers' Tower.
