Robert Alexander Falconer's installation procession.
Date
September 26, 1907
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 17 cm
Description
The procession includes Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the light and dark gown. He is preceded by the chairman of the board, John Hoskin. Premier James Whitney faces the camera. Robert Falconer is at the front right of the procession. Falconer was President of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932.
Title
Robert Alexander Falconer's installation address in Convocation Hall.
Date
September 26, 1907
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
Chancellor William Meredith is seated in the centre with Premier James Whitney to his right. Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier is clad in white robes. Future prime minister, Robert Borden, is seated in the front row, five persons from the right. Falconer gives his address at the lectern.
Title
Thomas Eakin
Date
[ca. 1926]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 cm
Description
Professor of Oriental Studies at University College. Reverend Eakin became principal of Knox College in 1926. He resigned in 1944.
Title
Toronto General Hospital, College Street buildings
Date
[ca. 1913]
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
Description
These buildings opened in June 1913.
Title
Robert Alexander Falconer
Date
[192-?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 16 cm
Description
Robert Falconer was President of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932.
Title
Bernhard Eduard Fernow
Date
[ca. 1913]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 15 cm
Description
Fernow founded not only the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto in 1907, but also the Cornell Forestry School. He retired from the position of Dean, Faculty of Forestry, in 1919 and died in 1923.
Title
Robert Alexander Falconer
Date
[1913?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 22 cm
Description
Robert Falconer was President of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932.
Title
Harold Adams Innis
Date
1918
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w
Description
Graduation portrait taken when Innis received his MA from McMaster. Innis, a professor of Political Economy, became Dean of the School of Graduates in 1947, a position he held until his death in 1952.
Title
Robert Alexander Falconer
Date
1910
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
Description
Robert Falconer was President of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932.
Title
School of Practical Science (Engineering) building
Date
1966
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25
Description
In the foreground are two men talking together on the steps of Convocation Hall.
Title
First Floor Plan of the School of Practical Science
Date
[1896?]
Extent and medium
1 architectural drawing : b&w ; 14 x 20 cm
Description
Copy of the plan of the first floor of the expanded School of Practical Science printed in the 1896-97 School of Practical Science Calendar
Title
Convocation Garden Party
Date
1923
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
Description
Social gathering after convocation
Title
1927 Men's Executive, University College
Date
1927
Extent and medium
1 halftone reproduction
Description
Photograph taken from "Torontonensis," 1927, p. 217. Left to right: A.B. Plaunt, R.T.L. Innes, F.B. Matthews, J.T. Garrow and W. B. Craw
Title
Rose Cave
Date
1920
Extent and medium
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
Description
Rose Cave was a stenographer in the Office of the Secretary for the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
Title
Women engineering students
Date
February 24, 1972
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm
Description
These students are at a party for women in engineering at Dean Ham's.
Title
Shinerama
Date
September 1978
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 20 cm
Description
This engineering student took part in Shinerama, shining shoes to raise money for cystic fibrosis research at Toronto's Union Station.
Title
Engineers protest 'Artsies' in government
Date
[197-?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
Description
Engineers carry placard with the words, "Keep Artsies Out of Government!"
Title
Pauline Emily Mills McGibbon
Date
[1971?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
McGibbon was the first woman President of the University of Toronto Alumni Association and was also the first woman to be elected, in 1971, to the post of Chancellor at the University of Toronto. In 1974 she became Ontario's 22nd Lieutenant Governor, a post she held until 1980. In 1981 she was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. McGibbon died in December, 2001.
Title
Robin Ross
Date
[196-?]
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm
Description
Ross was Registrar and Secretary of the Senate at the University of Toronto from 1959 to 1967. From 1967 to 1972 he was Vice-President, Registrar and Secretary of the Senate.
Title
John Tuzo Wilson
Date
1967
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
Description
Wilson became a professor of geophysics at the University of Toronto in 1946 and was appointed Director of the Institute of Earth Sciences in 1960. He was Principal of Erindale College from 1967 to 1974.
