Site looking north from the top of Ramsay Wright Zoological Laboratory
Title
Robarts Library - tour of construction site with officials
Date
February 03, 1971
Extent and medium
89 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken when officials took a tour of the Robarts Library construction site in February 1971.
Title
Scarborough College - Under construction
Date
February 10, 1972
Extent and medium
11 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of winter construction of Scarborough College, including shots of the parking lot.
Title
Humanities and Social Sciences Research Library (Robarts Library complex) - Laying of the cornerstone by Honorable William G. Davis
Date
June 12, 1970
Extent and medium
32 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Library and the School of Library Science complex [Robarts Library complex] in June 1970. The photographs reveal the building under construction, President Claude T. Bissell and Hon. William G. Davis, Minister of University Affairs addressing the crowd and others involved in this project including: Brian Land, Director of the School of Library Science, and Robert H. Blackburn, Chief Librarian. Also present at the ceremony: Andrew S. Mathers, representing Mathers and Haldenby (principal architects), O. D, Vaughan, chairman of the Board of Governors, Chancellor Omond M. Solandt, representatives of the project managers, Stone and Webster Canada Ltd., the design architects (Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde) and the builders. This was President Claude T. Bissell's final official public appearance in the 1969-1970 academic year.
