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
Drum majorette and Physical Education student Hilkka Maria Filpula
Date
[ca. 1950]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w
Title
Esther Marjorie Hill, graduation portrait
Date
1920
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 7.5 x 14 cm
Description
Marjorie Hill received a B.A.Sc. in 1920 from the University of Toronto. She was Canada's first woman architect.
Title
Dr. Helen MacMurchy
Date
[ca. 1914]
Extent and medium
1 photoclipping : b&w ; 5 x 7.5 cm
Description
Portrait of Dr. Helen MacMurchy, taken from the Globe, April 28 1914. MacMurchy was one the first female graduates of Medicine (M.B. 1900) and internationally known in the field of child welfare.
Title
Public Health Nursing Class, Certificate Programme
Date
1927-1928
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 24 x 19 cm
Title
The First Basic Diploma Graduates from the School of Nursing, 1936
Date
1936
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 20 x 16 cm
Title
Library School Class, Ontario College of Education?, 1929-1930
Date
[ca. 1930]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: 11 x 7 cm
Title
Varsity Ladies Hockey Team
Date
[ca. 1910]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w ; 14 x 8 cm
Description
From left to right: official (unknown), Miss Macdonald, Miss Barry, Miss Hunter, Miss Bonnar, Miss Sutherland, Miss Fairburn, Miss Murphy
Title
Annie Teresa Reed (B.A. 1897)
Date
1897
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 2 x 2 cm
Description
Portrait taken from the University of Toronto, Graduating Class in Arts, 1897,
Title
Household Science Building, Girls in Gymnasium, Nov. 1922
Date
1922
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative: b&w ; 20 x 16 cm
Title
Women's Intercollegiate Badminton Team
Date
1921
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Left to right: Mary Becker, captain and president; Kay Bryans; Rosemary Annesley; Hildegarde Goodfellow. Team Portrait taken from the yearbook, Torontonensis 1939 p.396.
Title
Nurse Margaret Allemang
Date
[ca. 1941]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w
Description
Seen here in her first position
Title
University of Toronto Senior Women's Basketball Team, Intercollegiate Champions, 1925
Date
1925
Extent and medium
1 halftone reproduction
Description
Taken from the yearbook Torontonensis 1925 p. 284
Title
University College ladies hockey team, ca. 1911
Date
1911
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Phyllis Hart, goalie of the Ladies' Intercollegiate Hockey Team, 1961
Date
1961
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Title
Mildred Vera Peters
Date
[196-?]
Extent and medium
1 slide : b&w ; 5 x 5 cm
Description
Dr. Vera Peters, a medical researcher and a pioneer in the treatment of Hodgin's disease and breast cancer, graduated from the university's Faculty of Medicine in 1934.
Title
Class in Massage , second year, physiotherapy
Date
1939
Extent and medium
1 halftone
Description
Reproduced from page 20 of the University Extension, Two-Year in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, 1939
Title
Care to mother and babe.
Date
[192-]
Extent and medium
1 lantern slide: col
Description
This was an instructional slide for nursing students.
Title
World War I rehabilitation in Hart House - shown here a blind patient with a physiotherapist.
Date
[ca. 1917]
Extent and medium
1 photograph: sepia ; 16 x 12 cm
Title
World War I rehabilitation in Hart House - shown here patients with physiotherapists.
